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@markgarlick

🔭 Astrophysics Ph.D 🍩 Illustration and animation in Blender 🪐 Space art and astronomical art specialist ✨ Fellow of International Association of Astronomical Artists 🦕 Dabbling in paleoart and scifi art 🚫 Porn/AI/NFT/MAGA = Block 🌐 linktr.ee/spaceboffin

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⭐ ᗰᗩᖇᛕ ᗩ. ǤᗩᖇᒪIᑕᛕ ⭐@markgarlick· 14d

Life can feel like you're in a gutter. But there are many wonders, if you choose to seek them out. #SciArt #spaceart

A woman sits gazing upwards, in silhouette. The sky is full of celestial objects, such as galaxies, nebulae and planets. Text reads "We are all in the gutter, but some of us are looking at the stars", a quote from Lady Windermere's Fan, by Oscar Wilde.

⭐ ᗰᗩᖇᛕ ᗩ. ǤᗩᖇᒪIᑕᛕ ⭐@markgarlick· 15d

Pretty happy with this robot I made in #Blender. Here's a rigged version with a walk cycle added. #sciart #scifi

⭐ ᗰᗩᖇᛕ ᗩ. ǤᗩᖇᒪIᑕᛕ ⭐@markgarlick· 18d

Will #AI ever think for itself, unprompted, like a sentient being? I don't know. But here's an illustration I just completed. Modelled, textured and rendered in #Blender. Minor post edits in Photoshop. An homage to Auguste Rodin's Le Penseur. NOT MADE WITH AI #sciart

Digital NON-AI illustration ABOUT AI. Based on the sculpture The Thinker be Auguste Rodin. It shows a humanoid robot, made of bronze, sitting on a stone with its head resting on its right hand, in a thinking pose.

⭐ ᗰᗩᖇᛕ ᗩ. ǤᗩᖇᒪIᑕᛕ ⭐@markgarlick· 18d

Here are some of my non-digital #SciArt paintings. I don't do this stuff anymore. Maybe I should. 1. Flight of the Eagle. Pastel and acrylics 2. Global Mortification. Oil pastels 3. Beyond Magritte's Door. Acrylic 4. Aurora Planet. Acrylic. Please reskeet

Illustration. The Eagle lunar module is seen in orbit above the moon. The background is a sea of craters.

The Grim Reaper opens his cloak. Inside is the universe including the earth and a nebula in the shape of a skull

Rocky Landscape. In the sky are two spotty stars and aurorae

⭐ ᗰᗩᖇᛕ ᗩ. ǤᗩᖇᒪIᑕᛕ ⭐@markgarlick· 26d

Some of my #scifi illustration. 1. Man on Mars (2019) 2. Transit City (2006) 3. Chasm (2014) 4. Global Warning (2016) These were made long ago with #3dsmax (and #Photoshop) , before I defected to #Blender. Please reskeet!

Digital illustration. A figure in a space suit stands with their back to us on the surface of Mars. A rocket on a launch pad is in the distance

Digital illustration. A view overlooking an alien city from high up, predominantly purple and pink. In the foreground is a grassy cliff with three figures on it.

Digital illustration. An alien world of chasms. Strange organic-looking structures populate the scene.

Digital illustration. A post-apocalyptic scene. A rocky shoreline. In the middle distance stands a leaning, decayed Big Ben. A sunken city is in the distance

⭐ ᗰᗩᖇᛕ ᗩ. ǤᗩᖇᒪIᑕᛕ ⭐@markgarlick· 27d

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⭐ ᗰᗩᖇᛕ ᗩ. ǤᗩᖇᒪIᑕᛕ ⭐@markgarlick· 27d

New WIP of a humanoid robot, created in #blender. #sciart #scifi

⭐ ᗰᗩᖇᛕ ᗩ. ǤᗩᖇᒪIᑕᛕ ⭐@markgarlick· 27d

Hi! I'm Mark, a former astrononer now a full-time illustrator and animator. I do mostly space-related work. Welcome, new followers! Mostly created with #Blender. 🚫 AI #SciArt #spaceart #scifi

Ancient Mars in the background, with seas. In the foreground is a former moon, disintegrating.

