FOCUS STUDY Steam Punk Bird

FOCUS STUDY - Steampunk Manu drawing

Steampunk is a subgenre of science fiction that incorporates retrofuturistic technology and aesthetics inspired by 19th-century industrial steam-powered machinery - think metal, leather and glass - mechanical cogs, rivets and chains

Look at the exemplars for ideas.

  1. You need to find yourself a bird to transform, it needs to fill most of an A4 page so photocopy and enlarge where needed

  2. Use tracing paper and the steampunk resources to put together a steampunk bird of your own creation.

  3. Get the tracing paper photocopied/enlarged onto A3 brown sugar paper [if doing at home draw straight onto white paper and stain it with tea or coffee]

  4. You can deepen the inside of the bird [or sections] using brown ink if you want OR

  5. Begin to add value shading to shadow areas to emphasize your cogs and gears.

  6. Use white pencil to add lighter areas in and to help create edges (instead of lines)


examples from the web...