#gridlock transformers

I *do* wish I'd spent more time researching outfits, but I figure this is directly after they kicked primacron's ass-ish so most of the choir has pretty plain stuff on (with some artistic liberties made for embellishments...) if I got some of their racial/class traits incorrect, uh, my bad.

had I researched their classes and fitted them to appropriate armor, this would've gotten finished sometime in 2028...

still managed to fit a decent amount of motifs into their designs I think, though I started giving up near grudge and gridlock

most of the ghostly choir in there's got echoes of my own humansonas for them

I had to redraw ultra magnus's face about four times before I decided I liked it. that seems to be a running theme; I can never decide how to draw him.

scourge's fur shawl thing is directly stolen from yet another scourge/sweeps fan. thank you to @/flameofthescorpion for the excellent sweep lore

Highfire's wings are based off the blue-and-yellow macaw, since macaws are famously long-lived and also known for their intelligence and Highfire is an elf wizard. also because who doesn't like macaws?

I enjoyed drawing exactly two of those trees, and then the rest were a lot less fun. you can kind of really tell

scourge and siblings were supposed to be much bluer, but i fear the rendering/color export settings lost most of the blue. maybe a more experienced me can one day balance out the blue and natural skin tones a bit better

on a similar note, I stole their blue hair idea from one of my favorite characters in my favorite webcomic Heir's Game (shoutout to Heir's Game)! The idea is that it looks like pretty normal black hair in average-light conditions but has a blue undertint to it in direct light, which they are currently in

The funnest part was drawing everyone's hair (especially Highfire's) and Magnus's hammer. and drawing a big variety of faces/face shapes. at least I *hope*

Least funnest part was trying to fit in the perspective and fourteen-ish subjects in a relatively small space. also coming up with a color scheme and realizing every single person wears blue and brown in some capacity except cyclonus and grudge. also trying to finish up and realizing I forgot to shade background accessory number 29034838

I would've gone out a bit further back (since the backdrop has a LOT of empty space) but at that range you lose too much detail to the inking to draw any meaningful features. see: Tailgate in the back (oops)

if I could fit more people in that space, it would go to the rest of the Wreckers, Scourge's extended family, and perhaps a dead automaton cameo or five. but they would be very compressed and small

instead you can think of all that filler space as a place for the title instead perhaps :>

this fucking thing started lagging out my computer near the end and also was too big to fit as a png on tumblr. oops.