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This is a little bit of a revisit to an old idea – “Orbit” was originally just me mucking about but became very popular for prints and publishing – however I never really thought that much about it at the time (I was literally just sketching space art as a bit of fun between projects). I loved the idea of the piece so now, 8 years on I've had another stab at it. :)

“A highly advanced race builds an enormous spaceport off the coast of a continent, dwafing the 20km high skyscrapers on the land, the main structure brushing the cloud layers with near 100km diameter docking spurs surrounding it. Built above the main structure, another level that is beyond the atmosphere – allowing craft to dock without braving the weather on the planet”

Painted in Adobe PS CS3
Wacom Intous 3 Tablet
Original res 5k wide
About 20-22 hour work.
I used some great photos of Earth from space as reference for the world.


Book now out :)

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Orbit - Redux by *ANTIFAN-REAL
The vision in this pic, once more, is absolutely stunning. Gary Tonge is one of the best among today's sci-fi artists (and for a good reason). If you haven't discovered his gallery yet, make sure to catch up some inspiration there! ( Featured by `taenaron )
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Mood: Wow! ~Wszou 4 days ago
Great picture!
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~Fabuart 6 days ago  New member Professional General Artist
great thanks
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Mood: Love ~Scorinitron May 3, 2013  Student Artist
THIS is amazing!!!
What would I need to get into this thing? What would I need to learn what programs? This inspired me :D
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~foreign-body May 2, 2013
This is superb! Proper good classic scifi concept :)
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Mood: Love ~fowshoow May 2, 2013
Amazing.
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Mood: Joy ~1rongamer May 1, 2013
Love it. New background image!
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:iconinvaderxan:
~InvaderXan Mar 24, 2013  Hobbyist Digital Artist
This is really pretty amazing!
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*profutur1971 Mar 12, 2013  Professional General Artist
Beautiful image! Good job ![link]
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Mood: Wow! ~Lilichia Mar 6, 2013  New member
Super awesome :) I'm using this as my desktop background :D
the only minus to me is the over-sized moon, its a real science fiction cliché.. (or is that the planet and is the civilization on a moon?)
I'm hoping humanity will someday get to the point where we can actually build stuff like this...
great job on giving an idea about how that would look like!

I wonder how that huge structure would look like for an observer at the surface of the world.. ;)
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*Graceyn Feb 18, 2013
This is one of my very favorite pictures - so much so that it inspired me in my own piece!: [link]
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