Title and Space Prettiness!

After a fair amount of thought I've decided that I actually rather like the title I've had all along for my series. So, it will from now on be officially called 'Deep Space Explorers'.

Now that the title is officially chosen I can get on with creating a proper title and header to decorate this blog with, so it is immediately identifiable as my futures blog and not my 3 minute blog. Here's an image of the header as it is right now... Not sure if it's finished yet, I'll have another play around in photoshop and see if I can improve it... I do like it as it is though...

That'll be running along the top of the page instead of the current cheese header from my other blog. I had a lot of fun drawing this! It was a great excuse to stare at various pictures of planets and stars. I was worried that I may have been getting carried away with gas clouds, nebulae etc, but when you look at the real images from NASA's website, the appearance of nebulae and space is incredibly varied and often much more bold than you'd ever though possible outside of CG or drawings.

Here are some images from NASA's website that I used as reference:

http://www.nasa.gov/home/index.html

This amazing image is a bubble nubula and a cloud nebula meeting. You would never think that such things actually exist in space, and are happening right now!

All of these images are of nebulae; gases and debris in space. They look like some artists' abstract creation but they're in fact real. These are images taken (mostly from the Hubble telescope). The colours, and forms are as varied as you could possibly imagine!

This is a galaxy from the Hubble deep field research. It is a spiral galaxy similar to the shape of our own milky way galaxy and is probably much like our own galaxy looks to outsiders. The star-like objects that you can see in this image are in fact entire galaxies!

So as you can see, I can fairly safely go pretty OTT with the use of nebulae if I so wish and it would look no less realistic than... Real nebulae. 

But ultimately it all depends on how it makes the image look, it could look too busy with lots of colours all over the place, and as I said I do rather like it how it is. 

Anyway that's all for now! Matty out