Archive for the ‘Concept Art’ Category

Apr

Developing the Tesla Rangers

Posted by: DocArcane

… in 1873 the railroads replaced their workers with automatons, but when a man named John Henry died in his fateful contest with a robot pile-driver, the robots learned what happens to things that become “obsolete”. They promptly turned on their human masters.

With no weapons able to overcome the robot menace, the bloodshed and loss of life was too massive for the young country still reeling from the civil war. President Grant, weary of war, choose to cut his losses and ceded everything west of the Mississippi to the robots.

Then in 1886, a young scientist named Nikola Tesla invented a new kind of pistol. the Tesla Electron Bolt Thrower. Armed with this new weapon the “Tesla Rangers” were formed to re-take the west.

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Apr

Tesla Rangers - Mount up

Posted by: DocArcane

For a while now I’ve had this idea to make my own line of “badges” for law enforcement agencies that never existed - the first one is a LoneStar-and-Gear shaped TESLA RANGERS badge - and is available via the shiny new Girl Genius webstore. Here is the blurb to go with it…

Haven’t you always wanted to enforce the laws of Science? (All right, I know, most of you would rather break them, but that’s why we need some trustworthy lawmen ’round these parts.)

It even has a space to add your own individual badge number. Mmmm. DIY!

In other news Girl Genius has been nominated for a second Hugo award in the category of “Best Graphic Story” - can we pull it off two years in a row? … hang on, I buried the lead here. Let me try again…

Girl Genius has been nominated for a second Hugo award!!!

That’s better… - can we pull it off two years in a row? Wow that’d be awesome. Really unlikely, based on our competition again this year. but really awesome if we did.

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Jun

I lied

Posted by: DocArcane

I forgot about this guy — ok NOW I’m done

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Jun

The last Scorpion costume

Posted by: DocArcane

I promise

Note: I knew this project might be in trouble when I got the design notes for this outfit. “this design is awfully fascist SS looking” I said, “I don’t think that your GERMAN rock stars really want to wear pseudo-Nazi outfits on stage” I warned.

But do they listen to me? nooo.

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Jun