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Yeah so if you’ve ever considered turning to me and saying “what are you thinking about?” this is for future reference.
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have I ever told you my favorite genre of video is “robots and babies”
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I try to file things by month so I can remember when I drew them, but this also means sometimes I draw things and then just forget about it. For instance, apparently in October I just continued to draw all robots but then I switched over to November and forgot about them. What exactly does this indicate about my mental capacities?
Anyway, on the left we have Razzle, from the same story as Kell and Debo. He, uh, can pretty much be summed up by how he looks in that picture. Hahaha wait, I didn’t realize the shrunken preview image made him look like he’s got a gap between his front teeth. That’s not real but I like it.
On the right is Gavin, who is from an amorphous, plotless thing I started in like eleventh grade and still go back and play with sometimes even now. Gavin is the fanciest and cleverest of all the robots I’ve ever written but he’s still kind of a baby. Also he’s hard to draw because his skin is a little transparent and because he’s mostly just a dude with no eyebrows and that’s always going to be awkward.
Good lord I did it again, I need to stop.
Sketchy, illegitimate Draw All Robots slash First Draw of an idea I had for a big spidery robot. Her name is Coda; she’s got a dude (His name’s Carson, I’ll do him later) who rides her around and they’re bros and stuff. Coda’s not super intelligent as far as big spider tanks go but she’s at least as clever as a particularly clever dog or something.
I can tell I’m going to find this embarrassing later because drawing it made me realize that I have basically no idea how a spider actually works.Does it look like something familiar? I think it might but I can’t place what.
In my head the color palette for this whole story is warm and dusty and bits of it take place in the desert, but if you’re going to draw a desert you’ve got to commit to it (a flat yellowish expanse looks stupider than just about anything else) so I went with a grayish void for this doodle and the effect is a little odd.
I started this to go along with this one but then it got way out of hand.
I think that hair could be either impressive or embarrassing but I can’t tell which. I really need to learn how to use photoshop properly.
Anyway, here is Kell, she is more robots. Normally she looks much more excited about everything but she’s looking uncharacteristically thoughtful here. Kell initially worked in a hospital (the government requires them to upgrade on a pretty frequent basis so she was sold off as a labor machine; she’s no longer allowed to legally use her original title of “Nurse Kell” but everybody calls her that anyway), hence why she’s got more color to her skin than Debo - nobody wants to get their bandages changed by a weird, uncanny zombie, no matter how friendly it is.
Draw… all… robots…? Yes actually. Debo here is one of the more humanoid ones, despite the story he showed up in being comparatively nearer in the future than most others - in my defense, I was in early high school when I wrote this, and as a result you will never see it because it’s embarrassing. There were a few others from this story who I’ll show you eventually, maybe soon.
Debo wears a lot of layers because if he gets too cold he’ll glitch out (he’s an older model than most of the other ones and they hadn’t perfected a lot of stuff yet). Trivia, that’s a Starbucks t-shirt he’s wearing under there, as he was owned by Starbucks as cheap labor for a while. Also he got that name when some uncreative person put his serial number through the standard “A=1, B=2, etc” code. He’s got some stuff wrong with him, so he’s never been owned by a single person to give him a proper name.
I shaded this whole thing with only black (I usually at least try to use purple for the skin tones and stuff) just because I was feeling lazy, but I kind of like it because he looks weird and dead without the contrasting tones and for some reason that appeals to me. Not like he’s got blood in there or anything anyway.
Okay guys, tell me, does this robot look too much like it’s got fallopian tubes?
Technically this is a Draw All Robots but it’s also kind of a weird case because this guy is a totally new one. A few nights ago I couldn’t sleep so instead of sleeping I lay there and poked at an idea I had until I accidentally worked out a whole story. This one is the protagonist and it doesn’t really have a name but for now I’m calling the story “Small Machine” so this dude can be called Small Machine also. It’s a tiny robot that is really bad at chess.
Draw All Robots Challenge #2: Devon!
(this one’s obviously not done either, but I decided I’ll put them up as soon as they look fairly identifiable, because if I try to wait until the whole thing is done it’ll never happen. Eventually this will be a full-body posed portraity thing with a background and everything - I dunno, I just really like drawing robots in formal sit-to-be-painted poses - but for now Devon can just be sketchy and hover in a blank undefined space.)
Anyway, Devon - full name D-Team Experiemental Version One, DEV1, or Devon Liesenfeld, depending on who you ask. Devon is a sweet guy but kind of hangs right on the edge of the uncanny valley. He lives in an apartment that looks a little like one of those stark, oddly clean Ikea showroom cubes and has a job where he enters numbers into a computer all day. He wears the same black suit every day. They keep telling him he doesn’t have to do that, but he does it anyway.
Devon likes white noise and jokes based on clever wordplay. He dislikes heavy rain and being asked questions he doesn’t know the answer to.
First installment of the self-imposed Draw All Robots Challenge. This isn’t really finished (why did I pick a really complicated idea for the first one? why did I think it would be a good idea to draw that quilt??) but the actual robot part of it is, so I figured I’d stick it up here. Maybe I’ll delete this once I actually finish it, I dunno.
