Art for Ted Chiang's "The Lifecycle of Software Objects" - part three!

Here's a few of the robot designs and painting styles I went through. Ted saw an old robot I had drawn (the blue one sitting at the bottom) and that ended up being the basis for the robot in the book.

These ones were all pencil sketches coloured up in photoshop but for the watercolour look we settled on I used Artrage, I'll tell you about my struggles with that in a minute!