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Dark Prelude: To Pierce the Wound

by CavalierConvoy & @skidblast

9,646 words | 82 pages

This is a cute little volume, 4 x 4 inches, sewn board binding. I followed this DAS Bookbinding tutorial.

I completed the typesetting in February for the Binderary challenge, and finished making it in May. I've never done a book this small, and it was an interesting challenge designing it. I've found smaller books are more difficult to typeset due to the size limitations.

For the title I used the font Mad Hacker, the body font is Alegreya and Alegreya Sans, and the subtitle font is Heldustry. If you are a Transfomers fan, I'm pretty sure Heldustry is one of the same fonts used on the G1 packaging.

Fandom: Transformers - All Media Types, The Transformers (IDW Generation One)Rating: TWarnings: Creator Chose Not To Use Archive WarningsCharacters: Trailbreaker, Original Character, First Aid, Brainstorm, Kaon, Vos

Relationships: Trailbreaker (Transformers)/Original Character

Additional Tags: Canon-typical violence, romance, friendship, happy ending

Here we go: IDW’s Mistress of Flame! @cavalierconvoy suggested the subject matter, I suggested the two week deadline, and @erikaskerzz suggested showing off our progress steps. There’s certainly a contrast of styles among the three of us! I’ll start with with Cav first because she’s been live streaming this. She went with watercolors, and the end result is a very bold and vibrant masterpiece that’s getting framed very soon. The best part is the metallic gold accents she put on last. The hi-res scan actually doesn’t do it justice, but her photo of the finished piece caught the sheen very well. Below are the sketch, inks, ambient color, and final.

Up next is Erika’s work. I have no idea how she’s able to achieve such clean lines; I need to learn more about this myself! Her final coloring shows great depth, dynamics, and mood as she contrasts the cool glow of the moth to the warmth of the mistress, and the composition with the cape and the cropping is very powerful, too! Below are inks, base color, and final.

And finally my take on the Mistress. No, it’s not one of my Inktober doodles. I went with my Heavy Metal style for this. The triple circle composition with the swords, portal, and cape frame her in, and the crisscross of the hammer, cape, and far right sword draw you toward the flame. Trust me, holding a flame in her hand and circles in the background weren’t criteria for this piece; it just so happens that my wife and I think a lot alike. I used to do all my coloring in Photoshop with airbrushes, masks, and way too many layers, but now I do it by hand with colored pencils for one-step blending. Below are the rough, graphite, colored pencil overlay, and final.

Highlight for me in Predacons Rising: Autobots in the foreground having a serious conversation while in the background, Smokescreen, in Megatron’s throne, is having a one person rave.