I tried my hand at searching and couldn't seem to find anything, but then I'm not necessarily the best at finding things here, anyway.

Meanwhile, I'm currently working my way through a massive media archive I'd collected a few years ago, and have found a fair amount of sci-fi art to be shared somewhere, if possible.

There's also a reasonable amount of such art appearing in Euro comics, which I'm collecting here: https://piefed.social/c/eurographicnovels?flair=Sci-Fi

So, any advice on where to look?
Oh, whoops, and the piece above is by Peter Elson, in 1980!

I adore this kind of art...the sort of old painted and airbrushed sci-fi art that would appear in magazines and on the covers of books. Sometimes I buy old sci-fi books just for the cover art. Invariably there is smut in the opening 5 pages lol. Just a pattern I've noticed :p

Maybe !imaginarystarships@lemmy.world ?

Invariably there is smut in the opening 5 pages

Really? And which ones would that be? Just so I don't actually buy them. Takes out a notepad and dons his glasses

Here's a link to Elson's website where the colors aren't quite as saturated and there isn't that small crease running down from the upper-left.

That would be my recommendation, too.

This one covers more than just sci-fi, but this sort of general medium and style will be familiar there:

!conceptartanddesign@lemmy.world

I like the saturation more

I don’t know about invariably, but I’ve definitely had that experience picking up a cool looking old 70s sci-fi book and then it’s a book about lesbian sex communes in the future.

That thing is way out of scale.

We were skiing as a child and there was a magazine from Isaac Asimov laying around in the apartment. Had detailed plans of various spaceships in it.

Haha. If you go to Half Priced Books, you may find a spinning tower rack of sci-fi books with amazing covers, all of which are also in plastic sealed baggies.

Go nuts!

They are very strict on what sort of content goes there, though.

The closest i can think of are:

!imaginarystarships@lemmy.world

!imaginary@reddthat.com

!imaginarylandscapes@lemmy.world

!FloatingIsFun@fedia.io

!liminalspace@lemmy.world

!cosmichorror@piefed.social