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Energon Refinery

Got out of my painting funk with sum Arcee :}. and to try something new, it comes in shirt form! 

Here’s the process from last night’s stream:

Hi everyone! 

I figured I’d make an update to this rather than leave you all in the dark. I’ve kind of been in a garbage place creatively for a few months now and feel it may be best to postpone the tutorial videos until I gather my bearings again and get back into the habit of making art I enjoy. I may revisit them when I feel a bit less crappy, I’m not sure.

Hi there! I try to nail down the character of the robot mode first, actually!

I generally have a rough idea of what the vehicle is going to be (ie. a jet, a car, etc.), so I know to include wheels or wings or something like that, but the most important thing is making sure their personality shows through.

Re: Transformations, you can also kind of beef it a little as long as the proportions seem right and you have a rough idea of how stuff would fit together.

Here’s a super quick sketch I did while testing out a new tripod and stuff for tutorial/demos (before the camera battery ran out whoOPS). There’s still some things I gotta work on so bear with me here. 

I’m putting together a series of TF-focused painting tip vids for the next upcoming couple of weeks, but I’m curious what people would be most interested in! I’ll be delving into the topics I covered in the Tarn vid but in more detail.

Stuff like Composition, Lighting, and Gesture (posing, expressions) and other things if I can think of them.

I’m really happy to hear it helped out! :) 

The stuff at the end was mostly playing around with filters, which would need another few minutes to explain when there are other tutorials pretty readily available that can do that better than me. 

The first filter I used was a Gaussian Blur with a Layer Mask (on a separate layer) to try to emulate a camera’s depth of field. With the Layer Mask, I can cut out the parts I wanted to remain sharp, and push back other parts that can remain blurry.

The second technique is called a Chromatic Aberration effect. It emulates a 3-D glasses kind of look which can add interesting colors to a piece. In Photoshop, you duplicate your flattened painting and go into the Layer Styles (by right-clicking the layer), and it allows your to turn off the RGB channels you don’t want. Then just move that layer around around and voila! 

This vid covers it in depth: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=YG6eseP25pk

The result of last night’s stream: wet robots. :o

GOSH!

all you guys have seriously been awesome to me, and I thought I’d give back a little with some proper Q&A stuff! If you have any art questions on technique, art school, transformers stuff, whatever, feel free to send it my way! I’ll answer them in a Q&A thing at the end of the work week. The responses will be tagged #isotypes

Hello there! Hope your art exploration is going well! Sorry for the wait, I’ve been a bit terrible with keeping track of my asks while I was in uni.

To answer your question: Wacom’s Bamboo series is a nice little first perusal into tablets that’s under 200$. It’s the first tablet I got way back in middle school and it served me well for playing around until I knew I wanted to put money into an Intuos (which I still use today!). Bamboos are small so they’re very mobile!

There are other companies you might want to look into (like Monoprice) that also make tablets, but I haven’t used them so I can’t really say much about them.

Hi anon!

I see Optimus being more of an (eventual) rebel, but there was a time when Prowl served the Senate.