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Part two of working with @lovinglonerhybrid! I had a lot of trouble figuring out what to do for this piece. Starting out, the expectation was to keep him in base mode, but then I got the idea to show him on the move and, well, drawing him mid-transformation is rather beyond me so I settled for this instead, a nice basic drive, cruising toward a city skyline.

This is the first piece I drew for this year's Big Bang. It's also the one scene I absolutely knew I wanted to put to paper when I scanned through the story outline. The overall composition more or less popped into my head as is—so from there it was really just a matter of adequately getting down the nitty gritty, bit by bit. Dare I claim several inches of pencil were expended in the process of shading this thing? All in all, a rather meditative experience. 10/10 (would not draw again)

There were so many interesting prompts this year, I kept getting distracted by what else was out there even though, when I signed up, I'd set out to draw fandom's favorite raptor birb, hoping for a grungy setting to cage him in—I had no idea I was still going to get that, but the universe delivered! I got my funky chicken, who accompanied me through watching a whole lot of TV this past summer...

Given the source material is ship fic, I knew the deuteragonist ought to feature in the next piece, and I had an idea for that too. My next choice to illustrate would've been the moment Rung walks in to witness Jazz's transformation getting out of the pool—that moment when he discovers the creature he's been seeing isn't so different from any other mech. I'd put in two reaction panels for him at the top then a splash page featuring Jazz, for whom I would've gone with a kneel/crouch dripping wet (in his IDW1 pre-war body?) but I never did get around to going any further than a rough gesture for the pose. So here's Mister Eyebrows getting an eyeful of something we don't :]