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[kheprri-garde]

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.

[kheprri-garde]

More megabarri?😗 Hc, drw whatvr

sorry this sat in my inbox for a while because I had a LOT of thoughts and did none of them lol. Partially the artblock, partially because I'm indecisive and simply didn't like the writing I was doing.

Anyways, I have been thinking about bayverse a lot again. I had to hunt down the movie for a specific clip coz there wasn't a gif of it anywhere, so I made it myself. Why did paramount remove TLK but keep the other bay movies? I'll never know.

But I was watching this with an irl friend last year and during this scene she said "Megatron looks like a mom bringing her unruly children to the mall".

And that on its own fed a LOT of headcanons that are present in my au; Megatron/Barricade and their unruly (adopted)children. Minus Dreadbot-- I actually forgot bro existed until I made this gif. He's so forgettable </3

[kheprri-garde]

ur dragon formers look so cool and I think they totally suit the characters!!! I read all the little details and im like yessss... I dont know if u know Spinister from MTMTE (the scavengers medic), I always thought he looked like a dragon

AAA TYSM!! The au's a total blast to work with so this makes me super happy to hear!! A lot of their designs are usually based off vibes and character personality from different continuities (sometimes combined, like Wheeljack will be taking inspo from multiple continuities coz I cant make up my mind). If personality doesn't come into play, then its alt-mode, their role in their factions, or just.. pure vibes. Sometimes I just look at a guy and decide "yeah that's a wyvern."

And it's worked out for me this far. The only time I strayed from an original plan was with Arcee when a friend suggested a long dragon which in turn helped me with a TON of worldbuilding when I realized I didn't have anyone planned to be that species? Even though they're my fav dragons to design next to wyverns xD

Anyways yapping over— YOU'RE SO RIGHT he really does!

Him and Misfire are some of my fav designs from mtmte-- Actually I rly like all the Scavengers tbh and I think they'd work really well for the au. I just haven't gotten very far into the comics to decide if I'm rly gonna be adding them or not, or what role they'd even play. Even if I do rly need more Decepticons in the roster :'D

[kheprri-garde]

What is the plot for the Dragonformers au? Hello New here and i love transformers and dragons!

Hello!! 👋👋 Welcome!!! We love a fellow dragons and transformers fan here!

This was a little difficult to figure out since story planning is still in its early stages 🤔. I’m currently in a stage where I’m working on characters’ individual stories leading up to the war and why they chose what side.

Here’s what I can provide rq:

Following the Great Drought and a brewing war, Optimus Prime is forced to evacuate her people from Cybertron, abandoning their home and the Allmother. That is when they arrive on Earth, establishing a somewhat tense relationship with humans in an attempt to hide away from the dark tide that is Megatronus and her Legion.

Most of the au right now is Optimus’s background as Orion, a little scribe forced to work under the wing of a strict Sentinel Prime during the Great Drought, spreading his lies and deceit to his people. As well as the lead-up to Megatronus raiding Iacon, assassinating Sentinel, and taking over the Mountain Forge (where the Well of the Allspark is located). From there, the growth of Orion into Optimus -> then the war ofc.

And also some background lore stuff and world building.

On the plus side I have a mini-comic thats apparently not-so-mini coming that takes place on Earth. So I’m currently trying to lock in and get through that. What was stopping me was not having Optimus’s alt mode designed yet haha, along with a few other designs that were pending completion.

I hope?? This answers your question alright? Sorry that the au is still kinda in planning. As many designs as I’ve been doing for it I’m not nearly as far into the story as some of my other ones. I just have general ideas of characters, their designs and personalities, and very basic events ideas that may or may not make it in rn.

[kheprri-garde]

Hi!! I love your Dragonformers AU, and I was wondering if Bumblebee exists in it?

Haiii!! Tysm!!

Also yes!! You can find Bumblebee in this post!

Though, it’s his fledgling stage. I haven’t started his adult design just yet, but he is next on the list to be worked on when it comes to the next Vanguard post (along with finishing Mirage’s 100th redesign haha).

Hopefully this stage of his design gives a good ides what he’ll look like in the future :3

[kheprri-garde]

Brains existence in Bayverse is still one of the funniest things to me after learning his backstory. Cause what do you mean a Decepticon Brain Unit with higher intelligence gained sentience and defected to the Autobots before he could be terminated after the data he had was used?

And said data weren’t important battle plans it was schematics for a cage for Shockwave’s pet worm

Omggg tbh I love him and Wheelie sm they’re so goofy. But learning Brains’s origin and his actual purpose was supposed to be makes him even funnier.

You purposely give a brain unit super intelligence and sentience and you don’t think bro’s gonna run off when he finds out it’s not exactly sunshine and rainbows in your lab? But I love how all he was used for was to store a single blueprint lmao. Clearly Shockwave felt he was very important (and very important he turned out to be).

Also shoutout to Shockwave having a pet Alaskan Bull Worm.

[kheprri-garde]

ooooooo you draw transformers so scrumptiously!! thank you for your wonderful drawings :)

Aaa omg! Tysm this means a ton actually, makes me rly happy to hear :3

I was kinda scared/confused when trying to learn how to draw transformers. But I’ve been trying to use it as an excuse to be more loose/lenient with my style since for the past couple years I’ve just been kinda strict on myself. So I’m super happy you like my stuff :)

I was gonna do some art for this today but I just got back from the dentist not too long ago and the anesthesia is starting to wear off so I’m exhausted af. So here’s a couple wips of smth I’m working on instead!

[kheprri-garde]

I gotta ask, is the Matric of Conquest something you made up or is that a tf lore thing? (I only know the vibes of Shattered Glass, so I'm not sure)

PS: If you did make it up, it sounds cool as hell and I'm so intrigued! Would that mean there's no Matrix of Leadership?

PSS: I love your artwork so much!

Actually there's a bunch of variations of the matrix which is cool-- Conquest/Chaos being one of them. I knew there were other variations and was already planning on a name and source for it, but decided to look into them before I did anything crazy and it turns out there was one perfect for my plans lol.

BUT I do still have plans for the Matrix of Leadership, too. Which I'm excited for :3

also TY!!! More below for ya because yk I'm a chronic rambler.

Normally he wouldn't have even been renamed to "Prime" when given the matrix by Unicron but I felt the two would decide on a name that mocks Primus more than anything. Like how (usually) Megatron turns into Galvatron whenever unicron has smth to do with it. Or how Hunter becomes Shokaract when finding the Matrix of Conquest.

^ I guess that means I should mention WHY he wants a name that mocks Primus/the Primes. Orion/Optronix did attempt to take the Matrix long before the war, knowing it'd give him a quick trip to the top of the chain of command in the High Council. But Primus sussed him out and denied him, making it disappear (which starts its own chain of events tbh). So bro stays salty behind the scenes for YEARS, slowly climbing to the top through manipulation because if Primus won't do anything then he'll just do it himself (and succeeds. And then gets so much worse).

Anyways I should shut up now so I don't start saying stuff that's more likely to change (even if I reaaaaallly wanna keep going 😩)