ROBOTS: OUR FUTURISTIC FRIENDS

Baby animals hued in blues for boys and pinks for girls seems to be the norm for infant room decorating. When choosing the theme for my soon-to-be-born son's room, I wanted to stray as far from that as possible. Luckily, I was able to talk Nicky into going with a different type of concept.

Robots!

Nicky vetoed the giant Optimus Prime fighting Megatron battle scene that I wanted to paint on his wall. Psh, I wish. I did did get her to agree to letting me put a big, kid-friendly, robot illustration up. I always thought the cutest and happiest (if robots can even look cheery) artificial beings were the old 50's tin toy robots like Robert the Robot. They kind of feel like baby blocks stuck together anyways. I also like the old propaghanda posters that told everyone what a happy family was "supposed" to be. So I decided to do an illustration based on those two concepts, all in hues of red. Here's what I came up with:


That's all fine and dandy for an infant but you know I couldn't stop there. I wanted to make something slightly more edgy for my own artistic endeavors. Check out the second version for ole daddy-o:


It was fun making these too and getting back into being actually creative. I haven't created any new illustrations in over a year, at least. Anyways, I'll be sure to post pics of the boy's room once it's complete. I guess I can toss a couple pics of his alien looking butt up too once he comes crawling out.