Do you or did you have older concepts of DDTD designs? Or did you already know from the time before making the comic how you were going to draw them (the main cast) as humans? Kinda curious ;b
i actually have very little concept work for this series! aside from changes here and there most of the character designs have stayed exactly the same from how i first drew them💥
this whole thing started because i was looking at angsty stuff of the twins and wanted to design them as humans. the funny thing is, I’ve always had a clear vision of how i wanted the twins to look but somehow their faces ended up changing the most out of everyone…who is this kid…
i do have this early sketch of airachnid! originally i wanted her to have one very long braid because it’d look cool swinging around when she was in action, but that ended up looking too much like widowmaker from overwatch. so then she was gonna have one short braid and a weird…headpiece….thing. i actually got the idea for her final hairstyle from, out of all the people, jojo siwa. you have full permission to laugh at me
there’s also this completely incomprehensible sketch from when i was trying to figure out the logistics of putting people in the radio. it ended up with the bodies being put in the wire soup pods.
megatron and ravage’s role in the story was originally just going to be like. just the one cameo in part 3. this whole arc with airachnid and megatron i actually came up with like last month! originally the story was just gonna go from point a to point b but like come on. drama! fight scenes! soundwave aura farming!
and here’s some frenzy sketches I’ve had lying around uncoloured since like…..June or July….i was actually pretty unhappy with the twin’s designs at first but now they’re my favourite characters to draw! the rest of the cast doesn’t emote much, so the twins are where i can go all out with expressions! and boy. are there gonna be expressions! ha💥ha😂ha‼️ha💥ha🤩‼️
thats pretty much it! however, i do have a lot of concept art that I can’t show yet—mainly the characters when they’re all geared up and ready for combat. I can’t wait to start drawing them!
(part 9) sorry for the long wait! my energy crashed and burned in a spectacular blaze but i've finally managed to lock back in, thank you for being patient!
well i have some extremely difficult chapters to draw ahead. go go soundwave!!
Could we have some notes on Rumble's personality and how different he is from Frenzy since we don't get to see him much?
you have no idea the insanity you just unlocked. GO MY HUGE INFODUMP OF THE TWINS
while the twins share many similarities (they’re both nasty to basically everyone, they’re both impulsive and reckless and have a bloodthirsty penchant for violence, they’re both basically spawn from hell) the biggest difference is that rumble wants more to his life and frenzy just wants to save what he has.
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frenzy as we’ve seen pretty much suffocates any emotion and turns it confrontational, he lashes out to hurt the other person first. rumble shuts down and effectively turns passive, he won’t speak up to assert himself, he tries to disappear. if frenzy’s upset all you’re gonna hear about is how upset he is. if rumble’s upset you don’t hear anything from him at all. it’s the only thing frenzy knows how to express; it’s the only thing rumble can’t. both deal with their problems by running away.
the biggest thing rumble wants is to do something. put something cool out into the world and have a cool life. there’s a million things he wants to do. he wants to start his band and write a book and shave skywarp’s head bald. he’s probably not gonna start on any of those projects, though, cus he’s already run off in a different direction.
rumble more than anything just wants to feel like he matters, and because he isn’t confrontational about his feelings he’s accidentally bottled up a pretty bad self esteem issue. it’s not so much that he’s worried about being widely hated (he is) but more so that nothing he does seems to be enough for him, whether he’s doing something for better or worse, because the war is always so much bigger. frenzy embraced this, rumble is terrified of it.
he’s pretty sure he isn’t enough for anything, and it’s part of why he latched so hard onto soundwave, cus soundwave’s nice and really cool and if someone’s that cool and taking care of him he’s probably doing something right, right? rumble, funnily enough, is way more expressive about his feelings, he’ll talk about how much he likes soundwave and if something scared him that week and if he thinks you’re cool he’ll tell you upfront. frenzy’s too stubborn to admit what matters to him most. rumble’s always wondering how much soundwave likes him. he’ll do anything to make soundwave proud, because soundwave, for the longest time, has been his whole world. he wants to make a difference in it.
rumble and frenzy are both selfish and most of what they do can all be boiled down to feeling better about themselves. frenzy’s scared of how much he needs soundwave and often pushes him away. rumble’s always trying to prove to soundwave that he deserves to be with him. they both love him more than anything.
I was going to save this for something later but I needed to enact my revenge I fear this trend is perfect for them
nothing creates a bigger hole in your chest than the loss of a child, it doesn't get any quieter than an empty cassette player
nothing leaves your heart heavier than the loss of a sibling, they completed eachother, they made one piece, now the weight is tilted too much to one side and the other is empty
who inevitably killed Rumble in DON’T DO THIS DAD?
or was it whoever killed him anonymous/unknown?
(ABSOLUTELY LOVING THE SERIES BTW)
yep its unknown, it was a flyaway shot and couldn’t be traced. i don’t believe it’s been mentioned yet, but it wasn’t even a battle or a fight that they got caught up in—the three of them were on a supply run and a nearby skirmish broke out that happened to escalate into a shootout. the boys were in their combat gear but rumble likely didn’t equip his properly in the chaos. the parties involved were detained but no one recalls firing the shot. it was, by every definition, just the wrong place at the wrong time.
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