Robot characters for kids' event

I recently had an extremely fun and inspirational project. I designed 4 robot illustrations for an event in which kids and their teachers exchanged their experiences they had achieved by using Lego-robots in their schools.

I first had a workshop with children to get ideas for robots. Kids designed and drew their own robot characters and based on those drawings I came up with concepts for the robots. Who would have expected an ice cream robot being one of them? The other 3 concepts were actually pretty practical... wait, did I just sort of claimed that ice cream robot wouldn't be practical..? Ask kids, they know better. I also could utilize some juicy details from kids' drawings.

So here are images in which I have combined either a sketch or a vector path image with the finished one.

The window cleaning robot.

The hedge cutter robot.

The dog walker robot.

The ice cream robot.

Illustration Friday - Unicorn

A horn, but no wings... which one would be more useful for a mythology horse?

Illustration Friday - Punch

A little bit of boxing for Illustration Friday.

Illustration Friday - Animal

After a very long while, a doodle for Illustration Friday. Playing around with Procreate app is so much fun.

Inktober 2015

Last year I noticed that folks were spending the gloomy and rainy October by drawing impressive set of inked pieces in the name of "Inktober", one every day of the month. This year I wanted to join the fun also myself and I did the first piece without even dreaming to do the full set of 31 days. Little by little... I found time to do more and more.

Here's some picks from the beginning of my set.

Being sometimes very badly behind THE so called schedule made me desperately draw faster than I would have otherwise done, and that, I found out, is something that I should do even more often. So far the Inktober has been a great training camp that has taught me some subtle nuances of expressive line work. Zappy line, I think, is not just a result of skill but also courage.

Making weird combinations of animal faces and fashion kind of poses has also been a great deal of fun.

It's probably against the rules of Inktober, but I couldn't help myself finishing pieces with a touch of coloured pencil.

Peace!