{"id":120,"date":"2005-12-31T16:12:39","date_gmt":"2005-12-31T22:12:39","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.thelogbook.com\/earl\/pics-early-space-artwork\/"},"modified":"2005-12-31T16:12:39","modified_gmt":"2005-12-31T22:12:39","slug":"pics-early-space-artwork","status":"publish","type":"page","link":"https:\/\/www.thelogbook.com\/earl\/pics-early-space-artwork\/","title":{"rendered":"Pics: Early space artwork"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Around 1994\/95, I was becoming very well acquainted with a graphics program called TARGA Tips+ at work.  If I wasn&#8217;t doing something work-related on it, I was probably doodling on it, and I was probably doodling stuff like this.  Pretty primitive compared even to the background art on theLogBook.com, but at the time, I thought this stuff was <em>the bomb<\/em>.<\/p>\n<p><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/www.thelogbook.com\/earl\/hizzouse\/foxart\/space1.jpg\" alt=\"Space artwork by Earl Green\" \/><br \/>\nRotated 90 degrees, this one later became the front page for one of the budget-busting full color issues of the Logbook fanzine in 1995; with some modifications, it also wound up as a full-screen legal ID on Fox 46.  As unsophisticated as it seems now, this is one of my favorites.<\/p>\n<p><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/www.thelogbook.com\/earl\/hizzouse\/foxart\/space2.jpg\" alt=\"Space artwork by Earl Green\" \/><br \/>\nI seem to remember drawing this one, printing it out and framing it for my father and his wife, who had a thing for covered bridges.  Read what you like into it, but it almost seems like the comet there&#8217;s about to uncover the bridge&#8230;<\/p>\n<p><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/www.thelogbook.com\/earl\/hizzouse\/foxart\/space3.jpg\" alt=\"Space artwork by Earl Green\" \/><br \/>\nI think this was supposed Jupiter&#8230;and an asteroid of some kind&#8230;and&#8230;a ring.  Of some kind.  Memory&#8217;s a bit hazy on what I was trying to do here.<\/p>\n<p><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/www.thelogbook.com\/earl\/hizzouse\/foxart\/space4.jpg\" alt=\"Space artwork by Earl Green\" \/><br \/>\nBest one of the bunch.  I had begun messing around with a function of the program that would drop lots of polygons in fractal patterns depending on where you drew &#8211; it was a rather unique brush function, and it made some <em>great<\/em> jaggy mountains.  Still some sort of Jupiter thing going on here, but this comes the closest to being realistic out of anything I did at the time.<\/p>\n<p><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/www.thelogbook.com\/earl\/hizzouse\/foxart\/space5.jpg\" alt=\"Space artwork by Earl Green\" \/><br \/>\nI like the binary star.  Not sure about the cracked planet &#8211; it wound up looking like a jigsaw puzzle planet.<\/p>\n<p><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/www.thelogbook.com\/earl\/hizzouse\/foxart\/space6.jpg\" alt=\"Space artwork by Earl Green\" \/><br \/>\nMore jagged mountains, weird green lightning in the background, and a frame grab of the starship Voyager.  Still love those jagged mountains though.<\/p>\n<p><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/www.thelogbook.com\/earl\/hizzouse\/foxart\/space7.jpg\" alt=\"Space artwork by Earl Green\" \/><br \/>\nThis is an actual frame grab of the Earth (which I think I randomly grabbed from a satellite dish in the control room which, if I had no actual show feeds to catch, was usually tuned to NASA Select) with a kind of globular cluster thing going on.<\/p>\n<p><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/www.thelogbook.com\/earl\/hizzouse\/foxart\/space8.jpg\" alt=\"Space artwork by Earl Green\" \/><br \/>\n<em>Another<\/em> jigsaw puzzle planet.  Meh.<\/p>\n<p><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/www.thelogbook.com\/earl\/hizzouse\/foxart\/space9.jpg\" alt=\"Space artwork by Earl Green\" \/><br \/>\nJupiter, thunderhead clouds, <em>and<\/em> a steaming volcano, and not a half-bad attempt at hand-drawing a lens flare from the sun.  Hmmmmm.<\/p>\n<p>I wasn&#8217;t about to put Adolf Schaller or Don Dixon out of work &#8211; I&#8217;m still not, come to think of it &#8211; but it was a bit of fun, and I remember being inordinately proud of these things way back when.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Around 1994\/95, I was becoming very well acquainted with a graphics program called TARGA Tips+ at work. If I wasn&#8217;t doing something work-related on it, I was probably doodling on it, and I was probably doodling stuff like this. Pretty primitive compared even to the background art on theLogBook.com, but at the time, I thought this stuff was the bomb. Rotated 90 degrees, this one later became the front page for one of the budget-busting full color issues of the Logbook fanzine in 1995; with some modifications, it also wound up as a full-screen legal ID on Fox 46. 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