As this article at CNN will remind you, my fans should never look directly at me, the Sun, no matter how badly you want to ‘cause I’m just too darn hot! But there is one way that my millions of devoted fans can check me out, and that is by way of the Solar Dynamics Observatory, or SDO.

The SDO is called the Hubble Telescope made especially for yours truly. It is unique because it is capable of observing the entire Sun (me, in all its radiant glory), not just a specific section. And you would need specially designed space telescope to witness this sizzilin’ solar star in action.

Check out this CNN link and bare witness my glorious “solar image”.

Too hot to handle,

The Sun

Digital cleanups by vector-artist extrodanaire, Leigh, who I met at DeviantArt. She’s cool. Look at her stuff.

Over and out,
Mother Earth

Been drawing a lot of The Sun lately. Here’s one more and some of The Moon…

Over and out,
Mother Earth

After staring at it for the last couple weeks, I decided I didn’t like this drawing:

I mean, it’s fine I guess, but I felt it was deviating from the style I’m trying to establish. It’s the eyes, mostly. I felt the influence of the feature films I used to work on. My old habits coming back. Since I’ve been working in TV—and specifically because the people I’ve worked with–I”ve gotten a little more graphic. My husband would laugh. Compared to him these drawings are nowhere near being graphic. However in the past I would have been much more concerned with keeping in elements of real anatomy. I would have been really worried about exactly HOW those eyes were sitting in that head. Now I’m more aware of shapes– and again, not nearly to the degree of so many of my talented colleagues, but a lot more than I used to be.

Here it is now.

I like it a lot better– more dynamic. I have a weird subconcious rule in my head that the Galaxy Girls’ limbs always have to be super straight, but while I was revising this, her arms just wanted to be curvy, so I listened to my instincts. I think it worked!

Which do you prefer?

Over and out,
Mother Earth

Here comes The Sun, do do do doooo…

Over and out,
Mother Earth