Mo' Bots

Hi, here's more 'bots whipped up at Salon last night. Always a fun chance to throw character on a short pose session of two to five minute poses. Wee. More to come.

Robot Characters in progress-And the next Challenge

Howdy! So I'm doing illustrations and design for a book on memory and am in the process of creating a group of characters that will be used to visually describe the different types of memory. There's semantic or fact based memory; what day it is, which comes first-the meal or dessert, your Mom's name etc. Then there's episodic memory or memory based on emotions; the smell of cookies reminds you of your Grandma, a certain song reminds you of a special event that happened in the past, and so on. There's also procedural memory; how to dress, drive or draw, shop, fix dinner, preform CPR, etc. Also shown is the decider robot, this bot will be used to show how the brain utilizes the different memories. Still trying out shapes and ideas so here are initial sketches, I'll keep you posted with progress. What do you think?Above is semantic, below is episodic

Procedural is next
...And last is the deciderStill more time to go on this, but it's been fun so far.
As long as I have your attention, I'd like to announce a timely challenge...
I've always loved Santa for as long as I can remember (speaking of memory) and Haddon Sundblom is God with his Coca Cola Santas. Here's your chance to do Haddon proud. Let's see your stuff after the "real" Santa visits, okay? How about Dec 30?
Have fun drawing.

Notes on Arms and Legs

Woof, it's been a while since I last posted. Wanted to thank Dave for having me drop in to his class for a guest instructor rendering discussion at DeAnza. 'Always fun to take over somebody else's class. Hope you all had a great Thanksgiving by the way.
Here's some arm and leg notes I cooked up for my students. I'll send you a handout if you want it. I'll upload it to my site when I get a chance, one day.

Figure Drawing Salon

Here's some stuff from Figure Drawing Salon, an open figure drawing session we hold most Wednesday nights at Cogswell. If you're interested, come on out and draw for 3 bucks from 7:00 to 10:00. Anyway not bad stuff for short poses. Fire me an email for more information. We try to keep it low key and have some fun. We play (sometimes distracting) music which gets the models into the swing......and sometimes when I'm having a bad night I just use the poses to draw trolls...Sometimes, when the night isn't going my way at all, I just make up stuff...I can't tell you where this one came from but I liked it, what do you think? Sorry BTW for not posting a challenge as of late. It's coming, I promise. Have a great Thanksgiving everyone!