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@markgarlick.com
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🔭 Astrophysics Ph.D
🍩 3D illustration and animation in Blender
🪐 Space art and astronomical art specialist
✨ Fellow of the International Association of Astronomical Artists
🦕 Also dabbling in paleoart and scifi art
🚫 AI/NFT

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How many ppl get an opportunity like this? I feel blessed. Visit to a private cheetah sanctuary in South Africa
Photo of a cheetah lying on a raised wooden platform. I'm kissing her head. If only you could hear the purring. Photo of a cheetah lying on a raised wooden platform. Her eyes are closed. A human hand is seen touching her face.
November 8, 2025 at 7:50 PM
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I'm a fan 😎
Digital illustration of an extinct organism called Hallucigenia, by Mark Garlick
November 6, 2025 at 11:09 PM
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Time for a #spaceart showcase? Yeah, I thought so. I created these with various software, mostly #Blender, #photoshop and #3dsmax

#SciArt
This illustration shows the gas giant Saturn with some of its many satellites in front. In the foreground is Rhea, the second largest moon of this planet, after Titan. With a mean diameter of 1528 km (764 miles), Rhea is about half the size of our own Moon. Its surface is heavily cratered, with two very large impact basins and numerous fractures. Its density suggests it is made up of about one-quarter rock and three-quarters water ice. Four other Saturnian moons can be seen in the distance, close to the ring plane. From left to right they are Dione, Mimas, Enceladus and Tethys. An artist's impression of Charon as it might appear from the surface of Pluto. In this depiction, Charon's phase is new - i.e. the Sun is directly behind it. Therefore Charon is only visible by the faint sunlight that Pluto reflects onto it from the Sun. Because Pluto and Charon are tidally locked, they keep the same face towards each other at all times, as the Moon does to the Earth. So if one stood on Charon (or Pluto) the other world would stay fixed in the sky - never setting or rising, but still cycling through its phases. And if one were on the wrong hemisphere of Pluto (or Charon) one would never see the other world. The New Horizons probe recently revealed that Pluto has clouds in its atmosphere, as this illustration depicts. Artwork of the Jovian moon Io, seen against the backdrop of Jupiter's Great Red Spot. The latter is a vast, cyclonic storm - wider than the entire Earth - that has raged for centuries. Io, a highly volcanic world, is the innermost Galilean moon of Jupiter. Illustration of a coronal mass ejection emanating from the Sun. These events, CMEs for short, are powerful releases of solar charged particles (plasma) and magnetic field, travelling on the solar wind. When a CME hits Earth, it can cause a geomagnetic storm which disrupts the planet’s magnetosphere, our radio transmissions and electrical power lines. They can damage artificial satellites and cause long-lasting power outages. Humans in orbit are also very vulnerable to these events, whose high-energy particles are not shield by typical spacecraft.
November 4, 2025 at 10:18 AM
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Quick illustration of a space fountain, made in #Blender. These are seemingly impossibly tall structures made possible with a bit of physics. Think frisbee floating on a vertical jet of water. Same concept is use to hold these things aloft.

#sciart #scicom
Illustration of a space fountain.
October 31, 2025 at 3:35 PM
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Greetings, and happy #PortfolioDay! My name is Mark A Garlick. I've been space illustration for 30 years and animation for around 15.

#SciArt #spaceart #Blender
Illustration of an asteroid repurposed as a space colony. The interior is a hollow cylinder. Illustration of the interior of a space colony called a Stanford torus Illustration of a rocket launching from Mars. Illustration of an orbital ring. It encircles the entire earth. Structures can be build on it, of hung from it (e.g. space elevators)
October 15, 2025 at 9:12 AM
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October 10, 2025 at 8:51 AM
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Today's #Spacetober prompt is Moon, so here is the Moon! Digital #Art created in #Blender3d.

#spaceart #SciArt
Digital illustration of the Moon. We see the lunar far side, with the Earth top left in the distance, and the Sun just behind it.
October 4, 2025 at 10:07 AM
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Coming in 2 weeks is this rebooting of our successful Kickstarter book, Encyclopaedia Cosmologica. If you missed it, here's another chance. Written by @startswithabang.bsky.social and co-illustrated by me.

Order below and get a free art print from the book.

