
Learn to draw five robots through sketch, inking, and coloring, using flexible home materials and improvisation from simple shapes to create more complex drawings.
Select sketch tools and inking options, from a pencil to thick pens or a fine liner, then color with a limited turquoise and cobalt green palette and oranges for shading.
Start with basic shapes like squares, circles, and rectangles to build the robot, then ink with thick pens, add color, and shade for depth.
Sketch a playful laundry bot from simple shapes, turning a rectangle into a clothes peg with a hinge, then add eyes, arms, legs, and wings.
Sketch a cartoon laundry bot with main shapes blocked in using a thick pen, refine with a thin pen, add ink shading around the arms and wings, and begin coloring.
Color and shade the laundry bot using turquoise, yellow, orange, and red to create subtle patterns, then finish with wing border reflections and clothing shading.
Learn to sketch a fancy cartoon robot from simple squares and rectangles to detailed features, including shoes, umbrella, suitcase, pilot, bowler hat, and articulated joints before inking.
Begin with pen and ink to block the main shapes, then use a thin pen for details, add shading and emphasize the eyes and gloves.
Color a cartoon robot with a yellow base, add orange, turquoise, red, and purple shadows. Outline the head, hands, hinges, legs, suitcase, and shoes, then finish with shading.
Learn to sketch a party bot by building the body, adding sunglasses, shaping legs and mechanisms, adding suction cups and headphones, placing a duck pilot, and finishing with inking.
Learn to sketch a party bot with ink and shading, block in shapes, add sunglasses and headphones with asymmetrical details, then apply shadows and coloring using simple parallel lines.
Apply bold color order with yellow, orange, and turquoise to create depth, add red accents, then outline and shade with purple for crisp, bright details.
Sketch a bunny rabbot robot from basic shapes to a detailed cockpit, adding legs, arms, and a duck pilot with robotic details.
Ink the bunny RabBot with a stick pen, outline, refine details with a thinner pen, and build the main shapes from pencil before coloring.
Color and shade a bunny robot character, erase pencil lines, and apply turquoise, red, gold, and orange for warmth, with reflections and shadows via a color routine.
Sketch a salad server robot using simple shapes—square body, oval head, propeller, semi-circles and circles for joints—with a cockpit dome, spoon and fork arms, and levitation dust clouds.
Explore ink and shading techniques for cartoon robots, focusing on selective inking, adding shadows with colored pencils, and building depth with line thickness while coloring details.
Color the cartoon robot by preserving pencil lines, shading clouds to suggest wind and dust, and using turquoise and orange tones with speed lines to convey motion.
Finish course by drawing robots with me, starting from basic shapes and refining them into characters using course's techniques, copy my designs, have fun and never give up, keep practicing.
Welcome to How to Draw Cartoon Robots! This is a course for beginners, kids, parents or anyone else who would like to learn cartooning. In this course I’ll be walking you step-by-step through my process to create five cartoon robots (and their five little ducky pilots!). By the end of this workshop you will have created a the Laundry Bot, the Fancy Bot, the Party Bot, the Bunny RabBot and the oddly named 'Salad Server'!
I’ll first show you the sketch phase, where I build up each robot with some basic shapes, then we’ll move on to inking in the dominant lines with a thick pen, followed by adding details with a thin pen. Finally we will get out some colored pencils and do some good old fashioned coloring in!