June Toons 2025 #29: Go That Way!

Martin · 249 days (9:44 AM · Jun 29, 2025)
A cartoon illustration of a boy riding a robot, telling it what to do. The robot is leaning over, almost horizontally, and holding up an apple, examining it. Its face has two large round eyes and a flat mouth, with no expression. The boy is sitting on its back, pointing in the other direction, and yelling directions. The robot is dark gray with stippled black shading, and has red bolts/joints, yellow hands, eyes, and mouth. It has two antennas coming out the sides of its head, with red bulbs at the ends of each. The boy is wearing a red shirt, brown shorts, white socks, and red shoes. He has fluffy/curly brown hair and a pale complexion. His mouth is open wide. There is a square red word bubble coming out of the robot with a geometric question mark inside and a yellow word bubble with an exclamation mark inside coming from the boy. The background is a bright turquoise with a splotch of light spray paint behind the robot's head.

Today's June Toons cartoon is of a boy riding on the back of a robot, telling it what to do. Inspired, in part, by my son.

Initially, I asked my son if he had a robot who would do whatever he wanted, what would he have it do. And his answer was to have it pick up all his toys, which I didn't think would make for a very compelling drawing, so I went with this instead. 😆

I always try to get in at least one robot drawing for these projects, and since this one is just about wrapped up, it was time! Normally I draw my robots pretty rigid and geometric, but I wanted to do something looser this time, and ended up with a SCUD-like, stretchy look.

This was created in Procreate with an iPad Pro and Apple Pencil, using the Procreate Pencil brush for sketching, the Smooth Natural Nib brush for linework, the Pin Linear 0.5 Pressure Spray brush for stippled shading, and the Fat Nozzle spray paint brush for background texture.

The Smooth Natural Nib brush is from the Rusty Nib pack, and the Pin Linear brush is from the Stipple Studio pack. Both of those are by True Grit Texture Supply.

If you'd like to see how I drew this one, you can watch the time-lapse below:

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