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daily koss #29: if we only have one shot… better make it count, right?
Since I started on the 18th of February, today marks the one month anniversary of me drawing these wretched old men every day!!! I wanted to make something special for it, so I tried my hand at a comic (even though I am NOT good at comics—dear god, paneling is so unintuitive for me that I ended up wrangling this into a webtoon format just to avoid it).
Despite the increasing level of render and polish on my dailies over the past two weeks, this is the first time I’ve really, actually tried to flex my art muscles and apply my braincells to a piece 😂 Here’s to hoping my work paid off! I have now, officially, moved from low-effort shitposts to real-effort seriousposts 😔
(Also, if you’ve never read a webtoon before, hopefully the long-scroll format wasn’t too jarring! >_<)
A meta aspect I love about KOSS is that Transformers is a multi-timeline franchise: Knock Out and Starscream exist across multiple different continuities, sometimes alongside each other, sometimes not. But they only really ‘work’ in TFP, despite them both having other characters as constants (Breakdown, Megatron). If this were any other world, and they were any other versions of themselves, they might not even have been coworkers—just ships passing in the night.
And yet, the perfect storm of random events led to them being in one thing together, with a compelling dynamic at that (even an entire episode that puts it on blast!!!). Sometimes I think about how, according to the TFP artbook, Knock Out was originally conceived as something of a counterpart to Bumblebee—another fast, pretty car, except a villain this time—but the writers ended up fleshing out his relationship with Starscream the most. I wonder what the thought process behind that was—did the devs find their dynamic fun to play with as well?—and whether the two would get more moments together if Prime wasn’t cancelled…
But I digress! The fact I discovered TFP in the first place is the cherry on top of the serendipity-cake; I never imagined I’d ever get into Transformers, but one impulsive ‘hey, what if we watched the new Transformers movie’ from Lacuna at 3AM in the dead of January changed the trajectory of my life.
I’ve always been really bad at committing to projects for over a month at a time—I often find myself burnt out and restless after only a few days, even. So to still have so much drive and inspiration to create fanworks—for KOSS, of course, but an assortment of other pairings and properties too—is such a novel and exciting experience. My tune may change at a moment’s notice (I can be very fickle), but for now I’m eager to keep scribbling on 🥰I already have something planned for the next week of Daily KOSS hehehe~
Anyway, things referenced in the comic!
G1 cartoon s01e13 “Fire in the Sky”
2019 IDW continuity Tread & Circuits issues 2, 3, and 4
Armada episode 48
TFA s02e03 “Mission Accomplished” and s03e13 “Endgame II”
2005 IDW continuity “Choose Me,” Spotlight: Megatron, and Annual 2017 “Chosen One”
And it’s probably obvious from the art, but I love the juxtaposition of Starscream being tortured by god in every other universe while Knock Out is either happily married or doesn’t exist.
I drew the mosquito and the fish again because I love them
Here’s a scene I wanted to draw from To Earth and Back Again
(For context Ratchet’s upset because if they abandon Earth they abandon all humankind and Starscream’s upset because he is VERY opposed to working with the Quintessons for personal reasons)
Knockout kinda misread the room on that one
Reactions to getting in trouble with Ratchet (he is not paid enough for this)
Art for my wip TFP fic To Earth and Back Again
Knockout is sending mixed messages
Guess who’s writing a new fic >:)
It’s called “To Earth and Back Again” and follows Knockout because he is *such* a fascinating character to write through the perspective of. The story’s a huge wip at the moment. While I’m writing it I’ll be posting art for it in the meantime.
I totally started this project on a whim but it’s grown so much as I’ve planned it and I am having so much fun writing all the angst, horror, and drama that it entails. So much Knockout and Starscream content because I love them. Writing is so fun. Anyway have this cover art to look at with your eyes
Human knockout in a dress cause why not
New OC
——Transformers earth spark ——
———Info below the cut ———
She’s the kid of another one of my OCs along with Knockout and Breakdown (I’m sorry but I love them; also I will introduce the other oc— Skyline— soon)
You can read some of her basic info in the first pic, if you have any questions feel free to ask (in comments or asks)
So far I only have her Protoform, I haven’t designed what she will look like once she gets her alt forms, but she is gonna be a triple changer
Also, have her and nightshade as a bonus
(This is when they first met)
They’re just a couple of little nerds who like to info dump to each other about their special interests/hyper fixations
(Also I’m thinking that her ground alt is gonna be a Lamborghini Siam and her flight alt to be a B-2 Spirit)
Was goofing around with a buddy for some script ideas when the AI we were playing with kept repeating one simple line “his optics glittered.” This doodles is the final result~
It's a giant PAN! maybe it's friendly! (The pan is friendly, but the one that has it in their servos, is not)
That statement is going to live rent free in Starscream's spark
Well, my friend dragged me into the Transformers fandom. But I don't regret anything.
