#most of all honestly have fun lol

[jubileeeeee]

Hi just wanted to say i really enjoy your art and i wanna go nom nom everytime it pops up on my feed :] any tips on how to start learning to draw transformers im struggling a little bit

hello ohh my godd thank you so much :))

sorry its been taking me a little bit to get around to asks and such

im really flattered you find me qualified enough to give tips ahh !! heres a list of things I did/do when learning how to draw transformers:

SHAPES !!! draw a lot of cubes and rectangles and such . honestly learning how simple things look in a 3d space is incredibly helpful

TRACE REFERENCES ! related to ^^ learning the characters shapes is important if youre trying to depict them accurately. for example, i take screenshots from tfone and trace the characters to get a sense of what shapes/details theyre made out of and familiarize myself with them.

OBSERVE FROM PEERS !! another huge thing is learning from others ! theres plenty of tf drawing tips out there that are much better than mine lol, but a really helpful thing I do is look at how other people draw characters. how they simplify details, pose, shapes, faces, etc. identify what you like and keep it in mind !

BLOCK BEFORE DETAIL ! trying to immediately draw every single detail of a character can get really overwhelming and scary lol. when sketching, I block out a character and their pose before I start actually drawing any sort of detail. a cube for the head, rectangle for the chassis, etc.

SIMPLIFY !! ^on that note, you dont have to draw all the detail anyway !! if you want to, more power to ya. but ! its your drawing, if u wanna draw a characters plating as just . a rectangle with a window on it . you can !! i personally try to go more for recognizability rather than accuracy

PRACTICE !!! I drew a LOT of transformers before I got the confidence to start posting. something that helped a lot was actually drawing traditionally. I have a sketchbook dedicated to transformers that I draw in only with pen. it helps build my confidence a lot but also embrace my mistakes and learn from them. I also just doodle them everywhere lol . the more you draw the better you’ll get and the more familiar you’ll become with drawing weird robots :))

Everyone draws and learns differently, what I suggest may not be helpful to you and you def dont have to take my advice !! finding what works for you is a process that involves a lot of trial and error. dont be afraid to mess up, dont be afraid to draw something you dont end up liking. not every drawing has to be perfect ! experiment until you find your groove !! also you dont have to draw the same way every time, embrace fluidity :)

In conclusion: SHAPES ARE YOUR BEST FRIEND ! ROTATE THAT CUBE

I hope this makes sense, its a lot of words ehh.. I dont have any visuals prepared which would probably be a lot more helpful.. i’ll add to this when I have the time to actually show how I practice drawing tf characters and my process :))

[soundleer]

Hi. I keep seeing your posts under the sprunki tag and the way you draw the characters is cute. You have requests open? If thats the case, can i ask for a humble Simon and Brud please? Its fine if not :U

i didn't think my posts would appear in your dash under that tag but hearing that made me feel joy hyee! yea my requests are still open, i have lots of them flowing in my askbox in an unexpected rate lol

but anyway i had an interaction idea that's been in my mind between them so here's them playing a simple game of spelling bee yee!

achoo :33

[neunhofferart]

Howdy, Heidi! You said that some fans picked up things that were done on accident… Were there more scenes like that? Also, were there scenes that you guys made on purpose but fans didn’t pick up / were aware of them? In shipping terms (hihi) and in general terms. Thanks!

I think in every type of media you will inevitably see versions of 'authorial' intent vs audience interpretation that overlap and differ from each other in many ways. (Authorial intent in quotes because in collaborative mediums like film and animation every single person on the pipeline who touches the work probably has a slightly different personal interpretation they're contributing to the final work, even under someone like a showrunner or a director).

Humans are smart and it's in our nature to look for connections and find explainations to questions, so most of the time if someone is putting something down, someone is going to pick it up, so to speak, and a lot of things ARE on purpose.

But this same phenomenon can also lead to us seeing connections in places that even the 'authors' might not have originally thought of while creating the work, and I think that can be pretty neat actually! I don't necessarily think reading alternate interpretations of works is wrong-- it can be very healthy to explore multiple reads of a narrative or a character/character dynamic. On Chaos Theory there were definitely times when we were like 'fans are probably gonna ship this even if it's not the text' haha. Sometimes fans latch onto headcanons you really have no control over. Sometimes things were animated slightly differently from how they were conceived (which is also a natural part of things).

But yes, sometimes I have seen a few other things that were interpreted in slightly different ways from how they were directed or written verbally, but I'm personally of the opinion that it's more fun to leave some things visual and open to a little interpretation rather than beating the words over the audience's head and having the characters constantly announcing 'I'm feeling this because of this!' And going 'this is the only way to interpret the show and the characters and if you don't you're wrong!'

It's usually not a huge deal. I think even as we were working sometimes I'd make connections to myself that weren't necessarily spelled out to us and go 'oh, this is a throughline for this character actually!'

Like for example- if I remember correctly, the original direction behind how Kenji reacted to Ben's apparent death was that it was supposed to the first time he'd ever seen someone he really KNEW seemingly die right front of him, and being unable to do anything about it deeply affected him. Ben is a very important turning point in his character development regardless of which way you read it.

