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RatCreature ([info]ratcreature) wrote,
@ 2008-05-08 23:25:00

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Entry tags:au, fanart, fanart: sga, sga

fanart, Sheppard & Steampunk!Puddlejumper
Fandom: Stargate: Atlantis
Characters/Pairings: John Sheppard & Steampunk!Puddlejumper
Media used: pencil, fine liner pen with waterproof indian ink, acrylic paint
Rating/warnings: G
Notes/comments: I did this for the prompt "Victorian steampunk AU" for the SGA fanart fest Painted Spires. Admittedly mechanical pterodactyls aren't the most efficient way for a flying machine, Steampunk or otherwise, and not a very likely or even possible path technology would take from an SF standpoint, but this way was much cooler visually than merely changing the puddlejumpers with pipes or gauges or whatever. I mean, they more or less look like flying lunch boxes. Not really realistic technology, but this is Stargate after all, and I'm pretty sure John would think that mechanical, flying dinosaurs were cool.

The original is 30x40cm, so unfortunately I had to scan it in two parts, and you can see a slight line where I merged, because I fail at digital manipulation and didn't know how to make the two parts fit completely seamless.

Preview: preview of Sheppard flying a Steampunk!Puddlejumper

Sheppard flying a Steampunk!Puddlejumper

And because you can't see Sheppard that well in that size, here's a larger detail view:

detail of Sheppard flying a Steampunk!Puddlejumper

If for some reason you want the whole image in a print resolution in its original size, I uploaded that as well, however at 300dpi and 30x40cm the file is over 4652x3500 pixel / 4mb: look at it in a really huge size in high resolution


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[info]caia_comica
2008-05-09 01:45 am UTC (link)
STEAMPUNK. This is all sorts of awesome. *admires

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[info]ratcreature
2008-05-09 04:16 am UTC (link)
Thank you! The steampunk machine was a lot of fun to draw in the end, after I got over my despair that I have no clue about mechanical engineering. I tried to fake it with relying a lot a Steampunk drawing tutorial I found, and looking at lots of machine pictures from a bunch books I got for reference, especially helpful was an children's lexicon on the history of technology I finally found in the library, because it had huge photos of machine parts and machine parts with easy explanations how they work, and lots of pictures of historical machines, and their components.

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[info]goss
2008-05-09 05:02 am UTC (link)
OMG SO COOL! :D

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[info]ratcreature
2008-05-09 05:12 am UTC (link)
Thank you, I'm glad you like it. Somehow mechanical animals are inherently cool.

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