Sketchbook: The Amazing Everything Machine

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The Amazing Everything Machine
The Amazing Everything Machine

2007

This bizarre little steampunk contraption turns out to be an important part of feep lore. As you may know, "feeping creatures" is a design term, a spoonerism of "creeping features." What are creeping features? They are extraneous bells and whistles added to whatever it is you're designing that bog it down and make it into a sprawling, lumbering beast. The Amazing Everything Machine is a device that was supposed to do Absolutely Everything: clean, dust, make tea, boil water, answer the door, etc. You can learn more about The Amazing Everything Machine and its role in feep history over at Feep Ecology. I did the sketch as a prep for turning the Origin of Feeping story into a comic, but have yet to get around to actually creating said comic, due to having Too Much Other Stuff to Do. If only I had some device that could do Absolutely Everything for me ....