#first post in this tag after like a year of being a transformers fan shfrjegjfs

[came0dust]

local guy who only really draws organic humanoids inches shakily toward mecha in the name of blorbo

(more sketches, alternate colors, and just general thoughts under the cut)

the purple of hot rod's boots for his g1 design always kind of felt like it came out of nowhere to me so, as much as i love purple, i tried some different color arrangements for them. the problem (used loosely) of the purple not being referenced anywhere else on his design could probably be better solved by introducing more purple to him in general rather than Just reducing/removing it but i decided to try using other colors that were already on him instead, but not before taking some inspiration from transformers go! go!

i came across transformers-translations's translations of tfgg and haruka oda's art for it, along with screenshots i took from a recent rewatch of the transformers movie, was my main point of reference for design and style (mainly for the sake of relative simplicity bc as Much as i love cyberverse and prime i dont think im ready for that level of detail ^^')

i then tried using the magenta-ish colors on him instead

i'm partial to the first option, which uses more of the darker, redder shade and i feel has better contrast with the orange as well as bringing out more usage of that color in general when compared to how hot rod's arms are Just the pink basically, but i tried the inverse just to see how it'd look. i would have tried adding orange but i got sleepy and oogh ouch my spine

i feel i should mention, also, that the headshot i colored was done by chipping away at it throughout the day on my phone, cross referencing with my movie screenshots as well as having taken some notes on oda's work beforehand. here's one of the rougher versions of it, and then the cleaner one i colored

and then that full body was me trying to apply the things i learned on my own (no references, basically just remembering and guessing, which probably shows 💀 no robot muscle memory)

last and. okay saying that it Is least is a bit mean but this was when i had less knowledge and direction with how i wanted to do things. the things up there are from like the last 24 hours after doing some more coherent studying and assessment of how things might work, but these are from as far back as 5 days ago where i was basically just working off of instinct which does not exactly include an understanding of transformers..... anything visually. i still want to share them but i didnt want them to be my first impression bc i feel like ive already learned a lot since doing them

#my art #maccadam #first post in this tag after like a year of being a transformers fan shfrjegjfs #hot rod #g1 hot rod #The Bee is also here but under the cut so i feel like i shouldnt mention him by name since he isnt the focus and tumblr search... you know #samsung notes #csp #ive been missing my brush over in squirrel program and for territory im this unfamiliar with i wanted something i knew #colored sketch #the formatting seems to differ based on platform but if nothing else i hope the readmore works at least bc thats the most important part #for context though the images that are clustered together are supposed to be side by side