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- o r o ac y. A monthly m anualdevoted to leaching how to Iearn to draw the ROBOTECH' IM animated cartoon characters and fighting craft in an intelligent and easy to understand way. Each

issue will cover one or more characters or devices from each of the lhree major storylines lhat m ake up the RO BO TECHRM saga. Each storyline willbe featured in rotation. Issues 1 through 4 willfocus on the M A CRO SS characters, issues 5 lhrough 9 willcoverthe SO UTHERN C ROSS characters and issues 10 through 12 will cover the NEW G ENERATIO N characters. Issues 13 through 24 w ill repeat the rotation exam ining new m aterial from each storyline.

W RITTEN AND COMPILED BY DAVID CODY W EISS

R O Y FO K K ER

ARTW ORK BY HARMO NY GOLD U.s.A.,INC

LISA H A YES

R a n k : Lieutenant C om m ander R a n k : Lieute nant C om m ander A ge:30 A ge :24 Friend and menlor lo Rlck Hu nter Roy was the former com mander of the fam ed Sku11 Squadro n that fought during the civil wars that preceded the invasion of Earth. Prior to hi s m ilitary career he had been an air circus stunt pilot. It w as during this time that he befriended the younger pilot. Very m uch the im age of the brave young hero, Roy is an inspiration to his crew and to 1he other men in his com mand. His death in battle bri ngs home the grim realitfes of !he war, and for Rick provides a m odel to pattern himself after in his growlh lo m anhood.

The daughter of A d m Ira I H a ye s of the Ea rth D efen se Fo rç es , Lisa chose the Space Co rps as her service branch in order to be closer to her fiance, KarlR Iber, who was stationed on M a rs B ase sa ra . After the arrival of the SD F-1 and its subsequent salvage and refi tting, she is assi gned the post of First Offi cer of 1he ship. After the ship is tfansported out beyond the orbit of Pluto during the Space Fold m aneuver, she finds out that the Zentraed I have destroyed 1he Martian base. In reaction lo her fiance's death she becom es a hyper-effici ent officer with a repulation as a *cold fish,* especially in Rlck Hunter's eyes. Eventually, however, she fall s in Iove with Rick and conlinues a rocky rom ance w i th him throughout the slory.

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W elcome to the thifd issue of T H E O F F IC IA L H O W T O D R A W RO BO TEC HTM series, a monthly book designed to teach fans of the enormously popular RO BO TEC HTM animated television series how to draw alltheir favorite characlers and mecha. Each month we willdemonstrate how to draw one or tw o characters from the show in the first half of lhe book, and highlight how to draw some of the fantastic transforming fighting craft or M echa,in the second half. Unlike som e other how -to-draw books on the stands w hich offer only a bland

step-by-step *copy-me' approach, we w ill dem onstrate how to actually co n stru ct a draw ing, the way professionalanists do. By showing the ruIes and the thInkIng that go into each drawing, we hope that you will

I earn more than justhow to copy a face or a pose that is already in front of you. You willlearn how to draw these characters and craft in any pose or angle you can imagine.

Remem ber, ANYBO DY ean Iearn 1. pd ra w 1 . If you s tu d y the ruIes, o bserve carefully how something is draw n, and m ost im portant of all, practIce constantly, you will Iearn to draw ! YO U LEARN TO DRAW BY DRAW ING !

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Now you see thatw hat is interpreted as motion on 1he TV screen is accom plished by a careful observatlon of what a character looks Iike while doing something, lhen 1he recordlng oflhat observati on as a serlee of carefuldrawings showing each step of that movement. There are m any m ore rules and techniques to producing good animation butwe're prim aril y interested in single drawings here. lf you're interested in exploring animation further, we recom mend you look at Anlm atlon and How to A nlm ate Fllm

Cartoons by Preston Blair(see tho Reçommended Readlng 1.1ston p.28). W hether you're interested in doing pin-ups or comic books or animation the first step is

stillthe same--you have to do one slngledrawlng atatlme. Ourjob isto hel p you Iearn to do thal draw ing to the best of your ability. So l ers altack the most basic basics of drawing: The first part of any figure drawing is the establishment of a gestu re draw lng . A

gesture drawing i s a description or nolali on ofa figure in the simpl eslpossible form. Observe a figure (or visualize one if you are not using a model) then rough-in 1he circle and m i lten shapes you Iearned to see i n the first lwo issues. The basic form upon which to anchor your gestu re draw lng is 1he actlo n Ilne. An actIon 11ne is the simpl esl way of describing the feeling of m otlon or balance of a fi gure.

