I love robots and androids. This a piece I started back in 2004 inspired by the movie I-Robot. I worked on a lot of illustrations that year so this one got shelved soon after I started it. It sat about 1/3 finished until this year when I came across a great robot illustration by Stephan Martiniere titled Para 4. That inspired me to finish mine.

Although the subject matter of my piece was originally inspired by I-Robot, the layout and composition were inspired by Fritz Lang's Metropolis and Botticelli's renaissance masterpiece; The Birth of Venus. Of course, you can't create a female robot without mentioning Hajime Sorayama.

My Venus is primarily a Photoshop montage of aircraft scrap photos and industrial parts images. Venus herself was modeled in an older copy of Poser. The techicians are composites of various photos.