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Million Years Sunsetby *Shimmering-Sword

Digital Art / Paintings & Airbrushing / Space Art

A speed paint of sorts. 1.5 hours for most of the build up, then another hour of extra cleaning and tweaking.

Here the near star has been setting at the 'horizon' since the beginning of mankind and beyond. Deep reconnaissance ships admire the view.
(yes I know this stellar composition is very unrealistic, but so is placing 2 planets closer than we are to our moon

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Given 2011-12-09

Million Years Sunset by *Shimmering-Sword Sometimes I think that speed painting doesn't get the recognition it deserves.. It is mind boggling how a few strokes, placed just right, can make a wonderful artwork. Kudos!!! ( Featured by `Casperium )

love 9 9

joy 9 9

wow 11 11

~~mad 0 0~~

~~sad 0 0~~

~~fear 0 0~~

neutral 1 1

~Eradrom Apr 19, 2012

wowowwwww

*Shimmering-Sword Apr 19, 2012

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Work Fight and Win as One - Rangers
Commissions Open [link]

~Eradrom Apr 19, 2012

~sightsonyou Apr 6, 2012

What amazes me is your ability to set a mood... Great job!

*Shimmering-Sword Apr 7, 2012

Thanks.

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Work Fight and Win as One - Rangers
Commissions Open [link]

~chibineechan Apr 2, 2012

Who cares about unrealistic, space is vast and magnificent, anything is possible

This picture is beautiful and dreamy.

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LotR > Star Wars > Barney And Friends > Harry Potter > Twilight

Food chain of fandoms. Barney & Friends ain\'t really a fandom but I needed a size reference

*Shimmering-Sword Apr 5, 2012

There's probability and then there are realities. Like you can't fly so close to a star but have a dense enough dust cloud in the way to block it (star and any local planets would have collected this material). Or while you could have planets somehow orbit very close to each other, the conditions wouldn't be ideal enough to live there (like other artists do) and those orbits would probably be un-sustainable.

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Work Fight and Win as One - Rangers
Commissions Open [link]

~Gunny-Kilroy Feb 27, 2012

It still looks amazing even if its unrealistic, besides it looks like a home world setting

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Retreat? Hell we just got here.

*Shimmering-Sword Mar 1, 2012

I like Homeworld

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Work Fight and Win as One - Rangers
Commissions Open [link]

~Gunny-Kilroy Mar 2, 2012

Homeworld for the win

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Retreat? Hell we just got here.

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