Robot drawing from my old sketchbooks (circa 1996)

Posted on February 25, 2008 by Nathan Bowers
I drew this while doing a year abroad of undergrad in London. Like most college experiences it was still "day care for 19 year olds", but we could travel (and drink) unsupervised. During this time I was doing a lot of drawings with metal nib ink dipping pens. I couldn't find any pencil lines so I must have done this Terminator-esque guy freehand. What I like about him is the weird jammed-in-the-corner diagonal composition and the texture in all the pipes, joints, and armor plates. robot-drawing-from-1996

Click here for the big version. The sketchbook wouldn't all fit on the scan plate at once so you can see where I stitched the image together.

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2 Responses to Robot drawing from my old sketchbooks (circa 1996)

  1. Doug says:
    February 27, 2008 at 2:05 pm

    Great drawing! I remember that one from London

  2. Nathan Bowers says:
    February 28, 2008 at 9:03 am

    Crazy that you remember that, it was so long ago. Maybe it’s hard to forget when somebody sets up all these inks and crazy pens in the kitchen. Today I would never be able to get through security with so many metal nibs.