Gas Giant design

On my final design, I wanted to make a fully digitally painted planet, went for the jupiter appearance cause I really liked how so many stripes made up of colors and especially the Great Red spot which would be beig enough to swallow the Earth whole.

1. I start with a blank layer before creating lines of brownish colours, some of them small to make it as detailed as possible, the lines dont have to be perfect anyway just to make it into near straight as possible. Inspired by the Great Red Spot, I did a brown spot and a smaller one near, making the centres more darker as if the storms were taken effect. 

2. Next thing to do was creating the curves and swirls between the each other to give it a more cloudy appearance but this is just the first stage of making storm-like effect. 

3. Now I then added more lighter colours for the clouds, but lowered the opacity to make the effects work. smudge in the edges to make. 

5. Once the whole thing was completed, I dragged the entire elliptical marquee tool and spherize the selected area. This is one of the useful of ways to make a planet from textures to create a proper planet.

6. Creating a new document with a black background. Dragged the new 'planet' into from the original document and positioned it.

7. Wanting to add some lighting for the planet, adjusting both inner and outer glows using brownish yellow around the gas giant. Not wanting either to look to faint nor too bright, but to make it just right.

8. Adding the star field and altered the brightness, wanting to make it right with the planet. Finally, wanting a shadow on the opposite side of the planet, creating a new layer and coating it black, making sure it has the proper circular shape to match. Dragging it to either side to know where the sun would be, switching to a rubber tool to soften the edges carefully and not go too far. This is one of the few ways to make a shadow for the planet, even cut out most of it as an alternative. Once that's done we have a completely new world.