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September 28, 2011
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All right, here's my first tutorial. About time, don't you think? I don't know how many new things this tutorial will teach you. Put even if only a few persons can draw some inspiration from it it's worth it.

The main reason I wrote this tutorial, aside from giving back to the community, is the fact that I've noticed that starfields are often sorely under-worked in a lot of pieces I see published on deviantart. I'm guilty of the same myself a lot of times. But in many cases the starfield is what makes or brakes a piece. The difference between a good and a marvellous piece of art. So this is an attempt to draw some focus to a matter that seems to have been somewhat forgotten. Which is somewhat strange, seeing as starfields are such a major thing in space and space art.

As soon as I get some left over time I'll include this tutorial in The Grand Space Collection, if you haven't checked that one out yet, you should. It's a collection of over 50 tutorials and resources on the space art theme by some of our most distinguished space artists on deviantart.

Finally, please don't copy and spread this tutorial outside of deviantart without my permission. And please give me a shout if you use it so that I can see what you've done.

Thanks!
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~KalosysArt Jul 11, 2012  Hobbyist Digital Artist
great tut, thanks :D
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*Amaya3004 Jun 17, 2012  Hobbyist Artist
Thank you for this tutorial! I was able to get a cool star background for my picture
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~tadp0l3 Jun 19, 2012
Glad you could put it to use :)
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Mood: Sociable *stormbaldur56 May 31, 2012
Very, very, very good !
Easy ans very useful !
Thank you very much !
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~tadp0l3 Jun 1, 2012
Glad you like it :)
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Mood: Optimism *stormbaldur56 Jun 1, 2012
I used it first on this very good tuto: [link]
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~hosko817 Feb 22, 2012  Hobbyist Interface Designer
Great tutorial! much better than most that just tell you what settings to use and not why.
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~tadp0l3 Mar 20, 2012
Yeah, the important thing is never the setting themselves, but the ideas behind. I hoped I could get people to see beyond the technical part, and learn to experiment.

I actually thought of blurring out the actual numbers in the settings, to further force people to experiment themselves, and learn what the settings actually does. But ah well.

Glad you like it though :)
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*sur-mata Oct 20, 2011  Student Digital Artist
Thank you very much! :)
Although your jump from making the brush to using it might take me a little while to figure out :fuzzydemon:
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~tadp0l3 Mar 20, 2012
I'm glad you like it. Need help just ask away :)
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