Ratchet Sketch Practice!!!

Ratchet sketch practice!!!

Starting to get the general shape, proportions, and designs. Honestly, I focus on what I want him to look like. The beauty of the comics is being able to grab references from so many amazing artists you sort of develop your feel as you go.

Anyways, hopefully I'll be able to doodle some cute Dratchet now I'm getting the hang out of these two old men.

The irony is not lost on me that he’s a robot djhfhfjdjd

More versions and rant under the cut vvv

Woke up in the middle of the night to find out that an official cover artist for Skybound comics, Francesco Mattina, used AI to make his cover. He is apparently known for crappy things like this within the comic community. And next, Brian Tyree, the voice of D-16/Megatron in the upcoming TF:One film was seen wearing what was likely stolen art on a jacket he wore to an event.

I am not the only artist who will say that I’m sick and fucking tired of this shit. I hate that our livelihoods are being threatened and that there are people out there who genuinely believe AI art is ‘real art’ or that it’s somehow ‘better’ than human made art.

I hate that people never credit us and that we get paid unliveable wages, the stereotype of the ‘starving artist’ should not be a reality, but for many of us it is. I shake as I type this out because I’m genuinely so enraged by this type of content and the growing usage and implementation of AI into our daily lives. AI was never meant to replace us and should never replace human work.

The one thing this has inspired me to do is create. I made this piece, as silly as it is, because of the rage I have in my heart and that truly says something that AI could never even hope to replicate. Through my artistic process making this piece alone, there were so many human intricacies I did, like noticing details on the reference photo that I hadn’t seen before and incorporating them as I drew, or colouring outside the lines, fixing incorrect proportions, accidentally colour picking the wrong shade of blue for the shadows because I was working on a multiply layer and so so so many more human habits and mistakes and techniques. All things that while they can be an inconvenience, is what makes my art human, is what makes it unique and what makes it mine.

I will always support real artists and I will always stand against AI and the mistreatment of artists.

I like this sketch. Busted it out in 15 minutes during a meeting. I hate that my mindless sketching yields better results than when I seriously sit down.

Anyways, hopefully I can expand this to a finished piece!

I haven't been able to draw for a few weeks, so I wanted to post this. I was lucky enough to snag tickets to meet Peter Cullen at TFcon LA this year. (Bucket List ✅) I really wanted him to sign a drawing of mine. So after not having even sketched in 10+ years I really started into art again. I was finally able to make this, completing it just in time.

And Mr. Peter Cullen signed it!!

I can't put into words how much this means to me. I'm literally still alive today bc my younger self clung on to Optimus's words to get through each day as my life was unraveling around me.

So to have met Peter Cullen and actually thank him for, well, being him, my heart is able to continue to heal.

I was inspired by MTMTE with this. When the crew visited the Necroworld my first thought was "What would Optimus's statue look like, and how would he react?". My head cannon says he'd have just as many flowers as Megatron. And would probably react even more intensely upon coming to that realization.

I also see the drawing as Optimus literally holding my life (spark flower) in his hands. I'm sure that's something a therapist could spend hours dissecting, lol.

It is now framed, hanging in my reading nook. (I will show the other two amazing commissions from the wonderful Casey Collier at a later time).

Til All are One.

The Marshmallow.

Quick sketch from the sketchbook (first Tailgate!) and trying out coloring. Really need to actually learn the software but this is my brute force method practice!

More to come!

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