AKA "Getting off on the wrong foot in a really spectacular way"

Illustration for Chapter 6 of Revelation, Miles has been searching for "The Inventor" for a little while, but this isn't exactly how he expected things to turn out!

This image has gone through quite a few changes since it started, and I thought people might be interested in seeing some in-progress images.

The pencil sketch wasn't too impressive...kinda flat. Doing it over in Photoshop nailed down the pose I wanted for Wheeljack, but Miles was a long time in coming, as for the longest time he refused to look afraid or nervous in front of a giant cannon Finally went with a forest background in line with the story, which helped a lot with determining the lighting for Wheeljack, which is coming partially from starlight, but most from his eyes and weapons.

The concept for movieverse!Wheeljack comes from 's vision of him for her story, which is much darker than the more lighthearted portrayal from the original cartoon. He's been a soldier for a long time, and has been through quite a bit in terms of bodily additions. He started life out looking like this. By this point he's become something of a Swiss Army 'bot with random gadgets and gizmos all over him, including a third arm. I would have like to have included more random bits on him, but the image was already busy enough and overwhelming detail would have distracted from the point, the interaction of human and robot.

Photoshop CS3, ~15 hours