Digital illustrations for space books

[vasa]

Whoa, my favourite planet is Mars..
Nice illustrations. What is the book title?

[Ilúvatar]

cool pics, the floodin on ancient mars is my favorite, but the carbon dioxide crystal halo phenomena at pole is very beautyful as well (expecially the name :beer: )

do you also have a pic of an impact in your pics-in-the-books-collection? would be interesting to look at, think it would look great, cause your style is realsistic-mystic, me thinkin looks great, m8!

:thumbsup:

[Ron Miller]

Thanks for the compliments! The book is called "Mars" and will be published by Millbrook Press later this year. There are ten books altogether, of which six are now in print. The titles of them all are: "The Sun", "Earth & Moon", "Uranus & Neptune", "Mercury & Pluto", "Saturn", "Jupiter", "Venus", "Asteroids, Comets & Meteors" and "Extrasolar Planets". There are several illustrations of impacts in the series. I'll try to post one as soon as I can.

[Ron Miller]

I was asked if I had an impact illustration. This one is from the Earth & Moon" book and shows the KT impact that ultimately killed off the dinosaurs.http://www.bonestell.org/KTimpact.jpg

[Ron Miller]

Here's one more impact illustration...this one of the cataclysmic event that probably knocked Uranus onto its side.
http://www.bonestell.org/uranusimpact.jpg
Samples of space art from another forthcoming book---"The Seven Wonders of the Solar System"---are here:
http://www.black-cat-studios.com/sevenwonders/Page_1x.html

[unLevel]

very nice, but the "flooding on mars" I'm guessing you're not goign for realism...cause there's no water on mars, I think? :wip:

[Ilúvatar]

as i thought the impacts are looking perfect, especially the earth-impact (the eating dinosaur in the foreground, it looks kinda heartbreakin :cry: )

i also took a look at the seven wonders, and the pictures cloudscape on jupiter and saturn's rings are really impressing, perfect

:bowdown:

[Ron Miller]

The illustration of the flood on Mars depicts an event from Mars' ancient past. Most astronomers believe that Mars had vastly greater amounts of free surface water than it does today and that there was series of catastrophic floods (primarily caused when underground ice deposits suddenly melted). These resulted in the many flood-created features we see on the surface of Mars today, such as tear drop-shaped islands ands stream-carved channels.

[unLevel]

oh, ok, my bad :wip:

[wrosado]

Looks great! i'll have to look for these books. I've always been fasincinated by the terrain of other planets. I was glued to the tv looking at those pics sent back from mars a bunch of years ago.

What kind of research/or reference did you use to come up with your images?

[Ron Miller]

I do an awful lot of research. But, fortunately, since I've been doing illustrations like these for a very long time (I used to paint them using traditional materials---I've only been working digitally for a couple of years), I've amassed a vast library of reference books and other materials. There are also several astronomers whom I consult, as well as my fellow space artists.

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