Haven't been doing much in the way of art lately, but I did sketch out a couple of planetary surfaces for Yevakadzi (top, not inked) and Parzidan (bottom, partially inked).
Parzidan
I was thinking more about Parzidan lately, perhaps because it has a clearer identity in terms of what sort of place it is: banded across the equator by a single massive open desert. The highlighted region in the red rectangle is a large system of basaltic ridges.
The southern hemisphere consists of a large region (especially on the "western" / left side) of a large, ancient shield. The northern hemisphere is lower elevation dotted with smaller igneous regions.
Beyond the inhospitable central desert where aridity and long days (about 33 hours) lead to extreme variations in temperature at the equator, the land gives ways to semidesert and then sparse shrublands and grasslands and sclerophyll forests. The polar regions are much less arid with dense evergreen forests and bogs.
Parzidan is a large planet with a lower average density than Earth. It has a smaller core and exhibits less tectonic activity. The smaller core unfortunately also means it has a weaker magnetic field, meaning that the equatorial desert is also a bit of a radiation hazard.
Yevakadzi
We have a quite different situation in Yevakadzi, which has a wide and shallow ocean and a large degree of vulcanism. The surface is spotted with impact craters, which in some cases form the basis of lake systems. There are several sequences of large shield volcanoes presumably formed by a the planetary surface moving over hotspots in the mantle.
Its major cities all lie along rivers and on the shores of the great sea. Inland regions tend toward a kind of semi-desert which receives seasonal rainfall but tends not to retain moisture well due to poor soil quality. Yevakadzi lacks any kind of ice caps or major glaciation, but it does routinely snow at the poles, where grasslands and gallery forests prevail
I should get a scanner.
