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Published: 2016-05-01 01:00:02 +0000 UTC; Views: 1117; Favourites: 51; Downloads: 0
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It's a Pegasus galaxy spacegate floating in... space. I forgot all about the power nodes, but it's hardly the end of the world.I found an unused moleskine pocket watercolour sketchbook at a flea market last autumn and decided to pick it up after hearing so much about it, both good and bad. I only managed to start using it a few weeks ago, mostly doing some quick sketches about anything and everything, but nothing very detailed. Then, spurred by my chats with HyperCaz about our never-ending love for SG-1 and SGA, I found myself rewatching some SGA episodes. Again. I've been doing small nebula and galaxy watercolours this week and ended up drawing a stargate in said little sketchbook. Then I looked up some close-ups of the gate for detail. Next thing I knew, I had decided I wanted to try painting the event horizon. After that, I wanted planets. Before long, I had spent my entire evening on this.
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This is incredibly beautiful! Great space piece.
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Thank you. It's always nice to hear such kind words from a fellow space fan.
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Woow this is beautiful.
The detail in the Stargate is sick, and all those stars! Well done.
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Thank you once again, Lmih! It was fun to study the detail of the gate to approximate it. Some of the stars faded after they dried, so I went in with more paint and a gelly roll to make them pop more, as I usually do. Totally worth it. It might be easier to get a bottle of white ink though.
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I wanna try doing Stargate fan art, but my watercolours don't come out even half as vibrant as yours! More practicing required.
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Oh, I'd love to see what you come up with if you end up experimenting with stargate/space painting. I think a lot of the vibrancy can be attributed to finally getting very good quality, pigment rich pans. I used to use super cheap pans and tubes, but you had to do so many layers with those, and it was easier to just use a ridiculous amount of colour from the tube to get vibrant colour. Especially the darks in space pics were very difficult to achieve. Now, I'm no expert and a lot of people do gorgeous stuff with what are seen as lesser quality paints, but it's certainly got easier after the switch. 
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This is just lovely! You will have a nice collection in your notebook when it is full!!
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Thank you! I'm afraid most of them won't be quite as detailed as this one, and more in the area of "oh, look at that tree, I shall draw it in three minutes and then rush home".
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It's really great, especially the colours! And the photograph too. Nice!
edit: Damn, someone has already written the exact same, but I haven't read it before. It was just what came first to my mind
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Thank you! I'm glad you think so. 
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I think the photograph makes it even nicer than it would be with a scanner, so good choice!
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It does add a bit of character to it, and the wood looks interesting next to a picture of space.
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Yeah, the wood gives it a nice touch, I like that background too for my photographs
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I really like this, it's just gorgeous, thank you!
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Thank you! I'm happy to hear you like it.
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It's so pretty!! Blue and green always work so well together but this an all new level of awesome. Also, the photo of the artwork itself is very well done.
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I'm so happy you like it!
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