ALL OTHER ENTRIES – in no particular order
Artist: Shinleinkanba Theory
Title: Uncharted Stars
Studio: Shinleinkanba Theory
Medium: Digital
Find Artist at: twitter.com/fabucastle
Entry Backstory: Ship's down nether
Hand's on my tether
Who knows whether
This'll" get better
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Artist: Knots
Title: Hoshi Among Stars
Studio: Knots
Medium: Crochet thread, 6 mm washer back eyes, polyester fiber, gold gems
Find Artist at: https://www.facebook.com/kawaiknots |
https://www.etsy.com/shop/kawaiknots
Entry Backstory: Hoshi’s mother told stories of constellations dotting the night sky, before the lights of earth swallowed them in a dull hazy glow. By night Hoshi strained her eyes, futilely searching for twinkling lights, and by day she struggled for breath against the smog.
Her mother cried when they learned Hoshi’s lungs would not keep her on this earth much longer, but Hoshi did not despair. As her vision faded and breath weakened, she recalled her mother’s stories. When she opened her eyes, she found herself amongst the brilliant multitude of stars, twinkling and shining in vast beauty all around her.
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Artist: Elysia Hentschel
Title: Here's to Dreaming
Medium: Digital, photoshop
Find Artist at: hentscheleb at gmail.com | vehementmoth.tumblr.com
Entry Backstory: The best part about having a passion is seeing how, and who, it makes you.
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Artist: Alea Donnelly-Mitchell
Title: Adventures in the Space Bazaar
Medium: Digital Painting
Entry Backstory: Quom is a small shape-shifting alien who is being taken on an adventure by his new friend, Oronna. Having never been to a space bazaar before, Quom is excited by all the new sights, sounds, and smells, and Oronna is doing her best to keep him from wandering off too far and getting into trouble.
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Artist: Marina Gibson
Title: Alien Princess
Medium: Copic Markers and Gel Pen on Paper
Find Artist at: marina.gibson97 at gmail.com
Entry Backstory: The Princess must go on a coming-of-age adventure among the stars to help her unlock the power of her third eye and become the savior of worlds that she was meant to be.
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Artist: Sa
Title: Guardian of the Stars
Studio: adhd
Medium: Digital
Find Artist at: www.studio-adhd.com | studioadhdbusiness at gmail.com
Entry Backstory: My name is Simika and I'm the guardian of the stars, don't fear me for I'm here to take you to a place where you've let your dreams fly, to the sky we shall go hand and hand. Now come to a land in which I've governed for ages, with me you can learn to truly smile, dream, and aspire for happiness
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Artist: Andy Leon
Title: Rebels For Hire
Medium: Watercolor, Gauche, Photoshop
Find Artist at: https://www.instagram.com/andyleonart/
Entry Backstory: A queen must rely on two notorious criminals to save her kingdom, but they will soon learn that the entire galaxy is at stake. Will these rebels save us all? Is there really an option? Well then, To the Stars!
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Artist: SA
Title: Doorway to the Stars
Studio: Studio-adhd
Medium: Digital
Find Artist at: www.studio-adhd.com
Entry Backstory: Another achievement and I’ve found my gateway to the stars. I dream, I believe, I am. Some feel a fondness, some bask in their glory, I simply gaze into my stars, my collection of achievements, and I know, at that moment no one can take away from me the things I’ve achieved.
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Artist: Shuhisa
Title: Starry Encounter
Medium: Digital
Find Artist at: https://twitter.com/shuhisa_ | kuuberi66 at gmail.com
Entry Backstory: As an artist there may be times when you want to quit. But it's when you don't give up that you shine the brightest. So keep aiming towards the stars because the view will definitely be worth it!
