Cat's Underpass

You were red and you liked me ‘cause I was blue You touched me and suddenly I was a lilac sky And you decided purple just wasn’t for you…

Peace of mind does not come from the outside.

The pieces I made for Flower Pepper Gallery’s upcoming show, Foliage, opening this Saturday in Pasadena :) So happy I got to participate in this as I had so much fun experimenting with and creating these pieces!  They mean a lot to me♥

Fallout 4 Concept Art - Part 1 (screen-caps from the stream, will post higher quality when available)

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, the clone stamp, and the 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 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 ‘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.