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Before I start giving a proper review, I'd like to deal quickly with the elephant in the room, The rating given by me is not exactly the best looking one nor very welcoming, and there is a reason for it. I don't like feeding people's ego just to be "nice" or to make the artist feel better about himself / herself, I believe in honest reviews and actual constructive criticism. With that being said, I shall now begin.
Originality:
Despite space art being for a long time one of my favorite types of artworks, and still is. A problem that is intrinsic with the genre is that it is very hard to be original with it, so it ends up being nothing but a race to see who can make the most realistic looking planet shadows, or the best rings, stars, nebulas, dust clouds, asteroids, etc. A great tool to get around this space "competition" is to ditch the realism idea and give a more stylized look to your works and be more creative. However that is not the route you took and instead went for the more realistc path which unfortunatly takes away some points for originality.
Technique:
Apophysis as for a long time been a very useful tool, and has been used numerous times for works such as this, I myself even used it several times and have yet to even scratch it's surface. Howver, despite it being a quick way to make complex looking clouds, or in this case, nebulas. It leaves a lot of things "raw", ufinished. I'm glad to see that is not the case here. As the nebula appears to have had some treatment in Photoshop or a similar software, that was used to add a few stars in the image. Personally. I would have liked to see more stars in the picture, with more varying sizes around the nebula. It's really a shame there aren't many, because they really otherwise dull nebulas to life. Another thing I would like to add, Is that tridimensionality is lacking a bit. I am aware that this nebula is trying to mimick the look of telescope photos of nebulas. where they pretty much look mostly plain. But adding some darker clouds on top of some "hot spots" would hint the viewer the nebula is actually tridimensional and irregular.
Impact:
Now comes the good stuff. Despite all that I said. I still overral liked this picture. It is simple in nature. But I love the colors used. I'm not sure how much control you had over the colors, if you picked them in Apophysis or manipulated them in another software, but it worked very well and I specially like the sutle transition of warm to cold.
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