Though the corset and chemise rotted on my hard drive for months, I finished everything else in just a week in a frenzy of Modo and Photoshop and photo-taking and sleepless nights. Truly the artist's life.
You saw the sketches and screenshots in the Process: Steampunk Series post; here's the final result, in all its vendored glory. I chose to sell each separate item in color fatpacks to save prims and photographing time; the price is still comparable to what one would shell out for just one or two of the colors because of the lack of single options. Anyone wanting just one color can message me to work out a deal.
Originally overlooked as just a complement to the corset, the chemise grew into its very own item, capable of vague shirthood. It's a shame that people will often wear it covered the corset.
Since steampunk is such a broad and undefinable genre, I felt I had the artistic liberty to stretch the definitions a little to suit modern practical tastes (read: I don't want to wear a bustle. Do you?).
The corset is pretty detailed for a primless piece, with jacquard fabric pattern (yes, it's seam-matched - frak that took forever), Victorian-style button row, visible boning seam shading, and of course, back lacing.
*Whispers* I like corsets.
The laced trousers came out somewhat more risque than I intended (the sketch seemed somehow more tasteful). I try not to delve into the tacky, oversexed end of SL design work. With that in mind, I considered not putting these up for sale. However, I really do like the detailing of the cord, especially down the back leg which you really can't see in the vendor image. Perhaps eventually when I have more time, I'll replace them with a closed-hip version. In the meantime, I'm sure this will spit irony at me by being obscenely popular.
I'm much more proud of the sculpty-enhanced Tied and Classic trousers. It took forever to get the shading to remotely match up on the sculpt attachments, but they look reasonably smooth now. I'm also quite fond of the unique asymmetrical hip closure. Brass buttons - steampunkey!
I put two ensembles together to demonstrate the "look" of the items as a whole.
Erudite is definitely my favorite of these two; as I said before, the laced leggings shown here in Intrepid (especially in that color combo) toe unfavorably close to the unoriginal and oversexed end of design. I admit I caved to customer/friend pressure in the design process when adding that set. As I predicted, though, Intrepid mocks me by selling far better than Erudite. I fear for the collective taste of SL residents.
Anyway, the whole shebang is up in the GW mainstore front and center, so come check it out!
~Gryph
GryphonWings Designs
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