Tuesday, September 2, 2008

Imaginary Steampunk Novel " The Girls of Fogg Academy" Part Nine

The Queen's Mischief entered Mrs. Fleet's parlour through holes in the walls and ceiling. They brought word that the invasion of the city had begun, but so had the Carnival. One could no longer tell monster from government agent from ordinary reveler. A pall of hopelessness fell over the girls, it was too late and there was nothing they could do.
At least things could not get worse
, thought Clara.
Events conspired, however, to prove her most certainly wrong.

16 comments:

pinky said...

cool interpitation guy,
your blogsalways furn to go to!

Jess said...

Hi Eric,
Wow you've been busy! These black and white images are fantastic, so striking. It makes me want to use just black and white now.:)

Claudio Cerri said...

Hi Eric, I love your style. Your artworks are very cool! See you soon!

GiuliA said...

beautiful works *_*
sometimes they remember me Miyazaki's Nausicaa...

Eric, you're great ^o^!!

GiuliA ì,^

Peter Breese said...

I really like this image, seems to have a touch of Venice, a dab of Egyptian mummy, diluted with steampunk tech.

tlc illustration said...

Heh. I love peter breese's description. Even if you don't plan to write this out for real, do you have even a rough outline? A basic plot? (will they be victorious in the end???)

Your new avatar scares me.

Eric Orchard said...

Thanks Kelly!

Thanks Jess! Very addictive, instantly gratifying.

Thanks Claudio!

Thanks Giulia! Miyazaki! Big compliment. You're great too.

Thanks Peter! I'm getting you to write the dust jacket for this imaginary book.

Thanks Tara! I do know how it ends, and do have a feel for the over scheme of the story but it was really just done for fun and got a bit out of hand.

I really do have to tell everyone, this is my favorite ink drawing of mine thus far. The weirdness of it really charmed me.

Brian Lue Sang said...

It's funny you say it charmed you, Eric. My first thought looking at this illustration was, 'Man, Eric's work, even when it gets dark, is still so charming!'

Great stuff as usual! How many more of these do you have up your sleeve?

Eric Orchard said...

Thanks Brian! I have 3 or 4 pictures left in this series. Part of me wants to keep going! But I've started scripting a comic based on this so who knows? By the way, I'd love it if you had a blog so we could all look at new art.

oriol said...

Thanks for visiting! I enjoy with your drawings:)

Eric Orchard said...

Thanks Oriel!

Ernesto said...

Joder! que blo descojonante chavalete!
Pasare seguido, me flipan las ilustraciones tanto como a ti.

Pasa cuando quieras por mi blo.

Saludos desde españa
Ernesto Salieri

Eric Orchard said...

Gracias Ernesto! I'm very sorry but I can't read your Spanish well enough to quite understand.

Frank? Anyone? Could someone give a rough translation? Babel fish made a mess out of this.

Joe Sutphin said...

This guy is a great villain. although we all know who truly hides behind that mask and ray gun...eric, dont we...

very fun! i would like to see more of these guys. emotionless businessmen. like a dark, creepy Spy VS Spy...

Eric Orchard said...

Thanks Joe! I owe a bit to Guy Davis here....

Sweet Pea said...

This is my absolute favourite. it reminds me of the headgear that doctors would wear in Britain in the middle ages when they were treating plague victims. I think they stuffed the beak with herbs as they thought it would protect them from the disease. Must have been quite creepy to see bird headed figures walking around the streets at night - like soemthing straight out of a comic book :)

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