DSG 1336: Sci-Fi: BATTLE-WORN CRUSTACEOUS ROBOT

**William b. Hand** · February 27th, 2008, 07:49 PM

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Sci-Fi: BATTLE-WORN CRUSTACEOUS ROBOT
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**Mistwalker** · February 28th, 2008, 03:22 AM

I've never posted here before, but I've followed this forum for a while. Honestly I'd not joined or posted because a lot of the stuff here makes my stuff look painfully amateurish.

But, here goes, anyway. I did two sketches. The first was kind of a cartoony, exaggerated thing. The second I went with a more organic look, and the thought I had was some giant crab monster's exoskeleton that was turned into a robot.

I hope posting two images is ok.

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**Jutami** · February 28th, 2008, 05:20 AM

Funny theme on this one. The 1337 challenge better be "leet" so to speak.

I'm actually starting to think I'm slowly getting a hang of this wacom business, must practise more. Not good, but getting better.

Cheers

**Dead Clown** · February 28th, 2008, 06:00 AM

REALLY not as good as I wanted, but its my first go to woh all on the comp... Think I'll stick with my sketching next time, then comp it...

Anway...

**Dead Clown** · February 28th, 2008, 06:08 AM

I'll offer some crits, for what they're worth! lol

Mistwalker: I think the second has better feel and level of skill in it, although the perspective is off on the canopy on the top. A good start, a little time defining form with some solid shading would bring it up and define more form.

Jutami: I like it! nice colours, good idea, althought he perspective on the legs it a wee bit off, and it feels like its leaning or toppling backwards a bit. if you changed the angle on the last few legs to be leaning the opposit way through to vertical i think it would feel more stable.

Me: That whole drop down tail missile holder tail thing doesn't look like its sitting back far enough and the hole comp looks flat. Really the design was a decent idea, but lacked better excruciation.

Like I said, I'll thumbnail the idea on paper first again...

**muleskinner** · February 28th, 2008, 07:17 AM

Good start Mistwalker. I also think the form on the second one is further along than your first but the first has some nice movement going on in it.
Jutami - I really like the colors you used to render your bot with. Nicely developed form and lighting too.
Dead Clown - I like the eerie underwater atmosphere you've got going on in yours. Nice effect

**~Faust~** · February 28th, 2008, 09:12 AM

Everything is very nice!

**EBrown** · February 28th, 2008, 10:30 AM

**abiLity** · February 28th, 2008, 12:47 PM

Hi, i'm Michael from Germany, this is my first post in this forum, hope you like it. ^^

**pandahund** · February 28th, 2008, 01:03 PM

**Tommoy** · February 28th, 2008, 01:46 PM

Jutami: very nice, maybe the legs are a little stiff.
Dead Clown: good start, trying to create depth you could sharpen the drill and claw more.
Muleskinner: your loose technique makes it very recognizable, when laying the focus-point round the eye you could sharpen and highlight the space around it while blurring stuff further away from it.
Faust: i like the colors, cant read the legs to good though.
Ebrown: great concept, would like to see more of the critter.
AbiLity: Welcome, nice start, although it seems a bit flat.
Pandahunt: great admosphere, maybe it would be better if you cropped the pic getting rid of the space left and right. Also i think everything is a bit to centered.

Here's mine, the Iron Maiden idea is a little joke for the stagiaire;-)

**goran** · February 28th, 2008, 01:58 PM

**evilblackbeard** · February 28th, 2008, 02:04 PM

**Hamsta** · February 28th, 2008, 03:06 PM

**Syhn** · February 28th, 2008, 05:21 PM

Only my second DSG and the last one I did was over a year ago. Hope I did it right

Worktime is an hour and 20 minutes.

**evilblackbeard** · February 28th, 2008, 05:24 PM

I wasn't happy with the other one so I figured I'd multi task while at work.

**Leum** · February 28th, 2008, 08:12 PM

First post here, but that changes nothing right?

Really quickie:

**K-bot** · February 28th, 2008, 10:06 PM

About an hour, stayed a little too organic, but I kind of like it.

**Racasdorph** · February 29th, 2008, 02:24 AM

This is my first time using my new tablet and using PainterX... very different than sketching with a pencil haha I cant wait to dig into this Daily Sketch Group thing! its a great Idea!

**Cookiedemon** · February 29th, 2008, 03:07 AM

Some nice sketches so far.
I did two sketches this week and couldn't decide which to go with so I ended up coloring both somewhat.

**Racasdorph** · February 29th, 2008, 03:19 AM

Syhn I love both the cool colors you used and the textures... really make the "robot" look old and battered!

**Gentrifier** · February 29th, 2008, 03:20 AM

Still a WIP. I need to throw some more mechanical looking bits on him and add the tazer between his claw tips.

Alec

**Arteater** · February 29th, 2008, 12:00 PM

Flame throwing machine gun crabot

February 29th, 2008, 05:05 PM

Great pics all around this round.

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**Racasdorph** · February 29th, 2008, 08:58 PM

Mitze: Great design! I like how the robot is using three hands on the rifle!

**tobbA** · March 1st, 2008, 09:37 AM

Ok. Here i go

**Wacky Wackowski** · March 1st, 2008, 10:10 AM

**Slaskia** · March 1st, 2008, 04:13 PM

First time doing one of these. Had fun doing it

**manic magpie** · March 1st, 2008, 04:28 PM

cool designs everyone - here's mine

**Zakarra** · March 1st, 2008, 05:01 PM

Something of a comedic approach here. Imagine half of one of these in your apple! Painted with a hard-edged brush in photoshop. I played around with custom brushes to get the spots on the apple. Feedback MUCH appreciated

Jutami: Great job using those hard brushes to achieve the painting. You did well on shadowing, but I think the bot could use some more hard highlights to give it a shinier robotlike appearance.
pandahund: Wow. The light hitting the water is stunning. I love the scale factor here. Looks hopeless.
goran: I really like the texture on the ground and robot. Looks very conceptual and has a nice effect. The crosshairs are a good edition too.

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