Coloring Commission - Bokuman - Ultra Magnus and Sparkle

Here  we have a new commission from a new commissioner.  Although the lineart  isn’t exactly anything new for me given how I have colored dozens of  linearts drawn by Bokuman.
 

Original Lineart: Commission Ultra Magnus and Sparkle
 

When DarkWarrior approached  me with this commission, I knew that I had my work cut out for me with  this.  It is a rare occasion for me to color robots but it is something  that I’ve done before, such as with my MP3 Player Transformers that  Bokuman had also designed (Pitch and Wave).   By comparison to those two, this one was a lot simpler because of how  the “Generation 1″ Transformers had a far blockier design to them.  As  you can see with how their limbs and bodies have blocks, squares and  rectangles for their limbs and bodies.
 

So, to begin the  coloring I just made a few layers, a base color, first shading and  second shading, and then I went through and locked all those three  layers and made the color modifications to them.  Such as using Ultra  Magnus’ colors of red, white and blue.  Initially, I used the color  scheme of Ultra Magnus from the first Transformers movie (1986).  But as  it turns out, I was using the wrong pallet which cased a few problems  that I needed to go back and fix.  But thankfully it wasn’t too much of a  headache as I had imagined.
 

As for the second character,  Sparkle, she is what’s called a “Pretender”.  In the Transformers  Universe, disguise is a big component.  However, instead of disguising  themselves as machinery, such as trucks, cars, planes or anything like  that, Pretenders, disguise themselves as organic beings, such as animals  or even people.  And that’s the case with “Sparkle” here, an Autobot  disguised as a human.  Although, I hadn’t been able to find any record  of her in any of the wikis so I imagine that she’s a fan character.  But  from a coloring standpoint, she was by far the easiest to do.  Just  skin, clothes and hair.  Not a lot of blocks to think about. 
 

© Ultra Magnus - Transformers - Hasbro

© Pretenders - Transformers - Hasbro

Note:  All characters depicted here are 18 years of age or older.  

(sarcasm): Thank you, patreon, for not allowing me to post any actual artwork.