Gratuitous Rocky Planet

Gratuitous, and shamelessly so.

This started out as a test of a new texture I downloaded this morning (CGTextures, the site I got it from, is an amazing resource; lots of interesting textures) and evolved into the above when I decided to use it to experiment a bit with post processing.

Specifically, I experimented with custom clouds, atmospheric glow (a gremlin I've been trying to squash since I became a space artist), and atmospheric haze.

Altogether, it's all rather subtle, but I think the results speak for themselves. This is, without a doubt, one of, in not the best, planet I've made yet.