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Published: 2008-06-03 20:24:04 +0000 UTC; Views: 3712; Favourites: 32; Downloads: 367
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Starlit Sky Series Part 5 of 8.I like this part especially because of the green areas. I think green is a beatiful color and totally underrated in Space Art. Part 5 is one of only 3 parts that remained in the original color of the whole starfield. I changed the overall coloring of most of the other parts (like part 4) to make them more different and unique. And usually I scale my pieces down a little bit to make them more detailed but this one is 100% of its original size. Hope you like it.
Part 1: [link]
Part 2: [link]
Part 3: [link]
Part 4: [link]
Part 5: this one
Part 6: [link]
Part 7: [link]
Part 8: [link]
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I was recently working on a background starfield which I could use on the way of creating new pictures. I had so much fun doing it that it developed to more than just a piece of background. I was working on it from time to time adding more and more details. When I was finished I found that it was actually quite good considering the colors and level of detail. But the composition as a whole was terrible. I didn't want to add one or more planets because I thought this would draw away the attention too much. So I decided to split the whole thing into multiple small pictures. I ended up having eight smaller parts where I thought the composition was good enough and all together they covered most of the original starfield.
I will submit all the eight parts to deviantArt from time to time.
When all eight pieces are submitted I would really like to know which one was your favorite.
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Beautiful 
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Cool colors. I like those, and how you have them interplaying in the nebula. However, again, you really need to vary your range of brightness/darkness in the gases of the nebula. To make the nebula work for you, rather than be this one-value blanket that covers the entire piece keeping us from seing black, dark space.
I'm noticing that as a theme here, and while it works in some cases, it can definitely make all your work look too much alike, and all your nebulae too much alike--becuase they're all basically the same value, not a range of values like real-life nebulae can be.
Also, I think you clumped all the bright stars into too compact a set of spots for the composition to work for you here. The eye needs things to draw it around the image, and in space art, that is usually the nebula and well, stars.
I would suggest putting a sprinkling of faint and "hazy" stars through the nebula next time, and use your really big, bright stars as composition enhancers. They work best that way by drawing the eye to key areas. This just wastes their usefulness here.
What I'd have done here is used some brighter, more textured patches of gas, and some bright stars to draw the eye around the picture. Here, they all keep the eye about dead center of the image, and really don't help the rest of it very much. The one-value nebula just makes it worse by not giving the eye much of interest to really look around despite the clumped stars.
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It is good but imo some stars are too sharp :/
Or at least they are too... circle
If you know what i mean
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