ANTARCTIC PRESS 7272 WURZBACH SUITE 204 SAN ANTONIO, TX 78240 (210) 614-0396 cacaas Rel tT eenaes Ein Aue ae cenit & WES HARTMAN TEXT & ART - DAVID cue aioe ag HUTCHISON d { INTERIOR LAYOUT DESIGN SJOCHEN WELTIENS dain Laon Male yay DIRECTOR eae ART DIRECTOR Fellow adventurers, what you hold in your baila Aiea CCC BCR Te Cosa LT CCR OR eStore Use TeaS landscapes and dentzens of the steampunk Paden) stories percolating within my cranium. Some Er eeu EE uerien) COND orescence teem Pr cocte Peed eee aaa Nace single-1ssue periodical entitled Steamcraf. Some are due for use in other eae bit eC L LOR) Coe Glew O) eon ee net) Geen Len ay) peor ele Coon SECM To et Re ceo CO pote Bra | eet Cea Con) a Cee ROR coc ene hI eR) CR as coca pamnera Dae aren pear eae ora eacovanin Peer Aue) LM ena Emer a Cast] Brrr ideas and Foo Secret BREE) Errata COO MISUeee esc COCR tt) Ole a SER Sea 2) GRC ete ag Boor eB M etl eet Ate cUge se ae el Tea ras EXTRAORDINAIRE aaa pT anette elec ecct tea ae er Ey PROD, ASSISTANTS avid Hutchison Ea aet Errante ®DBarch 2012 AMANNA THSCARENO STEAMPLINK SKETCHBOOK #1 MARCH 2012, |S PUBLISHED BY ANTARCTIC PRESS, 7272 WURZBACH, SUITE #204, SAN ANTONIO, TEXAS, 78240. Leese aac aN CR ele Nr alla ze LN pate TTY TO ANY ACTUAL CHARACTERCS) AND/OR PLACECS) IS INTENDED, AND ANY SUCH SIMILARITY IS PURELY COINCIDENTAL. NOTHING FROM THIS BOOK MAY BE REPRODLICED WITHOLIT THE EXPRESS WRITTEN CONSENT OF THE ALITHOR, EXCEPT FOR PURPOSES OF ee Re Oe eM eed ade ad aI Nt Sent aeGood morrow and salutations, genlle reader and welcome te the first Steampunk Sketchbook. Within these pages you shall, for the firet lume, hove an illuminsling firsthand look at the development on the upcoming comic Steamcraft as well as the thought processes of some of your humble artist as he cresles in that style we alll 20 dearly adore.STEAUCRAFT \ Cus being » cleampunk Che intlial sketch for our main BRASS BUTLER y ) | book, we atmply could not _ heroine, inventor and acthernaul ae _ Usetorta Steamoralt. \) | get by without » trusty clockwork automaton, an pled him sccordingly evoluing him from a. classic builer to a more militarystyled modelOne ides. included a gunslinger I must have liked the idea, as I spent quite a lot of ime on this sketch.STEAMCRAFT Gl couple of mentor types. Tict bad, bat I do feel that they are a bil loo generte. These pages feature some of my ideas for a male lead for Sleamcraft. Dly baste idea concerned an injared war veleran. | explored various lypes, including « prise fighter and any number of inventors. | particularly love the slovepipe hat. | chuckle every lime I see #1 Buran 3 WiGnother rough a design for Useloria. a“ -STEAMCRATT Done whilat ata J convention. | like the \ oketch for the most BY.) part, but | do feel thal the weapone Fleadgear imvoluing a erorpeady defined, neck brace. \ Tim going fox I'm sorely wegited le whale Ie, Who doesn’t love an S v intelligent primate? \ ae Gl cost originally designed for _ to old know if I'll show her with ae ai her hair down in the book. useful al a later date.STEAMCRATTSTLAMCRAFTSTEAMCRAFT One of the wheeled vehicles featured in the clory is thie releigerated lorry Tue been quite enjoying designing these three-wheeled chariot-styled vehicles, as they depart from the Iypteal ‘horselees carriage’oe “a millary: way elyled airship. Various atrshtp designs. Thy mind tends to think of blimps in steampunk, pank, 20 | almost forgot about hot air balloons allogether!STLAMCRAFT Sketch for the airship Tisch: fw Slane. I went with this because | like the repetition of shapes receding into the distance. | don't imagine a blimp needs » runway, bat hastng one gives you fy, an instant idea of I what tte purpose ts. Ce initial ides for the atrehtp launch Hoyed with several ideas foe aasgotrig vedéel, One was a cubmarine, one a , sleamshtp, one a deep-sea 8 ~ scavenging robot. 7 ®\ Egentually, | decided to combine them all into 4 v aetahipsSETTINGS WO/SETTINGS SETTINGS uith the steampunk seatheltc that | can't help but include them wherever posible : ; \ , Gl cty logout from years ago I's o helpful guide for some of the settings I'm doing now.wu 7 6 a Ba = ga42 8 a aso 4 iam ge $5 8 Sia as e = pee 8 pe Bed od um = ie Os y= 48 838 ¢ eo E 9 8 Eg By zi teks 2 tase ae 8 9 8 8 gn 24 a 3 C44, a tngpired by the sketch to @ right, depicling a man hanging from ‘Chis chot was th SETTINGSSETTINGS , SETTINGS Ge back alleys are ' as dangerous a8 even design for some sort of industrial plant. {Cpiaiie ox oration of what explorelion of whel might be done with pipes. Quite a bial, would seem. Originslly meant to be a dock, this hae evolved into» combination of \ wharf, clock lower, otty enleance oad chopping araade. eo fan This ts where the trouble begins for our heroes: the discovery of @ cwuiltzslion predating the human race by millennia. (1 race thal 1s very much interested in relurning lo tle former power and dominion over the Egrth.Deep O: id da fish- DEEP ONES —— saocn npr torscen how dept many ways, and I'm not certain if any one ts more “correct” than othere. | abandoned this dssiga ects there was neither B capsatea ae mystery to th I originally thought | would ge with a more octopod style, ae thel put me most in mind of Great Ghul.DEEP ONES Im much more in favor of this design. I's in keeping with the steampunk look, > and il mainline come aR 9 mystery as to just what $ . > lend of Sees our hatosa are dealing with. 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