Planet.

After many hours of work. I've finished my planet.
I started working on this because A/ I've never tried space art
B/ None of my other work is ocming out right atm.
But i think i've found a new style ^.^

Original image size : 3000x3500

I worked on a large scale. Well it&#39;s large for colouring etc >.< The texture. IS NOT just one image copied onto the planet. I spent around a hour getting just the right patterns and tones on that. I&#39;ll show a seperate image of it - As 3/4 is covered by the planet&#39;s shadow.

This is Work In Progress. I&#39;ll use this planet (it&#39;ll be smaller obviously) in a scene.
Yesh i know about the bit of yellow on the left of the planet. I&#39;ll delete that before i do the big peice.

The lights are cities - I&#39;ll write a story or something to go with the big peice later on.

http://img61.imageshack.us/img61/895...wshadow6hn.jpg
*fingers crossed that Crofty&#39;s art is liked*

I also need to sort out the lights. Because they look ilke they&#39;re hovering slightly. Floating city anyone? Maybe i&#39;ll spherize them or dim them latter on.

If it does not display. Right click, View Image.

The texure - ( still on planet. No atmosphere / shadows )
http://img462.imageshack.us/img462/4760/pl...texture11nl.jpg

Et Voila.

Commente?

nice nice, planet looks great, add something more and it will pwn ;)

Thanks. I can&#39;t work on the actual scene this weekend * crys * because i&#39;ll be using a laptop at my dad&#39;s. GRRRRR :( :(

looks cool nice and bid (shows thumgs up) but you need more stars and fill in the bg a bit but the planet still rocks

Yeh ill work on some asterioids, nebula, and star fields for the backgroudn. And more planets

Well, you didn&#39;t do much actually. When creating a planet, the only thing that takes time is creating the texture. It looks just like you just took a moon map, threw it onto the planet layer and spherized it. Sorry. :/
The city lights aren&#39;t that good either. They should follow the texture, but it looks like you just took a white brush and clicked randomly.
I think you should concentrate on creating a new planet with a better texture instead of going straight to nebulae and stuff, which is pretty much harder. If you haven&#39;t read it, read Alyns planet tutorial. http://www.deviantart.com/deviation/11885274/

Keep on trying, hope to see more. ^^

I did use a moon map. Along with 2 other maps. And some other layers. but i didn&#39;t draw the texture nay. And i said i&#39;m going to work on the lights. I just wanted to see how they looked with that.. type of planet.

Thanks. Alyn rocks =). I&#39;ll try another planet tonight / tomorrow.

look pretty good, but it think the craters were over done. But i do admire the work put in it ^.^.

Thanks =)

i cant put it into words lol
but it looks fucekn awesome i love the lights :D