Eleven themes of steampunk illustrations

The aesthetics of "steampunk" mainly comes from the Victorian dress style in the 19th century and the steam-powered machinery developed during the industrial revolution, which is famous for its typical nostalgic costumes and accessories full of gears. However, the strength of the "steampunk" movement is also due to another aspect: the art of illustration.

under the background of steampunk, artists create a lot of different works

These works are distinguished from each other in terms of elements. It can be roughly divided into 11 themes

The main charm of steampunk lies in the clothes, looks and manners of all kinds of unique characters

People who are very common in steampunk, such as ship captains, mercenaries carrying rocket bags, flying pirates, etc.

Artists often spend a lot of pen and ink in such illustrations. Highlighting the characters' characteristics with bright colors and lots of scenes

Steampunk emphasizes the breakthrough of traditional innovation

Therefore, the manufacture of robots is also a main creative thread that cannot be ignored

Artists make robots look unique, fragile and particularly interesting through neat elements such as clockwork, gears and transmission devices

Robot giants are more interesting than the robots mentioned above

Because they are more bulky and destructive. It is the existence that can bring the whole story to a climax

and usually they will become the tools of rebels

So artists always enjoy it when describing the wanton destruction of these big guys

Spaceships and airships are one of the basic themes of steampunk

They carry the dream of the whole future technology. It embodies the most interesting aspect of steampunk culture

It plays an important role in steampunk illustrations

Any fantasy subculture will derive related drawing techniques

There are also intricate design drawings in interesting steampunk stories

They may be beautifully rendered and colored. It may also be a sketch that is too random to be true.

Abstract art can best show its unique beauty in the virtual space-time of steampunk.

In this space-time, mechanical power is omnipotent, and even you can see such a strange and interesting picture that machinery and animals are integrated.

Creative inventors and witty and willful gentlemen are one of the most popular types of characters in steampunk.

The dress of old characters combined with solemn and carnival collision. It can highlight the interesting two sides of the characters.

Victorian cities have both classical beauty and industrial beauty.

The injection of steampunk elements adds a touch of surreal extreme color.

Under the infection of machinery and technology, the unremarkable urban landscape has brought an incredible ethereal atmosphere.

Since the premiere of Star Wars in 1997, It has penetrated into almost every subculture.

Steampunk is no exception.

Many artists are obsessed with designing costumes for the characters in Star Wars, and even create a large number of works with the theme of Star Wars.

Therefore, Star Wars has become an important existence in steampunk illustrations.

In the world of steampunk, transportation is also a very interesting element.

They usually have these three story characteristics: they are groundbreaking inventions in the story. Often breaks down, but can be repaired anytime and anywhere; At the critical moment, it can always come back to work.

Steampunk adds many elements to the story about the war, such as spacecraft, napalm, rocket packs, tanks, robots, etc., which can be used to fight against the enemy.

Therefore, it adds visual conflicts to the illustration, which makes the fighting more exciting to the militant factors in the human body. Summary of 11 common graphic design styles

1. Cyberpunk style

Hacker; Cyberspace; Virtual reality; Artificial intelligence; Cybernetics and computer biochemistry; Urban expansion and slums; Large enterprises; Genetic engineering; Drugs and biochemistry; Terrorism (especially computer terror)

2. Steampunk style

Fiction and nostalgia, new energy, new machinery, new materials and new tools

3. Bauhaus style

rich color matching, simple plate composition, mechanical geometric order, rational handling of characters and colors, rigorous skeletal characteristics

4. Pop style

. A strong sense of vision

5. Memphis style

has bright colors in contrast, intentionally breaking the rules of color matching, bright colors with bright, funny and high chroma, plaid, wave and black fonts

6. Super realistic style

spatial hierarchy, picture scene, C4D style design

7. Steam wave style

fluorescent red and blue. Greek sculpture, windows98 and other strange elements are put together

8.MBE illustration style

Colorful cartoon elements on white background (black edges must be drawn)

9. Cubism style

The object is described from many angles, and each angle is staggered, resulting in many vertical and parallel line angles. The scattered shadows make the cubist picture have no three-dimensional space caused by the perspective of traditional western painting.

11. LOW-POLY modeling style

Modeling makes a sense of blockiness, dividing a picture into four triangles to fill, and dividing each triangle into four small triangles.

have you learned these 11 design styles? Try some of them in your works, and maybe they will have unexpected effects. Tell you what "steampunk" is in the most popular language.

Steampunk is synonymous with fashion, a mix of classical and modern, and a mix of machinery and humanity. Punk is divided into "Cyberpunk" and "steampunk", electronic science fiction belongs to Cyberpunk, and mechanical science fiction belongs to steampunk. The word "punk" now refers to science fiction, and it used to refer to music. The original meaning of the word "punk" originated in the United States in the 1961s. It is a new form of rock music, with a simple theme and simple triads, expressing wild and unrestrained. The singer wears smoky makeup, combs Matt, and shows obscene fireworks; Singers are anti-tradition and anti-authority, and their voices are not restricted; Also take a strange road, be a heresy, pursue the new trend, and create an alternative trend of emerging schools; Accompanied by decadent, depressed and sloppy dressing, the bones reveal unruly, decadent, lonely and dirty style, personality and indecent status; Punks don't follow the usual path, heretics live their own lives, have temper and strength, and are a bold, radical and energetic new generation. Punk's temperament is decadent, dark, heterogeneous and wild.

