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[kevincabuli]

& . paris

[artsyrup]

Sterling Clinton Hundley

[lupetto]

[pythias]

by sam ballardini

[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 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

[yokotanji]

[sloaneohno]

“Nova 2” Illustrated by Luis Garcia Mozos 1980

[comicscansms]

Hulk is the worst guest at a sleepover.

- The Defenders #1

[oldbookillustrations]

The flight of petruccia.

Edward Robert Hughes, from The Pecorone of Ser Giovanni, by Giovanni Fiorentino, translated by W. G. Waters, London, 1897.

(Source: archive.org)

[beatonna]

There’s something wonderful about Marvin Bileck’s minimal illustrations for All About the Stars.  

[not-a-comedian]

It’s finiiished! I made this animation short during October (only a month so I had to limit the animation a lot). It got some very light gore in it and lots of spooks. And some familiar music I got permission to use :)

Thanks for watching and Happy Halloween!!

[matthew-houston-deactivated2018]

Bushman

[absinthius]

Cliffs of Moher, Ireland

[sommartidsvarmod-deactivated201]

[abystle]

Sir David Wilkie, John Opie, 1805.

[kevindart]

Voyager - Space Show @1988

[venomouswalrus]

THOSE TEETH! HANDS DOWN COOLEST TEETH!

From Chicago Adventure, Part Three: Little Skeletons

[thebrainscoop]

Adaptive evolution is thrilling! Look how specialized! wonderful! crazy! 

[lazymercenary]

80s Heroes by Guillaume Singelin

[kerburaxx]

All of me yesssssssssss

[snowce]

Dean Cornwell, It’s Hard to Explain Murder, 1920