fanart: Sheppard & Steampunk!Puddlejumper

Fandom/Genre: Stargate: Atlantis Steampunk AU
Characters/Pairings: John Sheppard & Steampunk!Puddlejumper
Media: pencil, fine liner pen with waterproof indian ink, acrylic paint
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.

Sheppard flying a Steampunk!Puddlejumper, pencils — screen resolution (ca. 168k)
Sheppard flying a Steampunk!Puddlejumper, inked lineart — screen resolution (ca. 188k)
Sheppard flying a Steampunk!Puddlejumper, finished image — screen resolution (ca. 244k)
Sheppard flying a Steampunk!Puddlejumper, detail — high resolution (ca. 228k)