Digital illustration the interior of a Stanford Torus during a simulation of night. This is a donut-shaped space colony

A futuristic hotel room with a large picture window. The limb of the Earth is seen through it. A woman, speaking on a phone, stands taking in the view

The Galileo probe is seen against the backdrop of the swirling cloud tops of the planet Jupiter

⭐ ᗰᗩᖇᛕ ᗩ. ǤᗩᖇᒪIᑕᛕ ⭐@markgarlick· Jun 8

Earth during the Silurian Period circa 430 million years ago. The plants (they are not flowers) are called cooksonia, and were one of the first widespread land plants. The tall things (8m or 25ft) are prototaxites. Notbody is sure what they were, but may have been fungi. #sciart #blender #paleoart

Digital illustration of a landscape. The sky is cloudy. The ground is littered with primitive plants. Tall structures dominate the land - prototaxites. This is Earth during the Silurian Period.

⭐ ᗰᗩᖇᛕ ᗩ. ǤᗩᖇᒪIᑕᛕ ⭐@markgarlick· May 19

If you see this, repost your getaway vehicle.

⭐ ᗰᗩᖇᛕ ᗩ. ǤᗩᖇᒪIᑕᛕ ⭐@markgarlick· May 18

Animation of cryovolcanism of Triton, the largest moon of Neptune. These icy geysers were observed by the Voyager 2 spacecraft. It is thought that solar heating vaporises nitrogen below a translucent surface, until the pressure builds up enough to force an eruption. #scicomm #spaceart

⭐ ᗰᗩᖇᛕ ᗩ. ǤᗩᖇᒪIᑕᛕ ⭐@markgarlick· May 17

Love me some Verona Rupes

⭐ ᗰᗩᖇᛕ ᗩ. ǤᗩᖇᒪIᑕᛕ ⭐@markgarlick· May 12

I'm sick of losing work to the slop machines. 30 years' experience seems to count for nothing nowadays.

⭐ ᗰᗩᖇᛕ ᗩ. ǤᗩᖇᒪIᑕᛕ ⭐@markgarlick· Apr 1

Some of the various Titan illustrations I've created over the years. Titan is the largest moon in the Solar System. It's bigger even than our own Moon. It has a thick nitrogen atmosphere, and lakes of hydrocarbons. Note: you cannot see Saturn from Titan as the atmosphere is too dense.

Space travel poster advertising a holiday for romantics on Titan.

Depiction of NASA's Dragonfly rotorcraft, soon to be launched towards Titan.

Depiction of hydrocarbon lakes on Saturn's moon, Titan

A futuristic spaceship arrives at Saturn's moon Titan.

⭐ ᗰᗩᖇᛕ ᗩ. ǤᗩᖇᒪIᑕᛕ ⭐@markgarlick· Mar 31

I cannot wait for this mission But meantime, I prefer my visualisation 🤔 #spaceart #Blender

⭐ ᗰᗩᖇᛕ ᗩ. ǤᗩᖇᒪIᑕᛕ ⭐@markgarlick· Feb 26

Latest artwork, created this afternoon in #Blender and Photoshop. I don't usually give my artworks 'poetic' titles. Usually this would be 'Tyrannosaurs Regarding comet' or something equally prosaic. But I decided to break with tradition, and named it 'Impending Doom'. #sciart #paleoart

This illustration, created in Blender and Photoshop, shows a scene from the end of the Cretaceous Period in Earth's history. A pair of tyrannosaurs - a mother and infant - cross a water-logged landscape, while a comet looms in the sky. A comet or asteroid is widely thought to have provoked the extinction of the dinosaurs at the end of this Period, when it collided with Earth. It was not the worst mass extinction in Earth's potted timeline, but it was certainly the swiftest. The dinosaurs and many other creatures would be extinct months after this event, if not sooner.

