RPB: Lifter

Another submission of old Red Planet Blues artwork.

Lifter isn't so much a specific character as a concept I keep coming back to: a robot forklift. I've worked in several different warehouses in the past- one especially that was very large and very busy- and I've grown fond of forklifts as a result. If you think you see some influence from the Power Loader in Aliens, you're not imagining things.

I wanted to tint this one like the previously submitted RPB drawings but yellow on white is all but invisible, and of course that's the only color any self-respecting forklift can be. Figuring out the coloring technique I did use took *hours* and *hours* and *more hours*. That's what I get for reinventing the wheel, I guess. Hopefully I'll be able to do it much faster next time I try to use it.