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There are a couple of themes running throughout this issue. First up we have a number of workshops to help you level up your sci-fi art skills, from a wonderful tutorial on creating our stunning robot cover image using Procreate, then using Photoshop to add narrative elements to a fun, stylised scene, and on to a painting of a villainous character. If you’re more of a traditional artist, we also have an expert guide to effectively capturing lighting in your oil paintings, and the next instalment of our anatomy series.

Then we have the rapid growth of AI. Tools like Midjourney are kicking up a storm, with some truly amazing creations starting to show up. It’s difficult to see how this will affect the industry, but there can be no denying it will have an impact; so, we explore this exciting tool in our news feature, highlighting some incredible developments and art that is being created. We also look at the process in more depth in our workshop section, covering not just Midjourney but some of the other options for taking your work from text to image.