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Artist: Marina Gibson
Title: Alien Warrior
Medium: Copic Markers and Gel Pen on Paper
Find Artist at: marina.gibson97 at gmail.com
Entry Backstory: The Warrior must venture into the stars to save her people from dying from the crushing atmosphere of their home world. Her people can only flourish on a planet with a Hydrogen-based atmosphere and thanks to wars with enemy races, her planet is slowly becoming one with an atmosphere made up of mostly Xenon.
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Artist: Victoria Morrissey
Title: Don't believe me? Just watch!!
Medium: Digital
Find Artist at: Azurezai at gmail.com
Entry Backstory: For some, space is where dreamers go with the hope of endless possibilities. For orphans (Kai) and (Ren) it's always been something out of reach. One day in search of jobs they happen across an offer too good to be true: food, beds, and a long awaited ride off the planet but only if they join Captain Saixin's crew. Will their new adventure be the beginning of something fantastic or will their overly optimistic captain's crazy antics be the death of them? Let no alien stand in the way of ADVENTURE!
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Artist: Ryan J. Nichols-Cloutier
Title: Dauntless Defiance
Medium: Copic Marker Airbrush, Faber-Castell Polychromos (Colored Pencils), Micron Pens, & Uni Posca White Paint Marker on 11" x 17" Smooth Bristol paper
Find Artist at: rcloutier61595 at yahoo.com |
https://www.etsy.com/shop/ArtOfRjclouti ... e_shopicon
Entry Backstory: To the stars we travel to the floating castle that exists only in a dream.
Faded memories from this mysterious life lay hidden throughout every scene.
To unravel the truth we must fight for the proof, there's a reason why we're here.
Confronted by darkness surrounded by thoughtless creatures, their goal is clear.
To destroy the last who survived the clash between dauntless and those who obeyed.
We fight for what's right although we lost sight of why we weren't afraid.
Around the bend this nightmare will end at the castle within the stars...
So let's take back what's ours.
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Artist: Kira, Pleasantly Strange
Title: Cosmic Latte
Studio: PleasantlyStrange
Medium: Digital
Find Artist at: PleasantlyStrange.weebly.com | PleasantlyStrange at yahoo.com
Entry Backstory: Being abducted by aliens was never very high on Latte's priority list but when two moon bunnies asked for help to find their friend... well who could say no to those faces? Of course they didn't mention that they lost her on the other side of the Milky Way or that she was navigation bot for their ship! Latte is pretty sure they missed a turn somewhere but this road trip into the stars is a lot more fun than school.
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Artist: Jha-neane Trotman, Kitty Sapphire, Sapphire Studios
Title: Universal Dream
Studio: Sapphire Studios
Medium: Color pencils, Gel pens, Copic markers, pencils, (Traditional art pieces)
Find Artist at: https://www.facebook.com/Kittysapphirestudios/ |
https://www.tumblr.com/blog/ksapphire8989
Entry Backstory:When I was confronted with this task I wasn't really sure what to draw. So I slept on it. This is what came out of my sleep. I have a deep love for mythology, lore and pantheons. So I decided to make a intergalactic goddness, dreaming away in her sleep. When in turnout she is creating the universe around.
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Artist: Gyaru Choco
Title: Aww! Stars.
Medium: digital. Made with iPad.
Find Artist at: glbassgtr at live.com
Entry Backstory: Inter-planetary corporation “Terekaimo” is sponsoring the greatest idol contest of the Universe!Earth’s idol superstars Sora Tsubota, Sei Yamaguchi and American-Japanese idol Indigo “B-jean” Starr will represent their planet in this amazing journey! Together, they are the “Aww! Stars!” and will do their best at the “All Starz Academy” located in a gigantic space station. Here they will meet new friends (cyber star Tsuki Matsune) and rivals (boy band “Parallel” from Universe 2). Soon they’ll realize Terekaimo plans to use the contest to transform all the planets in advertising globes. Will our heroines save the day?
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Artist: Aloysius Babbage
Title: Achilles Last Stand
Studio: ShigatsuSketches
Medium: Pencil,pens, markers.
