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⟡ Welcome to Kheprri-Garde ⟡

Wasn’t sure what I was gonna do with this blog, I just made it a while ago to claim the name for future use. Decided recently that it’d be good for tf stuff :3

So welcome! I go by they/he and you can call me Kheprri or Khep. I've always been interested in tf but never really let myself actually give into it as a kid until super recently and now the franchise has a very strong grip on my brain.

AU list: ⟡ Restoration au [Main AU! Restructured bayverse timeline + post war au.] ⟡ Legacy of Primus [A matriarchy-based dragon au.] ⟡ SG Prime [TF:Prime centered SG au, connects most of my aus together eventually] ⟡ SG Bayverse [side thing I'm doing for personal fun while working on the main stuff] * I will eventually make masterposts for each one, maybe when they have more posts on here.

Tags to follow: ⟡ #Kheprrigarde [Main art tag, has all my work on it!] ⟡ #reblog [If i ever reblog anyone else's work, it'll always be under this tag!] ⟡ #Gardeask [If I happen to get any asks, they'll be under this tag :)] ⟡ #tf au [all my aus in one tag. usually.]

Other Blogs: ⟡ Original blog: @kheprriverse -> personal story art/lore, loz art/au, and occasionally sharing side blog stuff here too -> og blog tags to follow are #Tailnrr and #Kheprriverse! ⟡ Monster Hunter blog: @ballad-of-elgado -> lots of monhun reblogging and occasional monhun au art :3 -> monhun tags to follow is #ballad art and #Fires Under Elgado!

Find me Elsewhere! ⟡ AO3 [Transformers specific pseud] ⟡ Tiktok [Transformers mainly, but may get some other stuff in the future, too.] ⟡ Ko-fi [Where you can support me, if you want!]

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Sorry, honey. -blows you up with my makeshift demon core-

This is a lovely first thing to draw right after my new pen arrives.

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Separated the panels because it was bugging me 😔

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Sorry, honey. -blows you up with my makeshift demon core-

This is a lovely first thing to draw right after my new pen arrives.

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Did a lot of doodles on procreate while waiting for my replacement pen and I had to share this one.

Juno Hathaway, one of my human ocs for the dragonformers au. Roles for the human cast has been moving around a lot, I’ve been switching between making Juno a mechanic or just a specialist in tech and communications. Either way she’d probs vibe with mechs like Jazz, Arcee, Mirage, and Bee and Cliff.

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Hot Rod’s design for Legacy of Primus! I did have a proper sheet planned for some more details, like what she looks like using her outlier, but my tablet pen broke :’)

That will be future me’s problem I suppose. This is also a more complete version of this sketch.

Roddy info below !

She doesn’t appear until way later, one of five hatchlings born to Megatron post-war. She is also one of the very few mechs recorded on cybertron to be born with a color mutation, concerning both her creators by being so very… orange after hatching, when typically hatchlings start out colorless.

She’s also born with an outlier inherited from her grandfather and the same outlier Maximo has. Where Megatron’s resilience as a manganese wyvern made her a walking fortress, Hot Rod’s abnormally hot frame makes her armor somewhat more vulnerable but still dangerous to the touch. She’s almost a strangely perfect combination of Megatronus’s pure strength and The Fallen’s volatile firepower, or at least is expected to be.

It’s a power that even Megatron is wary of, sewing self-doubt into Hot Rod when her outlier begins to take form as she ages and the more her mother fears her. Even as Hot Rod tries to prove herself and seeks out help from the rest of her family, Megatron can’t help but fear the type of mech her charge could become if she follows the same path as she and The Fallen had walked.

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If it walks like a drake, barks like a drake, and acts like a drake… then… why does Smokey look like a wyvern?

wip of Smokescreen’s possible design. He’s going to take after Barricade a lot. However despite being built like a drake in every way— from his scales to body type to even his base behavior — he’s born without the front arms that would normally slot him right into that category.

Megatron’s family really is full of a lot of weird quirks.

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I can’t wait for y’all to see Hot Rod’s design. I’ve been cooking and my partner had a galaxy-brained idea.

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hm.. my pen broke haha..

so ig i'll probably post her early because I won't be able to finish her siblings anytime soon, not until it arrives

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I can’t wait for y’all to see Hot Rod’s design. I’ve been cooking and my partner had a galaxy-brained idea.

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Base design for the amphithere-inspired frames in my dragonformers au!

They’re a distant cousin to Vosian Wyverns from Solus’s era before that frame-type diverged into the many wyvern frames we have now. Many moved to Caminus when it was first founded for the opportunities new territory and terrain held for them.

Has some elements that are coming from Windblade’s original sketch, so a lot of what you see here will likely show up on her once her design is done. Like her wing-blades for example. I just wanted to make this because I need to make sheets like these eventually to set some visual rules for the various frame-types. Plus it helped me brainstorm Windblade’s design anyways.

