I made a walkthrough of my process for drawing faceted stones! Judging by the timestamps from the screenshots I took, drawing this one stone took an hour and three minutes, although I know I went and checked tumblr a couple times while I was working, so let’s just call it an hour.
Now MISCELLANEOUS NOTES
- This walkthrough assumes you already know how to use layer masks, clone stamp, and lasso tool. There’s also one part where I didn’t label it, but I inverted the selection so I could keep my lines consistent. It’s in the third image.
- Unfortunately I can’t really help with colour choice and the actual colouring of the pinwheel shape that makes of the back facets, but you can kind of see that I tended to colour with lines that cut across the facets and and kept the outer parts of the facets darker. It would probably be best to find a reference to work from!
- This particular cut of stone is called the ‘brilliant’ cut.
- There’s actually a lot of internal reflection business that goes on in a stone, but I elected to ingore all of it since at a distance you can’t really tell anyway.
now GO FORTH AND DAZZLE YOUR FRIENDS WITH YOUR SPARKLE
you guys totally shipped plumberry when you were kids don’t even pretend you didn’t. its a shame they never ended up together in canon!!
Plumbthroat and Berryboo? I had never even considered it but wow! great art!
I’ve not only learned that there is a forum dedicated to anything I think of but that every one has a sub-board dedicated to something completely unrelated
dalf:
Dogs from this year’s Creative Dog Grooming Competition in Hershey, Pennsylvania [telegraph/via]
CAN WE ALSO TALK ABOUT HOW UPSETTING IT IS THAT DAVE
FUCKING DAVE STRIDER
THINKS HE’S ANNOYED KARKAT VANTAS (HIS BEST FRIEND NOW) SO MUCH THAT HE DOESN’T WANT TO BOTHER HIM WITH A SIMPLE OBSERVATION THROUGH TEXT
dave is still so cripplingly insecure and afraid of being a nuisance after everything he’s done and oh my god if that doesn’t rip your heart out i don’t know what will
