Another thing that keeps happening: Magic chassis that's made of metal, yet is somehow flexible so you can just put it all together without any gaps and it just works.™
I'm now looking into robot joints. A lot of synth and scifi robot reference material uses "it just works in any direction somehow" joints and I don't like it
I'm slowly getting to the robo wyvern design want.
Also, I'm actually not sure if I'm going to call the end result a synth. I know the species is pretty much "do whatever you want lmao", but apart from the head design being inspired by synths, I'm doing everything else differently.
You might think drawing robots is easier than organic creatures. And it's true if the robot has a chassis that allows you to draw organic shapes, such as with typical synths. But if you're like me and don't? Oh boy, I got bad news.