Fan comic: TF War Within: Forgotten Heroes

[Sam]

Hi everyone, I've been working on a short comic and had wanted to share it with you around Christmas. However, due to various family and social commitments, I did not get much time to do any drawing during that time.

So I ended up spending most of my annual leave completing the drawings. Although my pages have no colour, and there are mistakes (e.g. errors in drawing perspective in some panels, etc.), I am happy with what I've done, and hope that you'll enjoy looking through the pages.

I have not added the dialogue yet - this will come in the near future.

Update: dialogue has been added.

It's set during the early days of the Civil War and I have called it "Forgotten Heroes", because I wanted to kinda explore the idea that there were Autobots that were really lesser known or not famous in any way, that also make contributions to the war effort.

I am happy to receive any feedback - especially if you have some art that you could share with, and help me to improve my skills. Thanks!

Shortcut to pages:

Page 1: http://wildspark.deviantart.com/art/...ge-1-279307863

Page 2: http://wildspark.deviantart.com/art/...ge-2-279307919

Page 3: http://wildspark.deviantart.com/art/...ge-3-279307966

Page 4: http://wildspark.deviantart.com/art/...ge-4-279308006

Page 5: http://wildspark.deviantart.com/art/...ge-5-279308041

Page 6: http://wildspark.deviantart.com/art/...ge-6-279308077

Page 7: http://wildspark.deviantart.com/art/...ge-7-279308133

Page 8: http://wildspark.deviantart.com/art/...ge-8-279308170

Page 9: http://wildspark.deviantart.com/art/...ge-9-279308208

And for those who are curious...

Comic creation process side notes:
1. Primary difficulty was one of skill (i.e. I could not draw things I wanted to draw or at the angle I wanted to draw due to insufficient skills).

2. Drawing on A4 is much harder to draw on A3, because you kinda have to try and squash the details into a much smaller space (e.g. trying to draw a robot hand with fingers in 3mm worth of space is a bit hard).

But then, I don't have an A3 scanner - those things cost a fair bit.

3. I discovered that because I do not know how to shade properly, it was hard to make the drawings look as three dimensional as I would have liked.

4. I came to realise that my character designs are rather bland compared with designs seen in official TF comics.

5. However, if I waited until I improved to a "sufficient" level I'd never really get any comic done, so I just decided to go for it and enjoy the process. It was hard work for a while because after work I'd rather relax and do something else like play video games, but I am glad I kept going with drawing the pages because I felt it was a worthwhile task.