///Matt Q. Spangler

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Illustrator // Artist // Robot Lover

The Robot Arc

The Space-Arc

I have been really inspired by the simplicity of old tin toys. I have a really good book, Robots, Spaceships & Other Tin Toys that is really comprehensive on a lot of the old collector toys. So I got inspired to try my hand at doing a simple design with simple color schemes.

Flying high, lets go

Flying high above the earth, he lets it all go, lets have fun be free. Lets fly!

Robot in the Sky

Flying Robot, high above

Beer Pouring Robot

Yep, it was bound to happen, we have grown to rely things (robots) doing our bidding more and more. It would come as no surprise that an enterprising robotics company in Japan made a beer pouring robot. It is for sure 20x slower than opening your own, but still cool. Be sure to wear your protective beer goggles.

Space bird, in living color, in space!

Space bird, just does what he does best, cruise around in space on his cool space mobile. Yep, he is space bird.

Space bird

Space bird in space

Space bird, and all the wonders

Space + Birds = Hilarity, did the sketches a while back, but I wanted to share just how awesome they are. I love the super normal looking birds doing extraordinary things! Good times all around.

The Space Birds

Just some space birds, cruising about

Jiles the floating robot

Did a doodle of him in my sketchbook and I really liked his simplicity and old time feel. So i scanned it in and colored in Photoshop.

Some robot doodles

robot doodles

Just some robot doodles

Just doodling some robot ideas in my sketchbook the other day, figured now is a great time to post some ideas. This was drawn with my awesome space pen (http://www.spacepen.com/).

Little bird poop in the wild!

Little Bird Poop

Daley wearing the shirt!

Mike Daley wearing “Little Bird Poop”

One of my first shirts ever was the Little Bird Poop (In gray). Well a college friend of mine Mike Daley (http://biocreep.com) was caught out in the wild wearing the latest (and sold out) black version. Thanks for wearing Mike!

Robots ARE People!

robot costumes

Old school robot costumes

So, I am super into collecting old tin robots (and some modern re-issues as well). I really enjoy just how old robots looked and moved, with the funky blinking lights, awkward movements and just over simplified look. Modern robots are not nearly as cool for me as the robots of yore. A friend of mine sent over this website all about the old robots in Modern Mechanix magazine, pretty neat!

Source:

http://blog.modernmechanix.com

Wow, where has the time gone?

Oh man, so it would seem that I have not been updating this here blog that often, but I do “tweet” a decent amount. So for now, I would suggest following me on twitter at http://twitter.com/lunarc.

What have I been up to you say? Well, I have moved onto doing baby clothes, printing with new techniques, exhibiting at the San Diego Comic Con 2009 and trying to find some time to sleep. Well that is about it! Expect more awesome, big things, coming soon!