Robot Power
- ROBOT POWER - A pen and ink drawing on a 9 x 12 drawing paper. This is one of my early fanzine spot drawings, it appeared in the fanzine, "Outworlds No.6" published by Bill Bowers in 1971
I did this drawing during the time that I was teaching myself to draw using art instruction books by Andrew Loomis.
In 1951, as a teacher in the USAF, at the advanced Radio and Radar school at Scott Air Force base in Illinois, I was assigned to write a new Tech Manual for teaching the Facsimile course. I used the old Navy Facsimile tech manual as a reference point to write the new two week course. When I completed the task I was told I did so well that they wanted me to rewrite some other old Navy tech manuals. It was rather strange that the USAF used old Navy tech manuals in this school in the first place.
When I enlisted in 1949, it was called the "Army Air Force," and in just a few short months, after I enlisted, it became a military branch of its own, the "Unites States Air Force". With new blue uniforms replacing the Army khaki and brown ones. Don't ask me why the old manuals were "Navy" manuals, I never asked.
Anyway, using my experience as a teacher in the USAF (actually, we were called, "Instructors") I set up a step-by-step plan to learn how to draw and paint, mostly using the Loomis books.
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