Robot b&w sketches

Freehand sketches with thin-tipped Sharpie and one of those India ink calligraphy pens:

I think for the moment I'm going to go back to the basics (again... and again, and again), working in black and white and grayscale, really try and get comfortable with value and form...

Blade-bot

An exercise in Colors, intentionally working dark, trying to play with light and shadow. Also experimenting with letting some underpainting show through... While I really like working with the textured brush, it's so easy to overdo it; I need to work on finding the right balance.

Zap-bot

Messing around with the new official v1.1 release of Colors! for DS, a freeform painted robot doodle:

Unfortunately, I'm not able to post it to the online Colors gallery due to a glitch-- the suspicion is that it's data corruption coming from either the microSD card or the flash cart. I'll have to test it out on another spare microSD I've got; otherwise I'll have to shop around for a new flash cart...