Mar 3, 2024
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Blue Ember
*hair toss* I guess even robots can be a little bit devilish
A bit more organic than I'd prefer for something for march of robots, but I'm happy with the design nonetheless :>. This one's meant to be an oni rather than a demon but I guess there's enough overlap that the theme kinda gets across.
If we're talking lore for my setting, the regular robots are meant to be characters, but the cabal of Over Gods are meant to have speechless "demon" servants that I've tentatively called Machine Daemons. I often try to think about ways to differentiate these two groups beyond the fact that daemons don't talk (or vibrate their skin to produce words etc). Sometimes I picture daemons as more savage and jaggedly shaped, other times I think they should have horns or halos because they're servants of Divinity ... though nothing has stuck so far.
One thing that has been somewhat stable though is that the more powerful the form they perma-transform into is the more likely the individual is to be overtaken by one of the Over Gods - those Over Gods are like giant supercomputers with their own pocket dimensions, so they exert strong influence wherever they can.
A lot of cyborgs carry a little bit of influence with them because the connection to the Over Gods lets them perform useful skills, magics and feats. This way they can teach each other abilities even when they respectively have extremely different body formats.
Most of the illustrations I post are oneshots, so maybe these and the accompanying writings are all my practice attempts to get to a place where I know exactly what the things in my setting should look / be like. Part of the fun comes from the exploration and not knowing where I'll take these.
March of Robots Day 21: Magical
love a pink robot :3 shes a magical girl bot or something.
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LUNKER // ISODOOD Type 2.
Z'Gock meets Big O?
Boat!
Forgot to upload the rest of the March of Robots art...
Kray Thor from Dan's Voyage looking at some corrupted data from Nanotech!
Axel riding his now AI equipt Goat ATV into battle! beep
Sentient Crystal Alien trying to make Art,
Dan confronting Nanocontrol, (this proceeds the Kray Thor image canonically!)
Nanotech 3 reciting the tale of Dan's Voyage! lots of DV lore this MoR
Static Punk is being hit on by an anthroparmophic leach avatar! they're sentient polygons i'm counting it.
Level of Robotization, an cahracter of mine going from zero to 100% robotic!
Alien frog bounty hunter parked her depresso spaceship in a bad place.
Snake Alien dude vs Robot chess match GO!
The woman with the giant Dozer from earlier! she's kind of become the sexy robot whisperer of Venus!
RC and HTR trying to plant some stuffs on the Moon!
Camara Drones harassing a croctaur dude...
Robo Hobo picking up bottles on a beach, plus a mermaid!
Cyberpunk dude's little robot buddy is a tracker!
Anything in cyberpunk is an AI and it's ALWAYS WATCHING!!!
March of Robots Day 19: Taur
Trackpad doodle because I am exhausted!! but I do like this design, it's fun. March of robots + taur tuesday!
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Beyonder
Rend, Rip, Transform in phase, machines unleashed in different ways, forms that pierce beyond the veil, Metal Masked Machines refuse to fail Reject the mecha industrial complex. Embrace transforming biomechanical void constructs from Beyond an Infinite Haze.
I saw a thread helped me understand my setting a little more, I think it helps me get why I like biomechanical patterns so much, I don't want the escapism to just be robots looking like war machines, I want the Transfiguration of shape and function to be a central theme too.
What does this form let the character do? How does it reflect their goals? I'll frequently draw them with armcannons, claws or swords, but the idea is that despite looking like weapons they're choosing to be adventurers and explorers out in the untamed wilds and spirit breaking labyrinths, rather than conquerers, obliterators and annihilators. That being said this kind of distinction would probably only make it through in storytelling and not the oneshot illustrations I've been doing.
Some transhumanist escapist art, while being incredibly cool and detailed, also goes way too close into looking like a real world tank for my liking. There is a pain response in my mind when I consider the possibility of my art going the same way.