Unleash Your Creativity: How to Draw Without a Brief and Create Stunning Robot Art

Concept artist Thomas Oates from New Zealand shares his imaginative robot art and costume design created in Blender and Photoshop. In his personal work, he breaks away from traditional tropes by thinking freely, imagining unusual mechs, weapons, and creatures like robotic vampires.

Mech Sketch 16

"Part of a series of mech sketches I’ve collected in various zines. These were part of an attempt to work loose and uninhibited by a brief."

Project Lightning Medusa

"The testing of an experimental high-powered rifle. Inspired by the ERDA Positron Rifle from Neon Genesis Evangelion, I wanted to design a rifle that could use enormous amounts of external power."

Helion – Guard of the Rivers of Blood

"An illustration for a fictional card game, and part of the Skulduggery 24 exhibition. A member of a robotic vampire line that’s immune to classic vampirical weaknesses."

See more of Thomas’s work on his Instagram profile.

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