☆ 2 Week Assignment; Steampunk☆

For this Assignment we need to focus on the following questions:

1. What exactly is Steam punk?

Steam punk is a sub genre of science fiction that focuses on technology inspired by 19 Th-century industrial steam-powered machinery.

However Steam punk doesn't just limit itself to a certain time period or art style and so came up with other sub genres such as steam punk romance, steam punk erotica, and steam punk young adult fiction.

Steam punk also takes a lot of inspiration on the Victorian optimistic view of the future.

(More on http://www.steampunk.com/ )

2. Which Elements can we use for a Steam punk themed Design?

Steam punk fully focuses around ideas and technology without going in a direction that is too futuristic. 

Classic Elements used are Objects such as; Cogs, Goggles, Clocks, high boots, top hats, pipes and anything robotic.

While doing so Steam punk elements like shown in the Mood board above are using materials/colours like Copper, Bronze, Gold and Used Metal.

Colours that nicely work with Steam punk to gain a good contrast are Green, Orange and pretty much any shade of Red.

I was pretty determined to have a pilot as a character or maybe do a small robot but while I started spending more Time sketching and coming up with ideas I ended up with something different. 

I started off doing a few concepts of hairstyles and characters and later on researched Steam punk clothing websites such as 

http://www.kinkyangel.co.uk/index.php?main_page=index&cPath=345#.Vq0xbLKLSUk 

to gain a better feeling for cloths my character could wear.

 My final Idea that I worked on was this character (you can also see her in the previous sketches).

All Steps of making of the character:

Final piece:

Another of the concepts I started making was a Steam punk themed Wheelchair that would be able 

to speed the lady that sits inside it up.

It also gave me the idea of maybe making a Robot for a character that then would be able to fly. 

I might use This idea for one of my later Projects.

Basic Design of the Wheelchair that is still missing out on pipes and boosts.