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Robots by their very nature are science fiction and this area appeals to many fans of the genre, and so it is quite right that we go through another drawing article on how to draw a futuristic robot from scratch, it is important to note that this article and the following link are only an idea of inspiration and one possible way to draw a robot as you own imagination will apply to your own robot creations.

Every drawing must have a framework and a robot is no different. However, unlike the human body you can draw a robot based off a human form or just something entirely futuristic with its own structure and shape, but in this tutorial we have the humanoid structure to work from, and so we start off with an oval shape for the head as usual and then all the joints such as the shoulders, the elbows, the wrists, the pelvis, the knees and the ankles are all roughly sketched in as round circles and then the biceps, the forearms, the thighs and the calves are all sketched in a sausage shaped.

The torso of the robot is like one large fat oval egg shape that doesn't have to be stressed over at this point, so long as it loosely connects to all the other robot parts such as the arms, legs and the head.

The above method is ideal for drawing robots, especially as you are marking in all the areas that you want to define, but it necessarily doesn't have to stay that way, not with it being a robot anyway, there is a tendency to try and draw too much detail right at the beginning, but this is advised against as the more you learn to draw from the start by planning your sketches then the better your drawings will be every time you draw.

The next step is to slowly change them sausages and circles into actual robot body parts that look like they would move and be essential working parts, to do this you can just sketch over the circle and cylinder shapes by using them as the original framework, let your imagination take over at this point, because you want to envision a futuristic robot with heavy metal plated armour, or something that resembles metal casing, we could also sketch in a gun on one of the robot arms just to see if it works.

Details are important in this third stage of robotic drawing development, and we can start to add more design features to our robot design, wires and other buttons can be added and a blank robot face makes the robot appear with no emotions. Cleaning the drawing up is a good idea too and inking over the pencil lines makes your drawing stand out.

Drawing robots is something that can be learnt like any other thing you can possibly learn to draw, so just enjoy using your imagination to create them.

By: Wayne A Tully

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