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IT IS FINALLY DONE!

ArtofSim actually decided to sing the song and here's the interpretation of it: soundcloud.com/simvinele/old-d…

I don't think I'm gonna do this kind of a thing again anywhere in the near future. This is basically an ask... that got out of hand a bit, perhaps. But I wanted to do something more than just a simple picture for it. Answer is: YES, there's "Irish barsinging" in Happy Hour! On another note...

THE CHARACTER SIZE DIFFERENCES ARE OUT OF THE WINDOW, since I had no sizes to compare so I just drew them how I saw fit! And now you peeps have to live with it!

What it comes to who got into which panel, I only picked by the description, not by the looks, okay, maybe a little by the looks too since I saw some characters just fit nicely into certain panels. Since Sticker is an Earth enthusiast with capital E, the bar is influenced by it a lot; Wood, couches, disco balls, even the waitresses and waiters, though I only drew one of them to the second last panel as a silhouette only. There's also many characters added as silhouettes and I LIED ABOUT NO CANON CHARACTERS! There's a few but you get to find them instead of me telling who they are. There's also a few of my characters as silhouettes... so many characters!

Panels 1-9 are my characters first. Sticker is our lovely host through the story, then panel 7 includes Air Brake , Visual Range aka Train, Scope and the tiny one on the table is Squack . She and Train were able to solve their old conflict so Squack is less afraid of big bots now!

Rest are listed in order of appearance:

Panel 10: - Crepuscule , - AvionGrinder
Crepu seemed to me something who would say things she liked out loud, and I went forward and now she loves the song! You have to deal with it, nyehhehe. I also like her head design! She looks cute! Avion fit well to the start and I'm sure he'd want to see the show in a more relaxed state so more drinks for him, yes? Or is he just trying to act tough guy there as such singing is for wussies? Who knows! And same goes with Avion's design, well not with the cute part, but I like the head design a lot, and I hope I got his eye right.

Panel 12: - Silvercross , - Dragalafly , - Boombox, - Zigzag , - Blackline .
Heyy, CC, Silvercross got to party from the couch! I had a bit of trouble with his looks though and I have no idea why but he's such an energetic bot with pretty green! Dragalafly is such a pretty white bot! I sure had fun drawing her out and putting her to be a bit more calm and sitting on the couch seemed to fit well. Boombox is now in colors, Belc, you gave me colors, and I hope I did well splashing them onto your character! I did take the freedom of adding third color which I picked to be dirty orange because I felt it needed it. Btw, that head design is also awesome! Zigzag felt to me that he'd be such a party person and what ever happened that seemed fun he'd join it fully. Thus he's literally shouting along the song, even if it disturbs his sitting neighbours and Blackline sure as heck doesn't appreciate it too much! And apparently I'm a sucker for grey hues and head designs and Blackline just.. aww he's cute. His head was interesting to draw to say the least. I don't think I've seen such shapes yet on anyone.

Panel 13: - Mac , - Primrose , my medic character Toolkit , - Ardent , - Shadowvolt .
Wirehair, I mean Mac, she's such a fine looking femme and has more round shapes than most. Thanks to the angle I had on the sketch, I think it enhanced those shapes, ahaha. For her, I like the shoulder and arm designs the most, and they allowed me to be more flexible with the pose. Primrose looks like she'd take over the world if she just wanted to! When I first saw the character it clicked to me immediately that I'd want her for the comic, even if she is a bit overshadowed by my character Toolkit since he's massive, and the angle of the whole panel doesn't help that at all, so I'm apologizing for that. Ardent.. Why is she so cute?! Maybe the facemask is doing it for me and the other smaller pair of arms just clapping along the rhythm, yup. Shadowvolt got a bit extra to his design but I tried to keep him as close to the original as possible. It's interesting how something can look simplistic yet have a good design.

Panel 14: - Pyrotech , - Ravebreaker .
To me, these two were an obvious couple who'd spend their time on a dancefloor! Was this their first dance right after the reference comic or not is up to you. They make such a cute couple and oh dear gawd did I have to experiment with discoball lights. Now I know better and probably will always remember it! Raven's design gave me a bit difficulties to get the angle right on the helmet but I think I got it to work eventually!

