Category: Steampunk Art

Call for Submissions: Dark Beauty Magazine 3rd Steampunk Issue

Dark Beauty Magazine is looking for content for their third annual Steampunk issue, as announced on Facebook:

The Airships are rising and we are gathering our forces for this our 3rd Annual Dark Beauty Magazine Steampunk issue out in April 2013. If you are interested in featuring your fashion, weapons, gadgets, jewelry and other amazing air quality steampunk goodies we are more than excited to share it with our readership this April. Content is due March 15th, send to us at http://bit.ly/DBM_Submit.

I know there are a lot of Steampunk designers and artists out there. Show them your stuff. Submissions for print have to be previously unpublished, but the same restriction does not apply for submissions for their online photo stream.

And, regardless of whether you are in a position to submit, remember to look for the issue in April.

The Steampunk Art of Brian Kesinger

Brian Kesinger spends his days working as a story artist at Walt Disney Animation Studios. Now, for a lot of people, having a dream job like that would be enough, but not for Kesinger. In addition to his work at Disney, he has been putting his own distinctive stamp on Steampunk artwork for the last two years.

Kesinger first came to light for most of the Steampunk world with a post on IO9 called “Hey Disney, this is the steampunk princess movie we want!”. While I heartily agree with the sentiment in the article, Kesinger’s Steampunk art had been slowly infiltrating the web for a while before that. In his “Tea Girls” series, he uses tea staining to bring a rich warmth to his playful illustrations. His “Otto” illustrations about a woman named Victoria and her pet octopus are whimsy at its best. He has also given the world illustrations of Steampunk Darth Vader, Steampunk Cobra Commander, and best of all Felicia Day as the recruiting poster girl for the Dirigible Corps. Let’s hope the others at Disney are taking notice.

His drawings from these series are available as prints, t-shirts, etc. from our friends at Clockwork Couture.

Now, feast your eyes:

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Llewellyn’s Steampunk Tarot

If you’re looking for a Steampunk Tarot deck, you have a new option from Llewellyn, one of the biggest names in new age publishing. The cards and accompanying book were created by Tarot expert Barbara Moore and artist Aly Fell. The result is a beautiful deck featuring everything from airship captains and mad scientists to chimney sweeps.

If you stop and think about it, Tarot and Llewellyn fit incredibly well with Steampunk. The second half of the 19th century was home to a great occult revival in Europe, including a resurgence of interest in Tarot. And Llewellyn? They were founded in 1901, meaning they were actually around in Steampunk times.

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Steampunk Lego Shark Submersible Automaton

Just after the start of the new year, I posted about a Lego Pegasus Automaton. It was very cool, but I’m sure some of you were thinking “Sure, a Pegasus is great, but what about a Lego Steampunk Shark Submarine Automaton”? Well, here you go, complete with gnashing teeth, swaying tail fin, etc.

This fine gear-driver creature/conveyance was built by Eurobricks member “Legobodgers” as part of a contest To Sail the Technic Sea…”. For the non-Brickerati, Technic is Lego’s line of more engineering-oriented kits, which emphasize moving parts, gear-trains, etc. Well, Legobodgers’ “mind immediately jumped to a steampunk shark submarine” and for that we thank him.

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Amazing Steampunk Corkscrew

People toss around words like “amazing” fairly easily nowadays, but this is amazing. It is incredible. It is gobsmackingly jawdroppingly stunning.

This intricate machine, built by Rob Higgs for One of One will open a bottle of wine and pour you a glass. That might not sound like much, but the complex actions it goes through on the way, all powered by nothing by a hand crank and gravity, really is mind blowing.

Just watch.
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