Our task was to come up with robot designs. We had to at first sketch a number of ideas and then come up with a final piece which had to be in colour. There were no other requirements other than it had to be completed using traditional media so I got to work on doing some very quick sketches for initial ideas.
I started with just scratching out some boxy shapes which aren't included here but the first combination of the random shapes is the first entry in the top left. I had given it a gun arm and a hook style arm on the other side. I had played with very hard edges for a while and wasn't sure about how aesthetically pleasing it was so quickly sketched some rounder heads to see how they would work with it.
The next iteration is the full sized idea with the round head and a more rounded body too, but still retained some of the angled paneling and also the gun and hook. The initial sketch of the legs were too boxy still for my liking so I made some detail to them to not make them so square.
Moving on from this design I started asking whether the robot should even have legs. Legs seem a very animal thing - to be planted to the ground - but a robot may not necessarily have to have the same restrictions. So I sketched a new style robot quickly without legs (top middle). If the robot was to have no legs it would need some kind of way to stay mobile. I decided on helicopter style rotor blades attached to the top of its shoulders. I stopped this sketch when the wires sticking out the back of it's head started to look like dreadlocks like Predator and the mouth started to look like a beard.
The next sketch along is the attempt to get the general look of the robot figured without the helicopter blades (or dreadlocks or beard). The circles on all his main appendages, torso and head took more form and I decided that these could be how the robot is powered. Some kind of Iron Man style reactor which powers each section. I much preferred this overall look and then sketched a front view of the entire thing - new looking head but with the rotor blades (bottom right).
At this point I had decided the sections would be powered by these reactors. I decided the robot would be fairly high-tech, and very expensively made, maybe a military/government grade robot. Maybe it originally had legs which were destroyed somehow. I wanted this style to be clean and white, like an iPod or something similarly 'classy'. The helicopter blades were added later from a gun ship or something from a completely different machine to help the newly disabled robot still function. These would be a complete contrast to the high-tech robot, they would be old and very basic looking.