Find Artist at: https://www.facebook.com/Eukerio-163433 ... 2/?fref=ts
Entry Backstory: In a quest for the ultimate knowledge, class-A exploring spacecraft Achilles wanders the remotes regions of space. Once they reach the "boundaries of the Universe", the crew are faced with something more than a little unexpected. The creature seems dormant at first but after a series of unsuccessful attempts at communication, it becomes clear that it is very powerful very dangerous. The crew call it Atlas and it might be more than they can handle. Will this this be the last stand for the Achilles?
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Artist: Clef
Title: Heading Toward a New World
Medium: Digital
Find Artist at: clefartistarts at gmail.com | clefdraws.tumblr.com
Entry Backstory: Humans were forced to leave Earth hundreds of years ago to escape destruction, traveling far into space. After finding a suitable planet, a crew is sent back to see what happened to Earth. What will they find if they are able to make it?
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Artist: Kelly O "panthra
Title: Harajuku Starlet
Medium: Digital, Easy Paint Tool Sai
Find Artist at: p4nthra at gmail.com | panthra.tumblr.com"
Entry Backstory: When I think of “To The Stars!” I think of the truly out-of-this world fashion styles from the streets of Tokyo. All the bright colors, busy patterns, and flashy designs of these young people have always inspired me to push boundaries and make statements with my art! The star of my illustration is completely decked out in the “decora” style, with stickers, bandages, jewelry, hair clips, and makeup, ready to debut in Harajuku.
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Artist: Cetriya
Title: Grand Sky Legacy
Medium: Hand drawn
Find Artist at: "
https://www.instagram.com/cetriya/ |
www.youtube.com/user/tkawaii"
Entry Backstory: Desiring to travel beyond, Humankind has finally developed a way to travel faster than light. .. or so it was believed. Our young pair set out to discover new and unclaimed space to make a name for themselves .In their travle, they uncover the secret behind Star Corp and who or what gave earth the push into the great black.
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Artist: Chekico
Title: FLUX Orbiters
Studio: Chekico
Medium: digital
Find Artist at: chekico.tumblr.com | twitter: @nucheki
Entry Backstory:Three researchers find themselves traveling across the galaxy after their research leads to the discovery of three small, strange alien creatures. In order to protect endangered alien species, they chase after an imperialistic alien race that is set on colonizing every planet in the solar system. They call themselves the Orbiters, and with the help of their cloud-shaped comrades, they traverse the universe to save those in need!
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Artist: Katizua
Title: Flowers to the Future
Medium: Digital
Find Artist at: lisalamhut.com | llamhut at comcast.net
Entry Backstory:Sparking in space a colony drifts safely within the confines of it’s mother earth. Rukia was lucky to grab an internship here for college, everyone wants to see the incredible views of the blue planet even just once. Before stepping out for routine maintenance a girl steps up to Rukia.
“Please, can you bring these to my grandmother.” She says her eyes glowing.
Rukia is a bit confused but somehow swoops up the flowers without dropping one in the thick gloves of the spacesuit. “Where to?” The girl simply points to the stars, as a smile passes between the two.
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Artist: Adeline Kon
Title: Fishing Stars
Medium: Digital
Find Artist at: akon at risd.edu | twitter.com/catprinx
Entry Backstory:Sailors have become astronauts who have taken to fish up in the stars. They try to catch the fishing stars that swim along the solar system and grant wishes to children. Catching one of the wishing stars could change one's life forever. These two sailors coast along the lonesome star streams hoping to catch as many fishing stars as they possibly can.
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Artist: Strawbanna
Title: Escape from Bunny Planet
Studio: Strawbanna
Medium: Digital
Find Artist at: http://strawbanna.tumblr.com |
https://twitter.com/strawbanna
Entry Backstory:Infuriated at the disappearance of her beloved cake, Nana hastily packed her bag. Satisfied with her supplies, she began to inflate her bag. She was going to Bunny Planet, her personal paradise. Half a day passed and multiple failed attempts to return home began to worry Nana. Would she ever make it back home? What if she never saw her sister or her parents again? As suddenly as her tears began, her sister made an appearance. Without a word, Nana rushed to her arms, where they floated gently into the cosmos and safely made their way back to Earth.
