Hey everyone, my name is Mike Rianda.
I'm the writer and director of
The Mitchells vs. The Machines.
And today I'm gonna teach you how to draw a robot!
All right, so the first thing you should know about drawing
in general, is to have fun and to be creative
and to just go wherever your pen takes you.
If you want to draw a robot that's purple
and that's a thousand feet tall, do it.
So how I go about starting this,
is that you just start with basic shapes.
A robot is basically just a big rectangle.
His head, rather.
You're halfway to a robot right here
if you draw a rectangle.
I mean, come on guys.
So I'm gonna draw, you know, the face part
and they have a little red light.
And then I'm just going to fill in its face.
And then I put little, for some reason,
the robots in our movie that have these little ears.
I'm gonna draw his neck.
Which is just basically a bunch of little rectangles.
And then I'm gonna draw his body
which is kind of like a rounded rectangle.
And the robots in our movie have this little chest plate.
It goes up and then they say “Pal Labs” on them.
Because all robots have logos.
And then our robots have these kind of circle arms.
It's another little rectangle here.
You could fill them in with black if you want.
When you're shading and you leave a little bit
of white in the middle, it kind of looks like a reflection.
This doesn't look perfect at all
but it kind of looks like a robot.
And then they have basically these tube arms
and these black joints.
And the most important thing you can learn from this
is that this doesn't even look that great.
And I'm a cartoonist.
Not all of your drawings are gonna be perfect,
but it's, the important thing is trying and having fun.
Why are you clutching that large feral hog
like it's a child?
It's not a feral hog, it's Monchi.
Is that a dog or?
I'm gonna teach you how to draw Monchi the dog.
So, basically Monchi is just a big lump.
So you kinda draw just a big circle
and then another big circle.
The reason why people do the little circle,
cross hair thing on a drawing like this,
is because you want to try to see the object
as three-dimensional.
Hey Monch, catch.
And that, hopefully, in your head,
gives you this idea of volume.
So when you're drawing his eyes, you're like,
“Okay his eyes are up here.”
Monchi has gigantic eyes.
It's also very important to draw his eyes
going in completely different directions.
And he has a really goofy little nose here,
that's very close to his eyeballs.
Like a pug, he has lip flaps that come up.
And another very important part of Monchi
is he has a very dumb little tongue.
And he has these folds that kinda wrap around his head,
his eyes there, and you sort of connect them like this.
And then you want to give him these,
he has these tiny little floppy ears
that are very skinny and cute.
Like that, boop, like that.
Add a little color, makes him cuter.
And he has, you sort of just try to wrap
the forms around this ball you've made.
If that makes any sense.
And give him little tufts of hair here.
And then a very important part of Monchi
is to get the little lumps and mounds of fat,
'cause Monchi is a big dude.
He's very squishy, and he has these funny little legs.
And he's got these little arms that come down,
and his little paws.
And he's also got a squiggly tail that goes in a circle
like Pug tails do.
And boom, there you go.
You drew Monchi along with us.
You're a cartooning champion.
Congratulations.
It’s a cupcake, Monch.
Catch the cupcake.
You'll get it buddy.