After four years of watching deadlines for the Communication Arts Illustration Annual come and go, I finally carved out the time to have a completed piece finished for submission.
I’ve often wondered why the deadline for submission is postponed a week (usually twice) every year. Perhaps Communication Arts understand the nature of designers and illustrators to know that extended deadlines for a competition are greatly welcomed in the face of freelance and day jobs.
Being the astronomy geek that I am, I always like the idea that there are so many different frames of reference for what is up. The most local having the horizon of the observer as the equator and the poles being the zenith and nadir. Out from that, there’s the celestial grid, which simply extends the planetary coordinates out into space, the ecliptic grid which establishes the plane of Earth’s orbit as the equator. Our solar system orbits nearly perpendicular to the plane of the galaxy, and our galaxy is again skewed against the superglactic reference grid. All that rambling aside, I composed an illustration where the local horizon was not horizontal as it might not be from an outside observer, and ‘down’ could be an endless depth of sky beyond the feet of a figure doing a handstand.
Now I wonder if the above description even makes sense. It’s been a few late nights working on the illustration. Good, though, as it proves that I can actually light a fire to get a project finished within a few days once I can get the idea established and scrap shot.
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