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When drawings robots, I find I don’t like to get too technical (I don’t much love drawing cars or machines, either), instead preferring to make them as animated and organic as possible. I vastly prefer drawing the human form and face more than anything else, so my robots are also a reflection of that, while taking liberties, of course, to stretch, distort and exaggerate.

This first group shot was a convention sketch, a commission from a Chicago fan who gave me carte blanche, and this is what I came up with. The droid on the right has an Art Deco quality, or perhaps suggests an African mask. Kinda needly, ain’t he?

This next series of robots were done for a CD kiosk company that never quite got off the ground. I tried to work the CD shape into the design throughout, as ears, buttons, wheels, and the like. These guys needed to be friendly and are more on the cute side. One of them reminds me a bit of the old cereal character, Quisp. He, and his cereal are back, or still around!

That doesn’t mean I’ll just go for the cute or goofy when doing robots. I can go nasty and gnarly, too. Space Waster is one of ten postcards I self published way back when. I’ll probably post the rest around Halloween.

While preparing this post, I’m reminded of some early robots I liked drawn by certain comics artists, and one of my first characters, say, circa 1979, a robot named Mac. So, it looks like there will be another robot post in the near future.