Great art here! All the best!

Great art here! All the best!

Hello, you may recognize me as the founder of the #SpacesBetween group. I'm just here to drop by and give some quick critique on the pieces in your gallery.

By far, I'd say Refuge is the best piece in your gallery. We'll come back to it in a second. A couple of basic mistakes that I can spot in some of your earlier pieces are:

Too many stars in the background (most evident in Journey Through a Star Cluster)

Pretty self-explanatory, I guess. People don't want to see a cluttered background. At the same time it's best not to be too sparse with your starry backgrounds, otherwise it might seem like they're not there at all. Refuge is the only piece I could spot that shows any awareness of this principle, and even then it was somewhat of a trick; I can still see tiny little grey pixels, mostly overshadowed by brighter, closer stars.

Not enough clarity (also most evident in Journey Through a Star Cluster)

Simply put, some of your stuff just seems blurry. Though Journey Through a Star Cluster is definitely the most blatant example of this, Isolation could be seen as an aversion to this mistake. The background and the planet are quite clear and you can see individual pixels in the stars easily.

Too much uniformity (example in Isolation)

Most of the starfields in the background tend to look the same all over, and basically boring. You started to show some awareness of this rule around Colony, where some stars in a group were darker than another star group, and you can trace a rough 'line' where lighter stars run. It helps make the background more interesting to look at. Slight color tinges here and there help as well.

Bad planet texture (quite a few)

Basically I feel this speaks for itself. The best antithesis of this that you've cobbled together would be Isolation, which can be easily originally reproduced by going out and taking a high-definition picture of, say, some marble, and tweaking colors, then using that as the texture. You've used a similar technique in Refuge, where you used clouds instead, but the principle stands. I'd like to mention, though, that on that texture the largest light part stands out unfavorably, and could have been reduced digitally to a simple dot, much like another part on the same planet.

In the end, Refuge stands out as having avoided most of the pitfalls easily enough, and help you get a decent idea of what you should build upon.

Hope this helps.

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Founder of #SpacesBetween and #Landscaped.

Hi and welcome to DA from me too. Just wanted to pop by and thank you for the deviant watch, Wildspark. Its much appreaciated. ^^

Oh, and you snapped up a snazzy username there.