Panel 15: - Miracle , - Farmhandler .
As I read Miracle's description, she fit perfectly to the lyrics and naturally Farmhandler would be there right next to her. They were fun to draw since I haven't drawn that much at all with Animated style. It was refreshing.

Panel 16: - Magmacore , - Pitbull , - Mercury , - Dash Hope .
Talk. about. complex. character. designs. and complex poses! Well, I know I dug my own grave right there! Magmacore is such a scary bot, and I like it! He fit nicely to be the opponent for Dash Hope and surely those two seems to have fun arm wrestling, right? Just don't drop your drinks since who ever drops their drinks first loses! And their spectators Pitbull who has to keep Sling from interfering the arm wresting out of excitement, and Mercury who doesn't know to watch or not to watch as it's a very intense match going on! I think I struggled with perspective of characters in this panel the most, especially the wrestlers. They were originally on reversed places but it was easier the other way around due to the references.

Panel 17: - Shockburner , - Dragonfly .
Since not everyone fits to the theater room, these two are watching it from the screen in another room. Two cute characters enjoying the show in peace, sure there's others in the room too but they're not important! I was looking at lantern references and then I asked my daughter to pick one, and she picked a pink, so there you go; pink serene room with lanterns! I wasn't sure how the horns on Shockburner's helmet would go exactly from the behind, so I added a few more of them, I hope that's okay! Dragonfly seemed to be even more calm than the dragon bot next to her, so she's just enjoying the show occasionally devouring a delicious energon candy.

Panel 19: - Diesel
You said I could pick anyone from your characters? Well, I did went through the references and Diesel just popped out from everyone else and I think it was almost love at first sight! So here he is, enjoying his drink in peace while watching the show from the screen. Ugh, I like his boxy design, it's illegally sexy and the big wheels ain't helping!

Panel 20: My character Echo , - Ranymisan , - Keystroke .
The back at viewer character is my character Echo who's climbing to the stage like the other two bots who are now up there next to Sticker! This is the panel where I needed bots who'd play instruments and Ranymisan was my choice as she had also her instrument visible in art. And who wouldn't want to see a pretty purple bot on stage singing and playing music! Then is our pianobot Keystroke shouting out loud to rally people even more to sing along! I had fun drawing the keyboarrrrrrd!

Panel 22: - Novastar , - Silver Fang , - Shadowstrike , - Curbstomp .
That lil blue bot, Novastar, sulking at the table all alone is waiting for his drink as someone stole his other one, leaving only the straw on the table. I also gave him more mechanical look instead of organic fluffy furball, I do hope that's okay since I felt it was needed. Silver Fang couldn't just sit still, so I made her stand up and shout over everyone else. Can't leave the small ones into the shadows too much, eh? Shadowstrike ain't that much of a ninja at the moment! She's enjoying herself right there in the moment without caring much about everything else. I like the two cables coming from her head and it looks like they serve a purpose I don't know about! And then last one we have a grumpy drinker who definitely does not want to sing along. His drink tastes better than singing, yup yup. And I also had to do a bit of a research of him for references. >:]

Panel 24: - Hemisphere , - Karmashock , - HiddenStorm .
Hemi looks so elegant, I like her looks a lot and, and, I don't know! My brain just tells me I like her. She needed to hold a drink so I gave her a more delicate glass. Karmashock was a bit difficult as all the references of him were from the sideview for some reason, so I took the liberty to improvise his more frontal view. He's also wearing the jacket because he apparently likes doing so! Can't deny a bot his likings, aye? HiddenStorm was fun to draw and I couldn't get her expression out of my mind so there she is, grinning all mighty and excited and completely in the mood of the song. I did have to think of how to make the visor glow not too much and I think I did pretty okay. Yay? :')

Panel 25: My character Tranquil .
Uhhuh, now this was a difficult character to draw, all the spikes, the shapes, lighting, shading. The headache! Quil doesn't like it when it's too noisy, and the reason Air Brake is still inside not going nuts is that he's super drunk. I didn't count how many empty glasses I drew onto the table in front of him in panel 7.

