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viivus:

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 letā€™s just call it an hour.

Now MISCELLANEOUS NOTES

  • This walkthrough assumes you already know how to use layer masks, the clone stamp, and the lasso tool. Thereā€™s also one part where I didnā€™t label it, but I inverted the selection so I could keep my lines consistent. Itā€™s in the third image.
  • Unfortunately I canā€™t really help with colour choice and the actual colouring of the pinwheel shape that makes up 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 ā€˜brilliantā€™ cut.
  • Thereā€™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 canā€™t really tell anyway.

now GO FORTH AND DAZZLE YOUR FRIENDS WITH YOUR SPARKLE