A Cyborg Dragon

"What should we do today?"

"Can you look up a real cyborg?"

"What do you mean?"

"Last time you looked up 'cyborg,' but this time, I want a real cyborg, like with a person's face."

I wasn't sure what he was talking about since yesterday's cyborg Long John Silver from Disney's Treasure Planet had a face; but, I did another search for cyborgs anyway and handed him my iPhone.

"Look! This is a cyborg dragon."

So much for a cyborg with a person's face, I thought. "Um, we've done something real similar before."

"No we haven't."

"Yes. It was like a robot dragon or something."

"Yeah, that was a robot dragon. This is a cyborg dragon."

Who was I to argue? Plus, it did look pretty cool. I got started thinking that the details could be sketched in quickly without my typical regard for getting it all just right. I underestimated how complex it was.

"Are you finished?" he asked when I was only half way through.

"No. There are a ton of details," I said, feeling the time pressure.

"That's because it's a cyborg. If you were a cyborg, would you just want nothing? If I were a cyborg, I'd want a lot of details."

Again, who was I to argue? I just kept my head down and focussed on getting it done.

A Cyborg like from Treasure Planet...

"What's for the snack sack today?"

"Can you help me pick a category? I'm becoming a brainstorm loser."

"No you're not," I responded quickly. I don't like him getting down on himself about picking ideas in the morning. "Yesterday you said you wanted some other character from Pokémon today."

"No. I decided I don't want to do Squirtle."

"Okay. Did I ever do Godzilla?"

"No. You said it was too complicated and that you'd do it on the weekend." He sat thinking for a while. I watched as his eyes light up as an idea entered his brain. He blurted out, "Ah, a cyborg, like from Treasure Planet."

I gave him my iPhone with options from a generic search for cyborgs, but he didn't like what he saw. "I wanted one like the one in Treasure Planet," he told me, repeating himself.

I did a new search and he picked this shot of Long John Silver as a cyborg in Disney's Treasure Planet. Thinking it was too complex, he asked me sheepishly, "Can you do it?"

"Sure," I assured him. I had plenty of time and it didn't seem too complicated. I enjoyed drawing this one and am happy with how it came out.

He was too. When he saw it, he shouted, "Oh! Cool! Cyborg!"

A Robot

A Robot

"What's for the snack sack today?" I asked him.

"Let's see," he said contemplatively, "a machine!"

"What kind of machine?"

"Um, no. A robot!"

"Okay." I searched for robots and handed him my iPhone. He flicked through the images for some time and picked this one.

"That's not a robot." At least not really, I thought. It was sort of like a cyborg dinosaur.

"I know. They don't have robots," he said about the options.

That wasn't true and I shot him a look that said as much.

"But I want that one. It looks cool."

I couldn't argue with that. I wasn't sure I'd have enough time to get in finished in time, but I worked efficiently to get it done. This was our 100th snack sack! I had no idea when we started that our little project would have such longevity.