Grimlock ♥ Ultra Magnus

The thing is there are like four steps to drawing a Transformer in this book.   While the steps themselves are good guidelines, there's much, much more in between the steps.   Got it: stick figure, fill out, details, clean up.   Except that with all the edges, with all parts that correspond to their alt forms, this is overly simplistic. 

Given that this book is only 32 pages long, however, the details that would give me more to work with have no place here.   (It also helps that it's only two dollars on Comixology; while I would have liked more, I feel like I got more than a fair deal given what I paid for this book.)

It's also clearly geared towards kids, not even beginning artists.   It kind of talks to the reader as if they're a child, and that makes sense.   This is a tie-in for a show that is geared towards children. 

It also has bits like the following, along with my commentary.

About Cliffjumper: “Note the shapes that make up his chest give the impression he’s puffing himself out, looking tough.”

Hot.

Also: “His shoulders and forearms are heavily armored.”

Not helping!

It wasn't meant to be this hot but given that they keep pointing out all the anatomical differences and is basically just a 'how-to' picture book of Cybertronians, yeah, hot.   So basically I enjoyed it, a lot, even if it wasn't all that I'd hoped!