KrisSmithDW

Its been 7 years since the last page was posted of my "Transformers: IGNITION" fancomic, and 5 years since I last attempted to bring the comic back but I'm finally FINALLY going to really push for it this time. Wanted to relaunch but I didn't want to just ignore what I had done already. So I hope the 2 quick pages I just added work as a band-aid, lol. This was actually a slight reworking of what originally was going to be part of an extended prologue I was going to add as part of a new intro for the comic as it was, but I decided to use it as a relaunch point. I'll be starting slowly with character designs and revisions and stuff that I'll be posting first before getting to the actual pages but you'll at least get to see that happening as I progress.

Originally when I did this comic back in 2013, I was basically trying to re-do G1 as at the time that felt like it would never be done by Hasbro proper again and IDW was doing all the very different stuff with the property. But now that everything is very G1 and IDW is now over I want to try and bring a little of that flavour back with characters from all over and not JUST G1. Also I'll be keeping everything on Cybertron for the most part, not going to Earth. I'll explain more as I go along!

But yeah, been many years, learned many new things, want to bring it all to the table and expand on what I had started here. Hope you all like what I got cooking! :)

Well, that was fun. RIGHT after my birthday (yknow, the last time I was here, lol) i ended up with Covid for the first time after 3 and a half years of avoiding it. All that work down the drain, lol.

Took like a MONTH to go away and even then I spent until this last month with my sinuses still screwy. I really hope I don't get this again, it SUCKED.

Anyway, I hope everyone is doing well!

- Kris

Well, there we go, made it to 42 years old.

Oh, and its easter, but that's not as important, lol :P

So yeah, my birthday falls on easter weekend periodically so it would royally screw up any plans to have birthday parties when I was a kid, lol :P

- Kris

The relief when you dump your coffee everywhere and realized you JUUUUST missed your computer/important stuff, but then the stress of realizing you still have a ridiculously large mess to clean up everywhere.

Hey, there! Been a few mins, lol Lets try this again AGAIN.

FINALLY got a bunch of new stuff to post, look for those in a few minutes!

The big thing is I juuuuust started livestreaming art on Twitch the last couple of weeks and boy has it done wonders for productivity, I've gotten more done in the last 2 weeks than I've done in ages.

If anyone is into Twitch and wants to put up with my ugly mug yammering away while I work on art, please follow me here: https://www.twitch.tv/kris_smith_dw

I'm doing it pretty regularly, here's the 4 pieces people have been able to watch me make LIVE on Twitch:

Going to be working on my first art book soon too, first up will be the 1984 Transformers and then I'll go on from there, lol. More info to come!

And more importantly, LOTS MORE ART TO COME!!!!

Stay safe out there everyone! :D

- Kris