Vex Of Hearts

20 years old | artist 🎨 | she/her | Mostly robot stuff, but I touch in other things too. Metal Cardbot and Transformers Primarily

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Spoilers for Metal Cardbot S4

New character revealed! More info below the cut!

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HELLOO SAILOR??

But seriously!!! Look at this guy!! He's so cool! Makes me wonder if its Tyrant zero's "normal" form or something... probably not but it would be cool! IM SO EXCITED EITHER WAYYYY AAAHHH

AND HE'S A STAR GUARDIAN!!! MORE STAR GUARDIANS!!!

edit: so I just found out this guy was a backup for if blastrain's popularity didnt go as well as it did. I find that a little funny. I still really hope they use this guy in season 4 because holy shit he's so cool. He's one of the first to fight the wild cardbots too?? like hello??

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i've never drawn Blaion before so here we go

His character is also starting to grow on me. A lot of characters are growing on me with my rewatches lmao

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His joy is my everything...

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So I have finally received my Flame Nova figure. And while he is beautiful in so many ways...

Why does his face look like that?

I cannot take him seriously at this angle. Please. He looks like a dumb angry cat 😭

I love him nonetheless, him and solidhorn will enjoy their time on my desk :D

My two favourite scrimbos are on my desk...

Plus deep bite because I realized I'd never mentioned I had a Deepbite figure??? He was the first one I bought, even before Solidhorn LMAO

Anyway here they all are. Next ones I plan on getting are Bluecop, Blaion, and Phantom hornet. Not sure in which order but we'll find out eventually

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More Flame Nova doodles because i love him so much (seriously do not understand where this love for him came from BUT whatever)

He's so evil cat coded. He WILL break into your house JUST to knock a glass off of your table and watch it shatter. Just saying...

First one was with a reference in front of my eyeballs so that's why its so much more detailed than the others. He's my shayla I CAN FIX HIM I SWEAR

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So high-key what in the absolute FUCK was episode 26 of Metal Cardbot?

I am devastated.

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Oh, I see how it is >:)

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It's kinda crazy how hard Flame Nova is to draw

I'm quite happy with how he turned out, especially here so yay! :D

He's so disgruntled, I love him so much its not funny AUGH (it's a little funny)

i wish to draw him like a sad wet dog, I yearn for it. Scrimbly scrumbo lookin bot. overall though for my first few attempts at drawing him I think I did okay :D

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Alright I know I've been dead BUT with these new metal cardbot episodes...I've never seen Flame Nova in this light before...

expect of art of him and solidhorn sometime...I hope anyway I have NOT had motivation to draw 😭

They're so fine I'm tweaking OUT holy moly

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This is unrelated to my blog in so many ways but I feel the need to speak my mind.

Today is June 9th. Now, many of you that follow me might not know what that means or not know why it's special, but it is. A video game, my 3rd space, my second home, is receiving its final update today.

Destiny 2 was a game I started playing in August of 2020 after my oldest brother gave me his old PS4. I downloaded it, thinking nothing of it but when I started playing I was absolutely captivated. This was a universe so unique, so interesting, and it pulled me down a rabbit hole I knew I was never gonna get out of.

That game and it's community brought me something that no other game I ever played did - a family. My dearest friends, whom I consider brothers and sisters, I met through that game. Without it I would not be who I am and where I am today. It pushed me to draw more, it pushed me to keep going, and was there for me during some of my roughest times. I may not have always liked the game, but I did always love it. It breaks my heart to see it finally end, and end like this. It didn't deserve this ending. It didn't deserve it getting this treatment without a conclusive story.

I hope the Destiny community is listened to. I hope WE are listened to. Because Destiny and it's universe does not deserve this fate.

But, as it seems, things are looking unlikely. So for now, all we can do is hope. And I will keep on hoping. I will keep on playing even if the game slows right down to a crawl. It will forever be one of my favorites.

Per audacia ad astra. See you starside.

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Insecticon Bombshell!

As a resident of the Rust desert, he is the only insecticon known to speak regular cybertronian! He is quite smaller than the normal bots, standing around 10 feet tall. I actually imagine much of the insecticons like Jawas from Star Wars, living on scrap metal and eating the energon of smaller creatures where they can. They are quite light and agile, being able to avoid much of what the Rust desert houses for predators.

He is a very nifty and crafty bot, being able to build a lot from scraps.

I don't have a particular voice claim for him, but the closest I can get to what I imagine him sounding like is Golem from Lord of the Rings, but it's not quite what I want. I want it to be more bug like :(

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Doodles of some of my designs so far

I love all of these goobers with my heart, seriously need to keep the train going with designing too lol

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Hello! It’s the rescue bots person again. Thank you for responding! I appreciate it. Even if your not the artist, first of all I still love yours and having two great artist to follow is better than just one ahahahahaahhahaha, and two, at least it kicked my ass into gear to fianlly try and find the artist for the Rescue crew. (The rescue bots are some of my favorite characters in the entire franchise, in case you wondered shy I care sm lmao) anyway, I have a minor update.

Unfortunately, my search for the original RB artist did not end well :/

I can’t find them. The best I could find, surprisingly enough, is a Facebook post from last year crediting ‘Vincent Grosse’ for ‘putting together the profile’ but even they didn’t know who the artist for the root mode bots were. (Image down below)

I managed to learn that the artist drew the characters in a “Dreamwave comic” style, but I’m Ngl, the comics is not my favorite part of this fandom so I don’t know if I trust Facebook on this one..

