Weekly Design #1 - Fire

Here is the first post for the weekly design project.  As the theme for January is Planets I decided to use the  basic underlying themes of Fire, Ice, Earth, and Water as the basis for each post.

For the first post, Fire, I wanted to create a planet that visually represented what I would imagine of a planet engulfed in fire, lava, or a combination of the two.  Since the planet would visually be on fire, I wanted to show that it would look and feel hot and bright.  I also wanted to show that it would be semi lit on the dark side of the planet, as well as trying to show that there would be clouds and smoke in the atmosphere.

So here is Fire.