Art of Wall-E

I have borrow the book- Art of Wall-E in the school library when looking for reference for my COP essay and it inspires a lot of thoughts from me. The book has a very deep details about the idea behind, the preproduction art and obviously the character designs and environmental drawing etc. 

I am so bad at mechanical drawings like drawing robots and machines and the book motivates me to experiment with different robotic drawings. At the beginning, it was difficult to think of the details without looking at the book. I have followed all the details, the size,the order and even the electrical supply. After that, I tried to draw my own robot which were quite unsuccessful because the mechanism is wrong and I do not believe in them, I still need to practice this more frequently in order to understand the basic of drawing robots. I think the reason why I am so bad at this is due to my gender? I seldom have connection with machines or never fix an electronic equipment before... I am not really interested in technology unlike my father or boyfriend. It might be a good opportunity to help or just watch them fixing electronic equipments in the future so as to understand more about machine. It might be also good to study car or pipes to get myself familiar with this 'stranger'. After all, I think trying out different drawing would be useful and become more flexible as an animator. I can change my style to satisfy different kinds of clients and requirement which is definitely needed to start practicing from now!