Give a Shape Invention a Robot Job
A machine theme can begin with a purpose. Instead of deciding exactly what a robot looks like, an artist can decide what it helps with and let that answer suggest the next detail.
A separate activity to try
Draw an outline of your own and choose a simple imagined job. The shape might become a body part, a tool, or a container. Pick one role before adding several decorations.
Look at the next choice
Add the detail that makes the job visible, then decide whether a face belongs in the design. A machine can remain an object rather than a character. Keep the idea optional and let the artist choose another direction if a robot stops being interesting.
Decide whether to continue
A reference robot book can show a different activity afterward. Following its stages or grid is a copying task; designing a new function on spare paper is the independent invention activity described here.
Use a published book for another starting task
How to Draw: Baby Robots offers build the demonstrated character through six illustrated stages. Compare that task with Shape Drawing Challenge’s repeated outlines and open-ended responses. The practice suggestions in this article are website-created activities, not additional printed features being claimed for either book.
Keep the next idea open
Shape Drawing Challenge gives artists 16 repeated beginnings, six illustrated examples per shape, and room for 480 independently chosen drawings.