Yesterday’s Rings: Day 267

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Planetscape by Robert Chapman

I was planning to do so much more today, but everything I was working on wasn’t really turning out. It was a lot more like experimenting really. I ended up spending the entire afternoon with my sister and my youngest niece at some kids safety day playroom thing. She had a blast, but was very tuckered out by the time we all got home. My feet are killing me, and I’m about ready to take a nap.

Thankfully, I worked on a few artwork related things beforehand, because I wasn’t really in the mood when I got home. It’s tough enough to find something to type up in this post! I’ll likely get back to it later tonight, but I want to finish this post just in case I do decide to sleep early. Tomorrow is another day, and I’m still holding onto a few ideas that I want to get down on virtual paper.

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Ringed Planet: Day 266

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Planetscape by Robert Chapman

Hey there you lovely people. I tried my hand at creating a ringed planet today, and though for a first effort it’s quite decent, there’s something not quite right about it. I mean, when it comes to what little we know about what’s visually out there in the insanely vast cosmos, I guess anything is possible. I just have this feeling that the rings are too large, or too close to the planet. Anyways, I’m not close to done yet and that home star looks pretty pathetic right now without any lens flare effects.

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100 Days Left: Day 265

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New Space by Robert Chapman

It’s funny, there were a few moments where I wasn’t sure if today’s space scene was going to turn out. I was having a heck of a time with… well… pretty much everything. I stuck with it and a couple hours later I ended up with this. I added in a few of my other planets that I’ve made previously. I wasn’t going for a realistic scene today so much as something pretty beautiful to look at, actually.

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Photoshop Planet Tutorial: Day 264

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"New Stars With Planets" by Robert Chapman

Yesterday, I worked on a star field Photoshop tutorial, and it turned out pretty good. Today, we’re going to try to create a planet together that we’ll be able to toss into our star field when we’re done. I should mention straight away that any of these steps (and same goes for yesterday’s tutorial) aren’t strict rules. You can change whatever you see fit once you get the hang of these Photoshop tools and techniques. So with that, here’s my Photoshop Planet Tutorial!

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Star Field Photoshop Tutorial: Day 263

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New Stars Complete by Robert Chapman

Today I’ve decided to do something different and make a star field Photoshop tutorial! We’re going to go through the process of creating a star field together. I’ve never written a Photoshop tutorial before, and if I were to guess, I’d say I’m going to end up rambling quite a bit. I have at least a few hours to invest in this project today, so that should give me plenty of time to put something interesting and detailed together. Here we go!

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Purple Planet Completed: Day 262

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"Purple Planet" by Robert Chapman

This digital painting wasn’t originally intended to be a work in progress, but I spent a few more hours touching it up today. What a difference! I really think this is a picture I would like to have printed out in nice glossy paper, and maybe framed or something. Anyone out there interested in buying some copies? Just wondering… I might be on to something here.

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Outer Space: Day 261

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"Purple Planet" by Robert Chapman

I forgot how much fun it was to paint space scenes using Photoshop. I can tell that I’m a little bit rusty at it though because it not only took me longer than I expected to get the picture to look this way, but there really isn’t anything in this picture that turned out quite the way I wanted it to. Though, I know that if I spent a few more hours fiddling with a few things I would absolutely end up where I would like this to be.

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