And I think this is actually something that just continued to stack onto his character throughout both shows whenever any of his friends lives are seriously in danger. In Camp when he's still unable to do anything but comfort Sammy while she's poisoned, to deciding it's too dangerous not to trade Wu's laptop for Brooklynn, to eventually throwing himself between the spinosaurus his dad is about to kill Darius with and choosing his friends over his own father and being willing to die with/for them... and then in Chaos Theory it kind of reboots all over again with Brooklynn dying and then his dad dying right in front of him, and his complex of not wanting to be useless and trying to do whatever he can at the expense of even himself to keep the loved ones he has left safe is kicked into overdrive.

I think there are a lot of things like that where the intent is not always verbally spelled out, but the more important thing is that it's still (hopefully) making you feel something.

[cath-lic]

this character design should be considered an actual sin

[sonknuxadow]

i genuinely dont get how so many people are uncritically excited for The Movie and have no issue with anything going on here i feel like im losing my mind a little bit . the trailers did not look good to me at all is everyone excited about it posting from an alternate dimension or something what are people seeing in this movie that im not .

[djevelbl]

GUESS WHO I'M DRAWING NOOOOWWWWW~!!!!

[sheetzking]

Lately ive just been so busy with stuff (sigh) my motivation is totally not there rn, but i wanted to try drawing seigaku in my style!

i think they turned out pretty okay, but i think if i had more energy id change some things :333

[lavander-galaxy]

they are so cute I may die

@sonderfairy

[inventressyasmine]

first post, not in character

so I don't really know much about roleplay, I'm just trying to have fun!

this character is Yzma after the events of the emperor's new groove and the emperor's new school. She is no longer an advisor, principal, or Kronk's assistant. She has fled the scene and is hiding out in the mountains plotting her next become empress scheme!

Her current brilliant idea is to disguise herself as Yasmine so she can live undercover and get closer to the throne.

But she is also just trying to enjoy life, make friends, and live out her dreams and life goals.

She is kind of lonely without Kronk around, or Chester whomst he took custody of after Kuzco Academy tore the secret lab down due to health hazards and it being illegally there.

So she is eager to meet new people and reminisce about the old ones in her life. But she is still pursuing her mission, to become empress Yzma once and for all! 💜😈👑

Info Sheet Relationships Lore(still working on it)

[oceanwithouthermoon]

i think its weird that i have to make this disclaimer but the internet is crazy so wtvr,, anyway,,

if i say i dont like something, that doesnt mean "that thing is bad and nobody should post it.."

i swear literally every time i even mention that i dislike something, people will go "wow does that mean u fucking hate me cuz i post that thing? ur a fucking stupid bitch and all ur opinions r wrong" LIKE ?? er.. no. just because i say i dont like certain characterizations of certain characters (the saiki k fandom is CRAZY about this cuz i can state an opinion on literally any character and a group of people will still go 'well only we're allowed to post our opinions about them because we're always right!1!1!'), or certain ship tropes (mentioned my hatred of toxic yaoi maybe once or twice on here months ago and people STILL get mad at me as if i said toxic yaoi lovers r evil or something), or certain ships, or WHATEVER, does not mean that i HATE the people who are posting them or that i think they shouldnt post them at all, NO, im just posting about my personal tastes on my personal blog and it would be extremely weird and hypocritical if i decided that i was the ONLY person that was allowed to do that,,

i think the only reason people assume that is because there are a lot of other people on here who ARE like that, and a lot of people toe the line between posting that they dont like something and posting that they think everyone who likes that thing is stupid, annoying, and wrong,, so i guess all i can say is, sorry for whatever made you make these assumptions but they arent true about me so plz leave me alone ʘ‿ʘ ur doing the same thing to me that ur accusing me of but i didnt do it in the first place so ur just actively being a dick for no reason

[brambletakato]

Yknow what. Rank all the main themes from the Professor Layton series, I'll go first

[arolesbianism]

Sometimes I just look at Isabeau and just know that if isat came out and I got into it when I was like 16 he would be my favorite character and I would've gone absolutely buck wild over this man and feel like he was laser targeting me. But alas Odile has a grip of steel on me rn due to her virtue of being a middle aged woman

[yioh]

why are like 95% of genshin mlm ships so boring and cliche😭

[couldtheysurviveshibuya]

could YOU, oh blog runner, survive the reapers game? (i mean. i guess you could and did considering youre a reaper, but let me have my fun)

Interesting proposal! And not an entirely invalid one. While I may currently be operating in Shibuya for the sake of running these simulations, I'm not from here. I'm a Chiyoda Reaper, and the Reaper's Game I won was rather different from Shibuya's! So sure, why not.

I unfortunately don't have any pictures of myself on hand, so here's a picture of a cricket instead. That's close enough, anyway.

[phagodyke]

in a hilarious turn of events my flatmate didn't even know I use any pronouns....

[moshieee]

so when IS your birthday? :0

I know right??? math is such a fun subject!!!

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