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Artist: Joules Garcia
Title: Rocket Sailing
Medium: Digital
Find Artist at: joulesgarcia.com | twitter.com/20joules
Entry Backstory:Rocket Sailing depicts two young boys on an imaginative journey of wonder and excitement through a sea of stars. The piece presents the innocent and creative imagination of children, who each represent either art or science, and the beauty of their friendship. They are from a personal story about my relationship with a dear friend I once had, whose passion for science complimented my deep love for art, and together we loved to sail the stars.
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Artist: James Valle (KentaroPJJ)
Title: Too Late
Medium: Digital
Find Artist at: http://www.twitter.com/kentaropjj | jamesmaxwellvalle at gmail.com
Entry Backstory:Harry and Rebecca always dreamed of going to space. They used to watch the spaceships take off to a Mars colony together. Now Rebecca got an internship through her school to go to space, but it's a one-way ticket. Harry had said goodbye at the farewell party, but he didn't tell her how he really felt. The morning she was going to leave, he decided to try to make it to the spaceport to tell her he loved her. Alas, he was too late. He rests against the fence, out of breath and in defeat, as her shuttle takes off.
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Artist: Arrionna Wagoner
Title: Guardian of the Stars
Studio: A. Wags Illustrations
Medium: Digital
Find Artist at: a.wagsillustrations at gmail.com | facebok.com/awagsart
Entry Backstory:Home was long gone by now; all that they knew were the stars and the planets that they passed. Time had gone by, months passing into years. At first, there was fear but the fear passed as it always does. For there was nothing to fear. She was there to guide them as they travelled into the stars. Her name had been forgotten in the minds and memories of humans, yet her presence had always been felt: she was of the universe itself, forever guiding the humans on their path. And so, they travelled the stars, guided by her light.
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Artist: KDR
Title: Ready, SETI, Go!
Medium: Digital
Find Artist at: bearsandswears at gmail.com | bearsandswears.tumblr.com
Entry Backstory:Our intrepid radio host taking a momentary break as her little ship wanders aimlessly through the void. Her mission is a simple one: broadcast to anyone who may be listening. Her message is even simpler, beaming out to every planet and asteroid and star: You aren’t alone.
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Artist: Melina Illinger
Title: Man in the Moon
Medium: Digital
Find Artist at: mek.art711 at gmail.com
Entry Backstory:A lost descendent of the Man in the Moon, Lunatic returns from a cosmic journey to serve out his ancestor's banishment. In coming back, he brings with him the ability to breathe out new colorful galaxies, painting the skies with dripping stars and lights. His hope is that his new talent will become an asset to the Earth, so that he may return and live out the rest of his life where he feels he belongs.
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Artist: Q. He
Title: Miss Galaxy
Studio: Yammybonbon
Medium: Watercolor
Find Artist at: yammybonbon at gmail.com | yammybonbon.webs.com
Entry Backstory:Miss Galaxy features an apprentice of magic with a talent for astral projection. While other people daydream or wander off into their fantasies, this subject likes to wander through the expanses of space.
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Artist: Kristen O'Keefe of Lightning Wolf Illustrations
Title: Lunar Cheese Dreams
Studio: Lightning Wolf Illustrations
Medium: Mixed media
Find Artist at: lightningwolfillustrations at gmail.com | redbubble.com/people/kokeefeart?asc=u
Entry Backstory:An excited tail twitched as the Moon rose for another night, in another phase. “I can’t wait for launch day! Then I can finally see what cheese the Moon really is!” The little lab rat squeaked to himself. “The humans say its green, but it seems more of a cheddar to me!” He squeaked before falling asleep.
