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Submitted: October 16, 2011
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This harkens back to the science fiction paperback covers I loved way back when... and I still do!

I used some smoke from CG textures for the exhaust - [link]

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~karanua Feb 8, 2012 Hobbyist Digital Artist

Again your attention to the small details really makes this image to my mind at least a masterpiece - like one of those scifi anthology covers you used to see lots of during the seventies.

*steve-burg Feb 8, 2012 Professional Filmographer

Thanks very much!
Those SF paperback covers have proven to be the real foundation of my inspiration as an artist. I guess I want to "give back to the mountain"

~karanua Feb 8, 2012 Hobbyist Digital Artist

I've loads in my library, I try to get original cover editions wherever possible because second print editions covers tend to be bland rehashes of popular film or tv art. I find the ones like used to grace the covers of astounding magazine (which later became Analog) truly inspiring because the artist was encouraged to read the stories and base his / her art based on it.

*steve-burg Feb 8, 2012 Professional Filmographer

I'm in total agreement - I also seek out the older covers.

Book covers today (with a scattering of exceptions) are in a sad sad state. I'm working myself up to post a journal entry on the subject

~karanua Feb 8, 2012 Hobbyist Digital Artist

if you want any photographed let me know, I've almost a full collection of amazing wonder stories (hugo gernsback, editor) the later amazing mag then the famous (infamous) analog mag. I have most editions of Omni too but they currently reside at my wifes place in the fire safe.

*steve-burg Feb 8, 2012 Professional Filmographer

I do love the John Schenherr Analog covers (he did a lot for them). There was some very nice artwork done for those magazines - maybe all the way up until the early 1980s or so.

~I-Plexiglass Oct 31, 2011 Student Digital Artist

Fantastic, I love how you did the background!

Sorry if this sounds redundant, but your ship designs look really quite cool.

*steve-burg Oct 31, 2011 Professional Filmographer

Thanks - I am glad you like the design of these!

~I-Plexiglass Nov 2, 2011 Student Digital Artist

You're very welcome, always a pleasure.

`CrimsonMagpie Oct 23, 2011 Professional Traditional Artist

Foss-style 70s sci-fi paperbacks were the first thing that sprang to mind when I saw this image, you've really captured the character of them here. I have to say that those old novel covers were (still are) a huge inspiration to me too.

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