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Published: 2008-09-05 03:38:35 +0000 UTC; Views: 2765; Favourites: 53; Downloads: 19
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Illustration for Chapter 10 of Dark Storm Rising. Rodimus has had his butt handed to him by Decetron-the self-proclaimed leader of the Decepticons on a far away planet called Cratis. Later, when he rejoins the Autobots after 3 months of separation, Optimus finds his vyrestix in serious need of a hug.Related content
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Optimus: I got here as soon as I could...Um...can you talk?
Rodimus:....
Hi!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!! Cool pic!
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You're TL Arens right? I have to look for the story. Heh.
We love to make Roddy suffer. It's fun. We wouldn't do it if we didn't love him so much.
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^-^ I am! You'll find the story here: [link]
It's a multi-chapter story that's currently the equivelent of 4 novels. ...and I'm still writing.
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I will tell you what I think.
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I hope it meets your expectations.
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Ouch! He looks like hell! I hope he'll be ok. Any clue if there's going to be anything more involving Midnight and those rascals, the other sentinels? Art or otherwise? Beautiful art by the way!
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Thank you!! I want to get back to the Sentinel stories, but it'll take a bit of time yet-I'm currently working on writing/outlining 4 stories right now for my own universe. However, it might not be such a bad idea to get back to Sentinel Arc for a short reprive before plunging into the Maelstrom/DSR cross-over.
Good idea!
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Hang on, Roddi! Optimus is on his way!
I love this scene it just speaks volume. I can just feel the pain Roddi's feeling and Optimus's urgency to reach him in time.
What tools did you use for the coloring, because it looks like water colors blending.
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I can't wait to do more Op/Roddi pics. They really balance each other well.
My tools are fairly simple. I used prismacolor pencils then highlight or darken down in Photoshop. In this case, I did not have to do very much in PS-this was one of those few pics that turned out almost perfectly
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I just took a closer look at your picture and realized something.
Who's behind, Optimus?
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SWEET! I'm delighted you noticed! That's supposed to be Physix who helps Op get Roddi out in Chapter 10.
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Awww poor Roddi...he really seems like he could use a hug 
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Thank you! Not enough Roddi pics out there, are there? Optimus gave me grief, but I managed to circumvent his mischief. And yeah, Roddi needs a series break. But like Illmatar, I have no intention of being that nice. He'll just have to take my medicine . . . er, yeah. 0.0
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As long as you can draw many Roddi pics, I'll be happy 
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Not so sure about Illmatar's work, but Roddi in my story meets a nice 'girl' (heh, as per my own sense of humor, he meets a Decepticon femme) and I've thought of giving him five children. THAT should keep him well in line! -er-SHE will, too! She'll tell him she's a sucker for hard cases-and his head is the hardest she's ever seen.
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WHAT??? Roddi gets a gal?!? And a Con at that!?!? And FIVE kids??? 
Yayyyyyyyy!!!!!!!!!!!!!! 
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LOL I'll certainly enjoy it! She'll keep him either in or out of line! Heh, not a lady to cross, that's for sure! While I did not want to copy Illmatar's Lancer, I know that Roddi wouldn't be happy with a girl who's more concerned about her nails and her hair than she should be. He needs a gal who can keep up with him and reign him in when he needs it.
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Her description sounds great! 
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I can't wait to meet her, either cuz that'll mean I'll be about half way done with the epic. 
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Half way done with DSR...that's about chapter 20 then (still 10 chapters to go..*laments*) Still, it'll be good to finally see the gal that'll make an honest bot out of Rodimus 
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I SO agree with academic writing!! Creative writing lets you loosen up and explore. Journalism teaches you how to get down to the bones of the matter and I think they're all essential. To this day, I'm still wishing 90% of the novel authors whose books are on the racks in stores would take a course in journalism. Waaay too much of that stuff is just waste. Ever read Robert Jordan? Don't.
Dean Koontz is one of those authors who doesn't waste time with prepositions. And his writing is alive.
I started my creative teething on Tolkien who spoiled me rotten so that when I was old enough to buy my own books (13 yrs), I found myself miserably disappointed that not all writers wrote as beautifuly and suscintly as he.
LOL and yet here I am, yammering on in a letter to you!
