Most of the wallpapers on this site are Creative Commons Attribution - Noncommercial - Share Alike 3.0 licensed. Check each wallpaper for it's individual license; some are copyright their original owners (in the case of guest wallpapers or featured artists)
Gear brushes used in my pictures are from several people. Unfortunately, I've lost the credit file of who all of those people are.
However, one has found me!
Ewark made the brushes used in several posts.
Mousewrites | July 15, 2008
Title: Mary’s first inventionDescription: We were so proud of Mary the first time she fired up that thing. Of course, that was before it set fire to her little sister, and then went on to disintegrate the town… Mary was such a sweet girl, I’m not sure why we didn’t notice her mad…Type: Widescreen, 1680×1050Credits: […]
Mousewrites | July 14, 2008
Title: VictorianaDescription: wrought iron abstractType: Widescreen, 1680×1050Credits: Based of the picture by Meanest Indian. Creative Commons licensed derivative.
Mousewrites | July 13, 2008
This isn’t Sunday’s Wallpaper a day, but I thought I’d post it this morning anyway. EDIT: Sorry about the wrong link. Full size should work now! Title: Left WatchDescription: gently used paper desk blotter. Someone’s left his watch there overnight. There was a request for a widescreen version, so I made one.Type: Widescreen, 1680×1050 (thanks […]
Mousewrites | July 13, 2008
Title: Blotter with LetterDescription: Oh, what’s this letter?Type: Widescreen, 1680×1050 (thanks to Cthulhu for pointing my labeling mistake out. ia ia!)Credits: Most of it hand made in photoshop. Creative Commons licensed derivative. Some letters from rainspring’s brushes. Drawings are, of course, from mr. de Vinci.
Mousewrites | July 13, 2008
Hey, all. I saw Hellboy II, the Golden Army tonight. If you haven’t seen it, go. Even if you hate the characters, there’s some wonderful world design there, including more gears and steam and industrialized romantisism than I could ever create. It may not be steampunk (perhaps fairypunk?) but it’s beautiful. I wrote up a […]
Mousewrites | July 12, 2008
For Takuan. He commented that I should use the Pipes screensaver and slap some steam on it. So I did.
Mousewrites | July 11, 2008
Title: Wooden desk with gearsDescription: Simple wooden desk with gears. Due to an optical illusion, sometimes the gears seem to rotate… at least to some people. I’ve included two sizes. The large tiles approximately twice across the screen, and the small one tiles about 4 times.Type: tileableCredits: Hand created in Photoshop, with brushes from Ewark .
Mousewrites | July 9, 2008
All summer I’m going to post at least one wallpaper a day. Some will be tileable, some fullscreen. I’ll do widescreen and normal, and usually at least 1280×1024 for the fullscreen ones. I’m going to import all the ones I started back at Geekery Abounds, just so that there’s a good starting point.
Mousewrites | July 9, 2008
Title: Mechanical SpiderDescription: rivets, rust, and an itsy bitsy spider…Type: Fullscreen, 1600×1200Credits: Based on the spider picture by Tolka Rover and some grunge pictures by GrungeTextures.com. Creative Creative Commons licensed derivative.
Mousewrites | July 9, 2008
I started this site because my personal blog Geekery Abounds was getting so many hits on the Steampunk Wallpaper page that I realized that there wasn’t a good repository of Steampunky wallpapers out there. For now, just my wallpaper will be up here, but if you’d like to put some up, let me know in a comment!
Mousewrites | July 8, 2008
Title: Lady BirdDescription: Copper, steam powered Lady Bird.Type: Fullscreen, 1600×1200Credits: Based on the ladybird picture by Reini68. Creative Creative Commons licensed derivative.
Mousewrites | July 7, 2008
Title: Steam Powered FruitDescription: Waiter, my fruit is losing pressure. Stoke the boiler, won’t you?Type: Fullscreen, widescreen, 1680×1050Credits: Fruit basket CC courtesy of His Master’s Voice. Boiler CC courtesy of Jackal of All Trades. Creative Creative Commons licensed derivative.
Mousewrites | July 6, 2008
Title: SteamyfoxDescription: Firefox logo with rivets, grunge and steam.Type: Fullscreen, 1600×1200Credits: Some grunge textures from Grunge Textures. Logo by Mozilla.
Mousewrites | July 5, 2008
Title: Broken RobotDescription: Poor little broken robot…Type: Fullscreen, 1280×1024Credits: Base picture by Baboon tm. Creative Creative Commons licensed derivative of Baboon’s picture of one of Tim Burton’s Tragic Toys.
Mousewrites | July 4, 2008
Title: Map to a Factory long goneDescription: Paper with a factory and a strangerType: Fullscreen, 1280×1024Credits: Base picture by sonyasonya. Creative Commons licensed derivative.
Mousewrites | July 4, 2008
Title: Nice ThreadsDescription: Thread spools, old sewing machine, and faint shadows of yesteryear’s fashion sense.Type: Widescreen, 1680×1050Credits: Base pictures by Gabisa Motonia, wiseacre, and Sunspark58.Creative Commons licensed derivative.
Mousewrites | July 3, 2008
Title: Steamy Factory WoodcutDescription: Pipes and steam and gears.Type: Fullscreen, 1280×1024Credits: Base picture by Autowitch. Creative Commons licensed derivative.
Mousewrites | July 3, 2008
Title: Steamy Factory WoodcutDescription: Pipes and steam and gears.Type: Fullscreen, 1280×1024Credits: Base picture by Autowitch. Creative Commons licensed derivative.
Mousewrites | July 2, 2008
Title: Burnt paper and 3d gearsDescription: Hand painted gears (not true 3d, just made in Photoshop) and a painted burnt paper texture.Type: Fullscreen, 1280×1024Credits: hand made
Mousewrites | July 1, 2008
Title: Brown GearsDescription: less contrast gears. Easier to see icon text on some systems.Type: Seamlessly tileableCredits: hand made
