Steam Power

Happy New Year everyone!

Well, it's been the new year for a little while now, but this is my first piece of the new year, so it still counts...I think...

Just a little tribute to the science fiction of yesteryear. Being the new year, I thought I try something a little bit different. I've always loved the Jules Verne 'Earth to the Moon' and '20,000 Leagues' antiqued kindof idea of science fiction, so I thought I'd try to go in that direction. (Also, I think I've been watching too much Sweeney Todd and reading too much League of Extrodinary Gentlemen ).

In either case, this is what came out and if I was a better writter, I feel like there's a whole story I could go into with her and a whole little adventuring team, but for right now, I think her name is Adelle (like a-doll, get it? Ok, not that funny, but still...) and while I haven't decided for sure if she is entirely mechanical or only partially, but I am leaning to the partial angle. It's all steam powered and clockwork-like mechanisms, so she needs to stop for minor adjustments every now and again, but she manages. I thought it would be fun if she carried around a little case with tools and other attachments she could use in different situation. Just pop off a hand and attach a wrench or a drill or knife, whatever the situation calls for.

And no, I didn't stay entirely acurate with the clothing again, the hat is really more civil war and the bodice was inspired off of a photo I have in a book of the Princess of Wales in 1874, but I thought it worked right for the theme.

At any rate, I've prattled on a lot, really just started this as a single illustration, but we'll see if I do anything else with it.

Media: line art-brown Colerase on dura-lene, painting done in Photoshop and Painter, texture is scanned papyrus paper.

Sorry again for the larger watermark, but as some of you know, I've been having trouble with people taking and using for auction and other such things without permission, so just a nescessary evil.

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