Space

Painting Planets

I spent part of today painting planets in Photoshop  CS6.  It’s a lot of fun to make worlds – the work is very fast, and tossing about atmospheres and coming up with ways to fill the space between planets and suns, and the simple act of creating distant galaxies are all very fulfilling.  One can imagine what it is like for a real planet maker – if its this much fun to make planets digitally, how much greater it must be to make the real thing. 
The above image is part of a suite I’m working on of travel posters for non existent space colonies.  This particular one goes with a small caption:  “Although Janis enjoyed her visit to the Lukas system, there is no blue at all in the Lukas light spectrum – she really misses Blue!”
I’d miss it too.