maybe there's a robot drawing tutorial you can throw at them...

it sounds like an incredibly difficult thing to answer though... it's not like robots come in one shape?

I'm thinking of making one myself of what I do, and finding other ones and making like a master post?
Since I taught myself w/out tutorials and things, I might have come up with something newish.

I'd just say something like keep your lines straight and clean because that's all I can think of for robotic vs organic

Well it's to do with how I design the basic structure of my animal mechs, I get people asking how I know where to place things, how to figure out where to put the rams, how should things

join.

Stuff like that

More than the overall look.

looking at skeletons could be good for inspiration

Well that's what I do.

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more musculature

since the skeleton is pretty adaptable, it can be internal, external, both, solid, frames....

/nod nod

I do a lot of animal studies for my own anyway, so at least I have material to throw at people until I get this tutorial thingy done.

Studies of the Wildcat’s hind legs. Trivia:&nb...

I figured you would, I think most people do for complex robot designs, I'm just wondering what the heck one would say to people as robot drawing advice

Probably not what they're hoping to hear XD
I can't help as much as I'd like because half of my advice is "walk up to the nearest aeroplane on your lunch break and stare at it".

I have a robot design I want to do soon myself and I'm just like herr derr

Jump right in! I spent like 4 hours on the original doodle of the Wildcat, figuring out those damn legs, and he's changed so much since then x_X don't be afraid of updating the design as you figure out new thin

yeah I've done a bunch of sketches I'm just kinda unhappy with them so I need to do more

Well good luck, I'm sure you'll figure it out ^^