#transformers blades

Blades kinda have to be in the moment to tolerate guts and gore and he was not in that moment.

The next chapter of my fic is out! :P

Ao3/Wattpad

another screenshot redraw! (aka drowning in work but the urge to draw was chewing the edge of my brain, so decided to meet in the middle and sketch instead)

i headcanon blades to be much taller than he is in the show, so to take a picture with bee, blades out here like:

Here it is! My submission to the second Rescue Bots Zine hosted by @turbofox-zines! This was my very first fanzine and I couldn't be happier with it! My goal was to challenge myself in creating something in the show's design and I think I succeeded c:

There were so many downs during the creation of this piece from a terrible art professor who killed my creativity to being heavily discouraged when the style wasn't coming together for the longest time. There were thankfully a lot of ups that helped me push through mostly in the form of such amazing mods who were understanding of my health and nerve issues. Between MysticFox and the deadline this honestly likely would have never been finished. However, if it also weren't for either I wouldn't have gained my creativity back! I'll be forever thankful to them!!

On that note if anyone wants several totally not over 800 screenshots from the show I'd be happy to share 😅 A lot of them are duplicates, that I never bothered to go through. All in the name of research! There was a lot of watching and rewatching to find some difficult angles that only showed for a split second. I'm just a reference junkie...

Anyways! Originally this was planned to include so many more characters, but that would have required a two page spread and I was limited to one. Honestly, it's so much better that I was limited because I would have died. I really wanted to include the Burns family, but no thumbnail felt right and they all looked wrong :/ Ah well, maybe next time.

Here's some close ups!

Seriously you guys should go check out the other artists and what they made. They all created so many cool and unique pieces that just blows me away!

Blades is the most effeminate of the Rescue Bots and doesn't embody "typical masculine traits", in that he's not particularly commanding or tough. Instead, he likes art and dressing up and reading magazines. He has the highest voice out of the bots. He's the most theatrical of the bots. He cares about his appearance and enjoys when people notice it. When he switched bodies with Dani, he liked to wear her dresses. He does ✨️💅THAT hand motion💅✨️ in RBA. He thinks human men are handsome. He has a celebrity crush on Bumblebee, and his admiration of him is never portrayed as creepy or weird, with Bumblebee admiring him as well, and they even become friends, with an added bonus of Bumblebee using their ship name. Oh, and he's voiced by a gay man.

He does all of this without being a villain or antagonistic or as lesser-than, which is super important for kids to see. AND, he did all this in 2011, where homophobia and misogyny was VERY common in children's media. I love that sm and Blades still continues to be my favorite Rescue Bot <3

Rescue Bots prompts day 4: Elf!!