⭐ ᗰᗩᖇᛕ ᗩ. ǤᗩᖇᒪIᑕᛕ ⭐@markgarlick· Feb 18

Hi, folks! Here's one of my earliest and still favourite animations, created in 3ds Max in 2011. It's shows the hellish landscape of Earth's Hadean Eon, shortly after the formation of the Moon, more than 4 billion years ago. Who wants to go?

⭐ ᗰᗩᖇᛕ ᗩ. ǤᗩᖇᒪIᑕᛕ ⭐@markgarlick· Feb 3

Gosh, I haven't done any new #paleoart in a very long time. So here's a scene I just finished, which I'm quite happy with. I modelled everything except the tress (in #Blender), then embellished it in Photoshop. Please SHARE! #sciart

A startled tyrannosaur surveys a desolate landscape, depicting a scene at the end of the Cretaceous period in Earth's history. A massive meteorite has impacted the Earth, causing catastrophic destruction on a global scale. Volcanic eruptions are just one example of the after-effects of the impact. They release poisonous gases that lace the atmosphere with toxins, suffocating wildlife. And wildfires, like those illustrated here, would have swept across the globe, prompted by infalling debris heating the atmosphere. It was probably the worse day in Earth's recorded history, although not the most devastating mass extinction.

⭐ ᗰᗩᖇᛕ ᗩ. ǤᗩᖇᒪIᑕᛕ ⭐@markgarlick· Jan 28

Latest #spaceart done in #Blender. A depiction of the dwarf planet and trans-Neptunian object Quaoar, as seen from the surface of its moon Weywot. Quaoar is ellipsoidal in shape and has two narrow rings around it, although they may not be visible at this resolution. #scicomm #sciart

Artwork of a rocky/icy landscape. In the sky is a half-illuminated dwarf planet called Quaoar, slightly ellipsoidal in shape.

⭐ ᗰᗩᖇᛕ ᗩ. ǤᗩᖇᒪIᑕᛕ ⭐@markgarlick· Jan 27

Quick animation of the asteroid Vesta, second largest one of all, showing the topology in false colour. Created in #Blender. #sciart #spaceart

⭐ ᗰᗩᖇᛕ ᗩ. ǤᗩᖇᒪIᑕᛕ ⭐@markgarlick· Jan 15

A couple of illustrations I did for National Space Society. #blender #sciart #spaceart

Digital illustration of an astronaut gazing through a large window in a spacecraft approaching the Moon. The lights of a settlement are soon on the Moon's farside.

Digital illustration of a mining operation on the planet Mars.

⭐ ᗰᗩᖇᛕ ᗩ. ǤᗩᖇᒪIᑕᛕ ⭐@markgarlick· Jan 14

Some of the images I created for the book Grand Atlas of the Universe. Written by @startswithabang and designed by William Lidwell. Co-illustrated by Jon Lomberg. #sciart #astronomy #spaceart

These structures are called stromatolites. They are sedimentary formations created by successive layers of microorganisms such as cyanobacteria. Photosynthesis is starting to change the planet forever. Even today, billions of years later, fossilized remains of these unique ecosystems can be seen across the planet.

Illustration of a cave on an icy exoplanet orbiting a distant blue star.

⭐ ᗰᗩᖇᛕ ᗩ. ǤᗩᖇᒪIᑕᛕ ⭐@markgarlick· Jan 12

Images done for various clients over the years. Please contact me via DM or at markgarlick.com/contact.php for more information. Software used for these works: Blender, Photoshop #sciart #scicomm #spaceart

Digital artwork of a fictitious space station. The station, called Rana, features eight wheels — two at 33km in diameter, and two smaller ones at 26km in diameter. The larger ones house humans, while the smaller ones house an alien species whose home planet has a lower gravity. Artificial gravity is created by spinning the wheels.

