So have all y'all seen KakyoinLee's gallery of amazingness? If you haven't, then I strongly suggest you do so. There are a few truly great things in there... one of them being this wonderful lineart: [link] . Doesn't it make ya happy just looking at it? Houndie's so real, believable, and alive; just sitting there chillin'...

EDIT: She recently colored Hound, too. Check it out:[link]

This coloring work is done in love and appreciation for two of my favorite people, who also happen to be Hound-fans:
[link] who is awesome, and to whom I wish much luck as a writer extraordinaire;
and [link] . <-- Check! Out! Her! Stuff!!! I worship this girl. "SRSLY." (She handles said worshipfulness with remarkable poise and humor... )



So, onward to the factoidal stuff...
I tried something new on this one. I loved the sketchiness of the original so much, that I tried to keep that looseness in my coloring. In fact, I came within a hair's breadth of just posting my first trial color-test mock-up, because since it hadn't been filed under "Real Thing! Do Not Wreck!" in my head, I'd had fun and been really loose with it. But I'd also, as I realized how well it was turning out, overworked it at the end. See? Never file things under "Real Thing! Do Not Wreck"... or you'll wreck 'em! So I went ahead and made another printout, and tried to do it again. I started out fairly tight, because you can always go looser, but you can't tighten things up after the fact; and with wall, stairs, and the line/shade overlay, went to town with the free-for-all scribbling. (Well, kinda - I was still very careful. But I let all those great sketch lines live and breathe and frolic, dang it!)

I'm getting better at compelling the scanner to tow the line color-wise, but this one was really tough to get right. See that little energon cube? It is a lot more alive and glowy in the real thing; as are his little reddish lights on his legs and feet. It was like the scanner looked at those tiny bits of complimentary colors - those were important to me, frag it! - and rolled over to die at the mere thought of trying to render them accurately in the midst of that sea of analogous green and yellow...

I will say this, though: If you want to really set Hound apart from the background, put him in the orange-walled Ark! Green-Bot REALLY POPS when in orange environment!



Hope everyone likes this!
Huzzah for chillin', unselfconscious Bot-poses! We need more! (It makes them seem real, if they aren't always posing for calendars and magazines. I'm not saying draw them pickin' their noses, but you know - draw them doing something other than saying "I R BIG, STRONG BOT! PHEAR MAH POHTENT LAZR!!!)

Love to all!

Prime Out.

PS - I usually sign things right along the bottom of the page, and crop out my signature in DA. But as it was part of the sketchiness (tm), I left it in this time. Just remember, IT'S NOT MY LINEART!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!
(And yes, of course I sign things "Ha-Hee Prime." My real name is BORING. It's gotten to the point where, if I sign anything without the "Prime," I feel like I'm lying, hiding something, or forgot something important!)

Colored in Prismacolor Markers.

Hound and transformers in general are owned by Hasbro, and stuff. Yeah.