Wednesday, October 8, 2008

Steampunk T-Shirts

In my ongoing fascination with the "Steampunk" movement in art, I've found myself getting more and more ideas that relate to it. About a week ago, I got an idea for a cartoon character of a young child inventor from the Victorian era.

I did some more looking at Victorian fashion and after making a couple of rough sketches, I set about creating him in Adobe Illustrator CS3. The result was The Little Inventor.

I was happy with the first image. So I decided to begin creating a small series of images of this character interacting with various "Steampunk" objects. The next logical choice (to me at least) was to have him wielding a Raygun (based on the design of The Model No. 245 Pocket Ray from the Customized Steampunk Nerf Guns - Part 4 post). The result was The Little Inventor #2.

I uploaded both of the designs to my RedBubble account, so if you'd care to own your own Little Inventor T-Shirt or Little Inventor #2 T-Shirt, they are available for sale for $20.95 each.

I've debated taking the time to work up a storyboard and create an animated short featuring the character, but haven't decided for sure yet.

Until then, it's an idea.
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