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Published: 2014-07-05 17:12:43 +0000 UTC; Views: 300629; Favourites: 18984; Downloads: 4949
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Description Check out the Exercise and Download the Practice Sheet HERE Artist: Tim Von Rueden (vonn)

This exercise was a truly sweet! Below is a step by step on how I created each of the gemstones from the exercise practice sheet. I broke it down into each significant step on what was included or added:

  • Outline - Begin with the overall look and shape to each candy, remembering to either have them be on a surface or nor.
  • Solid Base - Choose a color and try grabbing colors from reference!
  • Initial Detail Pass - Before laying down another color, focus on where you want your light source and stay consistent throughout! Also bear in mind whether the light will pass through the surface and be absorbed or will it be mostly reflected.
  • Remove Outlines and Add Gradients - This will give the gem a solid foundation from here to detail further! Subtle gradients will add that extra touch of realism.
  • Surface, Highlights, and Bounce Lighting – This is the hardest step. Really focus on the lighting on how it interacts with each candy. And for bounce lighting try working with the color in the local surrounding environment (in this case a neutral grey) The subtle surface textures will add a sense of realism as well.
  • Highlights - This is a good exercise to see how color can pass with the lighting into the shadow, depending on the material you are working with. A gummy bear will pass color into a shadow far more than a piece of licorice. So it’s all about observing and analyzing how lighting interacts! 
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    Comments: 423

    Ksnellings [2017-12-13 23:14:24 +0000 UTC]

    Incr-edible

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    Ocilas [2017-12-13 19:47:40 +0000 UTC]

    how do i favorite a drawing

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    Ghostiinq In reply to Ocilas [2017-12-14 01:28:58 +0000 UTC]

    On computer version next to the drawing is a button that says 'Favorite'

    On mobile, there is a star at the bottom of the screen, near the button you press to see the comments, press that, and you should be able to add it to favorites.


    Hoped this helped!

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    StoriaGold [2017-12-13 18:00:21 +0000 UTC]

    good~!

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    hanzomain2578 [2017-12-13 16:05:37 +0000 UTC]

    mmm that easy make a candy real life lol so easy but little hard good luck     

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    Assink-art [2017-12-13 13:29:15 +0000 UTC]

    The candy looks tasteful! Good tutorial, thank you for sharing.

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    SammyPlays13 [2017-12-13 12:50:15 +0000 UTC]

    Wow, this is so cool! And interesting!

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    madyellowblood [2017-12-13 10:16:19 +0000 UTC]

    penis

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    BeckCantDraw In reply to madyellowblood [2017-12-13 21:57:01 +0000 UTC]

    This comment is obviously so well thought out, I don't think anything could top its beauty. So touching.

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    Sinanticks In reply to madyellowblood [2017-12-13 12:11:08 +0000 UTC]

    The candy looks like its getting fresher as it nears completion, cola cubes would be cool, too.

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    strazi In reply to madyellowblood [2017-12-13 11:11:50 +0000 UTC]

    h

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    BRAIN-PLAGUE In reply to strazi [2017-12-13 14:35:49 +0000 UTC]

    h

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    DeviantArtMan11 In reply to BRAIN-PLAGUE [2017-12-14 00:20:40 +0000 UTC]

    h

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    Somebodykun [2017-12-13 08:14:00 +0000 UTC]

    Is there way to make a solid base without bleeding outside the line art when you have a lot of segments?

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    Red-Baby [2017-12-13 06:44:14 +0000 UTC]

    This is an amazing step by step guide!!!
    Thank you for sharing.

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    Fierceclaws3 [2017-12-13 05:40:42 +0000 UTC]

    hunger

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    What-lies-Unknown [2017-12-13 01:47:47 +0000 UTC]

    This is so realistic, it makes me want to break the fourth wall and eat it. XD

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    Dekelsa [2017-12-13 01:36:53 +0000 UTC]

    definitely gonna use this thank you!

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    CodenameKIP [2017-12-12 23:49:46 +0000 UTC]

    These look so realisitc
    Now im hungry

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    Octofunker In reply to CodenameKIP [2017-12-12 23:57:56 +0000 UTC]

    Same.

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    HoneyBiscuitx [2017-12-12 18:44:12 +0000 UTC]

    woah! those look like real candies! great job!

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    Angelipler [2017-12-12 18:17:43 +0000 UTC]

    cool

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    XxG00DSPIRITxX [2017-12-12 15:44:12 +0000 UTC]

    Luke 5:27- 32
    Jesus Calls Levi and Eats With Sinners

    After this, Jesus went out and saw a tax
    collector by the name of Levi sitting at his
    tax booth. “Follow me,” Jesus said to him,
    and Levi got up, left everything and followed
    him.

