Sebastien Hue is a versatile digital artist from France. Most of his work is science-fiction, but a few pieces have steam- and dieselpunk influences, including a city with flying mechanical whales!
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The Art of Myke Amend
Myke Amend has been on the steampunk scene from early on. He even illustrated a couple of covers of the old Gatehouse Gazette. His work features airships, mad science and surreal portraits.
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The Art of Donaguirre
“Donaguirre” is a German artist whose lovely Art Deco-inspired posters typically implore citizens of the fictional Eldorado to buy war bonds to fund a three-way Cold War with Teutonian Empire in Europe and the Empire of Nikko across the Pacific.
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The Art of Alex Varanese
What if the laptop, mobile phone and MP3 player had been invented in the 1970s? Alex Varanese gives us a glimpse at what might have been if the future had happened sooner.
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The Art of Sam Van Olffen
Sam Van Olffen’s world is one where we have allowed technology to take over. His is a brutal vision of big machines, pollution and war, whether it is in the form of a steampunk’d version of Henri-Paul Motte’s portrait of Cardinal Richelieu at the Siege of La Rochelle or a Nazi victory parade across the Thames.
If any artist can show you the “darker, grittier side of steampunk,” it’s Sam.
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The Art of Min Nguen
Min Nguen is a diverse artist whose work spans the clock-, steam- and dieselpunk spectrum. I selected all of his airships for you, but if you’re fond of science-fiction artwork as well, you should definitively check out his DeviantArt profile.
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The Art of Alexey Lipatov
Alexey Lipatov hasn’t done a lot of dieselpunk art recently, but some of his earlier work definitively had an impact on the genre. You can see how it combines streamline industrial design with World War II-era, pulp-style characters.
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The Art of Angelique Shelley
Angelique Shelley is a South African artist living in the United Kingdom, who noticed a preponderance of Western characters and influences in steampunk. Her work helps remedy that imbalance.
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The Art of Waldemar von Kozak
There is an obvious Sky Captain influence in Waldemar von Kozak’s art: big flying machines, robots, German villains. It feels more decodence than dark, Piecraftian dieselpunk, reminiscent of midcentury Modern Mechanix and Popular Science covers, yet his is also clearly a world at war.
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The Art of Vadim Voitekhovitch
Vadim Voitekhovitch’s art is proof that everything looks better with airships. It’s hard to pick just a few examples from his DeviantArt profile; all his paintings are gorgeous. Check it out!
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