A planet...

RWB

Decided to give it a go, been dorking around in PS lately trying to get peices for my portfolio since I have nothing anymore. This planet is gonna be used in a bigger peice... a space scene. Red giants, planets, astriods, a galaxy view, all in one shot. I see it all over the place, decided to see how hard it is. So far, not so hard

Nova's are a bit harder though, tried creating a cool background for this image and it takes alot of work to do very little. Planets are easy though

So some real info? This was 99% Hand painted, spherized, embossed, and added in a picture of a spiders web for fun. Many many layers, and 2.5 hours later, here is the result.

RWB

Just realized I forgot my clouds, I wanted clouds damnit!!! I'll do it tomorrow

Madball

looks cool, job well done

lemonlime

Looks awesome man!

NiGHTS

Are you using Greg Martin's guides to complete this stuff? A friend of mine did a few like this and they turned out amazing. I'd never have the patience to do it. :shakehead

Great work!

bothered

Very nice but if you don't mind a little criticism? There are (at least) four curved lines near the top that don't look natural. Other than that

RWB

There's a spiders web embossed on it, was gonna be a city like part. Needs some more work I guess.

QCH

Either way.... looks AWESOME. You are really good with that stuff.

GHoosdum

I like it. I honestly didn't notice those lines until they were pointed out by bothered, but your explanation makes sense.