my 2025 review. #mecha I recon this works as a good introduction/pinned post for me too.

Planet Express Fist. ... is the the only pun I could come up with that wasn't wildly inappropriate :D And yes; it is a gigantic, rocket-powered fist on the rotor-disc torso from a little while back.

:D ahaha, the head's totally too large but it amuses me, so it will continue to exist until I come back and fix this later with a new illustration. (based on my usual follow-up, that will be somewhere between five years and never).

Throwback to... 2020? I think. The linework is so crunchy because I was using random pens on marker pad (but still scanning to colour digitally) at the time. MTV dude for scale.

Throwback, this time in the colours of a tennis ball. Not sure if the sword being so short is good or bad.

The original shiptember colur-scheme for this one was a little plain. This one pops more and the decal compliments the biomechanical nature of the aircraft.

Removing your head and neck, and then replacing them with a gigantic armoured radome, will free you of those pesky critical hits. Not sure why I put a clavicle mounted sensor array in there given that my mechs, by-and-large, never seem to have eyes.

Me: How much purple do you want this week? Also me: Yes. The parts -are- floating, which makes an already questionable design well beyond the bounds of good reason.

Seemed like a wizard-mech was a good candidate for some iteration on the arm-cloak idea from one of my mechatober mechs. The colours are also a vague reference, as I was thinking about something in particular when I was choosing the scheme.

Not sure why I put vents on my mechs; my head-cannon on how they're powered and operate has no call for them. I guess it's a vestigial design cue. But, then again, why do I put tongues and teeth on half of them?

Lots of teeth, big hands, big tongues, tiny little feet. Everything a well-balanced robot needs. Thighs are somewhat thundery too.

Finally back to the grindstone and doing some illustrating. I kind of like the idea of integrating some hightop-like elements into my future feet designs.

Some sketches to evidence that the normal schedule will resume shortly. I've got the stupid ideas down, need some cake n' thunder, and then some wild hats to tick all the boxes.

Rally-bot repost, with a shinkansen style livery.

A throwback to more thundery days, when my mechs couldn't hold their entire selves in their own hands. Which was, realistically, not that long ago.

Cake, nintendo-switch edition :D

Recoloured, and ready for operation "immodest thunder." Still heavily preoccupied with other projects, which are unlikely to be finished this week, and kind of annoying as I'd just like to do some more random illustrations.

Just posting a throwback (recoloured, of course) to fill the void of apparent inactivity. I'm currently working on a whole load of graphics /overlays ATM so I haven't been doing a lot of illustration.

Just a sketch today, I could do with an early night.

#mechatober2025 no 28, Crystal. My original idea for this one was sub-par so, in a way, I'm glad I left it until waaay late to do it properly; I think this one has some neat elements to it that I'd like to improve on in the future.

Mechatober 27, Otherworldly; things got a little bit Klendathu. I refuse to accept this new month's attempt to stop me getting everything finished on schedule :D

#Mechatober2025 no 24, Freeze. Made a slightly snowman-looking mech with icicle spikes, quilted jacket, and tacticool-snood.

#Mechatober no 26, Race. It's basically a skating mech with jet engines for fists, that naruto-runs. I like the idea, not so much the execution, so it's one I'll return to at another point.

#mechatober 20, Tread. I don't know why, after the monowheel tank, I was struggling for an idea for tread: All I had to do was design a robot that used the instability of a trike to ruin the functionality of a tank! :D

#mechatober2025 21, Graceful. Err... Freddie Mechury?

#mechatober2025 22, Hollow. My initially thoughts were along the lines of Zakat; a big hollow sphere type mech. Glad I persisted, as I prefer this idea. It's based on the Brazen Bull.

#mechatober2025 19, Flame. This one took too long because all I could think about was a robot with it's head on fire. Think I did enough to make it seem a little interesting, but it's probably one that could do with a revisit to push the idea a bit further.

#Mechatober2025 18, Kaiju. I feel like a lot of this month is just turning into me trying to find ways to incorporate big gloves into everything.

#mechatober2025 17, Duelist. Had a very wild train of thought going for this one; an oversized revolver with a basket hilt wrapped around the mech's body. It's not a combat mech, but designed exclusively for competition shooting (at another mech).

#mechatober2025 15, Insect. Little bit accidentally ad-mech but, eh, whatever.

#mechatober2025 no 14, Clockwork. Steampunk, gears, & cogs are all things outside my wheelhouse so I guess I went with a digital clock :D

uh-oh, falling back behind. Here's #mechatober2025 13, Lightning.

#mechatober2025 No. 12 - Bio. I guess I put a fair few "bio" elements in my designs anyway so, for this one, I just turned them up a little bit; more teeth, tongue body, and a pumpkin colour-scheme to appear suitably spoopy.

#mechatober2025, 09 - Toxic. Went with something based on one of those frogs you shouldn't lick (more than all the other frogs you also shouldn't lick). They're poisonous but that counts as toxic, right?

Mechatober2025, No 8, Solar. Should've made the sun a little more sun-like, but I want to get through a few of these guys tonight.

#Mechatober2025 no 7, Fantasy, was obvious: had to be a wizard mech. But another thought was floating around my head; "what if Hat, but also... Zock?"

#Mechatober2025 no 6 - Experimental. And it's a bone-armoured monowheel-tank. I have to admit, I got a bit stuck on what would actually make something -look- experimental. Best I could come up with was something that looked so obviously destined to fail it could never be more than an experiment.

Goddamnit! It's only Thomas the Tank Engine again. I think my default colour-scheme settings need rebooted. Anyways, it's Mechatober2025 no 5: Scavenger. I figure it puts fancy bits in the container on its back and has a limited ability to carry things while mono-wheeling about.

No 4. Antique... Ball gown? It's all I could come up with and it has, by far, the largest teeth I've ever put on a robot. #Mechatober2025

Mechatober again, and the 3rd one is "carrier."

#Mechatober2025 No.2 Mercenary. And, apparently, nothing screams "mercenary" to me more than a demented Thomas the Tank Engine enthusiast. I had to put some orange on the top to try and break that vibe down a little bit :D

Gonna try and do #Mechatober2025, Starting with "Recon." I figure it has big Tharsis-style reverse-feet to stop it tipping backwards.

Brimless ful-face top hat with intergrated poncho was how I described this one. The process was wildly all over the place :D

Last #shiptember one and it's another sailcraft to wrap things up.

Another Rally-bot. Sponsor decals are annoying because I do them from scratch every damn time :D I should make myself a sheet to save time.

More shiptember. Bit of a fighter, more than a ship, so... fightember?

Absolutely didn't think about landing gear so I guess it just hovers wherever it parks up :D

little bit more shiptember.

Very nautical themed spaceship. Started with the small one in the foreground, that I figured was a little too small to qualify as a "ship", so I whacked a big ol' cargo hauler behind it.

My favourite part of this design ended up being the carrot-sarcophagus-projectile fingers. As the timelapse shows, they weren't my initial plan but, once I coloured them orange, I knew it was the right decision.