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  1. Movies
  2. Transformers

42 Amazing Transformers Illustrations

By James White
published 8 June 2009

Awesome fan art from across the web...

  • Comments
Autobot portraits

Autobot portraits

With Transformers: Revenge Of The Fallen arriving shortly, we thought we'd take a look at different TF art from around the web.

Here, then, a selection of offerings compiled by The Design Inspiration from DeviantART , complete with often weird comments from their creators...

Autobots... line up! The 2007 movie's heroic robots pose for a headshot lineup.

By: dylanliwanag

Artist comments: Been working on these portraits for days. Hope you like it.

Page 1 of 42
Page 1 of 42
Big fight

Big fight

The iconic moment from Bay's first Transformers outing - Optimus takes on Bonecrusher.

By: ss-cheong

Artist comments: Prime vs Bone Crusher!! For all Transformers big friends .
This time done in photoshop CS2.

Page 2 of 42
Page 2 of 42
Bluestreak under the weather

Bluestreak under the weather

The strangest pic of Bluestreak we've seen. It was a present for another fan, apparently.

By: solipherus

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!

Page 3 of 42
Page 3 of 42
Botcon ad

Botcon ad

Awesome special mag cover for the recent convention, featuring Autobot Kup in a nasty scrap.

By: markerguru

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.

Page 4 of 42
Page 4 of 42
Decepticon portraits

Decepticon portraits

The movie's bad guys get their own line-up. Well, it's only fair, right?

By: dylanliwanag

Artist comments: This is my last Transformers movie fanart. Sorry I didn't include Bonecrusher and Frenzy and I did only half their faces.

Page 5 of 42
Page 5 of 42
Toying with Optimus Prime

Toying with Optimus Prime

Using one of the many Optimus Prime toys for inspiration.

By: rex-203

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.

Page 6 of 42
Page 6 of 42
Franchise cross-over

Franchise cross-over

From the comics - Optimus meets Snake Eyes.

By: jprart

Artist comments: This is a cover I colored for GI Joe vs Transformers II

Page 7 of 42
Page 7 of 42
More franchise fun

More franchise fun

More GI Joe/Transformers crossover madness. COBRA working with the robots?

By: diablo2003

Artist comments: Wrap around cover for G.I.Joe/transformers #4 drawn by me with colors by Pens'n'Pixels and Danimation

Page 8 of 42
Page 8 of 42
Ironhide Counter Attack

Ironhide Counter Attack

Ironhide looks angry. You wouldn't like him when he's angry.

By: zgul-osr1113

Artist comments: "You feeling lucky, punk?"

No, Seriously!

This works was the most difficult of all my Transformers fanart. whew!

Page 9 of 42
Page 9 of 42
Bumblebee gets his close-up

Bumblebee gets his close-up

The first movie's Bumblebee in hero form.

By: dylanliwanag

Page 10 of 42
Page 10 of 42
Prime location

Prime location

The movie's Optimus Prime (but then, he's so iconic he almost always looks the same) gets a hero image.

By: markerguru

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.

Page 11 of 42
Page 11 of 42
More Prime

More Prime

Great pic of the Autobot leader.

By: adonihs

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*

Oh btw..you guys owe me for not painting FLAMES.

Page 12 of 42
Page 12 of 42
In a Blurr

In a Blurr

Blurr from the comics.

By: khaamar

Artist comments: Cover for the upcoming IDW's Transformers' Blurr Spotlight, drawn by the great Casey Coller and written by Shane MacCarthy

Page 13 of 42
Page 13 of 42
Starscream battles

Starscream battles

Starscream vs Wreckage from an upcoming comic.

By: markerguru

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.

Page 14 of 42
Page 14 of 42
Megatron rises again

Megatron rises again

More from the Alliance comic. Looks like Megatron's having fun.

By: markerguru

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.

Page 15 of 42
Page 15 of 42
Full Botcon ad

Full Botcon ad

More amazing artwork for the convention. Some of the 'bots have a classic 'toon paintjob...

By: markerguru

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.

Page 16 of 42
Page 16 of 42
Bumblebee

Bumblebee

Another shot of everyone's favourite Autobot. Well, when he's not over-emoting.

By: r aptorkraine

Artist comments: I made a few of these to mark the release of the new Transformers Movie

Page 17 of 42
Page 17 of 42
Monotone Megatron

Monotone Megatron

The movie's villain in an action shot.

By: jrsov

Artist comments:
Original Megatron brush in B&W

Stock background

Ohmigash im sooo new at this DA thing.

Please forgive me.

Page 18 of 42
Page 18 of 42
The endless battle

The endless battle

Decepticons vs Autobots. Who will win? Our money's on the Autobots.

By: strifestyle

Page 19 of 42
Page 19 of 42
Megaton in close-up

Megaton in close-up

Megatron's head shot. It still didn't get him the lead in Wall-E.

By: wahkee930

Page 20 of 42
Page 20 of 42
City battle

City battle

Robots on the rampage. Prime! Watch that building!

By: wanbao

Page 21 of 42
Page 21 of 42
Battle bot

Battle bot

Megatron in fighting form.

By: zhuzhu

Artist comemnts: just saw the movie yesterday,it's great ! "transformers"was my sweet memory before 20 years ago,and i am so crazy about it.

