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Okay, so I decided to go back and add in Laserbeak and Ravage, above are the thumbnail sketches...

..and here they are comped into the colored sketch.

I think I'm going to start off with this Soundwave one...

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And the colored Decepticons...Megatron in his dark and evil glory. Not sure what kind of destruction is going on behind him...either Cybertron or Earth, we'll see.

Starscream up in the sky. This one needs some more composition work, but it's coming along. I'm not still stuck on the original pose I wanted to do, at least.

I'm excited for this one, but...yeah. Laserbeak and Ravage are going in there. LB on the shoulder, and Ravage in the bottom left corner.

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And now...Decepticons! Here's Megatron, just standing. All badass and whatnot. I think this will be a dark and moody one, lots of shadows, with glaring, glowy eyes.

Starscream...transformed and flying with jet mode(d) Thundercracker and Skywarp. I did a million sketches for this. I had a real specific idea of Starscream standing and laughing with his hands on his hips as his minions did a flyby, but I couldn't fit a satisfying pose in the frame. So I scrapped it and came up with this, which for this pitch, I should have a more action-y shots anyway.

And this is my boy Soundwave. In classic about-to-unleash-hell pose. I'll do the color pass first, but I might end up adding Ravage and maybe Laserbeak in as well...

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Some quick color passes over the thumbs to help me get started...

Prime on what I guess will be some hot lava in the cratered ground. We'll see if that sticks around...

Spike and Bumblebee. That BB head is all wrong...course it's just a thumb, but I gotta be on the lookout for that when I do the drawing...

And Jazz. I guess I might do some Ark flooring/environment for the background.

Tomorrow - Decepticons!

Transformers Sketches - IDW Pitch 01

So I've worked a lot on Transformers over the last 2-3 years. As of May '09 I will have created and published 20 characters for the movie universe. It's been awesome to see toys in stores, and read comics with my guys a part of the stories. My credits are buried as a contracted concept artist, so I'm going to try to push myself a bit more to the forefront. Not really so much to be famous, but to get more work, more easily. I've been able to work in my PJ's for four years now, and it's been great, but I need to expand out of video games.

I've been URGED by a friend of mine to submit stuff to IDW, so now that I have some time coming up, and I'm in the zone on this particular style, I'm going to try to crank out some cover illustrations in the G1 style...I decided to do three each of Autobots and Decepticons. Nothing too obscure, just the top three, Prime, Bumblebee, and Jazz. Then Megatron, Soundwave, and Starscream.

Here are some sketched out thumbnails of the Autobots...

Our manbot Prime, standing amidst a cratered battlefield.

Bumblebee and Spike. Mostly to get the bad taste of Shia LaDouche out of my mouth. Think that wimp could pull off a hardhat?


Jazz. More bad taste...his characterization in the movie was an embarassment to all. And to take a character from a Porsche to a $15K POS Solstice? Jazz, I will make you cool again.

Not an MTV Cliche.

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And here is the value drawing...

I just like this one, my props were pretty cool. The cards are replicas of an Old West style, the guns are replica 1880 era, same with the shot glasses. I got the gears in a lot from an estate sale from some dude who worked on clocks in his retirement. I hope they're not haunted.

Now I have TWO value drawing ready to go (including Oz) to final drawings on the painting surface...soon. Soon.

*Update 01/26 - No, of course I didn't get to the transfer, I had to work all weekend...

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All right, this is looking way better. I didn't really need that second holster in the drawing, it's empty anyways...and all those elements don't need to be on full display, indications are all that's needed.

Yes. This is coming out nicely, on to the value drawing...