Scav’s Philosophy…

actually, how do you go about drawing scavengers and lizards? really curious about how you figure out their shapes and anatomy

Ohohoho, this is a good question)

Tbh there is nothing specific here, mostly just a simple rules about shape language, poses and colors

If i dont use references for creatures, i simply think what sort of amotions i want the art to evoke. It's pretty easy with lizards especially. I have some kind of two extremes in their image. Depending on what kind of creature I want to draw, I choose something in between - less or more big and scary

And with scavs it works pretty much the same way

Well, I did it

Megatron - I love his tfp design. Probably one of the best iteration of Megs. He is huge, heavy armoured, his face covered with scars… He doesn’t looks like an ordinary military leader who is only capable of giving orders, but like real warrior who can destroy any enemy with his bare hands.

So, in the WOF version, he definitely shares some features with Princess Burn, not only because of his might, but also because of his horns shape and dirty-dark scales (that absorbed blood of his enemies)

Starscream - Boy, I hate him so much 🤣… but in the good way, trust me! In my opinion, when the show's creators make you feel such strong negative emotions towards a villain, it means they've done a great job. Also, I think that his animation in the show was absolutely incredible, because even though he's a 3D model, he still manages to move like a 2D character, which is amazing!

I feel that in my design he still looks more like a skywing, than an icewing (which is kinda logical)

Soundwave - This one was tricky. I couldn't figure out what his mask would look like, so I just made his face a really dark color. I think Soundwave has both gifts of the nightwings, and he’s equally great at telepathy and a future vision. So he doesn't really need equipment to predict enemy movements, which makes him an ideal communicator in the WOF setting. His Laserbeak is part of the armor enchanted by Shockwave, and it might also allow him to open portals (but I'm not sure with this one)

Shockwave - My favourite evil genius. He would definitely have animus magic and mind reading. I think Shockwave is the only one who has advanced the study of magic so far, precisely because he combined it with scientific knowledge and created safer methods of using it, that don't damage the mind. It's like if a Mastermind got animus magic in books.

I also like to think that he didn't heal the damaged part of his face just so that his enemies would fear him more)

Dreadwing - This man deserved better! It's really a shame that he was removed from the show so quickly due to financial problems. It would be great if his arc got a proper conclusion in season 3.

Considering that I didn't want to make him a hybrid, it was difficult to choose a suitable color palette. So let’s just say, that I tried my best😅

I don’t think that he would have any nightwing powers, but honestly it doesn’t even matter - this guy can make a bombs, what else does he need to be cool

Arachnid - Did anyone even doubt that she would be a hivewing? Damn, she even got her own “Othermind” virus. Her design was the easiest to work with - just a little poisonous ass (suspiciously similar to Maleficent).

Just like Starscream, I hate her, but in a good way. She's one of the creepiest characters in the entire series, who’s acting like a fucking heartless monster, especially with Arcee, but even so, there's always was something mesmerizing about her. I just really like strong female villains

Knockout - Wery bright and charismatic guy, definitely one of my fav cons!

I tried to draw him as handsome as possible. Worked a lot on the face shape and coloring, and as for me it turned out pretty nice (finally).

Most decepticons think Knockout is as stupid and lazy as all the other rainwings. And it's not like he completely disagrees with that. Of course he’s not stupid and lazy, but if it’s means less dirty work on the battlefield, well, he’ll continue act like a tipical rainwing

(I also believe that Megatron keeps him as an “art”)

Breakdown - Fun fact: "Operation Breakdown" was the very first thing I saw in this series. And it was an interesting experience for 8 year old me. Maybe that's why I'm so scared of eye gouging scenes in movies now…

I think that he didn't have any siblings initially due to his parents nature, and even after meeting Bulkhead, he felt uncomfortable among the other mudwings. And this is why he later chose the side of the decepticons. And maaaaybe because of one cute rainwing influence)

P.s.

I think that, being mostly nightwings and icewings, the decepticons are much more concerned about purity of their blood and rarely accept half-breeds into their ranks.

During the war, there were many animus dragons among decepticons, which is why they have so many artifacts that allowed teleportation and communication at a distance. But, honestly, I still can't imagine what Nemesis would look like in this AU

Aahahhaahahhahahah

True, true 🤣🤣🤣

scugshroom colony art hehe

I accidentally made the lineart that colour but I really liked it so hooray

Turkey Tail (the concerned one) belongs to @mushroominaforest

Chicken Of The Woods (the one speaking) belongs to me

Saffron belongs to @originalwinnerfanfish

UWU

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The party continues, so i make Moonless lizard

And a little bit of slugpup Girl, who got the violence thoughts

CB!

My beloved lil criminal!

I like that CB canonically shares a bunch of features with Rusty - like hats or facial patterns (they have a kinda bros vibe to me)

Just one of them is sweet young man, and other one is sociopath in disguise 🤣

I also love the fact, that cabooses can whistle

Their whistle usually very high and loud and used as a warning signal. So I hadcanon that CB could use that type of "taxi whistle", to warn people who get in the way (except the times when he just ignored them😈)

Another part of cool scavs! omg, they just adorable)

https://www.tumblr.com/scav-gifs-daily/741589986170814464/id-6714-deco-horns-are-so-cool

https://www.tumblr.com/scav-gifs-daily/741031278914289664/scav-2795702-please

https://www.tumblr.com/scavenger-treasury/742511280804511744/2933-im-curious-what-my-scavsona-like

Light edition scavs

Well I keep making scavs references with some pieces of lore

And this two looks really nice to me

I actually think about possibly storyline for them

I think they could live in the time period between the companies of Rivulet and Saint, when Pebbles was one step away from collapse and the rot due to increasing cold began to move into the shaded citadel in search of warmth