I can't tell which one I like better, I'm thinking V2, but with V1's...smoke? I can definitely see V2 clouding around, like in a movie or video-game. Very nice, I don't particularly like how there's so much black, but it does give great depth and makes the sig feel like light at the end of a long tunnel, which gives it amazing feel. Keep it up. ^^
Thanks. Can you see the stars in the background? its white noise that I put in in gimp, to look like stars. But I cant tell if its only computer quality or what i did in gimp. This was really fun to make. I got a blank canvas, covered it in black, put down the lens flare, and with the jittery smudge tool, which i set at 1.25, I smudged off the lens flare, it took about 10 minutes to get the lighting right and 20 minutes to smudge it well, and about 5 to get a good amount of whitenoise.
V2's center has more depth, but V1 has a better variation an fading away of the smoke. And an explosion of this magnitute would release a plethora of bright spectral colour, instead of some mushy brown smoke. Space art is normally very vibrant.