My doodling projects are coming along. I think, like anything, it’s just important to find some time to work on it a little bit every day. This is a three-armed Droid I’ve drawn up for Amber’s Star Wars movie – I’m trying to do up a set of robots I can model in 3d and then swap parts around on, mostly to use as background characters bumbling away in their robot work. Drawing him took about a half hour, then making him presentable (inking, colouring badly) took another two hours, late one evening.

The intention is that his chest area’s actually a 3-way symmetry, with the back arm sprouting at a 120 degree angle from the other two arms. It sortof looks like he’s got an arm coming out of his neck, but in my genius I hadn’t thought to add the 3rd arm until he was nearly complete.

Notice that he’s not in any kind of exciting perspective or anything – not very challenging. In this case drawing him flat was mostly for modeling purposes, but I have to admit that I’m a little intimidated by some plans I have for some more dynamic/organic poses. The only thing that makes you better is practice, and I’m seeing a huge jump in technique over the quality of my drawings from a few years ago. So maybe I can do it!