This is hands-down probably going to be the worst drawing in all of APE-ril. But at the same time it was important lesson in doing a bit more diligence in one's research before committing to a project/challenge. While compiling my list of apes/monkeys at the end of March, early April for the APE-ril challenge, I thought doing Optimus Primal from Transformers: Beast Wars would be win on many levels. One, it'd be an ape. Two, it'd be a robot (cuz I'd prolly get sick of drawing monkeys). Three, there's a new Transformers movie coming out, so you might get some visitors due to random Google searches. And Four, who doesn't want to draw a bad-ass robot?
Well, I was wrong on almost all of those. I didn't really get into Transformers as a kid, and especially didn't even watch Beast Wars, so fairly unfamiliar with the show/character. I also had a horrible time finding suitable reference material on the net (which surprised me a little), and then of course... Deadline crunch. I had/have fallen behind in the APE-ril challenge, so now at the zero hour, I'm busting out the last few quickly, and this one should of had a whole day (at least) to itself to truly make it better.
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