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Image of the cover of the forthcoming book The Grand Cosmic Story, by Ethan Siegel, Mark A Garlick, Jon Lomberg and William Lidwell.
September 26, 2025 at 2:07 PM
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Artist! Quote with your yellow art! 💛
Illustration of a small group of Parasaurolophus dinosaurs.
September 24, 2025 at 12:05 PM
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Illustrations done for press releases over the years. Sadly I get these commissions less and less often as AI takes over the world. I worry about my future in this industry. 😟

#SciArt #blender
Illustration of a large meteor exploding about tundra and it's fireball scorching the ground Molten exoplanet surrounded by rocky debris. Digital illustration Speculative illustration depicting life on an alien world with two suns. Digital illustration of an icy exoplanet fragmenting under the UV flux from its star.
September 23, 2025 at 9:07 AM
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NASA released some shape models of four of Saturn's moons. These have every lump and bump; they're not simple spheres.

Here's a test render I did in #Blender showing #Mimas in false color - red is high, blue low. Clearly shows how non-spherical it is!

#sciart #spaceart

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September 3, 2025 at 1:20 PM
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Space hardware by yours truly.

Please repost! I thank you.

#SciArt #spaceart #scifi
The MMX rover on the surface of the Martian moon Phobos Venera 9 probe endures the harsh Venusian environment Fictitious shuttle-like space craft in orbit above Mars Saturn V takes flight
August 26, 2025 at 8:41 AM
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Some #spaceart I've done over the years.

Please repost for me.

#SciArt
Illustration of Jupiter seen from the surface of Callisto, one of its four larger moons. The vertical structures are ice spires. Illustration of the asteroid Chariklo, which, oddly, is known to have a ring of dust around it. Illustration of Jupiter seen from the surface of Europa, one of its four larger moons. A water jet is seen erupting. Io, another large moon, is seen crossing the face of Jupiter. Illustration of the surface of the hell planet, Venus. No lightning has been detected there AFAIK, but that's what artistic licence is for.
August 22, 2025 at 9:30 AM
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Here are some WIP shots from a commission I'm working on for Jan S. Gephardt's XK9 novels (‪@artdog.bsky.social‬). It's a vast space settlement called Rana.

#blender #sciart #spaceart #scifi
August 12, 2025 at 2:55 PM
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Here's another WIP teaser for y'all.

#blender #sciart #spaceart
August 8, 2025 at 2:33 PM
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Something pretty different from me. I like experimenting.

#Blender #SciArt
Digital illustration of the structure of an animal cell. Copyright Mark A Garlick.
August 4, 2025 at 10:02 AM
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Hello, followers! Sorry, been a bit busy lately so haven't posted much. Here's a glimpse for you of my latest work in progress.

Would much appreciate any reposts. Many thanks.

#blender #sciart #scapeart
August 3, 2025 at 9:40 AM
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A space elevator is a proposed structure to get payloads into, you guessed it, space, without the heavy costs involved with rocketry. Several companies are seriously thinking about building one. Who thinks it'll ever happen?

Made in #Blender. #SciArt #spaceart #scifi @isecdotorg.bsky.social
July 19, 2025 at 12:31 PM
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Black holes suck!

Please repost!

#SciArt #spaceart
July 15, 2025 at 10:28 AM
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A (not at all realistic) space elevator arrives at a station at an altitude of 50km.

Created in Blender.

#scifiart #SciArt #spaceart
July 14, 2025 at 9:24 AM
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Between jobs (a length of time that seems to keep growing) I'm always looking for ideas of what to illustrate or animate next.

I'm asking my friends and followers here to step forward with ideas. I might even end up doing them!

What would you like to see me do?

#SciArt #spaceart
July 6, 2025 at 3:33 PM
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Greetings, Blue Sky. Here are some illustrations I did depicting the Trappist-1 planetary system. Seven planets in very compact orbits about a red dwarf. All of the planets and the star are to scale.

#SciArt #blender
July 5, 2025 at 11:44 AM
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Exploring a crack in the ice, on Europa. We really need a mission like this.

#sciart #spaceart
Artwork of a spacecraft descending into a crevice in the surface ice of Europa. a large moon of Jupiter. Jupiter itself, and Io - another large moon - loom in the sky. Copyright Mark A. Garlick.
July 2, 2025 at 10:20 AM
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I came across this book in Waterstone's the other days and highly recommended it to all lovers of #spaceart and #SciArt.

Do any of you have any cool space art books?

Do you have any of mine? 😎
June 29, 2025 at 10:55 PM
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Back in the days when I used to actually paint in Photoshop, instead of using 3d.

#SciArt #spaceart
June 28, 2025 at 4:36 PM