Launch day had arrived! “Finally!” he squeaked as he was placed in the probe. “Goodbye, Earth! I’ll be back!” he squeaked waving his tail as he set off to the destination once only visit able in his daydreams.
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Artist: csipo
Title: Get Little Rosebud Home!
Medium: Digital, Traditional shading/lines
Find Artist at: margocsipo.com | csipo.tumblr.com
Entry Backstory:Little Rosebud is a alien from a peaceful, plant-based race. While exploring a far away galaxy, Rosebud crashes on a lush planet called Earth and is discovered by young Tomiko and her older aerospace engineer brother. The two take it upon themselves to help Rosebud home but the language barrier keeps them from finding out that she loves Earth and wants to stay!
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Artist: Akami
Title: KAGUYA7
Studio: Akaminyan
Medium: Digital
Find Artist at: "instagram.com/akaminyan/ | facebook.com/akaminyan
Entry Backstory:The KAGUYA7 Mission Statement
We begin our voyage into the final frontier in an effort to answer the age-old questions: Where do we come from? What are we? Where are we going? Do bunnies really live on the moon?!
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Artist: Vonmizu
Title: Dream
Studio: Vonmizu
Medium: digital Photoshop
Find Artist at: vonmizu.deviantart.com
Entry Backstory:Constantly floating in life… Never being able to find what you’re meant to do. Why do we exist?
Where did we come from? Is there an ultimate goal as to the life we live? I have no exact answer to any
of these questions. There’s never been a clear sign to do anything in this life, so I can only guess that
floating is the only reasonable feeling to have as we live our lives.
If there is one thing I know definitely, it’s how to dream. We can believe in things that can either
devastate or change the world. We have the ability to not only change our own lives but someone else’s.
There’s endless amounts of paths that we can all take, and it all starts with a dream. The biggest mistake
we could ever make as humans, is to stop dreaming. When we let fear be our prime motivation, we will
never move forward to make any difference. We stop floating, and instead begin to fall into a black hole.
I may be only just a person, Ruki Maiji to be exact, but I know that without these stars to guide
me, I would not have a will to go up. If you keep going, floating in this life, eventually you’ll stumble on
what’s like a bright star. Something beautiful that answers to everything you had questioned through
out this life. Never give up your dreams, keep going until you have nothing to lose, and always.. always..
aim to the stars.
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Artist: NekoCakeArt / Jessica Cyckevic
Title: Bright Love
Studio: NekoCakeArt
Medium: Digital
Find Artist at: NekoCakeArt at gmail.com | nekocakeart.weebly.com/
Entry Backstory:Have you ever wondered how the stars were aligned? Who made the constellations? One lucky girl was declared to have this role at birth. Later, as she grows older, she will pass on this duty; whether she blesses another who she feels worthy, or chooses to have children of her own. She brings the beauty of love and lights up to the galaxy, charming people who look up beneath the sky. She was born with the corresponding birthmark and freckles that went on to define her as the one to be with the stars!
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Artist: VBN
Title: Reaching for a Star
Medium: Digital
Find Artist at: http://villainsbynecessity.tumblr.com/
Entry Backstory:We discovered the first one forty-five years ago - a glimmer in the night sky, mistaken at first for a satellite - but the way it moved, we knew it was something else. We were curious, so we sent our best up there, armed with wonder.
We all know what happened next. We met them. They gave us... gifts. Gifts we could not understand. And even today - as they fill up our heavens with such a myriad of stars we can't even see the old familiar constellations behind them - we can only wonder why they keep coming here.
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Artist: Will Fyfe
Title: Reach to the stars!
