#hope y'all like our tablecloth lmao

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[Image ID: Hot Rod sits on a rock, smiling as he reads a blue book. Skywarp stands to the right, servos on his knees and bent over.

There is a treehouse in the distant right.

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Technical details + a bit more info under the cut 👌🏾

background info.

Honest to heaven, I just wanted to draw something cute, and switch my brain off for a few hours.

This started off with Hot Rod collecting seaglass, but then somehow, Skywarp ended up in the drawing. So, I scribbled out different poses.

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story.

I usually have some scenario in my head for my artwork, but this time, nothing concrete comes to mind pspsp. Did come up with two options:

1) The other adults tricked Ultra Magnus into taking charge of the local Scouts group, and during a nature walk, Skywarp and Hot Rod snuck off

OR

2) Skywarp and Hot Rod got kicked outside and are now trying to find fun elsewhere pspspspps

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technical stuff.

This is entirely gouache— though it's a little watered down.

It's difficult to erase carbon paper marks. Likewise, you really shouldn't be erasing on watercolour paper period (you risk damaging the texture/paper, which can affect the way the paint behaves).

So, I just coloured in the linework as is.

In some areas, I used a micron 0.05 pen, and drybrushed on some gouache lineart straight from the tube.

I forgot some details (despite the fact I was staring at a reference :'D): both of Hot Rod’s wings and Skywarp’s other wing are MIA.

Hot Rod's colour scheme was meant to be more orangey, but, I saw his helm was more of a rosey colour and tried to compensate accordingly.

The lighter purple on Skywarp is too light imo; a consequence of me watering down the colour I used for his helm ;w;

For SW's cockpit, I used a non-watered-down vers. of the orange I used for Hot Rod’s legs. I think it contrasts too much, but it’s also grown on me.

The little red dots (flowers) ... I sort of panicked when I tried to remove them, hence the splotchy-ness in some areas. Whoops.

Still need to practice with skies; the right hand portion is very, very dark. But hey, at least I got what I was going for on the left side of the sky! :]

Very in love with the far off trees in the bg.