Day 4 (Maybe, idk) of attempting to draw transformers yahoo
KOBD Brainrot again! Let's go. I love them AND wanna draw more of these two
Also, to make process a bit more fun i made myself a little itty bitty 🤏 OC
This will also help me understand the universe better when I start writing his story. The design is not finished yet and is at the sketch stage...but who cares¡
Seagull...
Look at theeeeeem
I'm trying to- join.this.fandom.help.
That's the power couple right here ↓↓↓
Also some tf stuff
First attempt at drawing transformers with Starscream, and then Soundwave (ref from SkyBound comic)
Step by step process :
The outside view of Earth 2020-2021 is just as embarrassing as the inside view.
VISIT EARTH | TRAVELS TO EARTH
【Experiences】 【Destinations】 【Plan your visit】 【Book flight】
////ALL TRAVELS TO PLANET EARTH ARE CANCELLED. REASON: ONGOING PANDEMIC AS WELL AS ALARMING LEVELS OF DISSAPPOINTMENT////
so much for that other animatic, here take this mini one I did this morning
can you do anything silly with tfp soundwave?
Found Soundwave and Laserbeak sketches from shattered glass.
Weak, broken, inferior, but also talkative.
Laserbeak is their therapy pigeon :3
Finally finished all the Prime Decepticons!!
Breakdown has been gone for no less than a week when Ratchet receives a heavily encrypted message.
At first he thinks it’s nothing and it’s only years of combat through his technology and being a medic that he even spots that something is different about it.
The one difference in the file is a punctuation at the end, a single full stop that is something humans do instead of the cybertronian symbol.
He opens the file, works his way through it for over two earth hours, and when he’s finally done everyone has gone to have their shutdown and the humans are at home safe and sound.
Part of him thinks it could be a trap sent my Soundwave but there’s something in his spark that’s telling him to trust it. He’s been a doctor for years, he’s learnt that trusting your instinct is the most important part of the job. It’s a combination of prior knowledge, subconscious awareness and thinking and the thing humans call a ‘gut feeling’.
Ratchet opens the last link and finds a message that reads,
“Hello Doctor.
I am aware that we are not friends and work for opposing forces, but I am desperate. I am not sending this because I have had a change of spark or something dramatic like that, though I can’t say I have never thought of that.
No, this is far more important than any sides of a war or Megatrons foolish little game.
I am with sparkling.”
Ratchet stalls for a moment at that sentence before stealing his nerves and continuing.
“I found out around two deca-cycles ago and was afraid to tell the Sire, and now he is gone.
If Megatron finds out about this, both that I am with sparkling and that I can conceive, I will never be safe. He hasn’t been too focused on it, but we all know he has put plans in place should he have the chance to have an heir.
I’m not stupid enough to think he won’t find out, and I’m not too prideful to put my ego and desire to been correct over the life of my sparkling.
So I am asking you as both a medical professional and a close friend of Optimus for help.
I don’t need you to let me join you or live among you, but please help me get out.
I am begging you to help me make sure my sparkling doesn’t end up like Shockwave or Megatron or, Primus forbid, Starscream. I want my to have the chance to choice who it wants to be, and I know that it’s Sire would have wanted for us all to be with you Autobots.
But I have accepted this too late.
Turn me away if you wish, but please help my sparkling.
I don’t have much time and I do not want to terminate it, it’s all I have left of Breakdown.
Yours truely,
Knock-Out.”
Ratchet actually had to sit down once he’s finished reading, serve pressed to his chaises in both shock and heavy understanding. He helped many with their sparklings during the war and knew well the grief of it, even if it was never something he went through.
He sits there for a long time, considering every thing he knows, before he stands again and sends a message back with identical encryption.
“Knock-Out.
I am sorry for what you are going through, both your loss and your situation.
Whether my team wants you here or not I will find a safe place for you, this I promise you on the All Spark. I am sure Optimus will understand but we must act quickly, so listen to my instructions and I will be able to keep your family safe.”
Ratchet lays out the plan quickly and with no room for miscommunication, even going so far as to send a ground bridge for the Mech at a certain point during the next cycle.
He can deal with the teams reactions once’s he’s got Knock-Out safely out of his enemies hands.
getting the hang of it
And then Knockout was never seen again </3
Human K.O and BD doodles!! I really should draw them more, I adore them.
Still tryna figure out BD's style and stuff.. I even considered giving him longer hair.. I think I'll continue posting some other concepts when I get to em :)
KNOCKOUT SAVES HIS BOYFRIEND WITH THE POWER OF FRIENDSHIP LOVE
I enjoyed reading the Transformers MLP comics so much!! I'm sad there were only 8 issues.
My human KOBD chilling out on the bed at the end of the day❤️💙 They spend their sweet time before drifting off to sleep. It took more time than I'd expected buuuut it's completed! Phew!
Some easter eggs!
you will have to physically apprehend me if you want me to stop drawing my oc and megatron
also i like when megs had purple eyes