The image should say ‘Fatherbot & Sonbot, 8 and 8.1’ but my scanner cut it off. As it states, these are father and son robot characters. Sonbot has just been told off for pulling all the tape out of the tape measure, so he’s mad at Fatherbot. Drawn with Prismacolour Parma Violet PC 1008.
I’ve gone back to the drawing board and been utterly stuck there over the past week. I keep cycling through the themes and the more I explore them new themes arise! Today I put my foot down and decided that I am doing the space-esque theme. [Fig 01] displays some of the initial concepts I had. From this point on, I got a really heavy military feeling from my concepts (due to the huge buttons and the badges and straps).
At this point, I took inspiration from some of my initial concepts [Fig 02] and how I could apply colour to my character. I really didn’t want to step outside the boarders of red, black, green/yellow. Having such a restricted colour pallet, I found it difficult to apply colour and achieve the correct composition.
Before outlining my final concept I did a few more torso sketches [Fig 03]. I went back to the old man thing, I really can’t get it out of my head. But this character looks a lot more sinister without revealing any sort of age or identity.
The concept is there now, and I have begun modelling it as a way to force myself not to change my mind again. That being said, I won’t be uploading the final concept until I’ve tweaked a few areas (I’m terrible, I know).
I experimented with a tonne of different costume designs yesterday, such as bio-hazard, surgical, space and sci-fi. I was really drawn to the space and sci-fi kind of thing, such as Mordin from Mass Effect. Taking this little sketch of a doctor with a ray gun (cliché, I know), I took him a bit further and coloured him with my Copics. He really looks like he belongs in Looney Tunes.
Lucy Anna Lowe 