Muse-Inspirationals – Streaming Nebula

Drustan’s Nebula WS by ^casperium

I love the streamers picking up the colors and weaving through the nebula. It helps that the colors themselves are so nice. Again, this doesn’t need a planet to help the composition. The nebula carries it all on its own.

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J.A. Marlow

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The Myth of the Author Online Presence

A little bit of a rant here about the advice to authors, especially Indie authors, that have been making the rounds online since, well, forever. To the point of feeling as if I’ll get beat over the head if I don’t pay attention and follow it.

It’s a subject I would love for Dean Wesley [...]

Muse-Inspirationals – Nebula Spacescape

Mother Nebula by ~Grogee

I like the low-key coloring in this piece, which is made up by the textures. The textures extend to the planet, where we see what look like either continents or weather systems. In the center is a nice focal point of light, with even more texture inside the glow.

Beautiful. [...]

Robot Generator Fun

I love generators. There are a lot of free ones all over the internet. Robohash is one that creates a new robot for each IP address or from text you provide.

The first image is a robot generated from my IP address. Don’t I look pretty in purple?

Of course I had to try [...]

Muse-Inspirationals – Tri-Nebula With Rainbow Colors

Tri Nebula by ~RavenLight

A spacescape doesn’t always have to have a planet included. This digital painting combines lovely colors, intricate shapes, and good contrasts. Very nice.

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J.A. Marlow

My latest novel, The String Weavers (The String Weavers – Book 1), is now available at [...]

Muse-Inspirationals – Dreamy Spacescape

Stargaze II by ~SamODJ

 

Absolutely lovely. Slightly out of focus giving it a dreamy quality. Cohesive colors with a central focal point for the main light source. Dramatic lights and darks. The artist did a really good job with this right down to a using a fantasy hue of teal.

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Muse-Inspirationals: Nebulous Spacescape/Landscape

DISSORTIS LOSNA by `Yasny-chan at DeviantArt

 

I love all the textures and movement happening in this piece. There could have been a lot of discord in with the colors, but fortunately the artist kept using different saturations of the same color of the main background texture in the rest of the piece. The only thing [...]

Muse-Inspirationals – Double Light-source Spacescape

Wild Abandon by ~nuformz at DeviantArt

This is a remake of an image this same artist did before. I like the double light-sources in the image, one blue and one yellow ochre. The composition is simple, but that’s one of the things that makes it so dramatic. The only thing that I found myself wishing was [...]

J.A. Marlow

Science fiction writer who loves great plots, interesting characters, exotic locales accompanied by a sense of wonder with an optimistic ending.

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