One Sentient Being

Prompt 15 (I FORGOT TO POST IT 😭): Friction

Could've done plenty of things w this one lmao, went with a classic beating the heck out of one another

Idk why op looks like earthspark op, ig the old man just has me entranced

Prompt 18 (I skipped 17 woops): Tomatoes

Nothing tastes better than extraterrestrial vehicle-morphing virtually immortal highly intelligent robots doing silly little human bonding activities (farming)

High key inspired by interactions with Spike in the g1 cartoon (the little I've seen so far) they're so mathematical

Prompt 16: Birthday

In honor of life suplexing me I've officially changed this from 'art I draw every day' to 'art I draw on rare occasion' 💀

Love the thought of Transformers tracking the at least vague time of their birth/forging/onlining (whatever version we wanna play with), especially in the context of how this celebration and the feelings involved changes over the course of the war specifically with op or megs

(If anyone knows of/writes any fics along this line PLS SEND THEM PLS)

Don't mind me mixing continuities/designs lmao

Day 14: Judgement

So totally unrelated have Day 13: Rabbit

Had to draw the shockbun, had to, was legally required even

Headcanon that he would stomp aggressively and even try to fight any variant of starscream (or any other [insert character here] that you think he'd fight lol), despite being very much still a prey animal

(Warning a tf:one sequel yap overtook my usual art yap lol)

DAY 11/12: Ocean/Wound

Yes I snuck Wound in bc day 11 took too long, no I don't take criticism (but look! Megs has a big hole in his chest! Wound!). This took far too long for the end result, trust that my vision was even more vastly assumptive of my abilities and grandiose.

Blame Never Let Me Go by Florence and the Machine for this one

Additionally, blame my rage for the fact I couldn't be bothered to properly finish the rendering (Op's red was supposed to be coral, Megs was supposed to have more detailed forests/rocks/cliffs etc) BECAUSE WHAT DO YOU MEAN TODAY I FIND OUT WE GOT CONFIRMATION OF NO TF ONE SEQUEL (at least for a long while). WHAT.

Tf one was the thing to properly get me into transformers, because unlike some versions I could name it actually had a story, and depth (no shade to other media *cough bay cough* genuinely, I have very specific personal taste). It's by no means perfect and I have plenty of criticisms, but it's a good movie, especially when you ignore the plot and narrow in on the megop drama, which was enough to suck me into the lore and characters.

This news was just waiting to happen, yes, but I'm genuinely frustrated that the story that drags me kicking and screaming into this damn franchise is also maybe the last major project before a potentially long as hell media drought. (I'm being dramatic, the comics are still there and even a show or two, but man... this still sucks)

Oh well, keep making tf content! Keep suckering unsuspecting fools into the franchise! Consume all existing content violently via ur teeth and nails!

Day 10: Spine

Don't have too much yap for this one, other than how optimus is so... worn down, and sick of it all, in the bay films. The stabbing weight of an immortal war or smth (I just wanted to draw cool spiky spine)

Gave up on detailing and even just properly finishing base colours, I may render this more properly later (won't). But hey, unfinished art is still art in my book (I'm battling to death w my inner perfectionist and I'm damn well winning)

Literally a 5min sketch, bc right now life is the megatron to my starscream (or starscream to my megatron that one time he got tossed into space for lolz)

Day 9: speedboat

Is it illegal to say I drew this having not watched rid15 🧍(I've literally only seen compilations of clips, and while it mostly looks really cool I'm concerned about what ppl have said regarding Op's characterisation/treatment - I'll watch it eventually to have my own opinion but for now. Meh)

Day 8: Registration

I most certainly use references when drawing, that's why all the transformers I ever draw are perfectly to their canon models (lying)

I like to think this isn't even in a continuity/time when humans in general are used to transformers, but rather, this specific human is used to them purely due to how many times he's pulled over knockout and knockout has run the "I'm a giant robot fear me" bit to get out of trouble. It probably worked the first like, 3 times? After that not so much

(How is he paying for the speeding fines? Idk man. Stealing or smth)

3 gay nerds looking at each other (it's me, I'm gay nerds)

Day 7: Perspective. This is a sketch I did as quick as possible bc I super didn't forget I needed to do one today

The day Knockout (from tfp specifically) has no fans is the day I've literally been completely erased from all history and existence: the day that the very fabric of reality has warped so the very tiniest sliver of possibility of my life is eradicated. Otherwise? You can't keep me down

Sourcream is fine too... ig. (Jk, love him, its for the bit)

Put these two in a room together and they are single-handedly ending the decepticon cause, adore them for that.

