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Jujurtsu Kaisen took over my life.

Help.

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Kind of funny that Fortnite didn't win any rewards from the 2023 Game Awards.

Like there's gotta be some level of spite to vote Cyberpunk as a winner for the Ongoing Game Award.

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sketch that I'm not gonna finish

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I bought some transformers stickers from eBay and found these small pics on the back of the card and decided to make them into miniature cards

Gotta figure out a storage for them.

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Fffhsnf, I learned the hard way that I lost my art files because my old computer doesn't work anymore... I missed the opportunity to transfer all my old art to my external hard drive...

RIP to me. I'll have to redraw all of them again. Fffff

This is literally the only downside of being a digital artist.

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I had a weird dream where there's a series where the Autobots are figuring out the mystery of the new Decepticon leader after Megatron went missing.

Turns out it was Bumblebee and he lost his memories and Soundwave got something to do with it.

And suddenly I was at some convention where they were selling these toys and figures and then I woke up.

I thought it was an actual episode.

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Wow, I found my old TF art I did back in high school. I'm cringing so hard that I ended up putting them into the shredder.

I kept a few though. Probably gonna redraw some things like Rumble and Frenzy and possible sticker design if I ever get to it.

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Bumblebee's Energon Boost cosmetics.

The gold Gasoline tank is achieved by getting Gold Ribbons from side quests by the Terrans

I like the Valentine one.

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My friend who was attending TFCon Orlando finally had them all signed!!!!! I'm so happy!!!!

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So I finally watched the Shockwave episode in Earthspark and um....

Hm, I don't know how I feel about him.

Please understand, what I wrote down under the cut is my own opinion about this. Also CW for mentions of experimentation implications (ie; surgery stuff)

I love the design, the choice of his voice and all that, but the way he reacts to Terrans is... Not what I expected

I don't know, just the way he refers to them as... Freaks of nature somehow put me off so wrong about him. Like, raising so many red flags that I want to drop this character immediately.

Most Shockwaves I know about growing up through shows and movies had always been; the Mad Scientist. He experimented a lot of inhumane things to test the limit of Cybertronians body and mind. He cloned stuff, he even trained subjects to fight for Decepticon cause. He's in the top list you want to avoid because he's a Glados if she has a body to run around.

To me, it'd make more sense that Shockwave would be more interested in experimenting the Terrans and their unique coding/schematics to figure out how they tick. I'd think it'd be a far more interesting if Shockwave actually states he wants to run some experiments instead of going on about how Terrans aren't true Cybertronians.

Because if he does attempt to break Terrans down by parts to code, to figure out their building components, not only Megatron would be going protective Grandpa mode; he'll more than likely try and use those schematics to create armies of Decepticons to take over Earth.

Because let's face it;

Hashtag can hack into any internet no issue. If she was trained/experimented by Shockwave, she could ruin cities, even countries. Hell she can control any of your devices and use it maliciously if she could. She may even hack into Cybertronian databases and warships to sway the tide of war if she could.

Nightshade, as far as I know, scanned their owl mode from a single stone statue. I know that may be a reference to something else, but so far as I know, none of the Cybertronians had actually scanned a statue and used it. So to me, Nightshade is a rare case, cause if Cybertronians can scan a stone; Shockwave could've made Earthspark's take on Rock Lords.

While Thrash, Twitch, and Jawbreaker are the usual standard cybertronian models (a grounder, a flyer and a dinobot), that won't stop Shockwave from wanting to experiment with them. Who knows what he'll do to them too.

But that's all the limited knowledge I have of Shockwave, so I don't really know too much about Shockwave from the comics.

I don't care if people disagree with me about ES Shockwave, I personally believed they just missed the opportunity to make Shockwave to be a larger threat next to Mandriod.

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大真面目にオプビの出会いを描こうとして挫折したやつ。供養しておきます

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I screenshot this because I'm trying to get good pics of Hashtag. Then I left it in the draft cause I got busy with life

Ngl, she does look good.

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Ah, sorry to burst your enthusiasm, but the gameplay is 3D.

If they ever establish a comic series, maybe...

The opening scene for Transformers Earthspark Expedition.

They're all sooooo cuuute, also Hashtag's so tall she's cut off lol

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I feel like I should start drawing Transformers Universe Characters. Nostalgia got me hard today when my friends and I are talking about video games in Discord.

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Something I try to keep in mind when making art that looks vintage is keeping a limited color pallette. Digital art gives you a very wide, Crisp scope of colors, whereas traditional art-- especially older traditional art-- had a very limited and sometimes dulled use of color.

This is a modern riso ink swatch, but still you find a similar and limited selection of colors to mix with. (Mixing digitally as to emulate the layering of ink riso would be coloring on Multiply, and layering on top of eachother 👉)

If you find some old prints, take a closer look and see if you can tell what colors they used and which ones they layered... a lot of the time you'll find yellow as a base!

Misprints can really reveal what colors were used and where, I love misprints...

Something else I keep in the back of my mind is: how the human eye perceives color on paper vs. a screen. Ink and paint soaks into paper, it bleeds, stains, fades over time, smears, ect... the history of a piece can show in physical wear. What kind of history do you want to emulate? Misprinted? Stained? Kept as clean as possible, but unable to escape the bluing damages of the sun? It's one of my favorite things about making vintage art. Making it imperfect!

You can see the bleed, the wobble of the lines on the rug, the fading, the dirt... beautiful!!

Thinking in terms of traditional-method art while drawing digital can help open avenues to achieving that genuine, vintage look!

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Friggin' broke my back on carrying a desk