Zephyrine: Thanks so much. Looking through your gallery, it looks like you're quite a fan of purple! I'm aiming to have the palette on Lospec around the end of the month/early June. Just completing a set of portraits with it to use as an example image.

I absolutely love the colors!!!

phenomenician: Thank you so much; that's high praise indeed!

"women in spacesuits by sdb" is, perhaps, my favorite genre of pixel art 

devstratum : Thank you!

Xarss: Thank you!

I drew a grid and a few of the details I wanted in a square the same width as the helmet and used the spherize tool in Photoshop to create a guide. I think Krita has a better tool for creating guides for odd perspectives (Photoshop might these days, but I'm using CS5). I also looked at a decent number of photos of astronauts and sportspeople in visors.

I was actually surprised there wasn't greater distortion when I started but I just went with it and I guess Photoshop knew best.

Asaltedfishtriesart:  Sounds like it'd be quite a nightmarish discovery. Thank you so much for the kind words!

pixelglade: Thanks so much! The palette was originally intended for portraits (albeit not realistic ones) so I was pretty curious to see if I could use it for something else.

Good work, mysterious

God the round reflections on the helmet are so goood 

That green thing is very familiar, is the explorer about to unlock the sims, irl version? 

Jokes aside, I love it! So, so good, I really need to study how you did some of the things 

You did a great job with the rendering, it looks like it could be a still from a movie (or game), the vibrant colours and scene choice really does remind me a lot of the warp scene from 2001: A Space Odyssey.