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So this was shown off today so I figured I’d show it off here and give a little insight into what I was going for with this cover.

With the design for the holo avatar for Cyclonus, I knew that James wanted a female Victorian school teacher look. I looked over a lot of reference image to find out what what the clothing would look like. This outfit is based off a old photo I found online with a few adjustments to it in with the character.
With the hair style I wanted to have something to do do with Cyclnous. So I gave her 2 long spikes of hair that shoot up to represent the horn’s on his helmet. The pendant is represents a modified look for his altmode. I didn’t just want to draw his altmode for the pendant, so I just gave it elements of his altmode.
For the colours I had a nice chat with Josh Perez about what I was looking for and he did an superb job of getting the look I wanted. That man has talent and I’m lucky to work with him, even if it’s only for covers.
I knew from the time James talked about what he thought the holo avatar was going to look like, I knew I wanted the eyes to be red. This was a big deal for me. When I was thinking about the red eyes my mind wondered to Full Metal Alchemist and the character of Scar and his people the Ishbalan’s and thought that’s how I want the holo avatar to look. The more I thought about it the more I liked the idea of someone from the Middle East or India to be the holo avatar. I thought about the episode of the original Star Trek when Khan was introduced and information on and his culture making some of the best warriors and that had Cyclonus down perfectly.
For the outfit, I knew I just wanted a lot of his robot colours in the outfit, just keeping the long skirt black. She’s holding a blackboard pointer or whatever those things are called.
I think the only thing that will be a problem is redrawing her in many panels since the out fit is very detailed, but when have I ever not steer away from detail ;p

Enjoy

Twitchythe3rd wrote:

Flashwave wrote:

Darth Jumpy wrote:So a planet is chasing the Lost Light? I hope that it is not Unicron, since that would without a doubt reveal the Transformers origins, which I like being kept vague in the IDWverse.

I will be picking up those Combiner Hunter repaints if they come out. I couldn't really tell if Chromia was sporting a new color scheme though. And I find it odd that Arcee is using Decepticon colors.

I have also been enjoying the Earth storyline in TF, so it will be exciting to see the Decepticon station finally.

Not neccesarily, All IDW has to do is say that the Ancient Cybertronians worshipped Unicron as an anti-Primus strictly because he's 1000 times their size and eats planets. Poof! Instant DeathGod.

Isn't it Deathsaurus and the DJD coming after them with a Warworld ship?

Autobot tap out wrote:1. for the combiner wars line , it looks like Soundwave might be a retooling of AOE evasion prime or CW prime/ motor master mold or a new mold all together
2. Arcee's Combiner hunters coloring is familiar but can't place it on what it is
3. i have no complaints on Cyclonus's holomatter avatar

Shuttershock wrote:

Autobot tap out wrote:1. for the combiner wars line , it looks like Soundwave might be a retooling of AOE evasion prime or CW prime/ motor master mold or a new mold all together
2. Arcee's Combiner hunters coloring is familiar but can't place it on what it is
3. i have no complaints on Cyclonus's holomatter avatar

The legs might be new, but we've seen Soundwave as an APC like Universe Onslaught.

Va'al wrote:

Shuttershock wrote:

Autobot tap out wrote:1. for the combiner wars line , it looks like Soundwave might be a retooling of AOE evasion prime or CW prime/ motor master mold or a new mold all together
2. Arcee's Combiner hunters coloring is familiar but can't place it on what it is
3. i have no complaints on Cyclonus's holomatter avatar

The legs might be new, but we've seen Soundwave as an APC like Universe Onslaught.

The CW MotorPrime mold looks a lot more probable, given his appearance in TF#38:

Autobot tap out wrote:2. Arcee's Combiner hunters coloring is familiar but can't place it on what it is

Va'al wrote:

MegaDump wrote:No sir, I don't like it.

Skyfire77 wrote:

Va'al wrote:

Why do I get the feeling this is the result of a prank by someone, possibly Whirl?

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