This is my robot before shading! I took the challenge to make it without reference and it was tough... It's crazy how difficult it is to think of surface details without anything to look at. I need to look at a lot of Doug Chiang ;)

I have attached a couple of sketches and one robot I did for Valentine’s Day .

Here's my drawing. First pic is a more detailed sketch of quick sketch / thumbnail I did. Second is a redraw of toned paper with ink. Third one is the same drawing with alcohol markers added.

My second attempt :) Made a little walker/gunner dude

Here's my first full mecha! He's called curiosity, and he helps songbirds defend against cats. It's all for self defense, I swear. Thanks for inspiring me to draw robots, this has brought a lot of joy to my daily art practice. See you on stream! ~Milerski

I was going kinda nuts with robots last year (these have lore and have been a gateway into worldbuilding for me) just want to share these somewhere, before I start doing the exercises and learn how to design better robots. I'm more used to drawing organic forms, so some have started out inspired by animals. I'm sure there are a ton of mistakes, that I have hidden well enough with the rendering. Those are "Mechanicelium" robots, invaded by mycelium (because there are actual mycelium computers being developed, how cool is that!)

Len, I loved your lessons and here is my final assignment. I think he is a an ABBA robot singing “thank you for the robots” or he is in pain lol

I really appreciate Len and his no nonsense explanations of his process. Fun course thanks for all the insight/ inspiration!

My first try :)

Tried again for something more technical more line weight practice, my perspective might be slightly off ...so as len puts it im not going to keep sanding a turd lol

Tried again for something more technical more line weight practice, my perspective might be slightly off ...so as len puts it im not going to keep sanding a turd lol

Inks and final colors I really appreciate the critique on my line weights.

That was a lot of fun! Thanks very much for knowledge and the rest is - to practice!) good day to everyone!)

my first robot design. turned out little minimalistic compared to other's assignment, but i am still happy about it. i definitely should have drawn it bigger to add more details. and should be braver with shading (to use more darks). i will try on my next robot. thanks for the course, Len! i learned a lot (not just about robot drawings)

Tried putting together what I learned. Decided to try gouache paint and sepia acrylic ink, wasn’t the best paper for it but still a fun experiment.

My attempt at the final drawing

So this is my final drawing. I’m happy with the drawing until i add markers, then I think it ruins it a bit. I’m not good enough with em. Anyway, I tried to give the mecha an appealing silhouette without overcomplicating things. I got inspired by warhammer and random robot mecha. Thank you for the lessons, much more fun drawing mechanichal things than I thought!

I didn't have markers so I scanned it into Procreate and added some color. :) Really nice way to round out this course. Hoping to continue to practice drawing more mechanical style objects and robots with these techniques! Great course!

Wrapped up this evening, took some in-progress pictures to show re-working and some planning. I thought charting different leg angles would be the hardest part but stacking forms and making something balanced ended up being more tricky. I've been drawing more mechs for this past year but they've not been this free flowing. Maybe the smallest amount of perspective learning then these lectures got me to a critical mass. So this was a great course, I did bring slightly more experience to start though. If I could give feedback on the course, there's probably room to talk more about invention or some of the design trends that have informed mech design (like 90's edge or diesel punk). Maybe something on how to handle secondary form or how to keep gesture and weight in a mech design. These things might help other students some.

Here’s a drawing I did today after studying the forms of a rhino last night, so I decided to turn it into a mech! Really tried to apply Len’s lessons on carving into forms, construction, and surface detailing. Hope you like it 🙂 Enjoy! — LED76