| This revisitation of the classic Bonestell scene depicting Saturrn seen from the upper clouds of its large satellite Titan was one of my first digital magazine illustrations. Saturn was modeled in Strata Studio and then reworked in Photoshop when I realized that the program had rendered the ring shadow incorrectly. The clouds were sketched in graphite, then scanned and colorized in Photoshop. I was still unfamiliar with most of the tricks required to create smooth color gradients in the CMYK color space. Certain blues tend to be nearly unprintable with the 4-color process, but look wonderful in RGB, so the sky is darker and a bit more purple than I like. A rework of the painting with a better sky can be found elsewhere on my site. This was the inaugural issue of the Scientific American newstand specials. A double-page view of a landscape on Europa serves as a background for the Table of Contents |
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