This dude’s name is Pilot! I drew him once before (from the front so you can see what his face actually looks like. It… does not really look like much of a face), though I didn’t look at that drawing much when I did this one so his ridiculous ham-hands are even more dramatic here. I think I like them like that.
Pilot doesn’t have much of a story but in case you were interested he’s the mobile unit of a small sentient spaceship, so he can climb around inside the actual ship and fix junk. At one point during the story it breaks down in Pennsylvania and the crew spends a couple weeks living with some random Amish people while they fix it up. Pilot ends up with a small entourage of fascinated Amish children who team up to make him that quilt as a goodbye present (he’s pretty big, that’s meant to be a full-size bed quilt). He likes to wear it like that. Everybody else thinks it’s ridiculous, but he’s really into it.
What if, in order to practice with this tablet, I drew EVERY ROBOT I had ever made up?
I would get a lot of practice. I think about robots a lot.
This is mostly a heads-up that I’m probably going to do this and you will all be totally submerged in robots, just letting you know.
For my drawing class I had to make a “drawing machine” and I decided to make use of this link that’ I’ve had in my bookmarks for like a year and a half even though I could see no real reason to make one. So I made this little dude (its name is Walky-Draw) and had it walk through some paint and stuff. I had to make a video of it to turn in at the end so I guess you might as well get to see it, if you want to watch a tiny automaton walk down a ramp with ink on its feet and listen to the beginning of a Pink Floyd song.
Working with this small wooden robot was more difficult than most group projects I’ve had to do with actual people. I made a few videos before this one but I couldn’t use any of them because they were all full of me going “No dude, no, not like that, what’s your problem, why is it so difficult to walk down a hill, you were doing this fine yesterday, what’s different about now?”
In the end the results were mostly uninteresting, but the little guy was fun to play with. The instructions are up at that link up there, so if you want to make yourself a little walky bot you can click on that and also watch a video with much more dramatic music than mine.
Whoa guys another one!
Originally Wingnut had its other foot up on the windowsill there and was wearing the other boot, but then it slipped and the boot fell out the window and I couldn’t get to it.
Oh hey look I actually made something!
This was for my painting II class and senior group show; it’s oil on masonite. The robot’s name is Wingnut and I built it out of PVC pipes and plywood so I could set it up and pose it.
I want one!
Scale this up about a couple hundred thousands times, stick some death star lasers on it and you have the cutest death machine ever built
It reminds me of robots from ghost in the shell
OH GOD IT’S A CYRIAK VIDEO COME TO LIFE
Hey don’t mind me, just reblogging nifty robots.
My favorite part of this is that baby, just because it means that somewhere there are babies growing up with robots rolling around their houses and that makes me confused and excited about THE FUTURE.
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hhhhhupdate i guess
Hmmm I guess I should probably put some stuff on here once in a while so people don’t think I’m dead. So here’s the News:
- I had spring break, it was pleasant, I planted some hyacinths and my hair expanded in all directions because I forgot how Maryland is made out of humidity (that was less pleasant).
- current project for my painting class is building a robot model who will sit and pose for me and then doing some paintings of it, this is GREAT but terribly confusing at times because my natural tendency is “If I’m going to make a robot I’m going to make it sturdy because I’m not doing a series of paintings of a terrible junk robot” while the professor’s natural tendency is “DUCT TAPE AND COAT HANGERS!”
- totally unrelated drawing project is “make a drawing machine” and I am taking the opportunity to use this link I’ve had bookmarked on my computer for like a year even though I could think of no foreseeable reason to make it.
This is one of those weird things where everything in your life converges in several ways at once, does everybody get those? It happens to me all the time. This time it’s robots converging from all directions of my life, which then somehow converged with the terrible animation project from the beginning of the drawing class, during which I had a discussion with the professor about how walking upright basically involves falling repeatedly and just moving your legs so you don’t actually hit the ground.
- going to Montreal this weekend, which is a little terrifying because of all the things I’m supposed to be doing in the next few weeks, but I think this happened the last time we took this trip too. It’s just a thing that always happens. Best to just shove through it I suppose.
- just finished a terrifying phone interview about another museum internship. Phone interviews are generally bad news because all the carefully cultivated body language things you’ve learned from physical interviews suddenly become totally useless and you’re reduced to just going “oh, okay, uh huh, right, hmm yes” to reassure them that you haven’t just left the phone sitting on the table and gone off to dance in front of the mirror or something. Anyway I’m hoping for good luck since this is the same place I worked over the winter break (the interviewer thought we might have met in an elevator but neither of us could really remember), and I’d really like to find something useful to do near home so that maybe eventually a person will give me an actual paying job in the future??
- Also I lost my phone AGAIN, this time I seem to have left it in a taxi but they say they haven’t found it. Sometimes I call it and it rings and rings but nobody ever answers it. Mysteries. The worst mysteries.
- WHUP, EDIT: another interview tomorrow morning! This is promising, especially because last summer when I applied for these things they all just ignored me for a month and then eventually told me I didn’t get anything. So stuff’s moving along!
