Alright, so I'm pretty new to deviantART. I've been uploading little text bits for a while, but I've just started uploading actual art. Nobody believes me when I tell them, but I only started doing these space-scenes a few days ago (like, four?). Before that, I hadn't done any kind of even half-decent art, digital or traditional. I do a lot of graphic design, but mostly clip-art or photo-manipulation based... So anyway, one day I decided I was going to enter a Flash game (I also do a lot of programming) in the Jay Is Games Casual Games Competition #6 ([link]). Since I wanted it to look good (so that I might even have a CHANCE), I decided to try some advanced Photoshop filter techniques to make some nice textures and such. Well, completely by accident, I stumbled across a particular combination of filters that looked quite good together, and made a sort of planet-ish effect. I was inspired, so I searched on Google for a tutorial on making planets. As it turns out, I have quite a knack for it ^_^

So, these are my attempts over the last few days to improve my talent