Andrew Chase's mechanical animals seem to have been around for a while, but they're new to me. This seems especially relevant to me because I was recently thinking of some posts on clockwork creatures but just couldn't come up with illustrations I was satisfied with. I like these, they seem rough enough to fit in a fantasy milieu but elegant enough to appear as if they were crafted by the best engineers of the ancients.
There are some more pictures here.
via Neatorama
I like clockwork - I used the effects of winding down for a monster:
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Wonderful, I had missed that.
ReplyDeleteWell, I had a clockwork warrior in mind, but yours is better than I had imagined.
i really dug Lord Kilgore's Clockwork Octopus.
ReplyDeleteOh yes, that too. I even love the sound of that.
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