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Finally got to do drawings and I'm practicing poses with Starscream ofc, it's easier with robots anyway.
Learning how to draw metalhawk cause I need to draw some interactions with him and star when I improve.
I don't know what I was planning for the top drawing but the colours low-key work just in a weird way.
I feel like he's formed that parental figure to his team even though they are almost all the same age they still look up to him.
And then you have Starscream with his abusive dad being the only thing he's ever known. He may have stared a bit to long whenever Optimus would show affection or simple respect and care to his team cause those concepts are out of reach for him. So when he finally goes to the autobots.
He can't fit in. But Optimus isn't beating him up to the brink of death or blaming him for something out of his control or that he isn't doing things right.
And at this point Starscream realises he was taken in by the wrong brother.
And I feel like this is a good point on why Starscream cared so much about Optimus when he joined the decepticons again. Cause he finally got a taste of a true father and he does cherish it.
And on Optimus' side he saw how his brother treated Starscream but not all of it or the fact that Starscream had never had anyone else or how young he is or was. So when he joined he started to realise these things but instead of pressuring it all out of him to talk he simply became what Starscream lacked his whole life knowing that the former wouldn't work on Starscream. He thinks action speak louder than words yet words are still needed. Starscream also has that ideology but instead in the way of longing for it. Along the way he does see Starscream as a son.
But things don't last forever, it didn't even last long enough to start.
You don't understand how much I love the concept of pre war Starscream and how he became current Starscream
Like was he perfect. No he had such a fragile mind and couldn't and didn't know how to deal with stuff
So when the trauma comes.
Here comes a physco with suppressed memories of actual happiness. He's insane as fuck but it wasn't his fault but he still played a part in it all.
He just had no choice in the whole scheme of things but he couldn't and didn't know how to stop it.
I want to hug pre trauma Starscream till he pops like a balloon and then after war Starscream I wouldn't cause he definitely hates touch unless he initiates it and if so it's only like a second long hand to the shoulder (this part is definitely not self projection)
Me when I finally draw again for a week.
School is a pain and tests are worse but I have this guy to keep me going (he's telling me to kms(he's not even real I'm imagining things)
(Me completely lost on who's dead or not) Sigma is 100 percent alive frfr. Try not to mind the abnoxious highlighter colouring in the first pic okay they were all I had.
What do you mean I simplified his design so I can draw him in this stupid pose like.......
The brain block be real guys. Also this gotta be my fav design for starscream like it's basically modern armada design
(Both have swords and make you cry
I swear why is it the versions that use swords that make you cry like Hasbro FREEEEE HIM)
Guys I'm seeing improvement in my art I'm so happy. Little steps you know
The top drawing makes him look like cryptic (I don't even know what that word means)
Teenage girl and I like- marvel, DC , transformers Jurassic park (dinosaurs in general), Star warsAnd others. Basically a huge nerd ig
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