Having previously featured Bumblebee and Megatron, my brush turns eventually to the man himself, Optimus Prime. A fantastically drawn hero, Optimus is, like God and Jesus, all things to all men. Thus he can be an inspiration to me and to this guy, as morally and politically opposed as it is possible to be. Of course, there are many Optimus Primes, often within the same part of the franchise. G1 Marvel UK Optimus and G1 cartoon Optimus are quite different, and IDWverse Optimus is different again. The Optimus of the Bayverse movies is a brutal killer wrapped in an American flag, whilst Aligned Optimus is literally a god of community and unity!

This Optimus is the G1 cartoon version, painted slightly off schema. Instead of using the cartoon colours I have used an actual original Optimus toy as my reference material. This only really means that the silver bits are silver rather than grey, and that his eyes and mouthplate are yellow and silver rather than light blue and grey respectively. I don’t like the ethno-implications of Optimus’s blue eyes in the cartoon (and don’t get me started on Spike and Carly and Daniel and their little aryan nation).

Uh yeah so Optimus Prime. I’ve tried to paint some animation-style light reflection on the windows, with middling success. Enjoy!