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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Header Image Nominations
Contributed by Administrator - There are 2 comments
Posted: 2010-July-29
Starting today, members may nominate image posts in the Space Art Gallery forum for inclusion in the Solar Voyager header!

The Solar Voyager header is a place where I like to highlight outstanding works of art that have been posted here on Solar Voyager.  Until now, the pieces chosen for this honor have been exclusively up to me -- but now I'm opening up the system so that all members can vote on the artwork they'd like to see in the header.

Here's how it works:

When you browse through the Space Art Gallery forum, which is reserved for members to post their finished artwork, the first post of each topic will have a "Nominate" button at the upper right:



If you feel the image in the topic is worthy of being included in the header, click on this button and you will see a form to fill out -- Simply tell us why you think the image should be included in the header and then click on the "Send Nomination" button.

Please limit your nominations to one or two votes per week, unless the images you're nominating are simply too good to pass up!

Restrictions:

* Only topics in the Space Art Gallery forum contain the "Nominate" button.

* You can't vote for your own work!

* The image should be something that is appropriate for the header -- that is, it should have high enough resolution and, ideally, be landscape orientation so that I can crop out a good section.

* I will add images to the header roughly once a week, as time allows.

* The final decision about which images are added to the header is solely up to the Solar Voyager administration.

Four new tutorials!
Contributed by Administrator - There are 10 comments
Posted: 2010-January-16
Long-time member Hoevelkamp has uploaded four new planet-making tutorials!  Largely focused on creating planets with 3D software such as Autodesk's 3ds Max, these tutorials take you step-by-step through:

  • Planet texture creation using 3ds Max and Photoshop
  • Creating realistic planetary rings
  • Creating gas giants
  • Creating planets with atmospheres
These tutorials can be found on our Tutorials Page.  A big THANK YOU to Frieso Hoevelkamp!

New, Larger Image Uploads!
Contributed by Administrator - There are 5 comments
Posted: 2009-October-03
I am happy to announce that Solar Voyager will now accept image uploads of up to 1 megabyte per image.  This should make it easier to upload higher quality images without using a different server.  I am taking this action because we want to keep as many images stored on our servers as possible -- We can't control what appears on other image servers and I want to keep our site as family-friendly as possible.

Enjoy the larger upload limits!

A Ring-Side View of Saturn
Contributed by Klankster - There are 1 comments
Posted: 2004-October-20
Attention: Ringed planet fans!  NASA and JPL have a very nice multimedia presentation from the Cassini probe now available at this link.  There are some beautiful images of the rings and moons, especially Phoebe.

The presentation has links into the JPL site -- This is excellent reference material! 

Capturing Heaven
Contributed by Administrator - There are 4 comments
Posted: 2004-August-04

Greg Martin just released his "Capturing Heaven" article, which has been quite some time in the making.  His description is as good as any I could provide, so here it is:

"An article detailing the basic elements of space and how they relate to art, Capturing Heaven has been a project I've been struggling to complete for the last two years. Now it is finally finished and available to the public, for the betterment of all. Over 4,400 words long and image-packed with the best true-life or artistic examples I could find, this article is aimed to help people better understand space and get that essential intuitive understanding that great art stems from."

This is in PDF format and weighs-in at 14.4 mb.  It is being hosted over at DeviantArt.  We talk often around here about the importance of understanding this subject and being able to produce accurate results when desired.  This article goes a long way in delving into these ideas.  It is a very good read.  Take a look via THIS LINK.

 

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