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Kirdein Let me color his oh-so-delightfully-smirksome Armada Megatron lineart (found here: [link] ). Thanks pal!
I was feeling overwhelmed by the sheer number of things I Really Wanted To Do Right Now... so I decided to relax and do something fun that I didn't have to draw, so I could stop freaking out. I wanted, also, to be able to cut loose a little with the coloring as well. So many of the G1 bots are all one color, making my lack of highlight and shadow skills that much more apparent. So I wanted to go with somebody Multicolored... and ya can't get much more multicolored than Armada Megs!

Honestly, you'd think someone would take the designer aside, and put a word into his ear about how a 5-color evil overlord might possibly be difficult to take seriously... But yeah - I watched the series last year, and though at first I had a really hard time with Megatron's design (*cough* antlers! *cough*) I found myself - thanks to David Kaye's voice, and the character's sheer maniacal evil manipulation, starting to kinda like the guy - by which I mean I hated him. G1 Megs is a lot of fun and very cool. TF Animated Megs is a lot of fun and very cool, in different ways. Armada Megs is just an eeeevil manipulative jerk. And as such, he's a very fun character. (Better than Armada Prime, anyway... I don't "be" him much; I can't forgive him for sacrificing his integrity, as I see it, just to all-out fight Megatron. Feel free to prove me wrong; I'd like to be!)
The Armada designs grew on me as well - I like the details, and the overall artistic feel of them. They're just cool.

So here you have it - Armada Megs. I put in a background - such as it is, and smoke for him to walk in, since the lineart ended at the knee. (OK, so it doesn't really look like smoke. If I figure out a way to make it better, I'll edit this.) I tried the anime look of bright swaths of highlight... and mostly like how it turned out. The whole thing looks a bit like a 10-year-old boy colored it... but hey; it was a lot of fun. As usual, I did a bunch of - we'll call them "Practice Versions" instead of "Mess-Ups." before this one. I need to learn that the one I think will be the "Real" one will be the one before the Real One, and stop wasting so much of my good paper on ones that don't turn out...

Hope y'all like this!
Thanks again, Kirdein... muchly! This lineart is oh-so-very-awesome, and I appreciate you letting me mangle it!

Colored in Prismacolor markers.
Megatron is owned by Has/Tak. Or at least, they like to think so... Silly Fleshlings!

Description
Kirdein Let me color his oh-so-delightfully-smirksome Armada Megatron lineart (found here: [link] ). Thanks pal!
I was feeling overwhelmed by the sheer number of things I Really Wanted To Do Right Now... so I decided to relax and do something fun that I didn't have to draw, so I could stop freaking out. I wanted, also, to be able to cut loose a little with the coloring as well. So many of the G1 bots are all one color, making my lack of highlight and shadow skills that much more apparent. So I wanted to go with somebody Multicolored... and ya can't get much more multicolored than Armada Megs!

Honestly, you'd think someone would take the designer aside, and put a word into his ear about how a 5-color evil overlord might possibly be difficult to take seriously... But yeah - I watched the series last year, and though at first I had a really hard time with Megatron's design (*cough* antlers! *cough*) I found myself - thanks to David Kaye's voice, and the character's sheer maniacal evil manipulation, starting to kinda like the guy - by which I mean I hated him. G1 Megs is a lot of fun and very cool. TF Animated Megs is a lot of fun and very cool, in different ways. Armada Megs is just an eeeevil manipulative jerk. And as such, he's a very fun character. (Better than Armada Prime, anyway... I don't "be" him much; I can't forgive him for sacrificing his integrity, as I see it, just to all-out fight Megatron. Feel free to prove me wrong; I'd like to be!)
The Armada designs grew on me as well - I like the details, and the overall artistic feel of them. They're just cool.

So here you have it - Armada Megs. I put in a background - such as it is, and smoke for him to walk in, since the lineart ended at the knee. (OK, so it doesn't really look like smoke. If I figure out a way to make it better, I'll edit this.) I tried the anime look of bright swaths of highlight... and mostly like how it turned out. The whole thing looks a bit like a 10-year-old boy colored it... but hey; it was a lot of fun. As usual, I did a bunch of - we'll call them "Practice Versions" instead of "Mess-Ups." before this one. I need to learn that the one I think will be the "Real" one will be the one before the Real One, and stop wasting so much of my good paper on ones that don't turn out...

Hope y'all like this!
Thanks again, Kirdein... muchly! This lineart is oh-so-very-awesome, and I appreciate you letting me mangle it!

Colored in Prismacolor markers.
Megatron is owned by Has/Tak. Or at least, they like to think so... Silly Fleshlings!