Mark Stewart
@markstewart2001.bsky.social
Writer, Editor ("Odyssey" magazine), Architect of "The Metaphor Equation." https://markdestewart.wixsite.com/the-metaphor-equatio Learning to live with cancer.
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Serendipity indeed as I’ve been rewatching 2001 over this past week - tonight I’m on the last third of the movie, and that memorable sequence which was equally memorable in Clarke’s novel…
December 16, 2025 at 9:32 AM
Serendipity indeed as I’ve been rewatching 2001 over this past week - tonight I’m on the last third of the movie, and that memorable sequence which was equally memorable in Clarke’s novel…
Remembering Arthur C. Clarke on the anniversary of his birthday: 16 December 1917. The father of the communications satellite and author of books such as “The Fountains of Paradise,” “Imperial Earth” and “Rendezvous with Rama,” and of course “2001: A Space Odyssey” co-written with Stanley Kubrick.
December 16, 2025 at 6:25 AM
Remembering Arthur C. Clarke on the anniversary of his birthday: 16 December 1917. The father of the communications satellite and author of books such as “The Fountains of Paradise,” “Imperial Earth” and “Rendezvous with Rama,” and of course “2001: A Space Odyssey” co-written with Stanley Kubrick.
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Here are images of the creative process of my painting ‘Mountain Range Beneath Two Moons’, which is featured on the cover of the latest e-magazine, Odyssey, from the British Interplanetary Society.
December 14, 2025 at 11:32 AM
Here are images of the creative process of my painting ‘Mountain Range Beneath Two Moons’, which is featured on the cover of the latest e-magazine, Odyssey, from the British Interplanetary Society.
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A festive Lunokhod, to brighten your day!
December 14, 2025 at 12:07 PM
A festive Lunokhod, to brighten your day!
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My latest festive artwork encouraging everyone in the international space industry to be mindful about adding to the already problematic issue of space junk orbiting our planet. The more we put up, the more dangerous the problem becomes. #KeepSpaceTidy #DigitalArt #SciArt
December 14, 2025 at 12:30 PM
My latest festive artwork encouraging everyone in the international space industry to be mindful about adding to the already problematic issue of space junk orbiting our planet. The more we put up, the more dangerous the problem becomes. #KeepSpaceTidy #DigitalArt #SciArt
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One of my artworks is gracing the cover of the new issue of Odyssey, the culture e-magazine of the British Interplanetary Society. I even have an article inside of my journey as a space artist.
The January 2026 issue of "Odyssey" is out now featuring another amazing cover by @artistburns.bsky.social Contact me if you'd like a complimentary copy to see what the magazine is all about.
December 14, 2025 at 11:24 AM
One of my artworks is gracing the cover of the new issue of Odyssey, the culture e-magazine of the British Interplanetary Society. I even have an article inside of my journey as a space artist.
The January 2026 issue of "Odyssey" is out now featuring another amazing cover by @artistburns.bsky.social Contact me if you'd like a complimentary copy to see what the magazine is all about.
December 14, 2025 at 9:46 AM
The January 2026 issue of "Odyssey" is out now featuring another amazing cover by @artistburns.bsky.social Contact me if you'd like a complimentary copy to see what the magazine is all about.
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For day 8 of #ArtAdventCalendar, I present this animation I did about three years ago, showing a flight through a type of space colony called a Stanford Torus.
#SciArt created in #Blender
#SciArt created in #Blender
December 8, 2025 at 10:09 AM
For day 8 of #ArtAdventCalendar, I present this animation I did about three years ago, showing a flight through a type of space colony called a Stanford Torus.
#SciArt created in #Blender
#SciArt created in #Blender
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I enjoy creating digital art (as well as analogue) but I have to do it by hand, piece by piece, deleting if I get something wrong, just as if I’m using an actual pencil or pen & ink. This is the process of the creation of my Circuit Gollum, drawn using Adobe Fresco. #DigitalArt
December 5, 2025 at 10:11 AM
I enjoy creating digital art (as well as analogue) but I have to do it by hand, piece by piece, deleting if I get something wrong, just as if I’m using an actual pencil or pen & ink. This is the process of the creation of my Circuit Gollum, drawn using Adobe Fresco. #DigitalArt
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I do enjoy creating cover art for books, e-magazines, and periodicals. Collecting elements from a story and putting them together in a balanced and artful, sometimes playful, way is like solving a puzzle. And I really enjoy a good puzzle.
November 26, 2025 at 3:50 PM
I do enjoy creating cover art for books, e-magazines, and periodicals. Collecting elements from a story and putting them together in a balanced and artful, sometimes playful, way is like solving a puzzle. And I really enjoy a good puzzle.
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Space Odyssey, "Aries 1B" flies past a crescent Moon, while extending the landing legs, by me.
November 13, 2025 at 6:51 AM
Space Odyssey, "Aries 1B" flies past a crescent Moon, while extending the landing legs, by me.
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I did a new version of the short video, Eagles over 2001 Moonscape.
* Fixed some minor technical issues.
* Better render quality.
* Brightened stars a little
* Lowest Eagle now passes behind foreground rock.
* Music added "Cloudless" by Cousin Silas.
* Fixed some minor technical issues.
* Better render quality.
* Brightened stars a little
* Lowest Eagle now passes behind foreground rock.