Studio: BlackHat
Medium: Traditional; pencil, ink pens, copic/prizmacolor markers
Find Artist at: "facebook.com/BlackHatComics/?ref=aymt_homepage_panel | black-hat-studio.deviantart.com/?rnrd=177905
Entry Backstory:A dreamer looking to new heights. When people say sky’s the limit, I take what I have and what I’ve learned and go beyond to achieve my goal. No matter how impossible it may seem, I won’t just aim for the sky, I’ll reach to the stars!
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Artist: Lena Fisher (@kabukigirl-art.tumblr.com)
Title: But Some of Us Are Looking At The Stars
Medium: marker and watercolors
Find Artist at: kabukigirl-art.tumblr.com
Entry Backstory:Born and raised on the mean streets of a run-down moon city, Zelda’s had to look out for herself for most of her life. She dreams of leaving the city and traveling through space, but for now she’s just trying to survive. The necklace she wears is a promise to herself that someday she’ll leave her old life behind and see the stars.
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Artist: Mili St. John
Title: Princess Nova's Garden
Medium: Digital Artwork
Find Artist at: milistjohn.com | instagram.com/milistjohn
Entry Backstory:Centuries of tilling, sowing, growing, picking, pulling and pruning have made Princess Nova's greenhouse the envy of the outer nebula. Space warlocks, healers and rangers from as far as the 746th Quadrant travel billions of lightyears for herbs and remedies only found in her garden. It is said that she may even have a magnificently rare Gramgar Snafbart root growing in the very center, but such rumors are often dismissed as idle gossip.
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Artist:
Title: Pirate Star
Medium: digital
Find Artist at: mdlmemorybank at gmail.com | mdldoodlydoos at gmail.com
Entry Backstory:The black void of space has been seen for many years reaching through the cosmos. No one will ever see how far it truly goes but the stars them self tumbling, watching, growing. What stories they must hold after so many years far greater then any have told. Knowledge is power and It is this fact that draws many to them, good or bad. The rabbits of the moon try their best to keep from those who might misuse this power but not all stories have a happy ending
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Artist: FalseDelusion
Title: Painting the Way
Studio: FalseDelusion
Medium: Digital
Find Artist at: falsedelusion.etsy.com | instagram.com/falsedelusion/
Entry Backstory:The Sun disappeared one day and the Earth fell into darkness. Bunny remembered how bright the world was, and dreamed of bringing home a star that can brighten the Earth again. Everyone believed the stars were too far out of reach, that they were impossible to be held. Bunny didn't listen and went on an adventure to obtain the magical Brush. Now she can finally paint a stairway to space and pick the best Star to bring home to Earth.
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Artist: Cat Crossing
Title: Our Wish
Studio: Cat Crossing
Medium: Digital Art
Find Artist at: catcrossing.deviantart.com/ | catcrossing.art gmail.com
Entry Backstory:They say to shoot for the moon because even if you miss you'll land among the stars. But I'm happy knowing that even if I miss, I'll land with you.
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Artist: Sarah Ellis
Title: New Beginnings
Medium: Mixed media- Acrylic, pen and ink, digital.
Find Artist at: sjellis at massart.edub
Entry Backstory:The New Star Explorers have made it to one of their scouting destinations, Kepler 62e, looking to determine if the planet will be habitable with appropriate terraforming. Planets determined to be habitable will become the first permanent outposts for humans outside of the Milky Way galaxy, and eventually will develop and grow into the first cities among the stars. Cadet Carter already loves the new planet, with its gold and green-blue mega flora, and the view of the two circling moons dancing across the night sky; Only time will tell if humans take hold here though.
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Artist: Natalie Mack
Title: Star Chaser
Medium: Digital
Find Artist at: instagram.com/nmack66/ | natalievmack.com/
Entry Backstory:Harriet the Star Chaser travels in her ship all around the universe trying to find the stars of the constellation Andromeda. To collect all the stars she can free the imprisoned Queen. She continues her journey in the galaxy to complete her mission.
