I guess I could draw robots every single day and never get tired of drawing ‘em. Like, you know, I can always think of different ways to draw antennae and electric eyes and grabbers, plus it’s pretty fun to think of new sorts of shapes for essential robot accessories like rayguns and jetpacks and lunar rovers. But, sometimes, maybe once a decade or so, I worry it’s maybe not entirely healthy, mentally and whatever, to only ever just draw one thing all the time. And, well, today was one of those days when I was feeling this rare twinge of robotic worry, so I went up in the attic of my hard drive and pawed through a bunch of old sketchbooks, looking for things I’ve totally forgotten I used to draw. Which, so far, mostly what I found was more robots. Still, one thing I ran across was this fossilized bit of primitive animation, which I think I did for my old website, which was for a completely extinct ‘zine called Art Vandal (circulation: 4). I think I remember that I had a whole section of short Flash things, and this was the main image on the index page. Anyway, pointless as it is now, I still like the carpet and the way there’s snow behind the lettering. Plus I like how gifs sometimes get grainy when you export ‘em out of Flash. Meanwhile, I guess I’m not as fond of some of the other parts, but I’m gonna let ‘em go, ’cause fixing stuff usually makes things worse, ’cause I usually just end up smoothing out all the crooked bits, which are the bits I really always want more of. Like, more crooked lines is the same to me as “more cowbell.”
Although…I wonder if I can get the guy to look more robotical and less like a junkie Muppet…
