What do you get when you cross a marshmallow with a flagpole? (an overly optimistic robot, that's what)

Silvern, one of the three main characters in Rust & Revolutionaries, is a character I’ve been drawing for about two years now. He was still missing a reference sheet, because I mostly just improvised; if you get the curly hair and freckles vaguely right, he’s often recognizable enough. For the sake of Art Fight I ended up making one anyway, and it served as a good reminder as to what features make Silvern, well, Silvern. The facial proportions on the leftmost drawing, for example, feel a little off– the one with the yellow shirt is probably most accurate to how I envision him. It was good to get the freckles defined too– most of them are random, but the four dots on his cheeks are kind of essential to his model/type of robot, so it was good to get those set in stone, so to say.

I’ve included some older drawings below for reference; he really hasn’t changed much, simplicity is key I suppose xD. I still need to re-evaluate his outfit sometime, the uniform is a little too similar to Caupair’s for my liking. I also noticed I used to draw him with much bigger eyes– something I still revert back to for dramatic expressions, but I do like the somewhat more realistic look too.

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Software: Procreate
Project: Rust & Revolutionaries