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Systematicby `dinyctis

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A simple, yet complex solar system (not ours, that is)

I made this during the small breaks that i took during the past 4 days in which i have been hauling ass with stuff to finish for school. In fact, im taking a break to write this description now

I was looking through my stuff and noticed that i have never attempted a solar system. I have made galaxies, planets, and nebulae, but never really a system. So i went ahead and started working on one with the mindset that i would like to something good enough to hang on my wall. This is the end result.

I was planning on doing a much bigger image with this being just a section of it, but as i worked on it, i thought "hmmm this isnt bad at all, i better stop now before i overdo it"

And so i did. However i may continue to do the bigger piece later on.

Needless to say, scales be damned. Adding nebulae or any other things in the background was out of the question because they wouldve been distracting. Same goes for brighter stars and bright objects like comets. Just for the record, this isnt our solar system. But i looked at ours to see the pattern of size in planets as the planets get farther away from the sun. You may also notice that the orbits go over the planets a bit. Well this is to give the impression that the planets are attached to them. I tried turning off the orbits and it looks like a mess.

Unfortunately, the most standard long-ratio frame that i found was 11x36, which ended up being way too thin for this. I recommend online frame stores, like FramesByMail.com or things of the like.

With all that said, i still welcome your critiques and suggestions. If there is something you dont like, tell me what it is!

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~devilsvsdevils Apr 5, 2009 Student Digital Artist

This is fantastic, what program are you using to render such a large image?? I love the complexity of the image, amazing detail, and the overall composition is great.

`dinyctis Apr 5, 2009

Photoshop handled it pretty well back then. It wasnt as complex. The key is to streamline everything. Instead of having, say, 5 big-ass layers set to "screen" blending mode, just merge them together to make just one. And delete stuff that you won't use. Sometimes, I make duplicates of layers before I make changes to them in case i want go back. But if I'm happy with the result, I go back and delete the original version. It helps quite a lot

~devilsvsdevils Apr 5, 2009 Student Digital Artist

I've definitely got some learning to do; your images are proof that Photoshop is a very powerful tool.
I'll take your advice on merging all of the layers, I get so flustered with all the groups/layers I end up making... I often have layers I'm not even using and end up not knowing which one I need to create a certain effect I want.

`dinyctis Apr 11, 2009

It also helps to save the artwork at different stages

And I dont mean the "save often" thing. I mean have different files of the same project but at different stages

~devilsvsdevils Apr 13, 2009 Student Digital Artist

The rings tutorial is nice, I found another tutorial on how to make them, but they really don't turn out that great. I haven't used any rings in any of my images yet because they just don't look right. -I'm not proficient in 3d studio max just yet, so It's going to take me a while to figure that one out (the rough particle ring). Thanks

~lizardlea Feb 27, 2008

That is gorgeous!

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~celestial-void Jul 18, 2006 Hobbyist Digital Artist

That sun is HUGE! There is obviously no life on any of these planets

I really think this is beautiful. And I think my favorite part of it (I don't know why) is the asteroid belt in the center of the system.
I can't even imagine how large this piece would have to be if you were to make it more to scale & show detail at the same time.

Anyway, awesome job. Really.

~zerreitug Jul 10, 2006

Nice picture, I like the colors. the whole painting idea makes me remember the solar system schemes that appeared in my geography book on 1st grade. They were really great!
Now, I'm not an astronomer or a celestial mechanics expert, but I think that this solar system idea its too similar to our own. I mean, there are the classic elements that caracterize our neighborhood, like lots of rocky planets, an asteroid field, a couple of gas planets, and all that. Its not very original...
You should try on the next one to use strange and totally alien solar system elements. For example, try to use a binary star system (lonely stars like our sun are very rare in the universe), multiple asteroid fields in diferent orbits, or gas giants in the first orbits instead of the last ones. Or maybe bright nebuale background (if the system is located near the galaxy core), or rocky giants, potato planets, and other strange astronomical elements. (like the fast rotating planets that after a while take the form of a bowl instead of a sphere, or binary earths, etc.)
Anyway, they're just suggestions for future paintings, I guess this one its okay as it is...

`dinyctis Aug 18, 2006

Those are very nice ideas. They did cross my mind but I think they would be better suited for a bigger mural piece. This one is merely 12x36 and I think it'd be a bit too cramped for space if I was to include so many things and still have a respectable level of detail for them, you know?

Sorry for taking so long to reply, but I purposedly left this comment in my message center because its one of those relatively rare ocassions in which someone actually thinks that much writing a comment

~zerreitug Aug 18, 2006

heh, heh, yeah, I usually get too excited when writing these things, people say: "Breath man!" and stuff like that...
Well... see ya!

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