Weekly Design #2 - Ice

For the second weekly design post, I thought it would be interesting to contrast a hot fiery planet with an ice covered one.

One of the things I wanted to do with the design was to make the planet feel very cold and ice covered.  At first I wasn't sure how I would go about doing this beyond what colors I wanted to use, but I found some really abstract ice images and based the basic design off of those.  From there it was just a matter of adding detail, color, and character while also trying to make the image to seem believable.

So here is Ice.