Idk man, cringefail SIC ex-scientist guy + (and/or x, for the daring) snarky unhinged flamboyant evil doctor is so [loud crunchy audio of someone chugging an entire vat of soup]

Day 6: Native

Another rough one, one of these days I'll remember to do it early and *actually* work on it, but I still find the concept fun.

I think a lot can be done with the whole "alien cybertronians freshly arriving on earth having no clue what is going on." A fun subsection of that is all the millions of ways the cybertronians would underestimate and overestimate human capabilities (great comedy AND angst potential, 2 for 1 deal).

Additionally, I love Op's prime design so much

Day 5: Mainland

Playing pretty fast and loose w this prompt, but hey that's why it's a 'prompt.' The idea is Megatron (in his unicron boosted body at the end of tfp) is returning to Cybertron (the 'mainland'), and is feeling a mixture of emotions around it. There's relief at his homeland thriving, yet fury because of how much had to be lost to achieve it, because of how happy the citizens are despite it all; rage at the future he sees already simmering under its surface, as the same old practices of control are built up. Sadness, grief, at what was lost. Familiarity and strangeness. And of course an echoing sense of something missing.

The fact he never witnessed or knew about what happened at the well of sparks has its spindly evil hands around my neck and it is exponentially tightening its grip, I'm crying for fanfic as I choke

(Also I'm sorry but I couldn't commit to stealing his nose, apologies tfp, I couldn't do it)

Day 4: Handle

Baby bumblebee seemed like as good a choice as any for a sparkling likely to fling themself headfirst into problems, aka a harness kid

I think it would be hilarious if cybertronian biology/evolution lead to sparklings/young mechs actually having a handle as part of their armour (which would eventually just be shed off or shift into a different section later in life) in order to wrangle them. My amusement drove these quick sketches lmao

Obvi sparklings are very much fandom territory, at the very least in how they're popularly depicted, so I think we should have fun w little things like this lol

A way to look at it, which I'm kinda obsessed with, is 'immune response.' Primus is a living body, any subunit of that body which introduces invasive external bodies (say, the quintessons) is an issue and leads to an immune response; like how a human heats up in fever, Primus shuts down energon. Kill the invasive body before it kills you.

This is a long preamble to today's (definitely not forgotten) drawing:

Day 3: Enzyme (a catalyst that increases the rate of biological reactions, usually modelled as holding the reactants of a reaction together to make the product).

To create a Prime, some internal quality (here, Orion Pax's heart) must be combined with the power of Primus, the matrix. Bots are catalysts to this reaction. The enzyme isn't used up in a reaction, but the reactants are: changed permanently unless the reaction is reversed (even then, different atoms compose the remade reactants)

It's far fetched, but I'll take any excuse to yap about Primus/cybertronians being a biological system simply made out of weird alien metal.

Day 2: Dungeon (yes I could've done a lot with that lol)

I decided to go with a classic shockwave violating all warfare and ethics conventions in his little scientist den. Love that for him

Incredibly rushed with little detail but we listen and we don't judge 😌

(Side note, I adore shockwave's character. His idw spotlight is one of my favourite of the idw comics I've read so far. He's just... brutal. It really makes you wonder tho, if his objective had been anything else instead of "continue the cybertronian species/planet/legacy" how would his actions have gone? Even with that goal, his character opens up so many interesting routes when you bring lore/headcanons/logistics into it (say with different methods of making cybertronians). I also find his whole "getting rid of feelings because they weren't being helpful" to be fascinating. Like a Theseus ship paradox, how many of his own parts would he swap out in the name of his goal. Where would it stop? At what point does even the meaning of his goal fall apart)

Now time to pass out lmao

Day one: Attenuation (the dampening/lessening of force of waves through a medium, such as the force of earthquakes being lessened further from the source point)

I barely understand the concept ngl, so if it's applied incorrectly my biggest apology to physicists (known transformers fans)

My initial idea for this one was a much angstier "sparkpulse/EM field slowly dying/being unheard due to dampening as a mech dies alone" but instead I just tossed megs in a puddle and made it so water shuts him up so ¯\_(ツ)_/¯