Packed with original ideas, fanart, favours and flat out cringe worthy art, this art book is bound to inspire you.
Artist:
OpticsEdge
Disclaimer: there are pieces of art that are modified from bases found through the internet and it will be linked...
( This chapter's going to be a bit like chapter three; Creation of Jeanette Gloria. )
I am immediately going to assume you do not know who Retrocharger is and will say right now that he was a very difficult character to make.
It wasn't so much the personality and general plot for character development but more so concepts of his physical appearance and making things realistic.
I had to fish out some very old sketchbooks and only managed to find 3/4 of the concept drawings I made over the course of his creation. (The other quarter was burned)
Note that he was the first of my three main characters for an original non-cannon species.
Difficulties and major changes:
Retrocharger started out bi-pedal. Yes, he walked on two instead of four at one point. I made a little sketch in the corner of a paperback report one day of a little Cybertronian/Predacon cross with very little detail. At the time, I thought nothing of it but snapped a photo before erasing it.
I then drew it again in a now burnt-to-ashes sketchbook.
This then exploded into a frustrating cycle of creating designs, being happy with it, then noticing something, then pitching it back to the drawing board for review.
He started out orange, then light grey, then white, then brown/dun, then a major skip to becoming dark grey with white and red markings.
He was bi-pedal for a short period of time until I started working on his alternate form and switched him to quadrupedal.
Then I decided to keep the original bipedal form but match it to a now perfected beast form so it is somewhat realistic.
Is there anything that stayed the same?
Yes, he has six optics and always will. I've always stuck with this idea of having a character with six optics but after struggling with placement of them, I realized why there were rarely characters with more than four (main) optics in the Transformers fan base.
Process:
Making a hybrid who isn't mangled and distorted is always a challenge. But when you continue to add visual characteristics that normally wouldn't make sense, it becomes nearly impossible.
The final drawing ever done of Retrocharger by Silent Shadow:
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