Justin Gerard's Steampunk Wizard of Oz

Steampunk Wizard of Oz, by Justin Gerard

Justin Gerard is a fan-freaking-tastic illustrator.  Whenever I pick up an issue of Spectrum, I'm inevitably staring down at a piece he's done thinking "Holy crows, that's awesome!  I wonder who - oh, it's Justin Gerard's. Well, that explains it."  Without fail.  Every single time.  And I mean every single time because he's in EVERY SINGLE ONE.

Back in 2009, he did an illustration of Wizard of Oz for Illustration Master Class.  But is was Wizard of Oz . . . as steampunk.  Awesome, I know.  A few other pieces followed and the final art as well as his process are posted here on his blog.

He also posts on Muddy Colors: An Illustration Collective with several other bastions of illustration.  If you have any interest in art at all, I would suggest taking a look at both of these sites.  It's not often that you can really get information directly from the horses mouth, so to speak.  And all of these guys are really good teachers as well.  It's like a gold mine.  But more awesome.

Steampunk Illustrator

I happened across the illustrator Kieth Thompson this weekend by way of Google+.  His art's a little dark at times, but he's got a lot of great steampunk inspired illustrations that are really fantastic and I'm already a big fan of his drawing and painting style.  I also love that each of his illustrations have some kind of literature or a blurb about what they are about or who the character is that he's depicting.

I'm still plugging away at some drawings.  We had an epic photo shoot this weekend with a few of the "characters".  My goal is to post some of the drawings by the end of this week, as well as anything else I do or come across.  We'll see how this goes . . .