Page 22 of 42
Page 22 of 42
Dai Atlas

Dai Atlas

Little seen Autobot leader in comic book form. He appeared in one episode of a cancelled 'toon series. No, he's not Welsh.

By: makotron

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.

Page 23 of 42
Page 23 of 42
Guardian

Guardian

Bumblebee does his battle thang.

By: zeo-x

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.

Page 24 of 42
Page 24 of 42
Bumblebee up close

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.

By: dragondream08

Artist comments: I . . . have no excuse.

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!

Page 25 of 42
Page 25 of 42
Comic cover

Comic cover

One of the IDW tie-in comics, featuring Autobot Blaster.

By: Jprart

Page 26 of 42
Page 26 of 42
Legends

Legends

Prime, Megatron and - yay! one of the Dinobots (looks like Sludge to us) from the classic series/toys.

By: zeromayhem

Artist comments: Book cover illustration for Transformers Legends.

Page 27 of 42
Page 27 of 42
Brawl

Brawl

The movie's take on Brawl, in concept form.

By: eldelgado

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.

It was a cool job, pencils are by Don FIigueroa

Page 28 of 42
Page 28 of 42
Movie comic time

Movie comic time

The cover from the movie comic adaptation.

By: kieranoats

Artist comments: The cover I colored for Issue one of the Transformers the Movie Adaptation

Page 29 of 42
Page 29 of 42
In his Prime

In his Prime

The film's version of Optimus gets a wallpaper.

By: codexcdm

Artist comments: A TF Movie Wallpaper featuring Optimus Prime.


Page 30 of 42
Page 30 of 42
Bumblee into battle

Bumblee into battle

See what we mean about him being popular? He, along with Prime, is easily the most heavily featured 'Bot on the roster.

By: orcasaurus

Arist comments: I don't even know.

I was doodling Bumblebee's head and almost gave up but then WHOA WHAT THE F**K three days later and my hands are twitchy and I've lost my eyesight

Page 31 of 42
Page 31 of 42
Cinematic Prime

Cinematic Prime

A moody shot of the leader 'bot.

By: raptorkraine

Artist comments: Made a few of these to mark the new release of the Transformers Movie

Thanks for Looking

Page 32 of 42
Page 32 of 42
Optimus portrait

Optimus portrait

Another pic of the main 'bot, in his flame-painted movie style.

By: eldelgado

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.

Page 33 of 42
Page 33 of 42
War droid

War droid

A battle 'bot ready for action.

By: hd-esign

Page 34 of 42
Page 34 of 42
Ultra Magnus

Ultra Magnus

Ah, a classic. This looks to us like the Gen 1 version of the character.

By: kieranoats

Artist comments: This is the cover for the issue of Transformers I'm doing.

It's a spotlight issue focusing on Ultra Magnus, the lineart is absolutely amazing, drawn by the super-uber-ultra-to-the-magnus artist

Page 35 of 42
Page 35 of 42
Prime's last stand

Prime's last stand

Prime faces the usual big battle, this time an alternative take from the end of the first movie. And he's whupped Megatron even more this time...

By: zeo-x

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.

Page 36 of 42
Page 36 of 42
Timelines

Timelines

Another comic cover - this time, from the Timelines series. Looks like Megatron's upfront.

By: funpubcomics

Artist comments: So, the solicitation for Transformers Timelines Issue 3 went out yesterday through Previews. Here is the all-new cover.

Page 37 of 42
Page 37 of 42
Transformers Titans

Transformers Titans

The cover of Titan's Transformers mag, issue 13. Prime vs Megatron.

By: yex2

Page 38 of 42
Page 38 of 42
Starscream

Starscream

He's a moaner, isn't he? This image is actually titled "Whiny Bitch"...

By: orcasaurus

Artist comments:Remember when I drew Bumblebee and said I would never do Bayformers again? HAHA I LIED SO HARD.

Main difference with this one was that I wasn't using an outline at all and it was all one layer. holy jesus my hand aches a bit

Page 39 of 42
Page 39 of 42
Robo zombies

Robo zombies

Is robot zombies even possible? Galvatron thinks it might be so...

By: dyemooch

Artist comments: This took forevers; kinda. Total, I'd say this was less than a day's work...

I spent about four hours a day on over a span of four days? 16 hours, and I still think it sucks.

BUT! Here it is. I'm proud of it, overall. I mean, there's always room for it to look better, but I'm puttin this on the "finished" pile for now.

It's fully functional Galvatron VS Zombie Galvatron and his army of the offline!

Page 40 of 42
Page 40 of 42
Wreckage and co

Wreckage and co

WreDecepticons catch a break. Are they allowed breaks? Is it in their Decepticon Union contract?

By: marble-v

Artist comments: Wreckage , Payload , Swindle , Dropkick , Dreadwing , Stockade , Incinerator and Booster-x10s (red and yellow) taking a short break.

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Page 41 of 42
Bumblebee, at last

Bumblebee, at last

A head and shoulders shot of the film's take on 'Bee.

By: orcasaurus

Artist comments: NEVER DRAWING BAYFORMERS AGAIN

I can't take much credit for this because I was using a reference, but it was pretty fun to colour. ): 1974 Camaro > 2008 concept.

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Page 42 of 42
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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. 

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