I joined triangles into a dome shape, painted under them and used dodge and burn to shade it.
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Our intrepid explorer was painted.
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This...was...so...much...FUN! I borrowed from 2 tutorials to create my planet. Basically, I took a rust texture, put a blue layer under it, then masked the rust layer into continents. I used the magic wand (left click menu, "similar") to change the color of some of it, then used Filter>Distort>Spherize to turn it into a globe.