Artist comments: Ever since like christmas after a surprise prezzie I promised her I'd draw her a picture of Bluestreak. I finally got it done! Yay! Blue is a joy to draw, he's so bubbly. I hope she likes it!
Botcon ad
Awesome special mag cover for the recent convention, featuring Autobot Kup in a nasty scrap.
Artist comments: This is the cover to the 2009 botcon convention comic. I won't go too much into whats going on here. needless to say that young kup is in for one hell of a fight. anyhoo, josh did the colors on this, and i must say i'm very pleased with the way it turned out. i'm always surprised by what that guy can do.
Decepticon portraits
The movie's bad guys get their own line-up. Well, it's only fair, right?
Artist comments: AB = Fast Action Battlers Optimus Prime, from the TF Movie toyline. This one was a piece I submitted to Hasbro as a sample of my work.
Artist comments: so here he is in all his movie goodness colors.
i love what josh did here.
i asked him to color it as close to the colors of the movie, and i think it looks really cool. so yeah, i'll have a bunch of them at botcon. so for anyone who is able to go, you can pick one up and get it signed by Peter Cullen.
Artist comments: The hardest image I've ever done. The most time consuming (besides The Journey Begins). The most detailed (I hate robots from this point on).
I don't think I'd be able to paint another autobot or decepticon unless ILM, Michael Bay or friggen Hasbro themselves hired me. *wink*
Artist: ok, so this is the cover for issue 2 of alliance. it features starscream taking on wreckage. now i'm not going to say what's going on in the issue. also you see that screamer has a bit of a new paint job. i won't be commenting on that, so please don't ask about that, you'll just have to wait and find out.
Megatron rises again
More from the Alliance comic. Looks like Megatron's having fun.
Artist comments: so i thought i'd post this up today. this is the cover for issue 02 of defiance. i can't remember when these book will be out, but it should be sometime this month. i like the red glow that josh did coming off megatron. i can see the evil oozing out of him. it be neat looking.
Full Botcon ad
More amazing artwork for the convention. Some of the 'bots have a classic 'toon paintjob...
Artist comments: I think josh did an amazing job on the colors for this picture. i know it was driving him insane working on it, and i give him high praise for being able to get it done for the show.
anyhoo, this is a pic with both the classic's toyline, and the new universe toyline. we picked between the regular american release colors, and the japanese release colors for some of the figures.
now one of the characters is a fanpainted character named artfire. he's the second inferno in the image. i just liked the way the character looked, and i liked that toy that i had to add it in.
Some other noticeable differences are the new face i gave devastator, plus a new hand. i felt it looked better this way for what i have him doing. i changed the heads of roadbuster, dragstrip, and inferno to give them a more classic g1 feel also.
Bumblebee
Another shot of everyone's favourite Autobot. Well, when he's not over-emoting.
Artist comments: This was made for the infamous Genesis book, I never got paid for this too. It depicts Dai Atlas in a "oh look I'm a big frucking robot dashing on a dark cave.
Artist comments:So anyway since I made my own Prime I thought I'll do Bumblebee to go along with it.
I was a lil disappointed that Bumblebee wasn't a Volkswagen beetle. The same thing could've been done. He starts out as the old beetle, Mikaela the shallow comments about him being a crap ol bug and he changes into the new Beetle.
Works just the same. Though I'd have to agree that the 08 Camaro is a pretty cool car but c'mon, everyone loves a beetle.
Bumblebee up close
Bumblebee and friend - Sam as a Robot. Apparently it's based on fan fiction which sees Sam turn into a machine after his close encounter with the Allspark at the end of the first film. We really don't want to read it.
Okay, I just have a kink for bot!Sam (Transformers 2007 movie, all the way!) and this is an expression of it; it's actually supposed to be fanart for the awesome, awesome fanfiction Dance with the Devil by Morgan O'Connor.
I just have a thing for stories that speculate on the fact that Sam was holding the AllSpark when it was destroyed, because come on , seriously. So much potential!
Comic cover
One of the IDW tie-in comics, featuring Autobot Blaster.
Artist comments: This is a series of color jobs i did for Hasbro more than a year ago. It was for preliminary designs of the Transformers movie robots for the licensing show of 2006.
Couldn't show anything until now. Or Spielberg would come to my house and kick my ass.
Artist comments: This is a series of color jobs i did for Hasbro more than a year ago. It was for preliminary designs of the Transformers movie robots for the licensing show of 2006.
Artist comments: Anyway, this is my take on how Optimus would look like in the movie.
He transforms into the cab-over-engine semi truck we all grew up to, in place of flames are the trademark white stripes, and of course, the whole picture represents how I think the movie should have ended.
I mean, C'MON, we ALL know Optimus could kick Megatron's sissy ass any day. Michael Bay obviously did not know that.
Timelines
Another comic cover - this time, from the Timelines series. Looks like Megatron's upfront.
James White is a freelance journalist who has been covering film and TV for over two decades. In that time, James has written for a wide variety of publications including Total Film and SFX. He has also worked for BAFTA and on ODEON's in-cinema magazine.
