I'm not sure how old I was when I was given my first wind-up robot. I still have it. It's about 2 inches tall. It's plastic and very basic. It looks like one of those little toys that you get out of a 25¢ vending machine where you put the quarter in and this little toy in a plastic bubble pops out. Slowly, over the years, I got more robots as gifts and before you knew it I had a collection.
I love robots because you can take any combination of shapes, put them together and you have a robot. There's no right way or wrong way to make a robot or to draw a robot. Think of all the different famous robots that are part of pop culture: Robby the Robot, Gort, Maximillian, Wall-E, Bender, Rosie, to name a few. They're all different. I love that.
After having collected robots for so long I started to draw and paint them....and eventually, I started making them into small 3D wooden bots. Why not draw and make the things you're inspired by?
Here are just a few of the 3D robots that I've built and 2D robots that I've painted/drawn over the years. Just about all of the 3D robots start with either a drawing or by playing with blocks. I have jars of old wooden blocks that I use to create robots. I sometimes cut/alter them to make new shapes or I just use them as they are.