Yes, it's all spray paint. There are 4 main tricks to it. 1) It's mostly about layers. Apply first those features that you want "covered up" (by clouds or by dark space). 2) For the planet with multiple colors mangled together, apply wet layers of colors on top of each other. Scrunch up a ball of smooth paper like the colorized advertisements slips in newspapers, then apply the crushed paper to the wet paint. Much of the first layer comes up when you lift the paper. What's left behind is deeper layers with natural looking "random" barriers between the colors. 3) Mask over what you don't want any more stray paint to cover, like the planet when it's finished. 4) Turn the spray paint upside down, then tap the nozzle with a heavy tool. It won't properly mist the paint, so it just sputters instead, so it produces nice globs of paint as small stars.
It's easier to show than describe, and it's not really complicated. It does, however, require practice. I made lots of space scenes before I got anything that really worked for me. The only other painting that I ever recorded was this one. It was something I did for winter solstice. It's a black-and-white image, so it doesn't really convey much. It looked slightly nicer in person, but that poster is long gone, I think.
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1) It's mostly about layers. Apply first those features that you want "covered up" (by clouds or by dark space).
2) For the planet with multiple colors mangled together, apply wet layers of colors on top of each other. Scrunch up a ball of smooth paper like the colorized advertisements slips in newspapers, then apply the crushed paper to the wet paint. Much of the first layer comes up when you lift the paper. What's left behind is deeper layers with natural looking "random" barriers between the colors.
3) Mask over what you don't want any more stray paint to cover, like the planet when it's finished.
4) Turn the spray paint upside down, then tap the nozzle with a heavy tool. It won't properly mist the paint, so it just sputters instead, so it produces nice globs of paint as small stars.
It's easier to show than describe, and it's not really complicated. It does, however, require practice. I made lots of space scenes before I got anything that really worked for me. The only other painting that I ever recorded was this one. It was something I did for winter solstice. It's a black-and-white image, so it doesn't really convey much. It looked slightly nicer in person, but that poster is long gone, I think.