    Then Levi held a great banquet for Jesus
    at his house, and a large crowd of tax
    collectors and others were eating with them.
    But the Pharisees and the teachers of the law
    who belonged to their sect complained to his
    disciples, “Why do you eat and drink with
    tax collectors and sinners?”

    Jesus answered them, “It is not the healthy who
    need a doctor, but the sick. I have not come to call
    the righteous, but sinners to repentance.”
    -----------------------------------------------------
    Luke 18:9-14

    The Parable of the Pharisee and the Tax Collector

    To some who were confident of their own
    righteousness and
    looked down on everyone else,
    Jesus told this parable:

    “Two men went up to the temple to pray, one a
    Pharisee and the other a tax collector.
    The Pharisee stood
    by himself and prayed: ‘God, I thank you
    that I am not like
    other people—robbers, evildoers,
    adulterers—or even like
    this tax collector. I fast twice a week
    and give a tenth of all I get.’

    “But the tax collector stood at a distance.
    He would not even look up to heaven, but beat his
    breast and said, ‘God, have mercy on me, a sinner.’

    “I tell you that this man, rather than the other,
    went home justified before God. For all those who
    exalt themselves will be humbled, and those
    who humble themselves will be exalted.”
    --------------------------------------------------------
    Luke 7:36-50
    Jesus Anointed by a Sinful Woman
    When one of the Pharisees invited Jesus to have
    dinner with him, he went to the Pharisee’s house
    and reclined at the table. A woman in that town who
    lived a sinful life learned that Jesus was eating
    at the Pharisee’s house, so she came there with an
    alabaster jar of perfume. As she stood behind him
    at his feet weeping, she began to wet his feet
    with her tears. Then she wiped them with her hair,
    kissed them and poured perfume on them.

    When the Pharisee who had invited him saw this, he
    said to himself, “If this man were a prophet, he
    would know who is touching him and what kind of
    woman she is—that she is a sinner.”

    Jesus answered him, “Simon, I have something to
    tell you.”
    “Tell me, teacher,” he said.

    Jesus said:
    “Two people owed money to a certain moneylender.
    One owed him five hundred denarii,and the other fifty.
    Neither of them had the money to pay him back, so he
    forgave the debts of both. Now which of them will
    love him more?”

    Simon replied, “I suppose the one who had the bigger
    debt forgiven.”

    “You have judged correctly,” Jesus said.

    Then he turned toward the woman and said to Simon,
    “Do you see this woman? I came into your house.
    You did not give me any water for my feet,
    but she wet my feet with her tears and wiped them with
    her hair. You did not give me a kiss, but this woman,
    from the time I entered, has not stopped kissing my feet.
    You did not put oil on my head, but she has poured
    perfume on my feet. Therefore, I tell you, her many
    sins have been forgiven—as her great love has shown.
    But whoever has been forgiven little loves little.”

    Then Jesus said to her, “Your sins are forgiven.”

    The other guests began to say among themselves,
    “Who is this who even forgives sins?”

    Jesus said to the woman, “Your faith has saved you;
    go in peace.”
    -------------------------------------------------
    John 8:1-11
    The Woman who was caught in adultery

    At dawn he appeared again in the temple courts,
    where all the people gathered around him, and he
    sat down to teach them. The teachers of the law
    and the Pharisees brought in a woman caught in
    adultery. They made her stand before the group
    and said to Jesus, “Teacher, this woman was caught
    in the act of adultery. In the Law Moses commanded
    us to throw a rock at such women. Now what do you say?”
    They were using this question as a trap, in order
    to have a basis for accusing him.

    But Jesus bent down and started to write on the
    ground with his finger. When they kept on questioning
    him, he straightened up and said to them, “Let any
    one of you who is without sin be the first to throw
    a stone at her.”  Again he stooped down and wrote
    on the ground.

    At this, those who heard began to go away one at a
    time, the older ones first, until only Jesus was left,
    with the woman still standing there. Jesus straightened
    up and asked her, “Woman, where are they? Has no one
    condemned you?”

    “No one, sir,” she said.

    “Then neither do I threaten you,” Jesus declared.
    “Go now and leave your life of sin.”
    -------------------------------------------------------------
    Luke 23:32-43
    Jesus and the two criminals.
    Two other men, both criminals, were also led out
    with him to be executed. When they came to the
    place called the Skull, they crucified him there,
    along with the criminals—one on his right, the other
    on his left. Jesus said, “Father, forgive them,
    for they do not know what they are doing.”
    And they divided up his clothes by casting lots.

