Loose ovals, and a line through them.
Before anything has a face, it has a gesture. Two ovals for the head and body, a line for how he stands, a line for where the ground is. Nobody will notice these later. Everyone would notice without them.
Scroll down and this page will draw one of ours for you, the way an illustrator does: pencil first, then paint, then the line that holds it all together.
Before anything has a face, it has a gesture. Two ovals for the head and body, a line for how he stands, a line for where the ground is. Nobody will notice these later. Everyone would notice without them.
The drawing goes down faintly, so it can still change its mind. Head first, because the face decides everything else; then down, one stroke at a time.
Sky, warm light, grass, then the robot himself, back to front. Watercolour never quite fills its outline, and that is the charm.
Full-weight graphite, head first again. This is the pass that makes it look finished, and the one that is hardest to fake.
The finished page is the very same picture as our printed plate, pixel for pixel. Scroll back up and the pencil will take it apart again.
The illustration is drawn in code: every pencil stroke, every wash, the paper grain. The page downloads no pictures and no fonts; it is one file you could email.