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Illustrated in MS Paint. A little exercise in negative space.

This ended up completely different than its first concept. I wanted to do a very moody black and white of Shockwave confronting Cyclonus about what really happened when he was transformed from Thundercracker by Unicron (more on that later), but I got on a roll and it just kind of went from there. I'm thinking of adding more droplets to the second version to produce a heavy rain effect a la Sin City covers.

Also, I just wanted to put another piece in before the big drawing tomorrow.

I like the effects but his body shape looks more like Optimus Prime than Shockwave.

You know, now that I think about it, I've always drawn Shockwave with a less pronounced breastplate. So when you start using really basic shapes, as in this piece, his body starts resembling OP's. Maybe a fix for the next update.

I like the grittyness :thumbs up

This is now my Wallpaper.