The Smog City.

Still tweaking, but it’s finally starting to come along.  A little grittier than my usual work.

Still working on this- as you can see by the lack of background- but I’m having fun with this girl.  A bit more punk than my usual steampunk pieces.

So, the mockup for my ACTUAL costume this year, The Pinstripe (Steampunk Witch).

The hat is done (see here).  The shirt is from a gothic lolita dress I own (and learned the hard way lolitas are horrible people), and the skirt was bought to compliment it- here it’s layered over a plain black skirt because exposing that much leg worries me.

The wand is in the works from a 5 1/2 foot copper pipe, a glass ornament and pipe fittings.  I am experimenting with floral lights to light it.

I still need the gloves,

So I’m going to New York Comic Con for fun this year, and I’ve been trying to work on a costume that I might be able to reuse.  While I adore the steampunk aesthetic, I wanted to do something unusual in the style.

One of the thoughts came about as I was reading parts of “Journal of a Plague Year”.  While this is probably not going to be made in time for NYCC, I may have to try it in the future.

The Captain of the Airship Defiance, colored.  (wow, it’s been a while since I’ve been able to color).

Background’s crap, but I’m lazy.  And current theory of the lace monocle is that it helps her steer her ship through relative dimensions in space.

I’ve been a little bit enamored with the captain design I did in this AU cast shot.  I can’t decide if she’s a proper captain, a pirate, or what, but I’m curious as to focusing in a little more on her details, like the lace monocle she wears (what does it let her see?  Is it a navigation device, or something supernatural?) 

You’d think my head was too crowded for another universe.  Guess not!

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Steampunk Tintin and Snowy, off on another adventure.  Inspired by the old Herge illos from Tintin magazine of the history of different transportation. 

While I like the idea of ‘TinPunk’, as someone dubbed it, I didn’t like the static pose of the last picture (also, I was forever annoyed by the muck up of his neck).

I swear I can draw other things besides steampunk and Tintin…

Oh Snowy has a clock on him….

I love my friends.

This is why I should not be left to my own devices at work.  I drew myself an airship crew.

(This can also be blamed on my room mate introducing me to ‘Fight Like a Girl’ by Emilie Autumn…)

Having odd shape paper is making me try different compositions.  It’s kinda fun!  I did leave this in the sktechbook, which is why the scan is not the best quality.

Steampunk Tintin and Snowy, off on another adventure.  Inspired by the old Herge illos from Tintin magazine of the history of different transportation. 

While I like the idea of ‘TinPunk’, as someone dubbed it, I didn’t like the static pose of the last picture (also, I was forever annoyed by the muck up of his neck).

I swear I can draw other things besides steampunk and Tintin…