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The fact that academic writing is such a, well, bore, is one of the things that keeps me from seriously thinking about doing a PhD: if the subject is interesting, then I *love* the process of researching and gathering information, but the process of then putting everything on paper, in academic-style writing, is just too unappealing for me; I use to want to be a journalist, but journalistic writing needs you to get to the point and be precise (and I wouldn't be very good at that cause I tend to 'wander' a bit too much when I write, kinda like the authors you mention
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According to Julia Cameron, who wrote "The Right to Write" academic writing is stilted, unappealing and forced. It requires all your sentance structures to stand like soldiers at attention, stiff and overly-disciplined. She totally shreds academic writing and throughout her book repeats how that is not writing at all. I agree with her to the point that I have the grammer check on my WordPerfect program turned off. I know how to write sentances-and I know how to break the rules (but I still have several grammer books available on hand)
As for journalism, I loved the class because it taught me how to cut away the fat. Eliminate double prepositions, or prepostional phrases altogether. There's another book I have yet to read called "Writing down the bones", which gets to the matter of the subject, keeping it simple before you dress it up. The first several lines in Chapter 9 of DSR were constructed in simple sentances before I dressed them up.
I love Tolkien. He puts you there in the middle of the moment (although Tom Bombidale had NOTHING to do with the rest of the story) Tolkien taught me the value and beauty of narrative; an art that is lost to journalism, lost, all too often in the over-edited, stilted publishing world. Reading is boring to most people because the publishing industry practices mediocrity in editing and promotes bad writing as the norm.
Tanith Lee, Robert Jordan, and yes, the great Stephan King are all bad examples. (King goes WAAAAY overboard, drags things out) Dean Koontz is a good writer. I also liked Harlan Ellison.
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I sure agree with Julia Cameron about academic writing in all accounts; it's just too dry and not fun at all, to the point that it makes you wanting to give up either reading it (or writing) it altogether *sigh* I'll look up her book
I actually never had a course in journalism, which would probably explain my kinda "all-over-the-place" writing...I have actually done only academic writing in the last years (In the past we'd have writing composition in school; in grade school it would be something easy like "Where I went for holidays" or "describe your favourite animal", but in high school we'd have essays like "is technology harming our culture" (?!?) or "your opinion on addiction problems" etc. We were (implicitly) told that most subjects had to be dealt with including what the school, the parents and society at large can do to improe the situation. It was as uninspiring and boring as academic writing, and I hated it. So no, I've never done real story writing... (in case I ever decide to, I'll check the "Writing down the bones" book
I'll get down to reading Tolkien
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Best of luck and fun in your literary journey, Sokalia! ^-^ I'd love to read more, but geeze, the muse runs wild and it's difficult to tie it down-especially when projects get out of hand.
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Noooo!!! What did you do to poor Rodi? *hugs him tight* 
Awesome work Koontah, can't wait to read about Rodimus's history.
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Awesome work!!! I love the texture of the colors you put in them
Poor Rodimus...
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Much thanks, Cloudstreaker.
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*bounces with glee* Prime pulverization makes me happy!
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Tis more than a hug that's needed to fix *that*.
Rodi...looks like he was smacked around a bit and fed through a giant garbage disposal. Poor guy!!!XD
The colouring is a lot dirtier and grittier than I've seen you do...it's really good.
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Oooh! Thank you!! I think the chasm that Grimlock and Lux made is nice and big . . . I'd LOVE to take some time and draw that-my muse is ALWAYS years ahead of the time I can put into the work.
And you're right; Roddi needs more than a hug; he needs a bandaid and some time in front of the TV 
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Cranky is one hell of an understatement!!XD
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Wait...Galvatron?
Doesn't Rodimus still think he's evil and won't he probably try to kill him within like a few seconds of meeting him?
Ohhhhhhhhhhhhh....XD
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Um, yeah. But you know; boys will be boys. But Optimus is hopeful-they'll either learn to like each other or kill each other off. Then it'll just be he and Mags . . . happilly ever after-LOL and I really should not answer letters this late at night!!!
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Ahhh...it's 10am here. I'm getting ready to go holiday shopping!!XD
Night!!XD
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aww poor Roddi
I 'm gonna go read DSR. Ive been missing it.
When is the next chapie coming up
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:bounces: 
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...next year
*slams head on desk*
-_-
hope I can last that long
*maybe you could post a little of the chapter*
pwease
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Not to worry, I'll have other shorts to keep you company until chapter 11 comes out 
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Thank you so much! I'm delighted you guys like the work. As long as it takes to color each rockface and stone, I seem to enjoy it. Not enough Roddi pieces out there.
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