Some Days Are Like That

I finally got this one DONE!

Many, many thanks to for letting me color her amazing sketchy: [link]

I think I still like the original sketch better than my colored version - or any possible colored version. It's just so simple and real - you feel it.

I tried to keep the looseness of the original, and did pretty well. This one was blinkin' hard for some reason. It took me forever to just face up to it and plow through till I got the colors right. Being stuck in the hospital with baby Magnus helped, eh? It was funny - the nurses would come in, and be impressed, and ask if I'd "drawn that." To which I would sheepishly reply, "No... I'm just coloring it..." In the end, I started hiding my work, since I was doing a ton of mock-ups to work through colors and fix mistakes, making it look like I was coloring the same picture over and over again, and doing a bad job of it to boot. (Mock-ups are inherently messy, and covered with penciled-in notations.)

I would like to take this opportunity to bow before If you haven't trolled through her TF sketchies, I implore you to do so. Very, very few people draw Giant!Robots!From!Space! looking so, well, human. Great Stuff. Keep it up, pal!

Oh! I almost forgot to tell y'all...
This is the first time I've tried coloring on colored paper. This was a piece of greenish-gray cardstock. I wanted to mute everything -- especially the reds -- and to bring an underlying harmony to all of the colors I used. I was also getting kind of sick of having to work with the same colors all the time. Working on colored paper tinted and muted them all so that they were "new" again, and different. It was a lot of fun.

I hope you all enjoy this.
Love, Prime

Prismacolor markers on colored cardstock,
with glowy!optics courtesy of a handy colored pencil

Hasbro owns and maintains all control over Optimus Prime.
This is how he feels about that...
Watch out, Hasbro!