Cyberpunk is an electronic science fiction, mixed and messy; Steampunk is a mechanical science fiction, which is mixed, messy and dark, and it is a transition between classical beauty and modern beauty. "Steampunk" pays tribute to age of steam. Watt invented the steam engine and initiated the mechanical revolution. The gears were meshed to form trains, coal stoves and cargo ships, which was the first industrial revolution. At that time, science and technology broke out at the beginning, and it was in the transition between ancient and modern times. Steampunk paid tribute to the steam revolution and history. In steampunk-type animations and movies, most of them had the shadow of mixing ancient and modern, vulgarity and technology. "Love, Death and Robots", the animation is full of punk style, exploring the human fireworks under the background of the universe and the high-tech era. The high-tech in the animation is spacecraft, electronic technology, and Cyberpunk, which mixes humanity, emotion and philosophy. No blood, no punk, bloody violence elements are necessary for punk, no violence, where is it wild? If you are not depressed or gloomy, where will you be depressed? "Love, Death and Robots" belongs to punk animation, which is a heretical avant-garde trend. Bloody and violent elements are always in it, and punk elements are the main tone of animation, not pure science fiction. Animation plot, China martial arts Kyubi no Youko fox and steam engine mix and match, prostitute song and dance tracking crime and time and space shuttle mix and match, directly linked to science fiction mix and match, is unclear!

Punk-style animation works, with a large overload of information composition, reflect dirty and messy, and the scene style conforms to the protagonist's personality style and temperament. The protagonist lives in poverty for the lower class, smoking and drinking, eating and drinking, whoring and gambling, nobody, character temperament and film composition, and the decadent atmosphere of the story rises to a higher level. In a dirty and chaotic atmosphere, it is natural and reasonable to add elements of bloody violence. I love punk, I love information, I love bloody violence, and I love decadence and depression. I like the mix-and-match punk, the mix-and-match between robots and teahouses, the mix-and-match between Romance of the Three Kingdoms and matrix models, which is beyond words. In the punk style city, the picture composition is amazing, the city streets, old houses and new houses are mixed, the suspended temples and electronic buildings are mixed, the urban water pipe structure is exposed, and the appearance of high-rise buildings is composed of precise mechanical gears. Magic city, magic world, can be called "magic capital"! Precise mechanical structure, messy, but there is a sense of beauty. Complex, element-dense composition, a picture contains all kinds of things, generalizing all types, and individual types are squeezed into one space and concentrated in one picture. Mix and match elements, in the composition, cars have various models, people have various ages (including ancient times), machinery has various categories, science and technology has various factions, mix and match, and compress a large number of different kinds of known things into a picture and a city. Overall, g? Kong Old Master Q, why did you bump into Turing? Wonderful! Everything is compressed in a picture, compressed in a story, mixed and matched, and the audience is more and more convinced of the greatness of life. Being in the picture is comfortable and looking forward to the future development of science and technology. Mix-and-match shows the staggered beauty, and mix-and-match is an important part of punk style.

After the mashup, let's go back to the history of punk. Punk was originally a spirit of rock music. With the development of culture, Cyberpunk and steampunk were derived, referring to technology, Cyberpunk, electronic technology, steampunk and steam technology. Steampunk is a big hit, and the contrast between the bulky and outdated machinery and the future high-tech mashup is striking, shocking and amazing; In Cyberpunk, there is no heavy machinery, and electronic technology is originally a modern high-tech. There is no contrast between the two, so Cyberpunk is not as eye-catching as steampunk. Cyberpunk is pessimistic about the development of science and technology and the future of mankind. Cyberpunk's novels and cartoons tell what "evil" humans will do after they have high technology; Steampunk, on the other hand, has infinite scientific reverie, with fantastic colors, and looks at science and technology with optimism. Steampunk-type stories tell that science and technology help people realize their dreams and take people to travel everywhere. In contrast, Cyberpunk's story will tell: with the development of science and technology, people have lost their humanity, scientists have arrested human beings for human experiments, artificial intelligence has ruled the society and human beings have been enslaved by them, the world has fallen apart and human beings have become extinct; The steampunk story will tell: the dreamy Babel, the flying aircraft, the city of the sky, the precise elements to build a dreamy island, the protagonist's footprints all over the place, and human science and technology make people break through the barriers of body and mind and sublimate their souls. These are two different views on science and technology. I support steampunk, and I have a positive attitude. With the development of science and technology, human beings have evolved like dreams and entered a new era!

Punk is a subculture and an alternative culture with its unique charm; Punk, synonymous with fashion, exudes the wildness and whimsy of young people; Punk has the characteristics of mashup, precision and complexity. Punk, equated with the "avant-garde", highlights its outstanding imagination with its precise and mixed, alternative and bold attributes. Punk, a unique culture, is popular in minority circles because of its unique attributes. Punk doesn't mean science fiction. Punk culture is novel. When ordinary people first come into contact with it, they immediately refresh their three views. The whimsy there creates unparalleled spiritual stimulation! The audience has gained an unprecedented beautiful experience!