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Published: 2009-12-31 13:00:22 +0000 UTC; Views: 33110; Favourites: 1227; Downloads: 0
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Ta-da! Like every year so far since me joining this site I've managed to submit a new space art right at the turn of the new year (well, locally anyway
) Ahh the past decade has some fond memories indeed and hopefully so will the next! 2009 was probably my least favorite of the decade though so it is with great pride that I kick it out the door and usher in 2010 with this! 
As with my other three, I just wanted a glorified "stars and planets" scene. Didn't worry too much about originality and whtanot here since sometimes you just gotta do something for the fun of it even if it is a common subject
But I still hope this is at least a little unique among most space art though, I wanted nice colours and interesting planets. This one was done quite fast since I foolishly left myself with just 2 days before the end of the year to even start, so I crammed and between the days this probably took about 6 hours or so (quick by my standards 
)Happy New Year!
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those odd colors of the gas giant make me think that odd alien life could thrive and evolve there.
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What did you use to make this? IF YOU SAY PHOTOSHOP I WILL CUT MY LEG OFF. What FREE programs do you use?
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Photoshop is one of the programs I used (mostly for the top half) Vue is the other (mostly for the main planet below) Vue does have a free version, but it comes with some pretty crippling limitations
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:s :3 
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Wow. Love that gas giant in the background. I'm looking for a multicolor gas giant to use (so would need some tutorial to make it myself, or someone happy to lend a hand). Any ideas/pointers?
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Colourful gas giants, or any planet can look fake and marble-like if the colours are too rich. The key here assuming you know how to make the texture first) is that the more colours there are, the less-saturated they should be. This one has a lot of colours, but few of them are very vivid shades of their colour
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Thanks. Will fire up Gimp and Blender and give it a try.
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This is wonderful, so are your other space works! I see this a lot in fantasy art; it would be cool if the other planets and moons were close enough for us to see like this but in real life, it wouldn't be good because it may affect the earth's gravity and make life difficult or impossible
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Yeah, the gravity issue is a problem many people, even I forget about sometimes when creating these. Perhaps we are better off with just one, distant moon after all
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Its just art so you can do anything 
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Amazing yet again. The background is done especially well.
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Thanks!...But the link doesn't seem to work
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Oh crap! It's just that I added one of your work in a collection and I did post a journal about the collection showing the pics in it but then I removed the journal because I thought it wasn't necessary XD Anyway, here check out the collection [link]
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That's OK. In fact, that's a more permanent thing anyway, glad you saw it as in inspiration
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So amazing, I'm going through your art and I can't stop faving!
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I think you might be the King of the Universe Paintings.
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Oh GOD!!! I love it!!!
I have been waiting for your next one with baited breath (*I can breath again...*)!
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Actually I've this up for many months already, you probably only just noticed now
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OMG IS A RAINBOW PLANET!!!!!!!!!! AND IT HAVES MOONS!!!!!!!AND ITS OVER 9000!!!!!!!!!!!
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This is just...simply BEAUTIFUL. Wonderful job.
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i would like to use some of this art as my avatar, is it possible ?[link]
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Thanks for asking, But I don't allow that. You could for the time being modify real images of the planets or other space-photo's from NASA to get the colours/composition you want until you can draw your own 
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you are just to smart for me, I am calling Gumby and Pokey ! : )
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Nah, just bad weather on a terrestrial one
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Well if your'e that keen to see gas giants from cloud-level, there's four in here [link] Not sure if you've seen that already though
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LOVE the colors you chose. Tho what's with the blue spot on the large planet(?) in the foreground?
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Yes, this one's one of my most colourful...totally unrealistic, but who cares - I love colours
That blue area on the left of the nearby planet is the flat top of a huge thunderhead, such clouds grow so tall that they can go no further and thus flatten out to form an "anvil" of feathery clouds at the highest possible altitude they can go
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colors ARE indeed the shit. In the most awesome way ever. haha.
Well. I am not even at school right now and I'm learning. Thanks!!!
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