    The people stood watching, and the rulers even
    sneered at him. They said, “He saved others;
    let him save himself if he is God’s Messiah,
    the Chosen One.”

    The soldiers also came up and .
    laugh and made fun of jesus.
    They offered him wine vinegar and said,
    “If you are the king of the Jews, save
    yourself.”

    There was a written notice above him,
    which read: this is the king of the jews.

    One of the criminals who hung there said
    bad words at him: “Aren’t you the Messiah?
    Save yourself and us!”

    But the other criminal rebuked him.
    “Don’t you fear God,” he said, “since you are
    under the same sentence? We are punished justly,
    for we are getting what our deeds deserve. But this
    man has done nothing wrong.”

    But the other criminal rebuked him.
    “Don’t you fear God,” he said, “since you are
    under the same sentence? We are punished justly,
    for we are getting what our deeds deserve. But this
    man has done nothing wrong.”

    Then the criminal said to Jesus, Lord
    rember me, when you enter your kingdom.

    and jesus said: Truly I say to you, on
    this day you will be
    with me in paradise.
    ------------------------------------------------------

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    xXLunarEclipse2004Xx In reply to XxG00DSPIRITxX [2017-12-13 12:54:34 +0000 UTC]

    Can you fucking stop?? Not everyone here is Christian!!😡

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    audeepearl In reply to XxG00DSPIRITxX [2017-12-13 04:25:43 +0000 UTC]

    if your new, why spam?    

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    XxCactusDogxX In reply to XxG00DSPIRITxX [2017-12-13 03:24:27 +0000 UTC]

    wtf?

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    Proncus In reply to XxG00DSPIRITxX [2017-12-13 01:15:12 +0000 UTC]

    What does this have to do with candy? >.> Spammer.

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    PickaPluckofCherries In reply to Proncus [2017-12-16 14:24:46 +0000 UTC]

    Talking about sharing things, candy is sweet, and these (to a Christian) might be set to them as well.

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    CodenameKIP In reply to XxG00DSPIRITxX [2017-12-12 23:49:57 +0000 UTC]

    hail satan

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    MonsterInkStudio [2017-12-12 11:08:01 +0000 UTC]

    Great! thanks for shearing

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    Ascoutnoonelikes In reply to MonsterInkStudio [2017-12-12 15:41:22 +0000 UTC]

    shearing... You dare shave the sacred candy sheep!?

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    YemmiGirl417 [2017-12-12 04:27:13 +0000 UTC]

    AHHHH I'M SO HUNGRYYYYYYYYYY YUMYUMYUMYUM

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    TheRedTyrant [2017-12-12 03:48:47 +0000 UTC]

    whoooOOOOAAAAA THEY Look so /real/ im!!!!!!!!!!

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    GimmeYaoi25 [2017-12-12 02:34:18 +0000 UTC]

    This is so interesting to see 

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    Ritzthebear [2017-12-11 23:29:52 +0000 UTC]

    So real...     -I wish I had that program ;c-

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    gothclique [2017-12-11 23:02:04 +0000 UTC]

    One day i'll be able to draw this well... hopefully 

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    A-Koai [2017-12-11 18:07:24 +0000 UTC]

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    silverPandacorn In reply to ??? [2017-12-11 17:13:45 +0000 UTC]

    really useful! Finally I can do good candies XD

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    wade7278 In reply to ??? [2017-12-11 15:45:19 +0000 UTC]

    Nice, need to practice this.

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    rotsentu [2017-12-11 14:00:57 +0000 UTC]

    nice tips!

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    CryptiqCore [2017-12-11 13:22:10 +0000 UTC]

    ................waaaa awesome

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    DJS1800 [2017-12-11 04:11:10 +0000 UTC]

    yum

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    Okashy [2017-12-10 23:35:49 +0000 UTC]

    Incredible.

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    Kaossolver [2017-11-14 23:20:44 +0000 UTC]

    Lol, now I want candy. XD

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    LittleMissNibbles [2017-10-28 03:14:25 +0000 UTC]

    WHA- How does one make something look so realistic?!

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    BuildTech [2017-10-26 18:24:08 +0000 UTC]

    OMG ! wow  so realestic

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    dertdas [2017-10-17 18:37:09 +0000 UTC]

    Оnly sexy and lonely girls from уоur сitу - hеrе!!!!  

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    PickaPluckofCherries In reply to dertdas [2017-12-16 14:25:34 +0000 UTC]

    Because Candy is a hooker name?

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    SacredTreasure In reply to dertdas [2017-11-12 22:12:32 +0000 UTC]

    pls stop

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    Midnight-pelt In reply to dertdas [2017-11-06 06:52:39 +0000 UTC]

    England is my city

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