Posts tagged with "robot-roundup"

Hugbot Model

I made an art toy sculpture of Hugbot, one of my Robot Roundup characters.

Similar to how I made Junkbot, I printed a vector drawing of the character at the size I wanted the sculpture, which I then used as a schematic.

With this blueprint, I made a simple armature with twisted wire for his arms and torso, and built it up with layers of aluminum foil.

With my clay extruder, I was able to coat the armature with thin strips of Super Scupley. I also used extruded pieces for the trim around his shoulders and torso, as well as the triangular baffles around his arms. All the rivets were sliced from a thin clay noodle.

I airbrushed his body first with a rusty orange. Then I used a paint chipping technique where you then spay a layer of hairspray over the base color, followed the final body color. Using a stiff, wet brush, you then scrub around the areas where you want the base rust to show, and the hairspray, when wet, will loosen and the top paint layer will start to come off. This creates a the effect of the top layer of paint peeling off in places.

Then I used thin washes of oil paint to add grease and rust streaks.

Who’s ready for some hugs?

Junkbot Model

I made an art toy scupture of Junkbot, one of my Robot Roundup characters.

I started by printing out the vector drawing of the character at the size I wanted the sculpture. I used this as a schematic so that I could measure his proportions against the print out.

Except for some screws in his arms, legs, and neck, he’s made entirely from polymer clay, even his inner wires. Using a clay extruder tool, I made a bunch of “noodles” that I used to coat his insides with a messy nest of wires. I then made some thicker ribbed tubing by twisting a noodle around a thin wire.

After the clay was cured, I coated him with thinned modeling putty, dabbed on with an old paint brush. This added a kind of cast iron texture.

I airbrushed him with various rust and orange colors and then used thin washes of oil paint to add grease and rust streaks.

Bindlebot

This is a character that’s been with me for quite a while now. I call him “Bindlebot”. He’s the first robot I painted after deciding to put more effort into illustration, and I’ve done a few versions of him since then. It makes me happy to know that he’s always out there on his adventure. He’s the logo for Robot Roundup as well as Rainbot for the letter R.