Panel 26: - Sabredart , - CAT , - C.A.B. .
This panel is my absolute favorite out of them all, hands down. Drawing three bots all high was awesome. They had ordered Sticker's special drink and took it pretty well, and now they're enjoying the feelings on a comfy couch along the nice atmosphere of fishies and singing. Yes, that's a gigantic fish tank with Nishikigoi Kois. Except, maybe CAT isn't enjoying the softness of the couch, but she seems pretty content anyway. All of the characters were interesting to draw, was it due to references or the poses they were in. I definitely had fun with this panel.

Panel 27: - Lawbreaker , - Nightrave , - Electro Charge.
Nightrave is too drunk so he's being carried home! Both Lawbreaker and Electro Charge were assigned to the duty by Sticker's bouncers as those two bots were the closest to the situation. Lawbreaker is my own design for a friend so that to me was a bit of a no-brainer but dayum, I liked drawing the light blue femme! I'm not sure what exactly it was with it, maybe the cat-eyes, the head design yet again, and the overall design? I don't know and Nightrave is just cute and adorkable! He really keeps his charm even in such a drunk state. I did have a bit of trouble with his helmet's design in such an angle, and I still think it looks a bit off, smack me, will ya?!

Panel 28: - Shooting Star , - Highwire , - Downforce .
It's a habit for people, in this part of the song, to actually make the gesture of question. Which also made my life more difficult, yay! Especially Shooting Star's design was a tough nut to crack, the elbow joints, the eeeelboooww joiiints, gruuuuu. Never seen a design like that but the overall design and colors were nice and fresh to draw even though it gave me some angle troubles. Heh. I like the stars on the sides of the helmet! Highwire caught my interest pretty early on and to me she seemed calm and adult in most situations, so I put her there, all inquiry demanding with a bit of an attitude. Her wing design was also interesting, but I couldn't fit them in much, meh ; ; The first time I saw Downforce, the sideplates on the cheeks looked like sideburns, and as I drew him, I couldn't get them to look like sideburns any less, so now he's the "bearded bot". The stripes on his design gives a nice contrast to the otherwise light colors and boxy shapes.

Stockphotos of bottles used on the background are from: digitalAM, FrankAndCarySTOCK , Falln-Stock and kuschelirmel-stock .

Panel 30: - Wildfire , - Echo , - Fate , - Gold Dust , - Wireless .
I call this panel the "ultimate timetaking" panel because I hadn't planned much of the background. The idea was just a few silhouettes and completely different perspective. So now there's many many many silhouettes and some are recognizable (hopefully) and some are just random characters I created on the fly. And why one of my bots (Battery Box ) stands all alone on the platform is only due to me not giving more damn about the characters in the panel!! The angle of the stage is different from the rest too and it was too late to change it so I could not give even more damn about it. These things happens, it's life and I learned another lesson. Wildfire is so in the mood and her jumping like that fit her character, so why not jump and be happy and excited and energetic? I just hope she didn't kick anyone when she did that! Then there's Echo, a white bot who is enjoying the show, but I have a feeling she's not the one to do exaggerated things like the bot behind her. The visor glasses is an interesting detail and fits her character well! Fate surely enjoyed the show, enough that it was worth applausing. Of course the front row place affected it, right? Gold Dust enjoyed the show enough not to mind the attention being not on her, but where it was supposed to be; on the stage and with everyone present! There's no time to be sad when most people are happy and the mood is uplifting! Her head design (what's with me and liking all head designs?!?) was unique and I wanted to give her a calm look with a smile! The last but not the least; Wireless. He's a happy drunkard and definitely enjoys the front seat! You can see that from his head display too! Since it can't lie about what he's thinking! Ohhohhoho.

I hope you all enjoyed reading this as much I enjoyed making it.

(And the missing two characters are now included

tl;dr Did you think I'd put this into a nutshell? Get real and start reading!

Transformer © Hasbro, Inc.
characters © to their respective owners.
Happy Hour bar © pika aka me!

