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Gear brushes used in my pictures are from several people. Unfortunately, I've lost the credit file of who all of those people are.
Title: Mary’s first invention Description: 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, 1680×1050 Credits: Based of the picture by an unknown artist. Library of Congress image found though Pingnews. No known restrictions on publication for the base picture, but elements in this picture from TJJOHN12 and ninjapoodles (hee hee), making this (like all the wallpapers) a Creative Commons licensed derivative.
Title: Victoriana Description: wrought iron abstract Type: Widescreen, 1680×1050 Credits: Based of the picture by Meanest Indian. Creative Commons licensed derivative.
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!
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Title: Left Watch Description: 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 to Cthulhu for pointing my labeling mistake out. ia ia!) Credits: Most of it hand made in photoshop. Watch from Leo Reynolds Flickr stream. Creative Commons licensed derivative. Some spatters from Gorguss’s Photoshop brushes.
Title: Blotter with Letter Description: 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.
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 review at my blog, but it’s spoliery. Click if you’d like but be aware. Hellboy II review.
Title: Wooden desk with gears Description: 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: tileable Credits: Hand created in Photoshop, with brushes from Ewark .
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.
Title: Mechanical Spider Description: rivets, rust, and an itsy bitsy spider… Type: Fullscreen, 1600×1200 Credits: Based on the spider picture by Tolka Rover and some grunge pictures by GrungeTextures.com. Creative Creative Commons licensed derivative.
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!
Title: Lady Bird Description: Copper, steam powered Lady Bird. Type: Fullscreen, 1600×1200 Credits: Based on the ladybird picture by Reini68. Creative Creative Commons licensed derivative.
Title: Steam Powered Fruit Description: Waiter, my fruit is losing pressure. Stoke the boiler, won’t you? Type: Fullscreen, widescreen, 1680×1050 Credits: Fruit basket CC courtesy of His Master’s Voice. Boiler CC courtesy of Jackal of All Trades. Creative Creative Commons licensed derivative.
Title: Steamyfox Description: Firefox logo with rivets, grunge and steam. Type: Fullscreen, 1600×1200 Credits: Some grunge textures from Grunge Textures. Logo by Mozilla.
Title: Broken Robot Description: Poor little broken robot… Type: Fullscreen, 1280×1024 Credits: Base picture by Baboon tm. Creative Creative Commons licensed derivative of Baboon’s picture of one of Tim Burton’s Tragic Toys.
Title: Map to a Factory long gone Description: Paper with a factory and a stranger Type: Fullscreen, 1280×1024 Credits: Base picture by sonyasonya. Creative Commons licensed derivative.
Title: Burnt paper and 3d gears Description: Hand painted gears (not true 3d, just made in Photoshop) and a painted burnt paper texture. Type: Fullscreen, 1280×1024 Credits: hand made
