Drawing Fantasy Art: How To Draw A Robot

First Sketch Of A Robot

Constructing your robot design from circles and cylinders.

Drafting The Robot

 Here we try and go for the framework of a robot design, we want to just capture the basics of our robot and we do this as mentioned above sausage and balls circles and cylinders, these create the arms, legs and all the joints, it's only the body that is another shape entirely.
Try drawing your robot design with fatter or thinner circles and cylinders or even larger, this could create a totally different robot design altogether, right now at the drafting stage anything goes!!

Building Up Your Robot Drawing

By adding slight robot designs here you are building a robot the easy way.

Developing The Robot Drawing Further

 The further development of your robot becomes easier when you just go with the flow, robots are clunky looking things, but if you follow the steps of using the circles and cylinders you can end up with humanoid looking figures for your robot which looks more better, but really that's not important, it's the structure of your robot design that matters at the very beginning.
I have added a gun on the robots left arm and other design elements that make it look like a robot.

Finalising Your Robot Design

Everything comes together here and you should be happy with your robot!

Fix Your Robot!

Fixing your robot is just a matter of straightening up the legs and the head and a few other bits and pieces, this is the final details of your robot drawing just to try and get it right.
Your drawing however may be slightly different and I encourage you not to draw the way I do, more like take your own ideas and concepts and turn them into something totally original.
Your robot sketch should start to look a little clearer now.

Fully Inked Robot Drawing

Black Ink robot drawing.

Black And White Line Art Robot

Inking a drawing is one of my last steps that I do to cement the line art and the initial concept in a more permanent form, adding black ink doesn't have to be complicated with multiple cross hatching or anything like that, we just need to go over the pencil lines and improve on them if possible.
If you look at the previous robot sketch, there are slight differences to the final version here, just remember that even though this is the final drawing, you could possibly alter it some more if you have a good computer art software package such as photoshop.
Well I hope you enjoy drawing robots!