Late 2025 to Early 2026 Work

It's been a while since my last post. Work and life has been busy, so I've found it hard to get in a sketch. Here are the few that I've done over the past few months.

Here’s another submission to the @drawmearobot DTIYS challenge. For December, they partnered with @benson.ink and the idea was to take a favorite robot character and mash it up with another character. There wasn’t any voting that month, which was fine. I just enjoy doing the prompts.

As usual, the other submissions have raised the bar of the challenge. Here is mine. If you haven’t seen the movie, Shaun of the Dead, you need to stop right now, and go watch it. It’s brilliant and one of my favorite movies. I’ve seen it dozens of times. Here I’ve tried to capture the main characters, Shuan and Ed, who are played by Simon Pegg @simonpegg and Nick Frost @friedgold as robots.

Here is my Christmas post to everyone who celebrates it and a happy holidays to those who don’t. I did a little sketch, inspired by @leewhiteillo to celebrate the season and wanted to share it with everyone.

Like this time traveling ‘bot, I hoped everybody arrived into 2026, safe and sound. This was my first sketch 2026 and wanted to share it with everyone. Happy New Year!

Here’s another submission to the @drawmearobot DTIYS challenge. For January, they partnered with @carlyleworkman.art and asked everyone to draw their cool art in our own style. Here’s my version.

There wasn't any voting that month, which was fine. I just enjoy doing the prompts. As usual, the submissions have raised the bar of the challenge.

Since that last post, hadn’t posted in a while. So, I thought I would share some work-in-progress. A local bike advocacy group is hosting a bike rodeo for kids and asked if I could put something together for the instructors. Here, I haven’t designed the layout with type just yet. 


Here’s another submission to the @drawmearobot DTIYS challenge. For March, they partnered with @add_art and asked everyone to Design and WIN their own "Draw Me a Robot T-shirt." Shirts must include a Draw Me a Robot logo, and or the words “draw me a robot.“ The logo and word style are completely up to each artist as well as the entire design.

My submission is probably more of a ‘Draw WITH a Robot’ but I really wanted to do a pencil ‘bot. I did the line art on paper, scanned it and colorized it in Illustrator.

Gugusse and the Automaton

A lost Georges Méliès #georgesmelies film from the 19th century was recently discovered and restored for the Library of Congress #libraryofcongress.

This 45-second movie—made around 1897—was the first appearance of, what might be considered a robot, on film. This had not been seen by anyone in likely more than a century.

Summary of the film (from Library of Congress):

Gugusse the clown appears to control the actions of Pierrot Automate, a child-sized automaton standing on a pedestal. By turning a crank, Gugusse makes him march and wave a stick. As Gugusse turns the crank, the automaton gets bigger until it is the size of a grown man. Suddenly the automaton is controlling his own limbs. He hits Gugusse on the head with his stick. Gugusse pulls the automaton off the pedestal and picks up a large hammer. As Gugusse pounds the automaton on the head, he gets smaller and smaller. At the final stroke of the hammer, he disappears.

It’s basically the same plot as the Terminator.

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My latest piece is a tribute to Georges and this film. Of course, I’ve reimagined the Pierrot Automate, in my own style. I hope you like it.

#PierrotAutomate 
#GugusseandtheAutomaton 
#Gugusse 
Automaton

Here’s a special fan art posting, today. I’ve been a fan of #starwars since I saw the first trilogy, in the theaters when I was a kid. Happy #maythe4th to you.

#maythefourth be with you.

Like the original, that it’s modeled after, this Stormtrooper ‘bot (or Droid) is incapable of hitting the bullseye of its target. Go figure.

Coincidentally, this wasn’t intended to be my submission to the @drawmearobot DTIYS challenge, but it ended up being one. 

For May, they partnered with @braindeef and asked everyone to “DRAW ME A DROID”. Here’s my piece for May the Fourth Day, which kinda fell under the prompt.