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Sergenth · Posted: Mon Jan 29, 2001 9:31 pm

I'm in a most anxious mood, so I thought I'd post some of my past week's sketches just so I can tell myself I'm doing something.

I've been concentrating on robots ever since Bizarde posted his way-cool Rob1 bot.

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This is a cool pointy arm thing. I want to draw lots of them on a robot's back.

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A bigger version of the iron horse robot I drew - pencil version.

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A way cool assassin bot. It's a bovine assassin, because that's funny. (bovine not shown)

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An ugly female and a a half-decent female profile... one is from a super-secret picture I found on the internet (I just want to bug with your mind!) and the other is straight from my mind - no references.

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A nightmarish unspeakable stalker. I like drawing hunched over monsters. =)

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Rage-lion · Posted: Mon Jan 29, 2001 9:34 pm

I want to be the first one to post...VERY Nice!!!! I like it. BTW...pointy arm thing...link doesnt work

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Sergenth · Posted: Mon Jan 29, 2001 9:49 pm

hehe... UBB code overload! And then a major net artery crashed and I couldn't get any west coast sites to load. I would've fixed it before you saw it! Argh! eheh... :P

EviLToYLeT · Posted: Mon Jan 29, 2001 10:08 pm

HEhe cool cool. Try drawing on that sepia town paper ... looks cooler

Especially when you use whiteout for highlights. bwahahhaha. But anyway, great pictures!

root88 · Posted: Mon Jan 29, 2001 10:12 pm

iron-horse.gif is most definitely badass.

strata · Posted: Tue Jan 30, 2001 3:54 am

Very nice =)

Tho I noticed that the bolt things inside the big circle things on the leg of the iron horse look like odd little smiley things, and when I noticed that I started seeing them all over the place on the iron horse, so's I can't look at that any more =D
But they're really cool

Sergenth · Posted: Tue Jan 30, 2001 2:46 pm

Thanks for kind words Rage, and root!

Evil: I always take the advice of clearly insane folk!

strata: you know it's dangerous, giving me ideas :P

ceenda · member Member # Joined: 27 Jun 2000 Posts: 2030

Sergenth: Fantastic stuff, very good designs! Were these done in a paint package or traditionally using pen & paper?

Jaymo · Posted: Wed Jan 31, 2001 8:44 am

Sorry, in a hurry, just want to say these are niiice!

esp. the iron horse bot

*runs to get bus*

Sergenth · Posted: Wed Jan 31, 2001 7:30 pm

Thanks Jaymo.

ceenda: These are drawn with a 2b mechanical pencil (or a 2h... I don't remember when the lead changed =P). The top claw is lined with a pigment pen, .03mm size I think. I just colored gray into the "white" space around the females.

The iron horse is actaully on 2 sheets of paper (8.5x11) ... the top part, all the way to the "waist" is on one, and the chasis and feet are on another. I had to make a light-table from a flourescent desk-lamp and a plate of glass to trace the top piece :P
Photoshop was used to put it together.

It is very out of proportion compared to the profile sketch I drew of it... a little bit too top-heavy.

Totuus · Posted: Thu Feb 01, 2001 1:40 am

Very cool stuff..
I like that iron horse, and the assassin bot you made.. I can already see in my mind, how they move..
..Can i do animation of that assassin? Pleeezzzzzz..

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Sergenth · Posted: Thu Feb 01, 2001 7:37 am

Sure, Totuus, you have my permission to make it move! I have something else I want to animate, so it's no problem.

Are you going to use vector graphics for a 2d animation?

Totuus · Posted: Tue Feb 13, 2001 4:40 am

Spank you

Nope, i use lightwave 3d..
It will take some time though..
Have to do the 3d model, textures, and the animation..
Well, i'll reply it here, when it's done..

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Rage-lion · Posted: Tue Feb 13, 2001 3:31 pm

I draw comics, and I wish I could disipline myself to draw so detailed. I SUCK at Industrial Design stuff. I just cannot focus on it and lack the imaginative spark for some of that intricate details. I tend to draw to quickly. I do love it...

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Sergenth · Posted: Tue Feb 13, 2001 10:30 pm

The most important part of drawing stuff like this is knowing how real-world mechanical stuff works.

Get "The Way Things Work" book my David McCaulay. Looks like he has a web site still... http://www.waythingswork.com/

Then get a book about gears and mechanisms from the library... preferably a middle school version - one with lots of illustrations and explanations. Books like these will turn industrial design into an entertaining game rather than a mess of details.

Basically, if the book has more words than pictures, then the author does not love you and does not truly want to reveal the secrets of industrial design to you... so many college-level texts are not good. Skip 'em!

Rage-lion · Posted: Tue Feb 13, 2001 11:06 pm

Hey...Thanks!!
See what I can do.

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It is much easier to change your tune,
When you song ain't being played.