Designing a Contraption

Contraption is today’s inktober prompt, and immediately I was inspired to design something that looked very useful but did nothing. Very much to play homage to Heath Robinson. I did draw lots of things in pencil, only to rub out many because I couldn’t see obviously usage. It took all day on little bursts. I ended up with something smallish that had its own mechanical legs, lots of wires that attach to things not hands and a couple of cameras to see. A cartoon-ish mess rather than an illustrative nonsense.

When I photographed it and uploaded to instagram I realised I had subconsciously recreated WALL-E, as a device that might clean up the mess I make.