New Genesis illustration: Votao Shen

So its been awhile since I last uploaded anything on my blog and been having a relaxing summer but been on the net just to look at some art work to get some ideas. Been building up ideas of my own for my New Genesis universe and thought, if I was to make a series full of aliens I need planets and maps where they are. So I decided to use what I learned from CCAD and put it to some use to make planet realistic as they can be then what I previously created in my Deviantart account.

The planet I created is called Votao Shen, fourth planet in the Finbiri system, Perseus Arm. Gave it an earth like atmopshere and slightly heavier gravity. Wanting to make the continents have rough edges even from an orbital view like Earth's continents.

Been drawing a few maps of the planets to get the idea, all I did was look at a few maps, either real or fictional to know what continents should have when making my own. I scanned the map and made a new line over the original, that way when I add the texture it would make things easier on the next step. Made some arrangements on the countries until I find the right places for them. Made a few small islands as it they can't all be large.

What I did next was to find a few textures, small, big or large but needed to cut some out and put each piece of texture until I'm satisfied. Once this was done I turned the colour using greyscale and then clone stamped the edges to blend the texture in together using whatever texture I thought would be useful but not too much otherwise there would be repeated patterns. Used some texturse for the ice caps but needed them to be snow.

Finally, I have my own planet with an ocean, green forests and deserts. Although not all perfect but wasn't expecting it to be. Had to do some final adjustment by making some of the countries a little bigger and make some shallow seas by the edges. Wanting to leave some textures about to give some mountainous feature but maybe do more here. So I hope you all like it and more to come!