Thursday, June 17, 2010

DAY TWO-AND-TWENTY: STEAMPUNK AND STEAM POWER







Steampunk is a sub-genre of science fiction and speculative fiction, frequently featuring elements of fantasy, that came into prominence in the 1980s and early 1990s. The term denotes works set in an era or world where steampower is still widely used — usually the 19th century, and often Victorian era Britain.

These illustrations look back to the works of H.G. Wells, Jules Verne, Mary Shelly, Robert Louis Stevenson, Edgar Rice Burroughs. It appears to be a mix of Victorian, beginnings of the industrial revolution, maybe a pinch of the Western explorers, and maybe a touch of Goth if you wish. The illustrator of these beautiful drawings is a blogger who goes by the name Doug and has been in the visual arts field since 1989. These drawings and sketches are a snapshot in time.

ALL ABOARD THE MYSTERY TRAIN

2 comments:

  1. Great images!

    The characters seem kind of American and scruffy though - I always picture Verne and Wells protagonists as clean-shaven and excessively neat like Phileas Fogg or Sherlock Holmes.

    For some bizarre reason they remind me of the Jim Jarmusch film "Dead Man" starring Johnny Depp.

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  2. I agree with you, thinking on it they do look rather American. A bit of a Daniel Day-Lewis thing going on (Gangs of New York)...

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