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Arcturus
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Published: 2012-09-25 12:04:41 +0000 UTC; Views: 12057; Favourites: 882; Downloads: 794
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Arcturus :"Space is big. You just won't believe how vastly, hugely, mindbogglingly big it is. I mean, you may think it's a long way down the road to the drug store, but that's just peanuts to space." - Douglas Adams
Created with Photoshop CS5
* Thank you infinite705 for selecting this as a daily deviation, and thank you all for the nice comments
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Comments: 66
An amazing piece of art. Are these very difficult to make? (I also enjoyed your 'Twilight' and 'Slumber').
You get a favorite for the artwork and a 'joy' for quoting Douglas Adams
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Thank you very much, there are a lot of tutorials on how to make planets with Photoshop, also starfields and such, it will be hard at first but with practice it gets easier. I love work by Douglas Adams,
here's a link for you to start your space art journey :
[link]
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Thank you for the link! I've always wanted to create planets.
"You'll need to have this fish in your ear."
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Nicely done & congrats on the DD,
but I agree with a few other comments that there are a few inconsistancies from a scientific perspective...
not the least of which is to the best of human knowledge to present, Acrturus is a star not a planet.
While the light flare & shadow of that moon/planetoid LOOK really cool, it's not quite logical.
To see that would require a very large field of particulates.
There would need to be a inner zone of constant collisions there to perpetually replenish the level of "dust" or it wouldn't last long... Especially not in the orbital paths of a planets and moons....
Add to that Arcturus is the fourth brightest star we can see from earth; It's solar "wind" would have swept most of the dust and finer particulates out of that system long ago...
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Thanks for your comment, I was actually not Referring to Arcturus the Star, This is what I chose to name the whole piece, it was a name popped to my mind after looking at it when I was done with it (I know Arcturus is a Star), Don't think about it in such Scientific detail (although I love it my self), I had no scientific accuracy in my mind when doing this, I just wanted it have a sense of scale, in a nutshell I took my artistic license and went mad with it
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LOL! OK...
the "mad artist lost in their craft" defense...
good enough!
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wow! this is grade A stuff. well done. you are an inspiration
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Incredible job. So vast and three dimensional looking.
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wow...the the dragging shadow! impressive angelic glow too.
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Love the Douglas Adams quote!
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Wow, this is beautiful! I especially like how that little planet to the right slightly pops out from all that shadow! Great job =]
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The right half of this pic must have been hard to draw. So much detail...
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this is really great, however, if the small moon is casting a shadow, then you should be better able to see the distant nebulas in the background because they are less drowned out.
otherwise a phenominal scene.
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good job man i love the planets and this its so good!
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im loving the scale, the smaller planet on the right is a very nice touch to get that grand feel.
but i must say that the shadow from that planet/moon on the left captures the light the best
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A ship would make it more epic - even so, this is epic - fabulous!
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Awesome work! You've got a layer line about an inch and a half above the small left planet. Looks like an edge of a texture you used which wasn't erased all the way. Congrats on the DD.
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amazing space art piece. isn't arcturus a sun? And is that earth on the right side?
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Very Nice. Also liked the Douglas Adams quote you picked.
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wow this def gives the feeling of "big space" .. love the absolute massive scale... the small moons really help pull it off.
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First thing that comes to mind is "Man is that a thick atmosphere." Without something to have a change in it's illumination, the planetoid to the far left of the picture would not leave a visible shadow though whatever it is that is casting it's shadow through.
The other is that "That light source must be painfully close." Even on a planetary scale the suns rays are for all intent's and purposes parallel so seeing the planitoid cast such a flared shadow, even at the perspective we're viewing it from where it would naturally seem to get bigger as it got closer, is suspect.
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...? It's art man. Just enjoy it..
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If I didn't hold what I enjoyed to standards, then I'd just shoot up heroin. I'm not saying it's bad, but I AM saying that it could be better and there is nothing wrong with saying so.
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There's nothing right or wrong here. It's art so it's perfect. It's as is, as is all art.
Personally I like how it looks as though it's sticking out from the picture. It looks almost like it's on a canvas and has texture.
What your saying is comparable to looking at an abstract piece and saying it could be better. Not knowing exactly what the artist is going for you can in no way ever say it could be better. I can only guess he captured exactly what he/she wanted. I'm guessing from looking at the piece that the artist wasn't going for logical exact graphics here.
I think it's neato. well done.
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Well, that's the miracle of dA is that the artists has the chance to actually receive comments on their work and use those to reexamine what they've done. If they have made mistakes when attempting realism, then they can use those to become better artists. If not, then they can defend work or ignore their criticism. They most certainly don't need someone playing white knight where there is no injustice to be righted.
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