#cherry posting

Sketching>>>>>>>>Colouring

IE!Artemis, aka Erebus

omg... my ita is mostly done!! i wanted one that was mostly purse-like :)

"But he has a face in the IDW comics" and I genuinely think that was a dumb thing to do.

Arguably, Soundwave's mask and visor are an important part of his character design; not just because it makes him stand out from other Transformers, but Soundwave has always been much more stiff, robotic, and mysterious than most other characters. Taking away the mask and visor is like taking away part of his identity. It gets rid of aspects of who he is as a character.

Whenever I see Soundwave with a normal face on my dash, it confuses me and I have to do a double take because I don't recognize him as Soundwave. No matter the iteration, even in Transformers Prime, which is a wildly different design than the other animated series have ever had for him, he still doesn't have a distinct face like the others. Removing that from him adds something that was never really there in the first place.

The language is just substituting Japanese characters with new ones rather than being a total conlang, but even if you don't know that and you just have really good memory (or notice the repeated characters for 「まま」 and get suspicious) you might be able to figure it out.

Here's episode 3's title with the Chikyū title semi-visible for reference (it's obviously for flavor rather than anything serious):