Something quick that I did for someone. Acrylic on cardboard. (1.25″ by 3.25″) There’s also some big news in R-A-D land, see below:

#1: Are any of you R-A-D fans on MySpace or LiveJournal? So am I! Let’s be friends! My plan is to post something once or twice a week to both; sort of as an addendum to this site. Might be another robot, some cool robot links, a rant about the state of the art world, etc. I’m not exactly sure yet, but I’ll try to make it worthwhile for you. It’d also be a good way to stay on top of any late breaking R-A-D news. You know what to do:

MySpace: http://www.myspace.com/robotaday
LiveJournal: http://robotaday.livejournal.com

#2: I just opened up a new button store with Prickie. Official Robot-A-Day buttons will still be for sale right here, but I’ll be using Prickie to sell my non-robot (and some robot) buttons.

BT’s Prickie Store: Prickie

The contest is over folks so let me be the first to thank everyone who entered; we’ll be in touch shortly. Here are some of the favorite robots of the Robot-A-Day faithful, including my favorite right now, Helper.

Clockwise from the upper-left:

Johnny5 - Short Circuit
The Robot - Lost In Space
Starscream - Transformers
Dragun - Shogun Warriors
Country Bear Jamboree Bears - Disneyland
Bikini Robot #11 - Dr. Goldfoot And The Bikini Machine
Hal 9000 - 2001: A Space Odyssey
Bender - Futurama
Seven Zark Seven - Battle Of The Planets
Helper - Venture Brothers
Lynn Butlertron - Clone High
Vicki - Small Wonder

Here it is, the third and final print in my “Punctuation Bots” series. See the whole series below.

After looking at the three prints as a whole, I have decided to change the name from “Punctuation Bots” to “WTF Bots”. If you entered the contest, you’ll be getting an informative email in the next day or so which will tell you when you can expect these.

“Tea” is the topic for Illustration Friday this week. I believe I may have posted this image on R-A-D before so I played around with it a bit. It’s from a little one-page comic I made last year using the words of a Gary Snyder poem. I love tea, so this is also sort of the first robotic self-portrait I ever created.

Click the image to read the entire comic. (Black and white only.)

So here’s the story: This idea popped into my head a few weeks ago. I decided that it wasn’t really my brand of humor so I shelved it, or at least I thought I had. While working on other projects, this idea just kept coming back over and over again. So finally I had to just do it, to get it over with. About 3/4 of the way through, I became very tired of inking it and decided that I wasn’t going to do any more shading or the lettering on the love tester machine. That’s about it. They ain’t all winners people. Enjoy my failure.

I’m not going to make this into a whole process series as I did with Robo2, but I thought those of you who entered the contest might like a little taste of what you’ll be getting soon.

Please ignore the “hand on the hip” arm. That will not be in the print.

A robot and a monkey skeleton. What more do you people want?

Sorry for the late post today kids. I’ve been out mailing buttons and prints that some of you lovely people have purchased. I’ve also been busy working on a few different projects, so I’m happy to present Boris Ruckels’s robot, “Autumn”, for today’s post. Head on over to http://www.fatcloudstudio.com to see more of Boris’s work.

Today’s bot is from Chris Brandon. I found B-634 after he commented on a Robot-A-Day post, which proves that it pays to be a fan of R-A-D. I’m tempted to steal his idea of using a calendar-style book to do more daily sketching. Check out Chris’ blog right about here!

Just having some fun. Ink and gouache on a 5 1/2″ by 5 3/4″ piece of scrap Bristol board.

Support R-A-D and help BT pay his taxes by buying “Big Bot Ponders History”. I’ll even throw in some buttons too.

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