Artwork depicting the various disciplines involved in the field of Geosciences. A section is shown through the Earth and various features are shown, such as oceanography, climatology, seismology, tectonics and volcanology.

A vision of the landscape of Mars with water in the ancient past, when its atmosphere was thicker and warmer. This shows a view over a canyon system and river. There are hints of green, indicative of primitive life

Artwork of an exoplanet being evaporated by its star, the white dwarf WD1145+017. Commissioned for a press release by Harvard University in 2015.

⭐ ᗰᗩᖇᛕ ᗩ. ǤᗩᖇᒪIᑕᛕ ⭐@markgarlick· Jan 8

Ice spires (around 100 metres tall) on Jupiter's moon Callisto. It is thought that these formed from an ancient impact billions of years ago. They are very slowly eroding over time, the ice subliming and dust within the ice accumulating to absorb Sunlight and continue the erosion. #sciart #spaceart

This artwork shows ice spires (around 100 metres tall) on the surface of the Jovian moon Callisto. The moon's parent planet, Jupiter, is in the sky, centre, with the other major moons either side of it. From the left, they are Ganymede, Io (casting a shadow on Jupiter) and Europa (covering Jupiter's might side). It is thought that these spires formed from an ancient impact billions of years ago. They are very slowly eroding over time, the ice subliming and dust within the ice accumulating to absorb Sunlight and continue the erosion. The Callisto-Jupiter distance is around 1.8 million kilometres, and Jupiter is around 140,000 kilometres across.

⭐ ᗰᗩᖇᛕ ᗩ. ǤᗩᖇᒪIᑕᛕ ⭐@markgarlick· Jan 7

Here's another shot of a DQ Her star (also called an Intermediate Polar). Made in 3DS Max and Photoshop.#sciart #spaceart

Digital illustration of a type of binary star called an intermediate polar or DQ Her star, after the prototype. On the left is a red dwarf star - smaller and cooler than the Sun. On the right is a ring of gas pulled from this red star and orbiting a white dwarf (size exaggerated for clarity). Gas in this ring flows along the white dwarf's magnetic field lines and impacts the white dwarf at its magnetic poles.

⭐ ᗰᗩᖇᛕ ᗩ. ǤᗩᖇᒪIᑕᛕ ⭐@markgarlick· Jan 7

#sciart #spaceart #blender Animation of a type of binary star system called a DQ Her star. A white dwarf is in mutual orbit with a larger red dwarf. The strong gravitational field of the dense white dwarf draws hot gas from its companion, which forms an accretion disc around the white dwarf. 1/

⭐ ᗰᗩᖇᛕ ᗩ. ǤᗩᖇᒪIᑕᛕ ⭐@markgarlick· Jan 6

What's the best way to get seen on #Artstation? I struggle to gain traction there. Is it best to just have a portfolio page just full of individual artworks? Or is is best to create 'projects', inside of which you list multiple related artworks?

⭐ ᗰᗩᖇᛕ ᗩ. ǤᗩᖇᒪIᑕᛕ ⭐@markgarlick· Jan 6

Modellers! Do any of you recall the horror models from the 70s by Aurora? Frankenstein, Mummy, etc? Some were re-released a while ago by third parties using the original molds. The first model I ever made as a kid was this Hunchback of Notre Dame so I had to buy it again. Immense fun building it!

Photograph of a plastic model of the Hunchback of Notre Dame. This model (along with others) was original marketed in the 60s and 70s b y Aurora. They were re-released some time ago by a third party using the original casts. The model shows the Hunchback kneeling, bleeding, tied down to a circular wooden platform where he would have been whipped as a punishment.

⭐ ᗰᗩᖇᛕ ᗩ. ǤᗩᖇᒪIᑕᛕ ⭐@markgarlick· Jan 4

I'm fed up with all of these stupid names for different 'types' of full Moon. Wolf? And the media just regurgitates this cack ad nauseum. The Moon's distance from the Earth varies by about 11%. You would never notice unless you could compare both closest and farthest Moons side by side. #supermoon