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Sweetcell (Jun 18, 2006) — edit

Because of the violent anomoly that orbits close to the colony every 4 years and briefly engulfs the neighboring moon Sitis the citizens cannot work for that one year and use that time to process the ores and metals found in abundance on Aracon. The anomoly's radiation is so harsh that should one be exposed for more than 5 minutes they have little chance of surviving. But despite this danger the citizens are willing to risk it for all the riches that can be found on the planet.

Sweetcell (Jun 18, 2006)
drawn in 3 hours 38 min

Oi, compression screwed this up, it's too bright and harsh, I'll have to go back and fix it if I have space. It needs to be toned down.

davincipoppalag (Jun 18, 2006)

Very imaginative entry Sweet.

Sweetcell (Jun 18, 2006)

I might just have this moved to my own Gallery and do a normal landscape. Thank you Dave.

Deino (Jun 19, 2006)

Awesome, love the sci-fi feeling! Looks oil painted.

solve (Jun 19, 2006)

Damn! Theres so much going on in this picture. Makes my eyes really move around it. This looks like something found on an old cover of those sci fi magazines. Wonderful work Sweetcell!

Sweetcell (edited Jun 20, 2006)

Thank you Deino & Solve, I may go back and tone this down, but I so appreciate it. You know it came out almost the way I saw it in my head.

DarkCloak (Jun 20, 2006)

That's quite the impressive light show.

Kayos (Jun 20, 2006)

I like how it looks like a bump map.. very colorful I love sci-fi stuff so this is very cool.

Sweetcell (Jun 20, 2006)

Thanks DC and kayos.

Bump map?

Miss_DJ (Jun 21, 2006)

this is radically nice sweetcell! hey, it's a landscape..just in space!

tandrew971 (Jun 21, 2006)

very pretty. i like how bright it is

SYTHE (Jun 21, 2006)

This is very imaginative and original, nice work.

fleeting_memory (Jun 21, 2006)

I really like this one-it looks like the landscape out of one of my books

George_Goat (Jun 22, 2006)

Absolutely awesome.
The atmosphere in this painting seems to have a ton of feeling in it. It's the kind of thing, that if you were really there you would be overwhelmed with the sheer mystery and danger of it.
I like this lots.

TammyF (Jun 23, 2006)

Love the space magic here!! It's sooooo exciting to see your work in color!! It's even better than I imagined it would be!!

Sweetcell (Jun 27, 2006)

I'm all smiles, thank you all so much.

cianteed2 (Jun 27, 2006)

this is really gorgeous. i dont usually like space drawings, but this is just so beautiful. the detail is wonderful, truly out of this world! =P