Description
IT IS FINALLY DONE!

ArtofSim actually decided to sing the song and here's the interpretation of it: soundcloud.com/simvinele/old-d…

I don't think I'm gonna do this kind of a thing again anywhere in the near future. This is basically an ask... that got out of hand a bit, perhaps. But I wanted to do something more than just a simple picture for it. Answer is: YES, there's "Irish barsinging" in Happy Hour! On another note...

THE CHARACTER SIZE DIFFERENCES ARE OUT OF THE WINDOW, since I had no sizes to compare so I just drew them how I saw fit! And now you peeps have to live with it!

What it comes to who got into which panel, I only picked by the description, not by the looks, okay, maybe a little by the looks too since I saw some characters just fit nicely into certain panels. Since Sticker is an Earth enthusiast with capital E, the bar is influenced by it a lot; Wood, couches, disco balls, even the waitresses and waiters, though I only drew one of them to the second last panel as a silhouette only. There's also many characters added as silhouettes and I LIED ABOUT NO CANON CHARACTERS! There's a few but you get to find them instead of me telling who they are. There's also a few of my characters as silhouettes... so many characters!

Panels 1-9 are my characters first. Sticker is our lovely host through the story, then panel 7 includes Air Brake , Visual Range aka Train, Scope and the tiny one on the table is Squack . She and Train were able to solve their old conflict so Squack is less afraid of big bots now!

Rest are listed in order of appearance:

Panel 10: - Crepuscule , - AvionGrinder
Crepu seemed to me something who would say things she liked out loud, and I went forward and now she loves the song! You have to deal with it, nyehhehe. I also like her head design! She looks cute! Avion fit well to the start and I'm sure he'd want to see the show in a more relaxed state so more drinks for him, yes? Or is he just trying to act tough guy there as such singing is for wussies? Who knows! And same goes with Avion's design, well not with the cute part, but I like the head design a lot, and I hope I got his eye right.

Panel 12: - Silvercross , - Dragalafly , - Boombox, - Zigzag , - Blackline .
Heyy, CC, Silvercross got to party from the couch! I had a bit of trouble with his looks though and I have no idea why but he's such an energetic bot with pretty green! Dragalafly is such a pretty white bot! I sure had fun drawing her out and putting her to be a bit more calm and sitting on the couch seemed to fit well. Boombox is now in colors, Belc, you gave me colors, and I hope I did well splashing them onto your character! I did take the freedom of adding third color which I picked to be dirty orange because I felt it needed it. Btw, that head design is also awesome! Zigzag felt to me that he'd be such a party person and what ever happened that seemed fun he'd join it fully. Thus he's literally shouting along the song, even if it disturbs his sitting neighbours and Blackline sure as heck doesn't appreciate it too much! And apparently I'm a sucker for grey hues and head designs and Blackline just.. aww he's cute. His head was interesting to draw to say the least. I don't think I've seen such shapes yet on anyone.

Panel 13: - Mac , - Primrose , my medic character Toolkit , - Ardent , - Shadowvolt .
Wirehair, I mean Mac, she's such a fine looking femme and has more round shapes than most. Thanks to the angle I had on the sketch, I think it enhanced those shapes, ahaha. For her, I like the shoulder and arm designs the most, and they allowed me to be more flexible with the pose. Primrose looks like she'd take over the world if she just wanted to! When I first saw the character it clicked to me immediately that I'd want her for the comic, even if she is a bit overshadowed by my character Toolkit since he's massive, and the angle of the whole panel doesn't help that at all, so I'm apologizing for that. Ardent.. Why is she so cute?! Maybe the facemask is doing it for me and the other smaller pair of arms just clapping along the rhythm, yup. Shadowvolt got a bit extra to his design but I tried to keep him as close to the original as possible. It's interesting how something can look simplistic yet have a good design.

Panel 14: - Pyrotech , - Ravebreaker .
To me, these two were an obvious couple who'd spend their time on a dancefloor! Was this their first dance right after the reference comic or not is up to you. They make such a cute couple and oh dear gawd did I have to experiment with discoball lights. Now I know better and probably will always remember it! Raven's design gave me a bit difficulties to get the angle right on the helmet but I think I got it to work eventually!

