Illustration Friday – Primitive
Falling back on an old standby – Robots!
The Primative Robot:
Pencil sketch, scanned and colored in Photoshop.
I was playing around with alot of different ideas around the idea of a primitive robot. I was actually sketching a robot to look like ‘old iron’ (an old mainframe computer from the dark ages – like the 40s/50s). But the idea of making the robot a headhunter, with shrunken robot heads in his hand, kept pulling on my mind, and this is what came out. the original idea was less dark — no pile of robot parts for him to be standing on — but it worked well as a background i think, and it was fun to draw.
Which is, of course, the point!
So, anyone know what the tip of his spear is supposed to be? I’ll be impressed!
[edit: the answer is linked in the comments thread, if you're interested 
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Previous Illustration Fridays here.
Comments welcome!
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It’s a really clever idea!
I like his shrunken head collection!
Is it a sage? I am loving this DoT really, really cool!!!
Very clever take on this weeks topic!
That’s very impressive work in Photoshop! A very dignified, primitive robot.
That is too funny!
great idea great illustration..
My guess is a baby bottle for a robot.
Am I right???
Fun illustration. Thanks for sharing.
Thanks for all the nice words!
Nope, Lisa, you’re wrong
here’s the answer:
http://tinyurl.com/4sy58z
What a great illo! I love this
Very clever! I love it!
great work!
I really like this! Love the color scheme and the robot is way too cute
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Wild blog. I’m a comic artist here in Atlanta, and I have to say it’s so nice to see a fellow Atlantian on here.
Ciao,
Joe y Elio
Very nice….love your color palette!! I have NO CLUE what that is on the spear. Hmmm…
I so like the little heads, very clever piece!
very cute robot!
this is really GREAT!!!
This is so beautiful and clever, colors are great!!!
Cool! Great job on Photoshop!
I couldn’t figure it out, but I love it! Nice illustration.
What a great idea. my robot loving friends at robot republic couldn’t even come up with this one! Very cool!
Great illo. The abacus is a great detail.
excellent illo- and very clever
thanks for all the nice comments! this one was alot of fun.
For those wondering about my query, i posted a link to the answer further up in the comments thread.
and josh, glad you noticed the abacus, it’s one of my favorite touches to this one
dot
Totally brilliant illo. I never would have thought of scanning a sketch and photoshop colouring it. I’m going to have to try this!
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