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Watching over the Squeak-Easy

So, uh... yeah. The eagle-eyed among you might notice the date on this piece reads 09-11. I started this bit of linework a long time ago, early 2009 I think, and in my usual habit of running tens of projects at any one time, I came back to it now and again to add a bit more. It was never an easy task - I'm really not all that hot on non-organic stuff (I like soft curvy things. Oh, and drawing them, too), so I think it just got to the point where I felt I was labouring it and it fell off my 'to-do list', filed away in an old sketch book. Right up until a few days ago when I was looking for something else entirely and came across the sketch once again and felt a burning sense of shame that I hadn't finished him.

My linework has become a bit more exacting and maybe a touch more delicate since I started this so it was interesting trying to balance out the old with the new; I think I've blended them together ok in the end.

The whole idea came from the Squeak-Easy pun and from that point on it was just trying to get the idea of a 1920s style robot that assembled itself out of scrap. This was good for me as it meant I could actually get away with using curvy bits and pieces as that was the mechanical style of the time, trying to keep stuff from being too obvious beyond the hood/front of the car that makes up his torso/back. So lots of esoteric body-work, pistons and springs and sprokets etc.
As for the massive fur-collared great-coat and fedora, well, can't have a Prohibition-era gangster/detective without those things, can you?

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Mechanical Pencil (0.5b); 140gsm A4 paper

Description
Watching over the Squeak-Easy

So, uh... yeah. The eagle-eyed among you might notice the date on this piece reads 09-11. I started this bit of linework a long time ago, early 2009 I think, and in my usual habit of running tens of projects at any one time, I came back to it now and again to add a bit more. It was never an easy task - I'm really not all that hot on non-organic stuff (I like soft curvy things. Oh, and drawing them, too), so I think it just got to the point where I felt I was labouring it and it fell off my 'to-do list', filed away in an old sketch book. Right up until a few days ago when I was looking for something else entirely and came across the sketch once again and felt a burning sense of shame that I hadn't finished him.

My linework has become a bit more exacting and maybe a touch more delicate since I started this so it was interesting trying to balance out the old with the new; I think I've blended them together ok in the end.

The whole idea came from the Squeak-Easy pun and from that point on it was just trying to get the idea of a 1920s style robot that assembled itself out of scrap. This was good for me as it meant I could actually get away with using curvy bits and pieces as that was the mechanical style of the time, trying to keep stuff from being too obvious beyond the hood/front of the car that makes up his torso/back. So lots of esoteric body-work, pistons and springs and sprokets etc.
As for the massive fur-collared great-coat and fedora, well, can't have a Prohibition-era gangster/detective without those things, can you?

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Mechanical Pencil (0.5b); 140gsm A4 paper