More experimenting with different colors. I'm pretty happy with the way this turned out. There's a lot I want to do better on future pieces though. (And yes I know there are no planets, I wasn't inspired to put any in.)
Painted from scratch with the programs Photoshop and Sai. (Base texture and stars with Photoshop. Lots of detailing with Sai.) About 8 hours, March 2012 4000 x 2473 300DPI
Other Space art:
Thanks in advance for any comments and faves. I do read all the comments and reply to as many as I can. All the faves mean a lot too!
(And for anyone in getwatchers, hopefully my work doesn't pop up too repetitively. Sorry if it does. I do have several works in the system (each of them only once.) If the same work does pop up, you can always fav anything else in my gallery and still get bonus credits. Thanks!)
One suggestion I have for this is to maybe play around with the starscape behind the nebula. It's pretty constant...the work would have benefited greatly from a a few galaxy-like branches of faded white stars or something similar.