@Miranda- thanks! actually this is pretty routine, I learned how to paint as a professional street performer from 2004-2008, and have been showing in galleries since I was a student back in 2001. My website is a huge mess about to be deleted but still has a lot of stuff on it.
Wow - I think every artist on Whitechapel is in this book except me! Great looking stuff being teased at, too! Looks like it's going to be a gorgeous piece for any shelf.
@ Hey Apathy!: Thanks for the vid and the link - I went around your site, you've been doing impressive art! And there should definitively be more murals and ceilings with your work on them.
My daughter asked me to draw a mermaid - so I did! I also scanned the line art too, so she can colour hers in! Coloured and drawn by hand using inks and promarkers.
@jesserubenfeld: Nighthawks is my absolute favorite painting, and I really like what you did with it. Not at all an unlikely scenario, either, considering the folks involved. Poor centurion...
Here's what I was able to get done today for the Magician from Mars Remake/Remodel: will eventually be textured and colored, mostly as an experiment in combining the two practices (I've been focusing on grayscale tones and textures for the last few months, and need to practice my coloring skill in a bad way).
I love the constellation diagram! I hope you don't mind if I make a couple of suggestions though? :)
There are just a couple of minor things, but in my version above I have tried to make it easier to compare distances by duplicating the scale for each of the stars. I've also knocked down most of the text by about 75%, this is to make the piece a bit less cluttered and hopefully easier for people to parse.
I also think it might read even better if you were to have the constellations at the top and then the distances running top to bottom underneath it. It might not be as conventional, but it would tell more of a story (here are the constellations you recognise, but did you know...?).