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Deviation #1,900! And have our three favorite Yamis in Steampunk attire! They’re ready to tear up the Victorian London Dueling scene…Yami might be the only one who has problems with using weapons instead of cards though.

Wasn’t sure what to do on this one, but I’ve been reading some Steampunk fiction which…is actually kind of slow, I think because once you start trying to describe what it is that makes Steampunk so fun to look at you realize that it falls firmly into the “Awesome but Impractical” trope—the one I’m reading now, The Clockwork Scarab, had a pocket watch that unfolded itself into like a miniature grandfather clock, and by the time I finished reading about it I said “it takes literally two seconds to pop open a pocket watch and read the time—why would a cop waste 5+ seconds on this thing? What if it breaks???” And then a different one I read earlier in the year had New Orleans as a huge elevated mechanical city, but didn’t mention that little tidbit in the blurb. So when I read “the catacombs of New Orleans,” instead of picturing the guts of a mechanical city suspended over a swamp, I had a moment of “they can’t even bury their dead in New Orleans because they float away how the *beep* could they possibly have catacombs?” and couldn’t get into the book because of that. So…I think my main beef with Steampunk is that while visually appealing, if it’s going to be written fiction the practical side needs to be handled better? I think the best series I ever read that handled strange technology was The Books of the Raksura by Martha Wells—it basically operated under the rule that if Moon (the main character) didn’t know what it was he was looking at, he gave it his best educated guess based on appearance, and if it wasn’t trying to actively kill him moved on. I need to do some fanart for that series I love the Books of the Raksura you guys have no idea—

*ahem* Anywho, moving on…looked up some men’s Steampunk attire to get a general design idea…my best guess is suits and tails with lots of cogs and buttons. ^^ It’s gorgeous to look at, but tedious to draw.

Did my sketchy style for this, and then my painterly style, and then tried to make it look like an old photograph. Not entirely sure I nailed it, but it makes me happy, so there you go. Had the Fiechter boys’ music on while working on it too—really set the mood.

So! Yami’s going oh yes it IS time to duel, Marik is more than happy to be a stabby Victorian murder boi, and Bakura’s already robbed them clean. I think they’ll be fine.

And can we take a moment to discuss how, since the Ring ended up with Alexander the Great and was therefore not always under lock and key, and coupling that with that one time period when Britain went nutty over Egyptian antiquities, that canonically Bakura could have definitely been in Victorian England? I need AUs exploring this, people, don’t make me write it myself.

Yu-Gi-Oh! © 1996 Kazuki Takahashi

Done in Adobe Photoshop.

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More Yu-Gi-Oh!

Deviation #1,900! And have our three favorite Yamis in Steampunk attire! They’re ready to tear up the Victorian London Dueling scene…Yami might be the only one who has problems with using weapons instead of cards though.

Wasn’t sure what to do on this one, but I’ve been reading some Steampunk fiction which…is actually kind of slow, I think because once you start trying to describe what it is that makes Steampunk so fun to look at you realize that it falls firmly into the “Awesome but Impractical” trope—the one I’m reading now, The Clockwork Scarab, had a pocket watch that unfolded itself into like a miniature grandfather clock, and by the time I finished reading about it I said “it takes literally two seconds to pop open a pocket watch and read the time—why would a cop waste 5+ seconds on this thing? What if it breaks???” And then a different one I read earlier in the year had New Orleans as a huge elevated mechanical city, but didn’t mention that little tidbit in the blurb. So when I read “the catacombs of New Orleans,” instead of picturing the guts of a mechanical city suspended over a swamp, I had a moment of “they can’t even bury their dead in New Orleans because they float away how the *beep* could they possibly have catacombs?” and couldn’t get into the book because of that. So…I think my main beef with Steampunk is that while visually appealing, if it’s going to be written fiction the practical side needs to be handled better? I think the best series I ever read that handled strange technology was The Books of the Raksura by Martha Wells—it basically operated under the rule that if Moon (the main character) didn’t know what it was he was looking at, he gave it his best educated guess based on appearance, and if it wasn’t trying to actively kill him moved on. I need to do some fanart for that series I love the Books of the Raksura you guys have no idea—

*ahem* Anywho, moving on…looked up some men’s Steampunk attire to get a general design idea…my best guess is suits and tails with lots of cogs and buttons. ^^ It’s gorgeous to look at, but tedious to draw.

Did my sketchy style for this, and then my painterly style, and then tried to make it look like an old photograph. Not entirely sure I nailed it, but it makes me happy, so there you go. Had the Fiechter boys’ music on while working on it too—really set the mood.

So! Yami’s going oh yes it IS time to duel, Marik is more than happy to be a stabby Victorian murder boi, and Bakura’s already robbed them clean. I think they’ll be fine.

And can we take a moment to discuss how, since the Ring ended up with Alexander the Great and was therefore not always under lock and key, and coupling that with that one time period when Britain went nutty over Egyptian antiquities, that canonically Bakura could have definitely been in Victorian England? I need AUs exploring this, people, don’t make me write it myself.

Yu-Gi-Oh! © 1996 Kazuki Takahashi

Done in Adobe Photoshop.

FanFiction | Tumblr | Etsy | Commission Me | Buy me a Ko-Fi | Patreon | AO3