1950s Horikawa Attacking Martian Robot No. 1

This was my first attempt at drawing my silver, 1950’s Horikawa Attacking Martian Robot. The problem was that my drawing was so large laid out on my drawing table when I finished, I realized I had forced the perspective of the entire drawing. The head was large, the body was small, and the feet were tiny — too funny! I decided to trim the image to this shape because it was still pretty darn cool. I also loved how some of the burnished graphite really looked like stamped chrome. I think the best part for me is the dent by the upper right eye. It happened when our housekeeper Maria didn’t realize that these fall off the bookshelf, yeah, they can break. My robot survived, but a couple of my die-cast bicycles didn’t. =-(