#also the prime bots are tricky to draw the first time around but

[tfrinpin]

Hullo. I am amongst the living.

This little idea kept nagging at me, so here we are: TFP where Op goes ✨FERAL✨

So y’know that whole shtick about “they had a secret relationship all along?” Well this is sort of like that, basically— yes, Megs and Op have had a secret relationship ever since the Orion arc. Megs kept in contact because he missed Optimus SO MUCH. And the war has been going on for so long. Also they can fix Cybertron together. But MOSTLY Megs missed Optimus.

Things go along, now they’re definitely considering peace time and even drafting a treaty to share with their respective factions.

But a little bump in the road comes in the form of someone that Megs DID NOT expect to see— MegaZarak. And instead of Zarak heavily injures Optimus or tortures him, like a previous idea I’ve had before— I’ve thought of something a little more heart wrenching. Shit goes down right when Prime and Megs are about to establish peace: Zarak beats out Megs from the title as leader of the Decepticons. He retreats, and escapes via ground ridge thanks to Optimus and the crew. Knockout, BreakDown, SW, and DreadWing follow after him, ever the loyal soldiers (and they also dont want to deal with Zarak). But Optimus gets nabbed just before he jumps through the ground bridge, and he’s now a prisoner to Zarak. So to fuck with Megs even more, Zarak uses the Botched Synthetic Energon to make Op go FERAL.

Like he’s a literal beast on a leash, fangs and all— and Megs, when staging a rescue operation, is torn because he doesnt want to hurt Op, but he has no choice because OP IS FERAL AND HE WILL LITERALLY GET HIS FACE RIPPED OFF. Optimus’ optics are the striking green just like when Ratchet messed around with it earlier on in the series. (Don’t do drugs kids)

He’s got Optimus pinned and he’s trying disparately to pierce through the feral veil that’s blinding the Prime. And there’s a small, tiny moment where Optimus calms down, and his optics flash blue. He tries to speak but his words are staticky and jumbled. Megs reaches out a soothing hand over Op’s face, but unfortunately the touching moment is short lived when Optimus’ optics flash green again, and he goes back to fighting like a rabid animal.

Megs has no choice to knock Optimus out and take him to the wreckage of the Harbinger where both bots and cons have established a new base since the one is Jasper got blown to bits. So Megs is looking through the cell door of the brig, watching as a feral Op is chained to a wall, snarling, growling, and trying to rid himself of his bindings. Ratchet establishes that it’ll probably take days, maybe WEEKS to flush the botched synthetic energon from Prime’s frame. Megs, ever the stubborn mech, refuses to give up on his Prime— so he sits, and waits, and assists where he can in order to bring his Prime back to himself.

So yeah, an idea where Optimus is pretty much having to be treated like a wild beast the whole time until they can get the botched synth energon out of him.

You’re welcome.

[mocacheezy]

There are a bunch of tutorials on tumblr, from folks who really, really, really figured out how to make them look straight out of the comic books or shows( seriously, the DETAILS these folks do!),

but here's what I do:

(Under readmore because it got long)

Referencesss. I always look at the screenshots! Hell, when I started getting back to digital and hated how I couldn't sketch 'em out, I took a screenshot and traced the main shapes until my hands and brain made the connection!

Actualy I still do this! My paper sketches start out as shapes most of the time, until I am confident enough to try and make the art more fluent/play around with poses.

I draw the faces first and keep doing it until I like how it looks (har har har, to anyone getting smart and saying 'lol I hate my art/I don' t like my art). Fine, but I reached a point where I can look at smth I made and go "this sucks, but i'm gonna get better at it" instead of beating myself down over not getting it perfect on the forst go. But hey, to each their own. *shrugs*)

I also do the no reference/draw from memory, look-at-ref-from-time-to-time but-still-mostly-from-memory and look at reference and draw

Why so complicated? Because if I like a character, chances are I kind of know their main features. The details are what is tricky. And depending on if I want to draw a character on model (what my kid self was obsessed over!) or want to get a feel for them in my own style, that's where seeing how much I know from memory vs. how fanworks and other peoples artstyles influenced my memory vs. this-is-my-style-Imma-draw-how-I-want comes real handy.

Until I am satisfied with the face I usualy don't move on to the rest, because, welp, I am a perfectionist and get frustrated easily 👉👉 Baby steps, robots are hard to draw. Having one part of the drawing I like, is my motivation to get better at drawing the rest.

Am I having fun drawing them? GOOD! Because that means I'll draw them more! And while typing the word practice makes me throw up a lil bit, it is true. It's just how I define my practice... Not every practice has to be a masterpiece. Let it be a shitpost.

And the most important thing to me, myself, and I: If I don't want to share my art yet, it's okay. My first sketches usualy look awful. They look nothing like what I had in mind! One part of this is because these bots have some weirdass proportions that sometimes can't translate to the human body proportions all that well. But instead of being bummed out about it like I used to be, I save those sketches and move on, because there is no bigger sense of acomplishment than looking at this:

and knowing that in a span of few months, I can now draw this:

(cheeky bastard) And it took me "this long", because draw when I feel like it! My practice, my doodles, ain't forcing myself if I don't want to!

And since I am learning to actualy share my fanart/study sketches, here, have some pics of the Prime Bucket.

My first tries:

Vs. Now:

His helmet is HELL... But I am getting the hang of it!

To sum it all up: Refrences, tracing screenshots to figure out the shapes, finding what motivates you to keep getting better, playing with expressions and not pressuring yourself to post stuff when you know you aren't ready yet.

Have fun, and I hope this helped you a bit 👉👉

Y'all can someone tell me how to draw Cybertronians please, like I've seen so so many drawings of Transformers and I got inspired to draw bit I don't know how, like here are a few pictures that I found inspiration to draw bit never achieved it. ART IS NOT MINE