OK, so initially I wasn’t going to post these robots. In fact, it’s not even finished, there was a background and everything when I sketched it. The reason I DID post it was to get your response to it, but also because when I started Robot-A-Day, it was nothing but a glorified sketchblog and I promised to show the good, the bad, and the everything in between. I also started it as a way to keep me drawing every day and to improve my skills. Robots are great because I can traipse the thin line between overtly mechanical and more human-like appearances in the figures every day.

With this drawing, I inadvertently crossed that line and into the Uncanny Valley (Please read if you don’t know what this is.) and it really bothers me; so much so that as I said, I was not going to even post it. It’s making me re-think what makes my robots even all that “robotic” anymore. I don’t know if it’s the figure drawing I’m getting in school now, or if it’s a fluke, or what, but this drawing (which I doodled during art history class and inked later) literally makes me feel repulsed and sick to my stomach when I look at it for too long. Who’d have thunk it that my little drawings would actually cross over into real life robot theory?

All that being said, this last week or so has been the first period in a long time that I’m truly happy with the way the site is progressing. I’m really proud that in one month, I will have been doing this whole robot thing for a year, and I don’t forsee stopping it at this point. If you’ve been putting off telling those robot-loving friends about the R-A-D, it’d mean a lot to me if you’d take the time to spread the word this week.

Thanks for reading all of this,
BT

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