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This tutorial was in the works for a while, and was kind enough to give me
ten names of characters to work with: Energon Sharkticon, TFA Lugnut, Cybertron Vector
Prime, RID Sideburn, Cybertron Menasor, G1 Scourge, Cybertron Crumplezone, G1 Reflector,
G1 Hot Rod, TFA Samurai Prowl.

In the end, I chose TFA Samurai Prowl because out of all of them, he is the one that I'm most
familiar with. XD It's quite the literal translation with few differences. ^^ Although I can honestly
say that he looks like I mixed TFA Samurai Prowl with a little TFA Yoketron.

I guess technically this might be my first tutorial, and I'm honored to share it with you guys!
I had a lot of fun doing this, and if you are an inspiring artist/designer, I hope this helps you.

Some Pointers:

1. This is my basic/default process, but it doesn't necessarily reflect the complete order that I do
things. I actually usually don't spend this much time on the head. Sometimes I don't even really start with
sketches, but for those of you who are not familiar with photoshop's tools, a sketch can really help ground you.
Sometimes I start in all black and white, and then add color on top with filters.

2. There is no text on how to show you to do this. Those tutorials are nice, but with this one, I
recommend you just look at the differences between each step, and understand the idea of layering. You'll
notice that I don't block out all the colors at once, I only really started with the silhouette and the yellow
bits, and even those were messy to start with.

3. It ain't completely crisp. And it's not meant to. This is a basic tutorial, and at first glance, it looks
pretty sharp, but of course, as you look closer, you can begin to see certain things like brush strokes, wayward
dots, etc... They give character... you hear me! Character!

4. I will change things as I go. They're subtle, but some things like the shape of Prowl's gold detail
and his smile are always somehow changing, either as rendering, or complete shape.

5. If you are happy at a certain point, MOVE ON. Remember guys, you guys have lives
outside work, and if you sweat the details to the point of going crazy, then something's gotta change. If you want
to be extra secure, then save several copies of your files. So If I felt that I passed a milestone, I could just save
this again as Prowl_2.psd, so that the original Prowl.psd would retain everything. And then if I wanted to go that
extra mile of security, I would save a Prowl_3.psd, so that Prowl_2.psd would be safe. As for my layers, I'll collapse a lot of
elements together with maybe exception of the eyes+visor+mouth. For something like this, I never usually
had more than 7-8 layers in photoshop.

6. Have fun! Becaiuse this is not a design that's going to be put in the show, I'm going to have fun with this.
We all know what TFA Prowl looks like, so how do I change him from a TFA to a TFP aesthetic? I pretty much
kept all the elements (I think) with maybe exception of the visor. I think the visor is a little different because in the
TFA universe, it looked more like sunglasses. I could have pushed this to go a little more away from Jazz, but I was
happy with the result. ^^

Enjoy!

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Description
This tutorial was in the works for a while, and was kind enough to give me
ten names of characters to work with: Energon Sharkticon, TFA Lugnut, Cybertron Vector
Prime, RID Sideburn, Cybertron Menasor, G1 Scourge, Cybertron Crumplezone, G1 Reflector,
G1 Hot Rod, TFA Samurai Prowl.

In the end, I chose TFA Samurai Prowl because out of all of them, he is the one that I'm most
familiar with. XD It's quite the literal translation with few differences. ^^ Although I can honestly
say that he looks like I mixed TFA Samurai Prowl with a little TFA Yoketron.

I guess technically this might be my first tutorial, and I'm honored to share it with you guys!
I had a lot of fun doing this, and if you are an inspiring artist/designer, I hope this helps you.

Some Pointers:

1. This is my basic/default process, but it doesn't necessarily reflect the complete order that I do
things. I actually usually don't spend this much time on the head. Sometimes I don't even really start with
sketches, but for those of you who are not familiar with photoshop's tools, a sketch can really help ground you.
Sometimes I start in all black and white, and then add color on top with filters.

2. There is no text on how to show you to do this. Those tutorials are nice, but with this one, I
recommend you just look at the differences between each step, and understand the idea of layering. You'll
notice that I don't block out all the colors at once, I only really started with the silhouette and the yellow
bits, and even those were messy to start with.

3. It ain't completely crisp. And it's not meant to. This is a basic tutorial, and at first glance, it looks
pretty sharp, but of course, as you look closer, you can begin to see certain things like brush strokes, wayward
dots, etc... They give character... you hear me! Character!

4. I will change things as I go. They're subtle, but some things like the shape of Prowl's gold detail
and his smile are always somehow changing, either as rendering, or complete shape.

5. If you are happy at a certain point, MOVE ON. Remember guys, you guys have lives
outside work, and if you sweat the details to the point of going crazy, then something's gotta change. If you want
to be extra secure, then save several copies of your files. So If I felt that I passed a milestone, I could just save
this again as Prowl_2.psd, so that the original Prowl.psd would retain everything. And then if I wanted to go that
extra mile of security, I would save a Prowl_3.psd, so that Prowl_2.psd would be safe. As for my layers, I'll collapse a lot of
elements together with maybe exception of the eyes+visor+mouth. For something like this, I never usually
had more than 7-8 layers in photoshop.

6. Have fun! Becaiuse this is not a design that's going to be put in the show, I'm going to have fun with this.
We all know what TFA Prowl looks like, so how do I change him from a TFA to a TFP aesthetic? I pretty much
kept all the elements (I think) with maybe exception of the visor. I think the visor is a little different because in the
TFA universe, it looked more like sunglasses. I could have pushed this to go a little more away from Jazz, but I was
happy with the result. ^^

Enjoy!

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Prime Series

My Portfolio!
My Blog
My Tumblr