* Music added "Cloudless" by Cousin Silas.
November 14, 2025 at 11:47 AM
I did a new version of the short video, Eagles over 2001 Moonscape.
* Fixed some minor technical issues.
* Better render quality.
* Brightened stars a little
* Lowest Eagle now passes behind foreground rock.
* Music added "Cloudless" by Cousin Silas.
* Fixed some minor technical issues.
* Better render quality.
* Brightened stars a little
* Lowest Eagle now passes behind foreground rock.
* Music added "Cloudless" by Cousin Silas.
Superb!
Getting stuck into the rebuild of the 2001 Orion, checking the old model.
The geometry is a GREAT fit to my references. So far I upscaled the texture maps, and killed a few bad polygons.
It clearly needs lots of bump maps replaced by geometry and normal maps though...
The geometry is a GREAT fit to my references. So far I upscaled the texture maps, and killed a few bad polygons.
It clearly needs lots of bump maps replaced by geometry and normal maps though...
October 25, 2025 at 2:01 PM
Superb!
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My old painting of a brown dwarf.
This view represents a moon of a brown dwarf being lit up by the sun-like star, which is second component of this star-brown dwarf system.
#Sciart #space #illustration #astronomy #Exoplanets
This view represents a moon of a brown dwarf being lit up by the sun-like star, which is second component of this star-brown dwarf system.
#Sciart #space #illustration #astronomy #Exoplanets
October 21, 2025 at 1:30 PM
My old painting of a brown dwarf.
This view represents a moon of a brown dwarf being lit up by the sun-like star, which is second component of this star-brown dwarf system.
#Sciart #space #illustration #astronomy #Exoplanets
This view represents a moon of a brown dwarf being lit up by the sun-like star, which is second component of this star-brown dwarf system.
#Sciart #space #illustration #astronomy #Exoplanets
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Ernst Stuhlinger's "Cosmic Butterfly" Ion engine spacecraft concept. Model by @nick-stevens.com #Lightwave3D
October 23, 2025 at 10:03 PM
Ernst Stuhlinger's "Cosmic Butterfly" Ion engine spacecraft concept. Model by @nick-stevens.com #Lightwave3D
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One of many versions Alexei Leonov painted of his historic spacewalk.
October 24, 2025 at 11:56 AM
One of many versions Alexei Leonov painted of his historic spacewalk.
We were delighted to include this image in the September issue of "Odyssey" as part of our interview with Helen Sharman.
The prompt for today’s #spacetober_challenge is Space Station. My digital artwork celebrates the Russian MIR space station. #sciart #spacestation #digital
October 24, 2025 at 3:29 PM
We were delighted to include this image in the September issue of "Odyssey" as part of our interview with Helen Sharman.
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#Spacetober_Challenge prompt is telescope. Here is my digital artwork of Jodrell Bank Mark 1A Radio Telescope. From my Circles Portfolio.
October 20, 2025 at 2:08 PM
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Today’s prompt in @spacetober_challenge is Star. I thought I’d share a digital composition that I ve created and use as part of my Sciart & science art workshop resources. Science outreach is one of my passions - the sharing of science knowledge through fun and creativity. #Spacetober #Sciart
October 21, 2025 at 9:28 AM
Today’s prompt in @spacetober_challenge is Star. I thought I’d share a digital composition that I ve created and use as part of my Sciart & science art workshop resources. Science outreach is one of my passions - the sharing of science knowledge through fun and creativity. #Spacetober #Sciart
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Jet/Plane is the prompt for today’s Spacetober Challange. This is my digital artwork of the Shuttle piggyback on a specially adapted Boeing 747. From my Circles Portfolio. #spacetober_challenge #sciart #digital
October 24, 2025 at 10:33 AM
Jet/Plane is the prompt for today’s Spacetober Challange. This is my digital artwork of the Shuttle piggyback on a specially adapted Boeing 747. From my Circles Portfolio. #spacetober_challenge #sciart #digital
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David Lynch's Dune (1984): Unused poster art by Drew Struzan
October 16, 2025 at 1:05 PM
David Lynch's Dune (1984): Unused poster art by Drew Struzan
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One for those of you watching this on a phone!
October 17, 2025 at 2:37 PM
One for those of you watching this on a phone!
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The "Discovery" from 2001 at one point had tension cables along the spine, and large cooling vanes, (required for the nuclear engines).
Here's my take on that
Here's my take on that
October 17, 2025 at 5:18 PM
The "Discovery" from 2001 at one point had tension cables along the spine, and large cooling vanes, (required for the nuclear engines).
Here's my take on that
Here's my take on that
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Another alternate design for 2001's "Discovery", this version is generally known as the "Dragonfly" design.
October 17, 2025 at 5:23 PM
Another alternate design for 2001's "Discovery", this version is generally known as the "Dragonfly" design.
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Spacetober prompt for today is Historic Figures. I’ve created a portrait of Michael Collins, Buzz Aldrin, and Neil Armstrong. From my Circles Portfolio. #Spacetober #digital #sciart
October 17, 2025 at 10:05 AM
Spacetober prompt for today is Historic Figures. I’ve created a portrait of Michael Collins, Buzz Aldrin, and Neil Armstrong. From my Circles Portfolio. #Spacetober #digital #sciart