The thing that usually gets me about steampunk is that most of the time they don’t explain where the steam is coming from. There are few clean… Ish sources of steam. If they’re using coal the process of creating the steam also creates soot. Icky icky soot. Kids were frequently used in the mining and shoveling of the coal. They were actually called coal rakers but the term isn’t widely known. This guy is my corgi coal urchant.
I’d been looking at dancing reference. I found so may cool pics and I just had to do a sketch of this one.
I enjoyed putting out this little sketch.
sometimes the time consuming part of the art isn’t the subject. That’s definitely the case of the piece I’ve spent a good portion of thursday on.
As you can see the piles of skulls and bones have a depth that comes from two main color families with accompanying color palates. Each base color has two depth colors to add highlights and shadows and make each item pop.
Copic markers are made for this and really blend well with each addition.
This started out as a practice sketch for Fur Reality 2015.
They’re in Cincinnati Ohio and the area has four seasons. Above is the copic colored, Bristol vellum mouse and the inked sketch.
these guys will be part of a larger piece eventually (where’s my darn protractor? I need circles dammit). they’re a pair of steampunk lovebirds and they’ll be back to back in front of a Zeppelin or set or gears or … Something steampunk related.
This guy is almost finished but started life as 
He’s not quite a circle, a cilander, and a jelly bean but you can probably see those now that I’ve said it.
(btw it occurred to me that all @alkali_bismuth needs to be steampunk is a few artfully places gears)
And all lovebirds need a mate so here’s another lovebird who just happens to be a girl but didn’t have to be.
More of these birds will happen later cause I think they are cute.