Welcome to Solar Voyager!

Welcome to our ad-free space art community!  If you're looking for information on how to create good-looking space art, you've come to the right place.  Our members are always happy to share their techniques and tricks, and we have a wide selection of tutorials that focus on various aspects of space art creation.

Please feel free to post your finished works for all to see and comment on, as well as your works in progress.  If you're stuck on a particular problem area, please don't hesitate to ask for help or suggestions.  We have many extremely talented artists here and they're always ready to help out, no matter what media or software you are using to create your artwork.

Thank you!
-Tom


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Icon Contest Winner!
Contributed by Administrator - There are 10 comments
Posted: 2008-October-05
We have a winner in  our site icon contest!

Our new site icon is Sostopher's ringed planet crescent:



You will see this icon appear in any browser which supports the "favorite icon" standard.  In Firefox, it looks like this:



If your browser has cached the old "paintbrush" icon, you may need to clear your browser's cache in order to see the new icon.

Congratulations to Sostopher, and THANK YOU to everyone who submitted an entry in this contest.  Creating a 16x16-pixel icon is not easy, and we had some excellent entries.

Solar Voyager Icon Contest!
Contributed by Administrator - There are 15 comments
Posted: 2008-September-05
You may have noticed that Solar Voyager has a simple "paintbrush" icon associated with it, which is visible in certain browsers:



Here is the icon in an enlarged view:



We've had this icon for a long time -- In order to get an attractive new site icon for Solar Voyager, I've decided to have a contest.  The winner will have the honor of having his or her design become a part of the Solar Voyager website!

To enter, simply create a design that fits in a 16-by-16-pixel image and upload it in a reply to this post as a GIF, JPEG or PNG image.  You may also want to upload a 64-by-64-pixel version (as I did above) so that the design can be seen easier by people reading the topic.

The deadline for entries is midnight, September 30, 2008.  A blue-ribbon panel (the Solar Voyager Administration staff!) will judge all entries and pick one that reflects Solar Voyager's focus on space art.  We'll have the winning entry announced by October 5.

Creating a good 16-pixel-square icon will be challenging!  Good luck!

New, simpler image uploading!
Contributed by Administrator - There are 0 comments
Posted: 2008-July-21
We now have a new image upload system in place that will make posting your artwork much easier than before.  This new system allows you to simply upload your full-sized image and it automatically creates a smaller preview image for use within the message, with a link to the full-sized version.

The new system's interface is almost exactly like the old one, so there isn't a lot of new stuff to learn!

Read all about how to upload your images at this link!

Solar Voyager Returns!
Contributed by Administrator - There are 47 comments
Posted: 2008-June-20
After over a month in limbo, Solar Voyager is back.  We are in the process of getting the site back up and will be hammering out any remaining issues as we go along.

For now the most obvious change is the site appearance, as the old site skins are not compatible with the new software.  I will be fixing this problem in the coming days.

Another issue is that some of the customization we had in place is no longer working, in particular the image uploading system is no longer in place.  I am working on a NEW AND IMPROVED image upload system that should be a joy to use.  Stay tuned!

Welcome back!  Now let's see what space artwork you've created while we were gone!

NSS Art Calendar Contest
Contributed by Administrator - There are 2 comments
Posted: 2007-December-09
The National Space Society is sponsoring a space art contest again this year!

The contest is to create artwork showing a settlement in space -- On the moon, Mars, in orbit, etc.  Winners will have their work published in the society's 2009 calendar.

For full information, visit this link

One of our resident NSS members, Bambam131, has additional comments in this topic.

There's not a lot of time left, but it would be great to see the work of a Solar Voyager artist featured in the calendar!