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

Thank you :D . I still need to fix them >.<

looks cool

i would decrease the shadow, it looks kinda wierd with so dark, then there are lights right over it (wouldnt that add some light to it or somethin?)

The shadow is because there would be a nebula one one side of the planet. And that would only provide light enough for what is shown. And no, they&#39;re city lights. Not enough to illimuminate anything around them ( on such a grand scale )

--&#62; Thanks also. lol

beautiful planet. looks like you spent some time on this one. great job.

THanks. I need to motivate myself to start on the rest / make a new planet etc...

That looks very good indeed&#33; :lol: But I should lower down the "city lights" opacity... coz there&#39;s some planet shading there... :)

Overall it looks great&#33; :)