Panel 15: - Miracle , - Farmhandler .
As I read Miracle's description, she fit perfectly to the lyrics and naturally Farmhandler would be there right next to her. They were fun to draw since I haven't drawn that much at all with Animated style. It was refreshing.

Panel 16: - Magmacore , - Pitbull , - Mercury , - Dash Hope .
Talk. about. complex. character. designs. and complex poses! Well, I know I dug my own grave right there! Magmacore is such a scary bot, and I like it! He fit nicely to be the opponent for Dash Hope and surely those two seems to have fun arm wrestling, right? Just don't drop your drinks since who ever drops their drinks first loses! And their spectators Pitbull who has to keep Sling from interfering the arm wresting out of excitement, and Mercury who doesn't know to watch or not to watch as it's a very intense match going on! I think I struggled with perspective of characters in this panel the most, especially the wrestlers. They were originally on reversed places but it was easier the other way around due to the references.

Panel 17: - Shockburner , - Dragonfly .
Since not everyone fits to the theater room, these two are watching it from the screen in another room. Two cute characters enjoying the show in peace, sure there's others in the room too but they're not important! I was looking at lantern references and then I asked my daughter to pick one, and she picked a pink, so there you go; pink serene room with lanterns! I wasn't sure how the horns on Shockburner's helmet would go exactly from the behind, so I added a few more of them, I hope that's okay! Dragonfly seemed to be even more calm than the dragon bot next to her, so she's just enjoying the show occasionally devouring a delicious energon candy.

Panel 19: - Diesel
You said I could pick anyone from your characters? Well, I did went through the references and Diesel just popped out from everyone else and I think it was almost love at first sight! So here he is, enjoying his drink in peace while watching the show from the screen. Ugh, I like his boxy design, it's illegally sexy and the big wheels ain't helping!

Panel 20: My character Echo , - Ranymisan , - Keystroke .
The back at viewer character is my character Echo who's climbing to the stage like the other two bots who are now up there next to Sticker! This is the panel where I needed bots who'd play instruments and Ranymisan was my choice as she had also her instrument visible in art. And who wouldn't want to see a pretty purple bot on stage singing and playing music! Then is our pianobot Keystroke shouting out loud to rally people even more to sing along! I had fun drawing the keyboarrrrrrd!

Panel 22: - Novastar , - Silver Fang , - Shadowstrike , - Curbstomp .
That lil blue bot, Novastar, sulking at the table all alone is waiting for his drink as someone stole his other one, leaving only the straw on the table. I also gave him more mechanical look instead of organic fluffy furball, I do hope that's okay since I felt it was needed. Silver Fang couldn't just sit still, so I made her stand up and shout over everyone else. Can't leave the small ones into the shadows too much, eh? Shadowstrike ain't that much of a ninja at the moment! She's enjoying herself right there in the moment without caring much about everything else. I like the two cables coming from her head and it looks like they serve a purpose I don't know about! And then last one we have a grumpy drinker who definitely does not want to sing along. His drink tastes better than singing, yup yup. And I also had to do a bit of a research of him for references. >:]

Panel 24: - Hemisphere , - Karmashock , - HiddenStorm .
Hemi looks so elegant, I like her looks a lot and, and, I don't know! My brain just tells me I like her. She needed to hold a drink so I gave her a more delicate glass. Karmashock was a bit difficult as all the references of him were from the sideview for some reason, so I took the liberty to improvise his more frontal view. He's also wearing the jacket because he apparently likes doing so! Can't deny a bot his likings, aye? HiddenStorm was fun to draw and I couldn't get her expression out of my mind so there she is, grinning all mighty and excited and completely in the mood of the song. I did have to think of how to make the visor glow not too much and I think I did pretty okay. Yay? :')

Panel 25: My character Tranquil .
Uhhuh, now this was a difficult character to draw, all the spikes, the shapes, lighting, shading. The headache! Quil doesn't like it when it's too noisy, and the reason Air Brake is still inside not going nuts is that he's super drunk. I didn't count how many empty glasses I drew onto the table in front of him in panel 7.