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Artist: Min+
Title: Star Catcher
Medium: Digital
Entry Backstory:Legend has it that if you wish upon a shooting star it will come true. But as all legends go, they hold little detail of what happens, for where do these stars go with these wishes? This is the story of a boy who ventured across galaxies, soaring through time, to bring these lost wish filled stars home to fulfill their promise.
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Artist: Syo
Title: At Long Last
Studio: Art of Syo
Medium: Digital
Find Artist at: facebook.com/artofsyo | instagram.com/artofsyo
Entry Backstory:An alarm flashes. Could it be? The commander rapidly taps upon her computer interface. Why yes, it is--at long last, the Rosewood has found a new planet, in a distant star system, capable of human habitation. Finally a new home for our Earthly pioneers.
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Artist: Lily Lion Labyrinth
Title: Space Whales
Studio: Lily Lion Labyrinth
Medium: Watercolor, Ink, and Colored Pencil
Find Artist at: lilylionlabyrinth.com | lilylionlabyrinth at gmail.com
Entry Backstory:Because space is an ocean, and the best way to travel is aboard sherbert-colored Sky Whales. Improbable? Maybe. But on the quest towards the stars of our dreams, fantasy is what fuels us. So go forth, brave human who apparently doesn't need oxygen! Go forth and triumph.
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Artist: Michelle Zhuang
Title: Longing
Medium: Ink & Digital
Find Artist at: mzhuang at alumni.risd.edu | twitter.com/dooberlane
Entry Backstory:A former explorer living on a Shanghainese Colony on Jupiter longs to rejoin her fellow explorers among Jupiter's moons and stars.
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Artist: Amber
Title: Soaring to New Lands
Medium: Clear cast resin and a variety of glow in the dark pigments posed and photographed. The glowing resin pieces each take at least 24 hours to fully make and cure.
Find Artist at: etsy.com/shop/FluorescentFinery
Entry Backstory:Marius had discovered many new lands atop his dragon companion, but he pondered even grander possibilities as they flew passed the newly risen moon. Stars and other unknown entities hung far above the pair, calling to their adventurous hearts. Rumors and myths telling of far away worlds in the sky had always swept across the continent, but so far no one had been there. What wonders awaited? The great dragon roared in challenge, determined to reach new heights.
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Artist: Eunnie
Title: Searching For a Signal
Studio: Eunnieverse
Medium: Digital (Mangastudio and Photoshop)
Find Artist at: eunnie.ev at gmail.com | Twitter: @eunnieverse
Entry Backstory:We can leave our planet and travel to the great unknown, but we can't miss this week's anime episode.
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Artist: Sylvia shi
Title: Reunion
Studio: JS Art
Medium: Digital
Find Artist at: ryo0oki at gmail.com
Entry Backstory:She was the daughter of a star, accidentally left on Earth. All her life she felt like she didn't belong. Finally she returns to the stars, her true home.
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Artist: Wing Ngan
Title: Star Girl
Studio: Ink design inc.
Medium: Digital Artwork, created in Adobe Illustrator
Find Artist at: facebook.com/inkshopinc
Entry Backstory:JunJun is a character inspired by my wife. She is a star lover and a strong fighter. Her planet is severely damaged by climate change and she needs to collect stars to save her friends and family. She transforms into a star warrior and battles her way up to collect stars. Although her armor is badly damaged from battles, she will not give up and continues fighting to reach her goal.
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Artist: Tiffany Ciper (Hihoshi) of Epicycle Studios
Title: Stardust-Fairy
Studio: Epicycle Studios
Medium: Digital Vector Illustration
Find Artist at: tiffany at epicyclestudios.com | facebook.com/epicyclestudios
Entry Backstory:When stars die Stardust Fairies are born to spread the dust and stories of their mother star. They bring their dust to the stars and share with the new worlds they meet. They tell their stories with beautiful showers to inspired and delight and give warnings with fire and flare. When our star dies and new fairies are born. What stories will they tell of us?
