Hi there, this is my first post here in Transformers Community. (Hopefully not my last!) I've been a big Transformers fan for years, and I'm happy to find this forum where I can bounce my ideas and thoughts and whatnot off fellow fans.

 

I thought I'd offer two pictures I recently drew and then edited with Photofiltre. It's strictly amateur-level stuff, I'm making no claims it's professional. It's certainly not as good as a lot of the stuff I've seen on here so far. Feel free to critique or comment. Thanks in advance! :con

 

The first is a "classic" Shockwave.

 

And this one is a re-conceptualization of Ravage; I felt the bike form is more appropriate than a cassette or a robot form, and the dark colors and more feline appearance fit him better than the version in the last movie (which still rocked BTW).

 

Nice work - Ravage is my fav TF altogether and have thought of him as a bike before :) would be the perfect desguise for him, fast and stealthy. Maybe if clean up w/ straighter lines, otherwise looks good to me. Especially like the "clear parts". Keep up w/ the work.

Nice work - Ravage is my fav TF altogether and have thought of him as a bike before :) would be the perfect desguise for him, fast and stealthy. Maybe if clean up w/ straighter lines, otherwise looks good to me. Especially like the "clear parts". Keep up w/ the work.

Hi, thanks for your reply. :wave

 

Ravage is one of my all-time faves and it doesn't surprise me someone else thought of a bike mode for him -- it fits so well IMO. (What does surprise me is Hasbro hasn't done a toy like that, but eh.) If I revamp Ravage, I'll smooth out his appearance a little. I tried to model his bike and jaguar forms around the Kawasaki Ninja. I briefly entertained the thought of giving him a Jaguar XJ form -- so he'd transform from a jaguar into a Jaguar, haha -- but I still think a bike suits him better.

 

I admit I like the transparency effect too. Here's how I managed it. I selected those areas of Shockwave and replaced the black lines with a purple/pink, filled the areas with color, then gradually blurred the selection until I got the picture I wanted. I plan to do some more pictures and use that effect.

 

Just curious, I noticed you too had a Geocities site. (Points to your .sig image.) Did you manage to back it up or move it before the apocalypse? (Thanks for that BTW, Yahoo.)

Thanks about the sig -and yeah... I broke down and bought my site address. Had geocities for years.. but oh well.. least now it dosnt go down if I update and people check it out :tflaugh check these out:

 

Just like playing w/ artwork :)

 

Nice work - Ravage is my fav TF altogether and have thought of him as a bike before :) would be the perfect desguise for him, fast and stealthy. Maybe if clean up w/ straighter lines, otherwise looks good to me. Especially like the "clear parts". Keep up w/ the work.

Hi, thanks for your reply. :wave

 

Ravage is one of my all-time faves and it doesn't surprise me someone else thought of a bike mode for him -- it fits so well IMO. (What does surprise me is Hasbro hasn't done a toy like that, but eh.) If I revamp Ravage, I'll smooth out his appearance a little. I tried to model his bike and jaguar forms around the Kawasaki Ninja. I briefly entertained the thought of giving him a Jaguar XJ form -- so he'd transform from a jaguar into a Jaguar, haha -- but I still think a bike suits him better.

 

I admit I like the transparency effect too. Here's how I managed it. I selected those areas of Shockwave and replaced the black lines with a purple/pink, filled the areas with color, then gradually blurred the selection until I got the picture I wanted. I plan to do some more pictures and use that effect.

 

Just curious, I noticed you too had a Geocities site. (Points to your .sig image.) Did you manage to back it up or move it before the apocalypse? (Thanks for that BTW, Yahoo.)

Oh wow, you did those? Very good work. :) You obviously know what you're doing, so I may ask you for art tips from time to time. Or maybe even commission stuff if you're up to it; I have a project going you may be interested in. (Or maybe notm)

 

I had a Geocities site, mostly game stuff. But yeah, Geocities was kinda stingy with the bandwidth. It would go down when only a few people visited. One thing that helped a lot was storing my images offsite (Photobucket), as they'll eat up bandwidth like mad. I have my own domain now with more bandwidth, but I still store my images elsewhere just to be safe; I display a lot of 'em on my site.

 

Geocities sucked. But it makes me sad how it went down.

Thanx... I didnt draw the TFs.. just edited the artwork I found (markerguru is an awsome artist btw). I'm always messing w/ artwork everyday - that and I run a sign shop - check my site out sometime.

 

Here's another I drew. Gods know what inspired me to do this.

 

Seaspray

 

lol that's cute :)

It's Seaspray the sailor man! "Toot, toot!! It's Seaspray the sailor man! He's strong to the finich 'cause he eats his spinach. He's Seapray the sailor man! Toot, toot!!! :tflaugh :tflaugh :tflaugh

Heh. Well, more Energon than spinach in Seasprays's case, yeah?

 

And thanks Nymph. :)