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Space art and Sci-fi universe

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July 4, 2008
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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 :)

BOLD VISIONS Amazon USA


BOLD VISIONS Amazon UK


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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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~Medjugore May 6, 2012  New member
State of the art!
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~SigmaRadec001 May 1, 2012
Wow!! Damn i could live here
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~Sagittarius-A-star Apr 19, 2012  New member Student Traditional Artist
This is a really cool SF painting- you are one of the few good modern science fiction artists. Your idea of a bit of "fun" is far more productive than most other people's idea of fun...
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~valentt Apr 16, 2012
Whoow, this is awesome! I really like it. Have you thought about making it into wallpaper form?

I'm Fusion Linux project leader and we are looking for some images that we could include in by default in our Linux distribution.

We have tens of thousands of installs, and we would also list all artists that have their art in our distribution and spread the word of your great work that way.

If you would consider this proposal this would a lot to us, because we would like to share and promote great artwork that you have made.

Please check out our home page - [link]

We need all art to be in few different wallpaper resolutions, and licenced under some Creative Commons licence that permits us to distribute artwork freely, just to be clear you still keep all the copyright just give us permission to distribute it for non-commercial purposes. If you aren't familiar with Creative Commons licences I suggest you use "Creative Commons Attribution-NonCommercial-NoDerivs" and also check full list of differenc CC licences at [link]
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Mood: Joy ~psimech Apr 11, 2012  Student Traditional Artist
I wish the world will look like it in the 21st century so We can live even cooler life!
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Mood: Amazed ~KingLion Mar 28, 2012
Awesome!!! =O
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~zero-origin Mar 20, 2012  New member Hobbyist General Artist
Wow. What a beautiful atmosphere. Earth in 500 years? lol
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Mood: Love ~Galaxyae Mar 18, 2012  New member Student Photographer
Wow...

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*JamesHillGallery Mar 11, 2012  Professional Traditional Artist
Great work!
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~vonGrimbold Feb 27, 2012  Hobbyist General Artist
Nice!!!!
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