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ln presenting a sequence of movemen! i n anim ali on an anim ation arlisl has the Iuxury of showing you, the vi ewer how the molion progresses from start to finish. The *sti ll- or illuslralive, arli st works in a much more lim ited frame. Since you,as the artist can onl y present one drawing at a tim e, you need to take a specialapproach to depicling m oti on. Each sequence ofmotioncanbe anal yzed and broken downinto lhe equivalenlofa setof*freeze-frame* shots. O fthese shots. mostfal l into a category we can call wtransition@ poses or, as lhey are called in 1he anim ation field, *1n-

betweens.l W hatthey are 'in-between* are poses called extremes (or *key poses*).

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Every time you sit down to do a drawing of a character you have to m ake a series of decisions. FIrst--w ho you are going to draw. This i s the easiest decision lo make. ln facl you probabl y made itbefore you satdown to draw. Seco nd--w hat this character is going to be doing in your drawing. The simplest

solulion lo thi s is to draw a kind ofmodel-sheetor *just-standing-there*pose. This i s fi ne, but it gets kind of dullafter a whil e and ofcourse i ti sn' t very good for aclion or adventure stprytelling. So,I ers say you choose an action pose--someone being knocked

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Poses 2 through6 show the action aclually happening,from impactlo totalI oss of

IlI bal ance. Pose 2, however,doesn'! show a 1otof reaction on Jess'part,and pose 6 doesn' t clearly show that 1he ball is responsi bl e for Jess'fall.

Thlrd-- you now have lo decide w hlçh pose bestshows yourviewerthe mostyou can

tellaboutthi s action. Somehow,in one drawing,you have to show an objecl hilling your charaoter, hitting w ith enough force to knock him/her off balance and your character reacling by falling down. Doesn' t sound easy,does it? Below is 1he action sequence you have chosen lo do, Iaid out in seven Nreeze-fram e* gesture-style drawings. You could actually draw an infinite number of drawings to describe this same sequence, depending on how sm all an intefvalof time you chose to setbetween *freeze-frames.? So in one sense,lhese afe already a setofextrem es

ofthe action,butourjob now i s to choose whi ch one oflhese drawi ngs bestrepresents the pose we wanlto finish up as ourfinaldrawing.

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interesting;the ballisrounder,losing itsfeelingofimpact,and Jessefeetno I onger Z touch the ground,I eaving him suspended in mid-airwithoutthatteeteri ng effecllhat lM clearly indioates a helpless fall. So,by analysis and process ofelimination,itis (D apparentthat11w bestpose to tellthe most ofthe story is pose 4.

Continuing with our exam inalion of how to podray characters in m otion, we m ust now touch upon a topic called Body Language. Much more willbe said aboutthis in a Ialer secti on,butrightnow w eelldefine what itis and how we can use i l to create the illusion ofmolion in a single,flat drawing.

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Quite simply, body language is a term that describes how we inlerpret 1he facial expressi on and body position orposture ofthe person orcreature we are observing. lt

i s how we recognize just1he silhouette of an altacking hawk as threatenlng,orthat of a cowering dog as defeated, or,m ore to our im mediate point, the Iast silhouette show n below as a m an runnlng.

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By obsew ing the body Ianguage of ourfri end Jess in pose 4 back on page 15,we interpret an arrangementofvery simple Iines as a representation of a hum an being aboutto falloverbackward. Ifyou Iook up from this page yotlwon' tsee anybody you know lhat Iooks even remolely like Jess yet when you Iook at his slick-and-ballimage on the pap/r your mind im mediately recognizes the si tuation. If you have an active imagination you m ight even be able to feelthe te/lering position thatJess is in. AlI this is accomplished by accurately representing the body language ofa person falli ng. n i s is partof lhe process you use in fecognizing which extreme ofa motion sequence to choose to best tellyour story in one fram e. Now exam i ne the illustrati ons below of a

Verlteçh Flghterin Battlold and GuardIan Modes (covered in modelsheets and lransform ations Iater in thi s issue on pages 20-27.

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