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Published: 2009-02-23 01:46:54 +0000 UTC; Views: 5904; Favourites: 138; Downloads: 322
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Here's something you don't see from me often, space art! Although I don't really mention it, I love space. It's so mysterious and alluring to me, and the idea of extrasolar planets really intrigues me. (extrasolar means things outside of our own solar system)What I like about space art in general, is that anything is possible. What I have painted here could very well exist somewhere in a galaxy far, far away.
I used various reference for this, looking at the art of a variety of sci-fi artists. However, I didn't go planet-happy like some of them do.
I believe there is beauty in simplicity. 
This is the planet tutorial I used: [link] However, I did a few tricks of my own to get this Earth-like planet, rather than a random rocky one.
Enjoy!
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All of your nature artworks are great and with stunning view~ 
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Absolutely amazing, and very beautiful - quite captivating, well done ^.^
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Hm . . . that bit of geography visible looks not unlike England and Scandinavia. maybe altered somewhat, but certainly a resemblance.
Please do more!
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The land masses were created randomly, hehe. It was just some controlled-scribbles I did on the circle, then "sphereized" it!
And I shall! Thanks!
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How did you manage to create a sense of luminance? I'm trying to figure that out right now.
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Whoops. Sorry, I seemed to have jumped the gun before TOTALLY, reading your comment. My bad.
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Nice!
I like how the foreground isn't just a set of generic rocks thrown in there to provide a reference; it looks very nice, and has features of its own. The blur at the horizon and the light glow is lovely as well.
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Love the earth's glow effect, absolutely astounding work Tem
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Most splendid and prodigious. I especially like the way you did the comments.
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Heaven's shooting their stars to the beauty...really nice : )
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Hip Hot Digidy Dog!
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I believe that another Earth is very possible. Not *exactly*, but close. Climate, life and everything. If the same climate and demands are present, life should evolve in a similar matter. Not perfectly the same, but close.
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I can't what for Scientist discover A 
By the way How was your Friday the 13?? Mines was fair!
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It was great. Went to the movies with some friends.
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Cool,
this looks alot like the cover to the Geodesium album "A gentle rain of starlight"
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Oh! It kind of does doesn't it? o.O The composition is pretty similar, except the comets are replaced by stars. (which look like the "seven sisters" specifically, to me)
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Very realistic, its my new background too xD
How do you imagine the ratios, proportions, and landscapes for this?
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Here is a better background with the aspect ratio fixed.
And what do you mean by that? The specs of the planet?
To me...I'd say it's quite larger than Earth. Maybe close to two Earth masses. For example, that island you see in the top left of the planet would be the same size as Australia roughly. Both moons are roughly the same size as ours, except darker and icy. The landscapes are basically the same as our planet, except with a higher chance of more extreme places since it's larger.
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this is my new background.
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i love it. SO PRETTY.
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Here is a proper background. 
[link]
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Nice Tem! I agree I love space...I mean I know what it's all composed of and all that but I still find it mystical..
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Likewise. I know the basics, and the terminology, but I'm more interested in the "seeing" than the knowing.
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yeah I know right..I wanna travel in space one day and find a new planet that is inhabited...whether it be carnivorous aliens or peace keeping ones...I wanna go!
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Studying alien planets would SO be a career choice for me if it were an option.
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i like space too, and the mystery in it. Not because of aliens.. but they do play a role xD
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Yeah xD
I believe in life elsewhere. I don't think of all the billions of galaxies and billions of stars between them, we are some anomaly.
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i'm not sure about more intelligent life, but the chance of somewhere capable of supporting life is extremely rare, , let alone actually having life on it.. but then again, it does go on forever
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Well considering we lack much knowledge about other solar systems, we don't really know how often habitable planets come along. One scientist estimate one per solar system, but I don't know what the basis of it is. NASA just launched this new probe (Keifer I think) to search for Earth-like planets specifically. They're going to be watching 100,000 sun-like stars for the next four years and wait for signs of blinking as a planet goes by. We should have some results come in within 3 months.
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Yep! All they've found so far are gas giants many times the mass of Jupiter, since the blinking can be so faint. It'll be interesting what we find with this.
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Wow, stellar work, Tem! I've always been a fan of space scenes, too.
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