So I was looking at this gorgeous piece here, a Doctor Who thingy, and I was reading the artist's comments, and they opened with this magnificent quote:
Look at the sky. It's not dark and black and without character... the black is, in fact, deep blue. And over there: lighter blue, and blowing through the blues and blackness the winds swirling through the air and then shining, burning, bursting through: the stars! And you see how they roar their light. Everywhere we look, the complex magic of nature blazes before our eyes. and i got really excited and inspired, and my sister was like "What's it like to be inspired?" and I told her, "It's like being run over by a train, and the only way to survive is to let it out." Which really made no sense, now that I think about it. XD
Seriously, go look at that Doctor Who piece. It's incredible XD I do the quote no credit. And no, this itself is not inspired by the painting. It's just the quote. XD
Oh look wallpaper! and HD!
Edit 12/23/12: Why is this so popular?! I've NEVER gotten over 500 views on a space art piece, but this... 1000? XD
Edit 2/26/13: Still popular... 2,000 views and 1,000 downloads!
This piece took me about three hours' worth of playing with saved fractals on my old computer (in fact, the very same ones I used for my Knot Nebula picture), adjusting noise, filling in blank space with seemingly pointless scribbling, and daubing with big fuzzy brushes XD I had a hard time getting the noise for the background stars just right, considering that I actually screwed up and forgot to put it in first, but I think it worked (:
I'm curious as to what technique you used to achieved this level of details!