Meg goes Steampunk

So yesterday I was contacted by Meg Frampton. The awesome Seventeenth Star (Alyce), a mutual friend, had sent my picture to Meg and she loved it, so she contacted me about using it on her blog. However, she felt that it was very feminine and not quite in line with the steampunk style of her jewelry (and I can totally see where she's coming from). She asked me to replace the butterfly with some cogs. Clearly, I went a little further to make the entire image more cohesively steampunk. That said, I think it turned out really well. I'm happy with it, and hope the she is too.

Obviously this is a hybrid of drawing and photomanipulation, since the cogs are all pictures of watch and clock parts that I didn't paint. It was a lot of fun to do. I've always wanted to try a steampunk piece, but never knew quite how to piece things together. Now that I've figured it out a bit, I may do more steampunk in the future.