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for my second DD here at Deviant Art!I've noted a surge in the interest of space, and astronomical art, which is espically heartwarming, as it was my first love, and my original inspiration, way back in the late 1970's
"Lagrange Point" was one of many works, done during the years before I broke into Space/Sci-Fi/Fantasy, in 1983. My early inspirations, were Kelly Freas, Michael Whelan, Alex Schomburg, Dean Ellis, Bob McCall, David Hardy, and many more, doing covers for Science Fiction Analog, and the Magazine of Fantasy and Science Fiction. Rick Sternbach, Don Dixon were two I met, in LA in those formative years, and my first jobs, were at NASA, doing illustrations for the Venus Radar Mapper, in 1982, while still at Art Center College of Design, in Pasadena, CA.
In more recent years, after the collapse of the "mid list" Sci-Fi book cover market, and a brief surge in card game illustration, in the 90's, I turned to Anime fanart. I've been incorporating many astronomical ideas in these works. The recent surge of Kindle based self publishing is encouraging, for Sci-Fi/Fantasy cover art, and I've had my first astronomical commissions in many years, in 2012.
Someday, I hope the interest in space, has us returning back to the stars. There are so many discoveries yet to be made!
I'm glad space art has inspired you! All of those subject were interesting to me growing up, and the space artists made it come alive...
I hope to see more advancements and exploration in the space realm, but if not, space art will still have a place in art.
I am particularly interested in the New Horizons probe that will be conducting the first ever flyby of Pluto and moons in 2015. So much awesome out there.
Thanks for sharing your enthusiasm with me!
That was my first "big time" sci-fi cover. It was like a "high" getting those flats, in the mail (publishers didn't usually send the bound books, for ease of mailing), and I took my parents out to celebrate my breakout into New York publishing. I moved there 6 months later.
What's also interesting, is I knew James Gurney personally, when we (and a small association of Sci-Fi artists and writers) lived in Connecticut, in the mid 1980's