Steam Punk
Featured Work
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Time Flyer by Ivy Izzard
Stock 1 and 2 by MJ Ranum at deviantart
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Afternoon Flight by Leoni Venter
Over the ruins of Nuaponec, an ancient city once held to be the legendary city of fool’s gold. Re-discovered in 1892 by Joe Smith, a coal shoveler on the airship Gigantic, the city is now a regular tour stop in the Americas. The best way to view it now, as then, is by air, and Ancient Aztec Airliners (AAA), established 1903, provides the most luxurious adventure trip for the discerning traveller. - – - All that said, this is a Vue render with rather a lot of postwork done in Photoshop. It’s given me a lot of grief too – I had to render it in layers because my quad-core, 8Gb RAM, 64-bit computer simply could not render the thing in one go. Sigh. So this is not exactly the image I had in mind when I started :) Full view here City model by Gabriel Cubos Lopez from here
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German Toast by Soxy Fleming
Featured on a card… in a toaster… in the buyers booth This toaster object is now the winner of the Biblio Art competition run in Port Fairy Australia by Blarney Books and Art / read more here Artwork Description The interior mechanism of a vintage toaster has had a short, fake electrical cord attached complete with plug. Tied to the end of the cord near the plug are two folded paper pieces (a paper plane and a game of chance) made from pages of the German Dictionary. The Dictionary itself has been split in two and each half bound with nylon filament to keep the pages and covers together (creating two discrete blocks or pieces of “toast”). These have been inserted in the toast slots. Also in one of the toast slots is a booklet made from five original pages torn from the Dictionary which have German words written on them in pen and ink. The cover of this booklet is made from a scan of the real cover. This booklet has been duplicated in the form of a miniature zine which hangs from the exterior of the toaster as a swing tag. The zine represents a puzzle game in which all information is present to translate the German pen and ink writing (with some effort from the observer). Artist’s Statement A foreign language may be remote and weird to us while being normal and everyday in its native setting. We can laugh about, and talk in, silly accents, use “pretend” foreign language or be tortured by strict procedures in old school teaching fashion. The toaster transcends cultural differences and lives in every kitchen, yet retains a sweet attraction…a toy toaster is an appealing thing and retro toasters become objects of desire. Of course, the search for the perfect toaster-of-long-life is never ending…. In combining the everyday retro kitchen object (albeit in an unusual presentation) with foreign language the stage is set for investigation by the curious and playful. Combining graphic techniques old and new (pen and ink writing and scans of a 3 dimensional book) the object arrangement is completed – the addition of the resulting puzzle zine as a swing tag adds to the consumable image of the everyday kitchen appliance and allows the observer to participate in a timely word finding game.
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Egg by AnnMei
from different photo created in Photoshop
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Barry the Steampunk by TackyPyramid
Design for a race in a tabletop RPG I’m writing with a couple of friends. “The Victed” are steampunk cowboys from the moon. Overload of cool? I think so. This specimen is called Barry. He specialises in tying red hankies around different body parts. Today, he has chosen the thigh. That Barry! Techniques: An experiment in something entirely unique this time. I didn’t go over in fineliner – rather, because I loved the tone I’d created in pencil on the metal armour so much, I scanned it in as is, and just bumped up the contrast before colouring with the “darken” tool. It has a refined watercolour look.
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Nightflight by Foxfires
... Mind the gap! Your Captain shall be boarding the dirigible shortly. —— My latest Steampunk piece! Thanks for looking! Credits: / — Model / Train parts / Brushes / Gramophone / All else photographed by me, or purchased. Links upon request.
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Gallery by AnnMei
This work is made of many photographs in Photoshop
Recent Work
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Lydia by janrique
Lydia is my first steampunk portrait. She is lonely and lost on a sparsely populated planet. Rendered in Daz Studio with postwork in Cs3
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Lydia's Flight by janrique
Never one to be beaten, the lonely Lydia decides that enough is enough and risks her life in a bid for freedom by stealing and ‘steaming’ off in a steam plane belonging to one of the steam works’ owners. Rendered in Daz Studio. BG, post work and other additions in CS3.
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Snail by AnnMei
photo of a snail, a crow, rope, texture, tube + photoshop + tablet
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Naomi by janrique
My first steampunk themed image. Naomi rendered in Daz Studio. Post work in CS3. Needs a bit of getting used to – this genre but I am set to do more and experiment a bit!
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Steampunk Wedding by janrique
... well the bride anyhow! Character was rendered in Daz Studio. BG and lots of other work carried out in CS3.
