This set of digital paintings was created by Alexey Kozachenko. On the DeviantART he is known as Nameless Designer. Just a few examples of his space and sci-fi work. Click on images for a much larger version. To see more check out Nameless Designer's Gallery at DeviantART.
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If you have not seen the planets and satellites of Bjorn Jonsson, it is time to look. Bjorn Jonsson has highly realistic 3D renderings of planetary objects available at his website. Many of the renderings are done with a specialized planetary renderer, which he wrote for the specific purpose of creating these images. Other renderings are created with POV-Ray or by combining renderings from his renderer and POV-Ray. More information about the software and process can be found at his web page. Below are a few examples of his work.
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Chesley Bonestell (1888–1986) is an famous space artist, designer, and illustrator. His paintings were a major influence on science fiction art and illustration, and he helped inspire the American Space Program.
Chesley Bonestell was the father of modern space art. His paintings were a major influence on science fiction art and illustration, and he helped inspire the American space program. Artist and architect whose imaginative and technically authentic depictions of spacecraft and other worlds had a powerful effect on people in the decade before the start of the Space Age. His career spanned nearly a century, from his early architectural work on the Golden Gate Bridge and the Chrysler Building to his seminal contributions to the beginnings of the American space program. Bonestell inspired an entire generation of astronomers, artists, writers, engineers and visionaries with his remarkable paintings.
Chesley Bonestell illustrated many pictorial books on astronomy & space flight during his career. Living to the age of 98, he saw the entire scope of manned flight, and himself influenced mankind's push into outer space. By then he had been honored internationally for the contribution he made to the birth of modern astronautics, from a bronze medal awarded by the British Interplanetary Society to a place in the International Space Hall of Fame to an asteroid named for him (3129 Bonestell). His paintings are prized by collectors and institutions such as the National Air and Space Museum and the National Collection of Fine Arts.
Wernher von Braun, the leader of the German rocket team who had come to the U.S. after World War II: "Chesley Bonestell’s pictures ... present the most accurate portrayal of those faraway heavenly bodies that modern science can offer."
Links:
Chesley Bonestell Official Website
The Chesley Bonestell Archives
Mr. Smith Goes to Venus (Illustrations by Chesley Bonestell. Coronet Magazine, 1950).
"The Art of Chesley Bonestell" by Ron Miller and Frederick C. Durant III with Melvin Schuetz is a compilation of Chesley Bonestell's paintings. The book contains more than 300 illustrations, 200 in full color, and a full-length biography of the artist. "A Chesley Bonestell Space Art Chronology" contains well over 700 entries and is the definitive reference guide to publications containing Bonestell's space art.
Book Description: The Art of Chesley Bonestell, by Ron Miller and Frederick C. Durante, with a foreword by Sir Arthur C. Clarke, showcases more than 300 drawings by the renowned architect and space artist, from illustrations of the chief engineer's plans for the Golden Gate Bridge (for the benefit of funders); to his favorite among his paintings, The Engulfed Cathedral A Fantasy; to his pre-space-travel lunar and Martian landscapes for magazines like Galaxy and Astounding.
Book Description: A Chesley Bonestell Space Art Chronology is a 250-page book contains some 750 entries that catalog virtually every appearance in print of Bonestell's space art from 1944 to the present. The contents, among other things, include an essay on Bonestell by Ron Miller, a chronological biography compiled by Hulda Bonestell and Schuetz, and three indexes. This book is an invaluable resource for the Bonestell enthusiast and collector.
This digital space art set was created by designer Cristian Gamiddo. On the DeviantART he is known as Dinyctis. Here is a selection of some of his space works. You can click on images for a much larger version. To see more of his work check out his gallery at DeviantART.
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This digital space art set done by Svinik. I do not know more about him.
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William Kenneth Hartmann (born in 1939), is an internationally renowned astronomer, planetary scientist, artist, and writer. He is a member of NASA's Mars Global Surveyor mission team. In 1971-72 he was on the Mariner-9 mission team which first mapped many geological features on Mars. Asteroid number 3341 is named after him in recognition of his planetary research. In 1997 he was the first recipient of the Carl Sagan Medal for Excellence in Public Communication in Planetary Science from the American Astronomical Society, Division for Planetary Sciences. His art work has been featured in many books, magazines, and international exhibits.
William Hartmann has written and illustrated (often collaboratively with Ron Miller) numerous books on the history of Earth and the Solar System. Some of his books and publications include, Moons and Planets, Astronomy: The Cosmic Journey, The Grand Tour: A Travelers Guide to the Solar System, Out of the Cradle, The History of Earth: An Illustrated Chronicle of an Evolving Planet, In The Stream of Stars: The Soviet-American Space Art Book, and others. He has also written two science fiction books, Cities of Gold, and Mars Underground.
William Hartmann has long been one of America's leading space artists. He follows in the tradition of his grandfather, a Swiss landscape painter. His grandfather, Andreas Hartmann, was born in Bretz (Castels), Switzerland in 1868. He grew up in Buchen, worked in Davos, and emigrated to the US in 1892. He produced a large number of oils and watercolors of US landscapes. William Hartmann's astronomical paintings cover a wide variety of themes and are known for their realism and technical accuracy. His paintings are on display in collections in the U.S, Russia, Japan, England, France, and Italy, and have been on exhibit at the National Air and Space Museum. He is a Fellow of the International Association of Astronomical Artists (IAAA).
His website offers a gallery of his paintings, a description of his research work, and information about his books, and publications. Be sure to check out the full catalog of his works. Below are a selection of his space artworks. Click images view full size.
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