Panel 26: - Sabredart , - CAT , - C.A.B. .
This panel is my absolute favorite out of them all, hands down. Drawing three bots all high was awesome. They had ordered Sticker's special drink and took it pretty well, and now they're enjoying the feelings on a comfy couch along the nice atmosphere of fishies and singing. Yes, that's a gigantic fish tank with Nishikigoi Kois. Except, maybe CAT isn't enjoying the softness of the couch, but she seems pretty content anyway. All of the characters were interesting to draw, was it due to references or the poses they were in. I definitely had fun with this panel.

Panel 27: - Lawbreaker , - Nightrave , - Electro Charge.
Nightrave is too drunk so he's being carried home! Both Lawbreaker and Electro Charge were assigned to the duty by Sticker's bouncers as those two bots were the closest to the situation. Lawbreaker is my own design for a friend so that to me was a bit of a no-brainer but dayum, I liked drawing the light blue femme! I'm not sure what exactly it was with it, maybe the cat-eyes, the head design yet again, and the overall design? I don't know and Nightrave is just cute and adorkable! He really keeps his charm even in such a drunk state. I did have a bit of trouble with his helmet's design in such an angle, and I still think it looks a bit off, smack me, will ya?!

Panel 28: - Shooting Star , - Highwire , - Downforce .
It's a habit for people, in this part of the song, to actually make the gesture of question. Which also made my life more difficult, yay! Especially Shooting Star's design was a tough nut to crack, the elbow joints, the eeeelboooww joiiints, gruuuuu. Never seen a design like that but the overall design and colors were nice and fresh to draw even though it gave me some angle troubles. Heh. I like the stars on the sides of the helmet! Highwire caught my interest pretty early on and to me she seemed calm and adult in most situations, so I put her there, all inquiry demanding with a bit of an attitude. Her wing design was also interesting, but I couldn't fit them in much, meh ; ; The first time I saw Downforce, the sideplates on the cheeks looked like sideburns, and as I drew him, I couldn't get them to look like sideburns any less, so now he's the "bearded bot". The stripes on his design gives a nice contrast to the otherwise light colors and boxy shapes.

Stockphotos of bottles used on the background are from: digitalAM, FrankAndCarySTOCK , Falln-Stock and kuschelirmel-stock .

Panel 30: - Wildfire , - Echo , - Fate , - Gold Dust , - Wireless .
I call this panel the "ultimate timetaking" panel because I hadn't planned much of the background. The idea was just a few silhouettes and completely different perspective. So now there's many many many silhouettes and some are recognizable (hopefully) and some are just random characters I created on the fly. And why one of my bots (Battery Box ) stands all alone on the platform is only due to me not giving more damn about the characters in the panel!! The angle of the stage is different from the rest too and it was too late to change it so I could not give even more damn about it. These things happens, it's life and I learned another lesson. Wildfire is so in the mood and her jumping like that fit her character, so why not jump and be happy and excited and energetic? I just hope she didn't kick anyone when she did that! Then there's Echo, a white bot who is enjoying the show, but I have a feeling she's not the one to do exaggerated things like the bot behind her. The visor glasses is an interesting detail and fits her character well! Fate surely enjoyed the show, enough that it was worth applausing. Of course the front row place affected it, right? Gold Dust enjoyed the show enough not to mind the attention being not on her, but where it was supposed to be; on the stage and with everyone present! There's no time to be sad when most people are happy and the mood is uplifting! Her head design (what's with me and liking all head designs?!?) was unique and I wanted to give her a calm look with a smile! The last but not the least; Wireless. He's a happy drunkard and definitely enjoys the front seat! You can see that from his head display too! Since it can't lie about what he's thinking! Ohhohhoho.

I hope you all enjoyed reading this as much I enjoyed making it.

(And the missing two characters are now included

tl;dr Did you think I'd put this into a nutshell? Get real and start reading!

Transformer © Hasbro, Inc.
characters © to their respective owners.
Happy Hour bar © pika aka me!