Hopefully this isn’t too crunchy when it goes up, had to dumb down the quality of it just so Tumblr let me upload. If anything I have plans to make more of these and upload the full res versions on ko-fi. I also need to do that for all the character refs too.

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Taking a small beak from Legacy AU quintesson designs (I have one left to make) and making a sheet for myself to figure out rules for another cybertronian frametype

Figured Windblade has been waiting long enough

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she be grubbin

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I hope in the future, this shell-less Quintesson Judge is someone’s introduction to my blog.

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she be grubbin

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Is hotrod female? Also, have you designed rodimus yet?

Indeed! In fact, so are a couple of her siblings; Sideways and Dropshot.

Though, being female or male doesn't mean anything to them, and there's not actually a physical difference and the only thing they tend to track/look for is spark strength. It's just by what their pronouns are, which hatchlings start preferring when they begin developing speech matrices and learning Neocybex.

They don't have a word for it otherwise— everyone is a mech/bot, and neither term denotes gender preference. The only time something like that may come into play is when one has hatchlings, since that's super rare and considered sometime only Primes or Prime-adjacent mechs can do (even though it's not, it just requires a really strong spark and a LOT of resources). When that does happen, the mother is usually bumped up in "rank" immediately— mirroring how Primes chosen by the Allmother are usually female.

Anyways, your other half of the question. I don't have a finished design of Hot Rod or Rodimus yet, just what we have here, in fact she doesn't become "Rodimus" until her coronation in Iacon. Which already has drama attached to it because she's from The Fallen's half of the Allmother's lineage— the half she banished— and also because someone else was expected to get it. There's a whole arc about it that I plan on working on, but because it's post war it's sort of on the back burner for now.

And the Matrix decides what gets upgraded. For Optimus it was a larger more resilient body, it wasn't able to cure her illness but it did allow her to live past her expected lifespan and still be strong enough to fight in the war. Her connection to the Allmother was also strengthened, probably because ties to her were weakened and nearly severed during the Great Drought.

Rodimus as a Manganese Wyvern like her mother will already be massive and extremely resilient. I haven't fully worked out what the Matrix will upgrade for her just yet, or if it does anything at all. Maybe her color scheme? Something to keep her thoughts in order, her connection to Primus? Increasing her firepower and/or her outlier?

When she is done I will definitely share, though! Especially if I work on her siblings too <3

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On a lighter note, here's a messy sketch of Maximo! Different brush than usual coz I was struggling with the vibe yesterday :'D

He looks a lot like his warden, but I still tried to give him a similar bodyplan to Quintus. Coz they're meant to be sorta inseparable — scary twin trope but they're not twins.

Liege also isn't part of his name until Megatron becomes Crown and appoints him as one of her officers (she will regret that). And the '07 Megatron Treatment for him is very deserved. Put that man in the ice 🫵! Surely nothing bad will happen.

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I should finish this. And then maybe work on Mortilus after.

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oughhh love your dragons. any tips on drawings those mech dragons tho?

tysm! Honestly, I don't haha.. I'm not really the best at tips I don't think.

I just improvise most of my artwork, but I can provide a little doodle or so on how I sometimes start drawing them. I usually just draw them how I draw most of my dragons, but I break down certain areas that I know will be a little more.. uh?? robot shaped?? Like arms and wings for example— anything that counts as joints.

Most sketches like this (below) happen in phases. I start the head and neck then detail that, then the body and front legs. Sorta like this post here, where Roller only has the front part of his body sketched.

Or even here where I start the head but the body isn't bodying, so I block it out instead. I'll always glaze blocking out shapes with big brushes, its very fun and makes visualizing stuff a lot easier haha

This post with Quintus's sketch may also help? Just with how I shape them in sometimes. Unfortunately a lot of it is just in my brain and it's hard to put that process down :'D

Here are a couple more examples that I recently made when working on some frame-type comparison sketches

I’m an improviser through and through. The only tips I really have is just do what your heart tells you 🤷. I also draw bayverse a lot so maybe that would help haha— like using references of other tf media and ofc vehicles and joints. But even then I’m not really good at those either, I just kinda draw what feels right.

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wowee i have a very similar dragon au like your! nice to see, im not alone :)

Oh? That’s awesome!

I don’t usually look at other users dragonformers aus unless they end up on my dash somehow. Would you be okay letting me know the name of it so I could check it out 👀?

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Started on a masterpost for Legacy of Primus to list events in order.

It maaaaay act a little funny for mobile users and I had to make this sideblog public to non-logged in users for it to even work :’)

[Series on AO3] || [Primacy Lineage] Character Masterlist > Vanguard pt.1 || Vanguard pt.2 [coming soon] > Legion part 1 [coming soon] > Par

Once it’s caught up and I have a banner made I’ll make a proper link to it either in my pinned post or my header info.

It does remind me I should get to working on some fics again. I have a Codexa-centric one I started a while ago that I need to get back into again.