Late 2024 to Early 2025 Work

I'm not sure if I'm going to do March of Robots, this year. The daily drawing challenges do take their toll on me and my available time. My wife hates when I do them, too.—only because she never gets to see me as much. 

I do have a few random things to share, since last year's Inktober. 

Let's start with the commission I worked on last year—before Inktober, but couldn't share until it was gifted to the recipient. I don’t typically do commissions, because of my busy regular job. However, when a friend is celebrating their son’s wedding and wants a robot version of him and his wife, I can’t say no. This was certainly a fun project.

For the third year, I was asked by a friend to donate a drawing for a silent auction. As I’ve mentioned before, I don’t typically have time to do commissions, however I’m a fan of what Best Buddies (Texas chapter) is doing. I’m happy to show my support — even if it’s just in the form of ink and paper.

This year’s event was have a disco theme, so I thought it would be fun to pose a robot like Tony Manero.

I’m doing double duty with this one. A friend of mine asked if they could use one of my bike ‘bots to put on their Bicycle Coalition giveaway card during the local holiday parade. I was also trying to come up with an idea for “Holiday-Bot” for November’s @drawmearobot DTIYS challenge with @greyfoxbrobots. So, Santa on a Bike ‘bot was made.

I was going to take a break from participating in the @drawmearobot DTIYS challenge but they keep coming up with cool ideas. 

In December, they partnered with @add_art and asked participants to draw a vintage tin robot.

I’ve drawn a few vintage tin robots in the past, but I wanted to take the opportunity to make a new one. This is my take on a 1950s Winky Robot from Yonezawa, Japan. 



I was sitting here, minding my own business over the holidays, when I started seeing all of these inspiring pieces of art, wishing everyone a wonderful holiday. I suddenly felt the urge to do the same. At least the well wishing. Happy Holidays to everyone!

Here’s my Santa ‘bot delivering presents on his rocket sled. If you were wondering how he got it done all in one night. There you go.

I took a small break from participating in the @drawmearobot DTIYS challenge because it was a busy January for me. When the February 2025 challenge came up, it was time to get back to it. 

That month, they partnered with @daviddiez_ilustrador again, and asked participants to draw their cool robot in our own style.

It was a high bar, but here is mine. I did not submit mine for the vote this time (unless they have an odd number of participants and need an extra challenger). I just enjoy doing the prompt. 

Also, it looks like David is putting together a book on these submissions. I'll post it when that happens.

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