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BIG EDIT. Now that I have a dedicated scanner, I decided to rescan this and boy, its so much different from the original scan. As you should be able to tell now, the colors are much more vibrant then originally shown.

I have been often been asked something like this, "If you have Ps CS5, a computer that would make many gamers envious, and an Intuos4 Graphics Tablet, why are you doing space art in PRISMACOLOR PENCILS?"

Well, being a traditional artist from my beginnings of my extreme art hobby, I feel it is more fulfilling to do stuff literally by hand, pencil and paper. I know easily I could do a picture like this digitally with a fricken mouse and the quality would be better. But to me, that is not gratifying to do, not with my immense background in Prismacolor pencils and other traditional means.

And even for rare traditional space art, pencil is rare within that. I mostly see paintings or at closest, graphite/charcoal or white charcoal/pencil on black. And hence why I changed this picture's title from Juggernaut (referring to the gas giant) to Undaunted (referring to the pride in what I do with Prismacolors).

The screw up in color choice for the nebula still bothers me, but not as bad as it had when I realized I had made it. There is one other major flaw in the design, but I think only versed space artists/enthusiasts will notice it.

So... I guess the specs I could share would be:
~8.5" x 11" sheet of black card stock, twice as large as my previous major space piece, "Catastrophic Cataclysm."
~More then half of my color selection from my pencil collection was used.
~Despite starting this around the end of last year and finishing it yesterday, I really doubt I spent more than 25 hours on this in raw labor, if even that.

Not too informative progress:
WIP1: [link]
WIP2: [link]
WIP3: [link]
WIP4: [link]

I only recorded three references that I used:

~A class - Odin by Voyger212
At this time I still consider this my favorite gas giant piece/ref/inspiration as I used it for Catastrophic Cataclysm AND Colossus ACEO too.

~Antheron by DemosthenesVoice
Mostly just for another color ref for how colors look relative to each other on the Giant's atmospheric layers.

~Nebula tutorial by Voyager212
Hopefully you can look at that one and figure out where I got the crazy colors for my nebula, which when I originally printed off the bottom image to ref I did not intend to duplicate the colors. I wanted to use a two color theme... but for some reason... I .... uhh... kinda copied it... without thinking when I was distracted at work starting it.

And finally, I waited so long to submit anything lately cause I wanted this piece specifically submitted in my gallery side by side with Steam Powered Fox, to kinda show two of my most favorite but very different genres side by side: Spacescapes and Steampunk Mechs.

Unrelated note:
My new computer upgrades are all in that I want. The final specs are something like this:
~AMD Phenom II X4 Black Edition Processor (3.4 GHz)
~16GB RAM
~1GB DDR3 Graphics RAM
~Still got me old 1TB hard drive though. |3 Will need a secondary one soon with my ultra high res scans I do (ex: this raw scan was a 1.39GB file).

The irony! Old fashion art above! High tech stuff down here! |3

I want this machine to do stream and video recording, but with how my tradition webcam keeps giving me the blue screen of death and no obvious way I can find on the internet to fix it... well... I will need a new webcam. And I still need a decent video editing software. A guy I watch uses Adobe Premier Elements so I am looking at that.

P.S. I don't really do gaming much.

Description
BIG EDIT. Now that I have a dedicated scanner, I decided to rescan this and boy, its so much different from the original scan. As you should be able to tell now, the colors are much more vibrant then originally shown.

I have been often been asked something like this, "If you have Ps CS5, a computer that would make many gamers envious, and an Intuos4 Graphics Tablet, why are you doing space art in PRISMACOLOR PENCILS?"

Well, being a traditional artist from my beginnings of my extreme art hobby, I feel it is more fulfilling to do stuff literally by hand, pencil and paper. I know easily I could do a picture like this digitally with a fricken mouse and the quality would be better. But to me, that is not gratifying to do, not with my immense background in Prismacolor pencils and other traditional means.

And even for rare traditional space art, pencil is rare within that. I mostly see paintings or at closest, graphite/charcoal or white charcoal/pencil on black. And hence why I changed this picture's title from Juggernaut (referring to the gas giant) to Undaunted (referring to the pride in what I do with Prismacolors).

The screw up in color choice for the nebula still bothers me, but not as bad as it had when I realized I had made it. There is one other major flaw in the design, but I think only versed space artists/enthusiasts will notice it.

So... I guess the specs I could share would be:
~8.5" x 11" sheet of black card stock, twice as large as my previous major space piece, "Catastrophic Cataclysm."
~More then half of my color selection from my pencil collection was used.
~Despite starting this around the end of last year and finishing it yesterday, I really doubt I spent more than 25 hours on this in raw labor, if even that.

Not too informative progress:
WIP1: [link]
WIP2: [link]
WIP3: [link]
WIP4: [link]

I only recorded three references that I used:

~A class - Odin by Voyger212
At this time I still consider this my favorite gas giant piece/ref/inspiration as I used it for Catastrophic Cataclysm AND Colossus ACEO too.

~Antheron by DemosthenesVoice
Mostly just for another color ref for how colors look relative to each other on the Giant's atmospheric layers.

~Nebula tutorial by Voyager212
Hopefully you can look at that one and figure out where I got the crazy colors for my nebula, which when I originally printed off the bottom image to ref I did not intend to duplicate the colors. I wanted to use a two color theme... but for some reason... I .... uhh... kinda copied it... without thinking when I was distracted at work starting it.

And finally, I waited so long to submit anything lately cause I wanted this piece specifically submitted in my gallery side by side with Steam Powered Fox, to kinda show two of my most favorite but very different genres side by side: Spacescapes and Steampunk Mechs.

Unrelated note:
My new computer upgrades are all in that I want. The final specs are something like this:
~AMD Phenom II X4 Black Edition Processor (3.4 GHz)
~16GB RAM
~1GB DDR3 Graphics RAM
~Still got me old 1TB hard drive though. |3 Will need a secondary one soon with my ultra high res scans I do (ex: this raw scan was a 1.39GB file).

The irony! Old fashion art above! High tech stuff down here! |3

I want this machine to do stream and video recording, but with how my tradition webcam keeps giving me the blue screen of death and no obvious way I can find on the internet to fix it... well... I will need a new webcam. And I still need a decent video editing software. A guy I watch uses Adobe Premier Elements so I am looking at that.

P.S. I don't really do gaming much.