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Artist: Kristen O'Keefe of Lightning Wolf Illustrations
Title: Stargazer
Studio: Lightning Wolf Illustrations
Medium: Acrylic on canvas
Find Artist at: lightningwolfillustrations at gmail.com
Entry Backstory:“This place…is so lonely…” The Moon Rabbit thought, tending to her mortar and pestle as she had done for eons, seeing only the lunar surface with it; not yet knowing she had been overheard.
“You are not alone…” One whispered.
Her ears twitched. “Huh? Who said that?”
“I, the twin fish…We have sensed your loneliness…Please, look above you…and see beyond your domain…”
The Moon Rabbit nodded and glanced. She became entranced in wonder as the constellations swam against glinting stars, washed over in a feeling of serenity. She now looks to each constellation that visits her, embracing them as friends.
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Artist: Boycafe
Title: Stardust
Medium: Digital
Find Artist at: boycafe.deviantart.com/gallery | taromilkboba at gmail.com
Entry Backstory:Ajisai is but a humble apothecary, gentle and kind to the vegetation he plants and cultivates. At night he lay awake admiring the galaxies from his window, his overwhelming curiosity getting the best of him as he wonders who planted the stars in the heavens. Stars are like the galaxy's flowers, meant to be admired from afar. He often dreams of floating through night skies to reach out and be able to touch those stars. An effervescent warmth like no other washes over him as these thoughts lull him into a peaceful sleep for the night.
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Artist: Alexis May Lambert
Title: Starcatcher
Medium: Digital via Photoshop
Find Artist at: alexismaylambert.weebly.com/ |
alexismaylambert@gmail.com
Entry Backstory:Cherry is a Star-Catcher; she represents her station as she traverses the galaxies highways with her suit on, goggles up, and net in hand. Though a simple job, it is of upmost importance for Catchers like Cherry to bring in enough stars to power communities, and support the systems in place that allow her people to thrive. Cherry also just so happens to be the only one so pleased with her dangerous and laborious position, which is why you’ll always see her working with a smile on her face and leaping for the farthest stars she can possibly catch
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Artist: Kelly O "panthra
Title: Star-Crossed Sisters
Medium: Digital, Easy Paint Tool Sai
Find Artist at: p4nthra at gmail.com | panthra.tumblr.com
Entry Backstory:Stella and her sister Andromeda showed up in Earth’s orbit with one thing in mind: world domination! The galaxy’s most dazzling duo this side of the Milky Way use their breath-taking looks to steal the hearts -- and minds -- of each planet’s unwitting inhabitants. But little do they know, they’ll have to get through Earth’s toughest magical girl defenders first!
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Artist: N Bell
Title: Star trip
Medium: Digital
Find Artist at: ennbell.tumblr.com | twitter.com/aquaticenter
Entry Backstory:Hana is thinking about her upcoming move to the city to change schools. Her best friend Aoi can see how stressed she is, so she takes Hana to her favorite stargazing spot to remind her that they will always be under the same sky, and that they both should always be working their hardest to reach for the stars.
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Artist: GardenVarietyGhost
Title: Star Mother
Studio: GardenVarietyGhost
Medium: water colors, with small amount of marker, pen, and colored pencil.
Find Artist at: audrey.985 at gmail.com
Entry Backstory:The star mother creates and nurtures planets and stars, letting them form and grow. When they are mature, she sends them off.
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Artist: Moreganplease
Title: Star collector
Medium: Acrylic paint on canvas and digital.
Find Artist at: instagram.com/moreganplease/?hl=en | moreganplease at gmail.com
Entry Backstory:The night sky has inverted into the ocean, and now a perpetual darkness plagues the Earth. Luckily this can be remedied by collecting the underwater stars and putting them to good use lighting up the sky through floating paper lanterns. The loss of light inspired a passion in many people to venture into the ocean to retrieve as many stars as possible, so as to keep the world above glowing. Even when that means going at it alone, facing the depths of the sea.
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