Looks great. Are you drawing these by hand or using a planet-generator tool (such as Lunarcell)?
The next step would be doing the RAW maps and getting those to colorize properly, but I wouldn't sweat too much over that unless you're really a masochist |
I'm generating them with Newtek Lightwave 3D. I have a huge database of source images for planet generation (high res very zoomed in photos of terrestrial land bodies, like islands, pennensulas, etc... As well as some random made up textures), and i use many of Lightwave's built in procedural textures. Then i merge them on a plain sphere in Lightwave and use the surface baking camera to generate a rectangular texture file. Then i tweak the colors in Paint Shop Pro, add in some fractal noise to the oceans, etc...
And i WAS thinking ahead to RAW terrain maps

, so i saved a grayscale version of each planet map without the ice caps. Just gotta load them into Paint Shop Pro and lighten up the continents and resize/convert them, and there ya go

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And since you like the Yor, here's Iconia.