Robot Butler's Dream Sketches

**Robot_Butler** · 10-01-2008 04:35 AM

I'm getting geared up for a productive fall and winter season, going through some old sketchbooks and dream journals. I decided not to be selfish and lazy. I've scanned a few pages in to share, old and new. I will post them over the next couple weeks. Hopefully this will get my lazy ass motivated to keep producing through the long, cold California winter to come.

In no particular order, and with lots more to come:

**ninja9578** · 10-01-2008 05:29 AM

**Robot_Butler** · 10-01-2008 04:50 PM

Here are some mini sketches I used to do on the back of those free postcards they would give away around town and at record shops. Might as well take advantage of the waste, right? I had around 200 of these stolen a while back, but I still have tons of them. Sorry for the crappy quality of the scans. I hastily photographed these a while back before organizing them into a book.

**Robot_Butler** · 10-02-2008 04:53 PM

A couple more pages from my old dream sketchbooks:

I also do tons of these mini finger-paintings with oilbars. Again, on the back of those mini 3x5 postcards.

**ttraverse** · 10-02-2008 11:03 PM

Wow, these are fantastic! I'd love to see more (I especially like the mini oil paintings).

**EchoSun13** · 10-03-2008 01:15 AM

Amazing, your dreams seem abstract.

I don't have crazy things like these in my dreams, they are normally places that I have been just changed a little.

I envy these crazy things..

**Robot_Butler** · 10-07-2008 09:39 PM

Thanks

You guys are so encouraging!

I find that even the most mundane places become amazing when I give them some attention. Even if the dream is in my own house, I can look around and spot all sorts of craziness. Probably because I expect the craziness, so it appears.

Here are two more pages. Crazy how these can bring back such intense memories.

**EchoSun13** · 10-09-2008 06:51 AM

Oh, I absolutly love the first one.

**Robot_Butler** · 10-10-2008 11:41 PM

Originally Posted by EchoSun13

Oh, I absolutly love the first one.

Thanks. It was an incredible lucid dream I still remember to this day. It was the first time I stopped waves on the beach to run my fingers through the water. Something I've done several times since.

Here is another dream I finger painted.

**Man of Steel** · 10-11-2008 01:36 AM

That's some incredible stuff, man. You really have talent!

**ttraverse** · 10-11-2008 03:56 PM

OMG, that last one!! Frig, that's unreal I love it!

**Siиdяed** · 10-11-2008 11:27 PM

These are of markedly good quality. You are a credit to your name.

**priestofmyownchurch** · 10-13-2008 09:24 AM

Wow...

Definitely some skills.

Keep it up.:bravo:

**Robot_Butler** · 10-16-2008 11:37 PM

Thanks, guys. So much positive feedback...I feel....my ego....inflating.... Hulking out of control...

I'll track down some more fingerpaintings, like that last one. I like getting messy with Oilbars, charcoal, and such. It is much more fun than a stuffy old brush or pencil.

For now here are two more sketchbook pages with ink & wash:

**Serenity Dragon** · 10-31-2008 07:11 PM

That picture with the sea of colors crashing into the rocks, is so gorgeous. I love it. ^ ^

**Oneironaut Zero** · 10-31-2008 07:25 PM

How in the Hell have I NOT commented on this thread yet??

Great stuff, RB. I really love the sea/cliff picture, and the very first one in the thread (abstract with the eye). Awesome.

**Robot_Butler** · 11-04-2008 11:54 PM

Thanks, guys. I just decided to tackle the monumental task of cleaning up my studio. I need this kind of encouragement, otherwise I would just toss everything and forget about it. Cleaning has that effect on me

I'll post some more sketches today. I'll also try to track down some photographs/scans of my finished work, to make a more comprehensive showing.

**Robot_Butler** · 11-05-2008 12:23 AM

Here are two more of those mini finger paintings I do on postcards. Honestly, I can't even remember what these were from. It looks scary, so maybe I blocked it out.

**slash112** · 11-22-2008 01:15 AM

amazing, utterly amazing, i was thinking about sketching my dreams, i love to draw and it adds fun to doing my dream jornal, and it will improve my recal, ive got no skill/talent compared to you

**Robot_Butler** · 11-22-2008 01:18 AM

After talking with Oneironaut, (http://www.dreamviews.com/community/...=14015&page=13) I was inspired to go look up some of my old drawings from back in school. Some of these guys still bring back terrible (bittersweet

) memories of sleepless, stressful nights.

This one was especially boring-as-hell:

Or this creepy one that (looking back at it) really looks like balls:

**Serenity Dragon** · 11-22-2008 05:46 AM

Wow! ! ! !

**YourDreamComeTrue** · 12-07-2008 02:53 AM

Very nice work. I love your use of colour.:bravo:

**Eel** · 12-07-2008 03:08 AM

Excellent work!

**Oneironaut Zero** · 12-07-2008 07:45 AM

Originally Posted by Robot_Butler

Or this creepy one that (looking back at it) really looks like balls:

Holy shit, man. Is that pencil?? That almost looks like a black and white photograph of a real stone statue. Awesome work.

**TalkingHead** · 12-08-2008 05:34 AM

Wow.. I think the most impressive is the leather jacket. I think my favorite kind of art is when you combine that kind of laborious realism with something the color and abstraction of something like your fingerpainted bridge. Obviously these are really good, but you keep saying that you did them in a hurry. Do you have any work that you've tried to perfect, or are you not motivated to show your work in galleries?

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