Also there’s like. 40 repost on Pinterest. Most of this is on Pinterest. Grr! I’ll try again when I’m not about to pass out from exhaustion but the search doesn’t look so hot .

Sense you expressed interest in the art… well, I don’t want to make the problem worse?? But uh. I found a YouTube short that features all the art so… It’s the best I can do without just sending 10 pictures into your inbox (my favorites are Blades, Chase, High Tide and Blurr)

The money I’d pay to make these characters more popular

Anyway here’s the link. Have a good day/night!

https://youtube.com/shorts/8L2NmgEhAxI?si=Yj6nbPzhA3unhrv8

Yeahhh i tried to do some looking as well but only found what you did. I SWEAR i remember seeing those before the Dreamwave stuff came out but I might be wrong.

Pinterest is probably THE worst place for stolen art. It gets so lost and nobody credits and it's one of my biggest issues with the site. I really wish people would be better about crediting than saying "yoink" and posting is there with nothing. It's so frustrating

And honestly me too about the whole paying for them to be more popular. While its not my top favourite piece of media, it is really close to being up there. It is a well written show with well written characters and, imo, the best written HUMAN characters. I love how everyone actually feels like a family in that show and bgdjgfdhfhjb I love it so much

My favourite is Heatwave, Hightide is close in second hrhrhrr

Thank you so much for the link to the yt video tho! It's greatly appreciated :D

And who knows, I might do some designs for them in the future >:)

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and here is Chromia!

Big buff lady hrhrhrrr...I love her so much its not even funny

most of her inspiration came from Sarah stone's version of her because OUGH she's so pretty in her style.

So Chromia is basically a tool for the Inquisition of Cybertron to use. and I use the word tool because she is what they use to get the nasty jobs they don't want people knowing about done. She's an executioner, a saboteur, and anything else they want her to be. She kills people the inquisition deems heretics, she brings them to the gladiatorial rings if they ask, or whatever else. In the public's eyes, she is simply an agent. If anyone has any ideas on what to call this position please tell me lmao

She does not like this at all - she in fact hates what she does. She resents herself and hates everything about killing people cause the inquisition said so. But, she is fiercly loyal to the people she loves

Her voice claim is Tigress from Kung Fu Panda :D

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I recently stumbled across your transformers designs and I think they are SPECTACULAR. I love the colors and the small kibble/designs across their frames that make them feel so functional, I could stare at them for hours theyre so pretty

In fact, I did stare at them for a while! (/pos) And as I was staring at your Shockwave design, I realized your art style is super familiar to me

Have you by any chance redesigned the Rescue Bots in the past??

I saved some really nice Rescue Bots redesign fanart on Pinterest a while back. Ive been meaning to reverse search for the artist for a while but I keep forgetting. There's no authors mark ;-;

The artstyle is similar to yours, and whoever the artist for the Rescue Bots is, they have a similar knack for details as you do.

if its not you, Im sorry. I figured id at least ask... I really should just reverse search for the artist *dramatic sob*

Thank you so much for your compliments!! urgh I'm so glad they look good to people

So I bring sad news, they aren't mine. I haven't done too much work with the rescue bots in the past, and if I did it would've been shitass drawings I did on amino when I was like...14. The only one know I did more "recently" was Chase, but I don't believe I posted it anywhere??? And even then that was already some odd amount of years ago too. My style has only really developed into this as of recent, as my art from when I was working on this au a while ago looked a whole lot different (and worse) than it does now lmfao

Although I am curious as to which designs you are talking about! I might be able to provide an answer to who they're by, but I can't guarantee :(

And please don't apologize for asking, it's okay lol I promise

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Have you ever thought about doing design based of war for cybertron and fall of cybertron including using the common decepticons and autobots enemies in the game.

I actually have! I used a little bit of wfc inspiration in my Soundwave design, those four weird prong things that are on his chest are where I got those from (I'm not sure what they're called???)

And when I design Warpath I do plan on taking a lot of inspiration from there cause I love his design so much in the games

As for the common soldiers, I might have to think on that. I've got ideas floating around in my head for most of the bots I'd like to design—which is a lot, I've got around 60 on my list lmao. There's probably very easy ways to do it which I'll figure out eventually. Thank you for your idea anon 🙏

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Your version of Star and Megs looks so good 🔥🔥 I am genuinely losing my mind over them 💕💕 Can't wait to see more of them 😊

I am really obsessed with the way you are not shy with making their bodies look bigger and bulkier! Yet, your version of bots still gives off their original vibes.

Thank you for sharing them with us 🌻🐝🩷

Ouugh thank you so much!

My aim is for the bots to look unique to my style, but still recognizable. I love when transformers are big and bulky, but if their sleekness fits them, I do plan on keeping it - I've just been drawing all the bulkier ones first lmao. A lot of my inspirations come from the idw comics because they were what really got me into transformers as a kid. Alex Milne and Sarah Stone remain to be my biggest inspirations for both art style and bot designs :D

Again, thank you so much for your kind words. the sheer amount of love I've gotten from people is insane and I never thought anything like this would happen. it means so much to me <3