Bringing My Mother To This Con Was So Useful Because:

So happy to reveal my pieces for the Transformers Reverse Mini Bang 2024 ! I got to work with the amazing @neonhoneycomb who ran with my idea, put in SO MUCH work and made SUCH A WONDERFUL FIC go check it out HERE !

I also drew a few page breaks for the fic, but you'll have to read Neon's work to see those ;)

There's something dragging my mind back to TMA lately, i think the Gravity Falls resurgence with Bill and the eye motif might be it

Ive had an idea for a transformers comic for years now and one day ill sitdown and actually make it! here is Starscream's design from it at least!

What if the supreme husks kiss

Drag starscream costume/cosplay! All done!

It's been performed in at pride!!!

Here's my thoughts on it:

So I ended up stoning some of the boots, gloves, helm gem, panty, shoulders and mellow cockpit stripe, HUGE, I don't know why I hesitated in the first place, this is drag baby and it really pulls it all together under stage lights.

I wish I had used a more flexible foam for my shoes as I see the paint struggling under the movement, nothing unfixable but the flex paint is really doing the heavy lifting.

The first gig I did with it I did end up dropping into a split and the force did take a chunk out of the back of the heel, quickly fixed and didn't happen the second time even though I did another split on the same shoe hehe

(photograph of the gorgeous pics is @ciaranmoonpig_ on insta)

Thankfully the stages weren't dirty and the white of the costume stayed clean, HOWEVER!!

remember to seal your pain folks!!! The blue of the kneepads bled onto my knees!! Because I didn't seal the paint at the back of it enough (<dumb dumb) unsure on how I'll be able to remove the stains so far, thankfully it's hidden under the kneepads but I'm not a fan.

The wings are a bit floppy but I knew it would happen since I didn't want to make the harness clip at the front, but something to keep in mind for future costumes!

The helmet pressed against my forehead a lot during the first gig with it, but not anymore? I assume the heat I was expelling like a fucking space heater molded the foam again.

I'm still debating whether I should add more shoulder pads to the jacket but I think it looks okay?

Iwish I had been able to make shoulder pieces and or even the null rays but that would have been much too restrictive.

Costume is great to dance in, I did knock my hands against my helm a few times haha but I just need to get used to it.

So moral of the story, no more armor pieces required or possible to slot in there, maybe needs more crystals (I love shiny things) ? Some mild upkeep is needed with the paint and ab crystals but, overall? Success!!

Now do let me know, do you think this is a cosplay success?

I altered so much, does this still ring starscream to you?

How would you have done it?

Binged the whole thing on the night the finale released, I haven't recovered yet.

Contains some spoilers.

The tragedy of my life is that I keep acquiring and displaying fetish art and having to be corrected by my friends.

Most recently, a friend came over my house and saw my computer background and went, "Wow, um, I didn't know you were into that." To which I look at the picture of the well drawn muscular female minotaur in historically accurate Greek clothing and I start geeking out about how I love the detail the artist did with the clothing and I point out the period appropriate folds and pins, how the artist even inserted the native plant that was used to dye the clothing this particular shade in the background, and even how the belt has technology AND historically accurate weaving patterns on it.

Then I start explaining how I love the muscular choices of the minotaur, that I was so impressed with the artist's anatomically correct depiction of the muscles converging into the neck. That many people get an upright cow's neck wrong because cow's don't have collarbones, so it can be very difficult to merge the upper arms and a chest of a human with a cow's body. I draw her attention to the beautiful way they've merged the pectoralis major so smoothly while also staying true to how muscular they've depicted the rest of the body.

I finish up with my thoughts on the artist's bold choice to depict the minotaur as a female, and despite the underlying themes of a minotaur being violence, child murder, strength, and muscles. I segue into how unlike bulls, cow are perceived as mothers. That they are the major source of milk in human culture, and that idyllic depictions of them in a field usually depict calves frolicking nearby, yet the minotaur kills and eats children.

I finish and there is a long pause.

"Urban, this is fetish art." and she takes me to the artist's twitter and god dammit it's fetish art, not a bold statement on cultural perceptions of women and violence throughout history. I have been tricked again.

[WIP] having a lot of fun with this over the top animatic in my downtime from client storyboards lol

I'm done!! yippiiie! :3 this is my submission for @archie-sunshine 's 2k follower contest ! (at least the first image is, the rest is extra to showcase my work :D) I've been on a Minimus/Magnus kick lately and Minimus looked like a fencing kinda guy to me so i gave him a fancy rapier

This was kind of a chaotic process because this was my first time modelling a character directly in their pose but the texturing was soo much fun