You always put endless detail into your art. This piece is amazing, and I love the glowy colors!

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I just replaced it with a brighter version. I recommend taking another look.

Looks great!

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Oh, and absolutely beautiful.

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I love the glowing grass stuff, that's really cool. Sci-fi doesn't have to be plausible, that's what makes it sci-fi. lol!

Great piccy, I love the feel all around.

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Oh wow Tem, as always you are able to capture an intense and amazing moment. Your space art always wows me, but the detail you gave to the rest of the picture, it almost feels like Im looking at a scientific photograph in some parts! I dont think I can say more without getting annoying, so just know I find this amazing otterboy, keep it up <333

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_{If the plants aren't obtaining energy from the sun, perhaps they are getting heat energy emanating from the rotation of the planet's core. I'm pretty sure the hot temperature under the Earth's crust is caused from rotational friction, not collected solar energy over time... the earth and the moon are actually getting further apart because they both have a positive charge, but would that affect the core rotation of the moon...?}

I'm truly lost with how awesome this is . Your lighting alone... is just epic . Truly an original idea to have glowing off-worldly plants as far as I know, which really adds to the beauty of your scene . Haha, what I wouldn't give to join him .

~Hope you guys like it! Wish me luck!
I can't imagine anything that could beat this . The only slightly weak points (in my eyes) I would be concerned about would be that the planet on the left doesn't have a lot of surface detail and that your character seems to be looking forward of his position (rather than behind where he would be looking directly at your falling stars). Typically when I think of the Earth, I think that there is a certain amount of land mass you can see, even when it is between your view point and the sun [link] . I appreciate the pose you have chosen for your character because it shows off his features extremely well, but having three asteroids in the background seems like quite a sight to be missing unless there is something even more spectacular in front of him the audience can't see. I would either suggest shortening and altering the paths of two of the asteroids to make them appear to be breaking off from the main one (so a single asteroid that broke apart on entry -- which is probably what you were aiming for and I'm not picking up on since it is unlikely the asteroids would be that close together in the first place unless they broke up on entry), or to have a couple additional comets around the corners of your shot to indicate the entire sky is filled with comets and your character is enjoying the show that you can't necessarily see, but can imagine. Perhaps a slight randomness to the comet trails would be more realistic as well [link] since the smoke, I would imagine, would not form a perfect gradient and the reflection off of the smoke would reflect unevenly. Though conversely, a smooth gradient gives a slightly simple, cartoony feel, which in and of itself could be said to be ideal, artistically. I figure you aren't going for 100% realism anyway since it would detract from your scene (like a horizon haze would detract from your galaxy)-- I would expect the comets would be more yellow than blue, but then again it's possible the atmosphere is different, which could account for the different burn color... (yay for methane ). Perhaps the stars are a bit dense around the galaxy, but then again it is a galaxy , cool effect having the stars fade out around the planet, very subtle way of introducing an atmosphere

Looking at the entries, you definitely have an advantage by having both a foreground and a background, and consistent painting effects & textures. The only entry I would be worried about would be [link] , but that one seems to outline *everything* in black which detracts from the general softness the original artist was going for. I'm not sure if you really need luck, you already have a killer entry , but you have my best wishes none-the-less

Love your range of colors and the incredible detail in your character

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I'm equally at a loss for words at this one. Bravo I say, bravo. This is just a wonderful piece.

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Heh, interesting concept... yeah, certainly is humbling to think about what a tiny speck this planet is on the cosmic landscape - and yet there's a force at work that keeps us safe from any disasters that would completely wipe us out...

It's like Horton said in the movie version of "Horton Hears a Who"
(Regarding the speck containing Who-ville) Maybe they're not small? Maybe we're big? No, think about it! Supposing there was someone waaaay up there, looking down on our world right now... and to them we're the specks!
I dunno... personally, I feel that suggests a sort of religious contemplation of a higher being that oversees our world and protects it from disaster - kind of what Horton does with the speck.

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