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Finally after several months my coloring of Jack Lawrence’s Driftrod lines is done!!!

Since it was originally a scanned-in traditional drawing, I amped up the contrast so the background would be white, so I could salvage most of the linework without having to redo it myself, which in my opinion would take away a lot of the integrity of the piece. Then I erased the white areas until the image was mostly transparent. Then I fixed up the lines, and started adding color. Erased more areas, fixed more lines, colored, wash, rinse, repeat. Then, just to give just a little more feeling, I made it into a gif. :)

I know it’s not much - basically a glorified coloring page - but I worked really hard on it, and hope it turned out okay. As stated before, lines belong to Jack Lawrence, and colored by me.

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~Commission for @ponybot ~

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I can’t help but love Rodimus so here

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The Floor is Lava.

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~Commission for @ponybot ~

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Serious post time, guys.

There’s one scene in this issue that truly, 100% makes me sad. And it’s the one where Ratchet tries to give Rodimus a pep talk.

This is how most of his crew sees Rodimus. Ratchet talks to him like a child, and then decides the level he needed to talk to him at was “lower than he thought.” I know it’s supposed to be funny. It’s a joke. But that actually makes it sadder.

That’s how they see him. As a joke.

The character to actually do it, though?

Whirl.

Because Whirl KNOWS people. More importantly, he knows people like himself. Self-loathing people.

Rodimus didn’t need to be pepped the way he’d do it to someone else. Because that’s not really how he feels, especially right now. Whirl talked down to him, but in a way that Rodimus appreciated at the moment. One that kicked him in the aft and reminded him who he was and what he was fighting for.

Look at Ratchet’s face in the panel you see him in. Rodimus is looking directly at him here. “Then you seriously misread my character.” Rodimus doesn’t think it’s funny. He doesn’t like being talked down to like a child. He knows the image he puts forth, he’s pointed out before that he’s completely aware. But he doesn’t want people to think less of him for it.

He doesn’t want people to see him for how he behaves. He wants people to see him for what he DOES. He’s a person of action. If he wants something done, he’ll do it. He doesn’t care if anyone else thinks he can.

As he says, “Watch me.”

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Rodimus: Why are we lying in a parking lot?

Drift: You got your ass kicked unconscious.

Drift: So I lied next to you so everyone would just think we were chillin’.

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Whoa there!

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~Commission~

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Rodimus: You wanna see how tough I am, Megs?

Rodimus: [punches wall]

Megatron: …

Rodimus: [holding back tears] Take me to Ratchet.

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The Rodimus Mood:

Thinking you’re 100% the best thing ever because if you stop believing it for one second you’ll implode from the amount of self loathing.

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commission for @dorksidefiker 

Thunderclash planting one on a startled Rodimus! 

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i just really like how Milne drew Rodimus’s expressions

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Rodimus cares (2/2)

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A resonant and respectable last will and testament. 

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“New paint, same problems.”