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.The .Industrial Zen Garden... by Ramasg
Had to make a surreal, fantasy scene. I really like the colours in this one, for once they are as rich as I imagined. Thanks for looking and all the fantastic advice I have been getting! / Shane
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Artemisia's Absinthe by WinonaCookie
From the time Anyushka Rutkauska was a young girl, chemistry was all she could think of. While it was difficult for girls to pursue such professions in Poland in those days, it was not impossible, and Anyushka was finishing up her PhD at the University of Warsaw when rumors of the war began bubbling out of lecture halls and cafés like a laboratory concoction gone awry. Perhaps she was prescient, or maybe just restless, but she packed her bags and took off for Paris the day she passed her oral exams. At the time she certainly regretted the decision, as her freshly minted diploma did not translate into French easily, or truth be told, at all. That is how Anyushka found herself tending bar at the Taverne Coeur Noir in the 6th Arrondissement. Despite what she told the proprietor, she had no experience with tending bar, but for a chemist, how difficult could it be? Certainly easier than pronouncing “Anyushka” in French – patrons simply dubbed her “Artemisia” after the potent wormwood-tinged cocktails that were the ruin of many a Coeur Noir customer. Indeed, it became a badly kept secret that Artemisia’s cocktails were the best in the City of Lights, and artists, courtesans, poets, academics and diplomats began to pour into the cramped little bar to sample her potent concoctions. The cocktails proved to be great equalizers, rendering the rogue as well as the statesman a blissful yet blithering mess by the end of the evening. Inevitably, a bombast of German soldiers blundered in, rude and imperious, and with a hard, cold glitter in her heavily kohl-rimmed eyes, Anyushka cooked up something very, very special for the lot of them. No sudden deaths, no, nothing as obvious as that. Permanent impotence, total hair loss, an unshakeable sense of dread, irretrievable madness, the firm conviction that one was really a woman – these were the subtle gifts Anyushka’s cocktails imparted to the German occupiers. Where no finger could be pointed, no credit could be given, either. Nonetheless, Artemisia was awarded a Medal of Honor at the end of the war, enjoying heroine status, and best of all, an appointment to the chemistry department at the Sorbonne. This original artwork and story are copyright Ramona Szczerba 2009. Copyright to this material is in no way transferrable with the sale of this item. The buyer is not entitled to any reproduction rights – neither image nor story can be reproduced without my express written permission. Thanks!
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Ballooning by epititus
Digital & pencil sketch
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Barry the Steampunk by TackyPyramid
Design for a race in a tabletop RPG I’m writing with a couple of friends. “The Victed” are steampunk cowboys from the moon. Overload of cool? I think so. This specimen is called Barry. He specialises in tying red hankies around different body parts. Today, he has chosen the thigh. That Barry! Techniques: An experiment in something entirely unique this time. I didn’t go over in fineliner – rather, because I loved the tone I’d created in pencil on the metal armour so much, I scanned it in as is, and just bumped up the contrast before colouring with the “darken” tool. It has a refined watercolour look.
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Steampunk Witch by WinonaCookie
“Holy Hecate, she’s SUCH a show-off!” muttered Dianthus, with a roll of her eyes. “Well, you have to admit she’s got talent,” countered Maeva, her greenish hair standing on end. “Will you shut that thing OFF, please, before you suck me up into the next township?” But Amelia couldn’t hear either member of her coven, the motor on her Super Deluxe Electrolux was just too loud. In truth, it wasn’t a matter of showing off at all, but it was also true that no ordinary broom would do for Amelia Alabaster. Fascinated by all things mechanical and preternaturally obsessed with order, she had long ago parked the broom bestowed upon her by her mother in a seldom-used utility closet and had traded in her wand for a curvy little feather duster. With a clattering of gears and a mumbling of spells she had transformed an everyday Electrolux into a first rate aircraft, and had immediately begun buzzing around Glastonbury looking for messes to clean up. She had even fashioned a canister-type conveyance for her surly black companion, Tidy Tim. It occasionally coughed up a bit of kitty litter, but Amelia could dispatch that in a jiffy. Night after night, the full moon yawning behind her, Amelia would don her goggles, grab the handle of her vacuum and hold on tight as it roared into the night sky, yanking her off to the next domestic disaster, midtown mess or parochial pigsty. With a wriggle of her bottom and a flourish of her feather duster, order would be restored and all would be well. If the occasional crucial bit of paperwork or antique heirloom or cherished keepsake happened to get sucked up too, well, people generally didn’t even notice. So the next time you are frantically searching for something and making thinly veiled accusations in the direction of your children, family pet or significant other, give a thought to Amelia Alabaster and the Super Deluxe Electrolux. It probably isn’t their fault. This original artwork and story are copyright Ramona Szczerba 2009. Copyright to this material is in no way transferable with the sale of this item. The buyer is not entitled to any reproduction rights – neither image nor story can be reproduced without my express written permission. Thanks!
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Gallery by AnnMei
This work is made of many photographs in Photoshop
About This Group
Steampunk is a subgenre of fantasy and speculative fiction which came into prominence in the 1980s and early 1990s. The term denotes works set in an era or world where steam power is still widely used--usually the 19th century, and often set in Victorian era England—but with prominent elements of either science fiction or fantasy, such as fictional technological inventions like those found in the works of H.G. Wells and Jules Verne, or real technological developments like the computer occurring at an earlier date.
Other examples of Steampunk contain alternate history-style presentations of “the path not taken” of such technology as dirigibles or analog computers; these frequently are presented in an idealized light, or a presumption of functionality.
Steampunk is often associated with cyberpunk and shares a similar fanbase and theme of rebellion, but developed as a separate movement (though both have considerable influence on each other). Apart from time period and level of technological development, the main difference between cyberpunk and Steampunk is that Steampunk settings usually tend to be less obviously dystopian than cyberpunk, or lack dystopian elements entirely.
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