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Published: 2013-09-12 16:49:05 +0000 UTC; Views: 255300; Favourites: 11045; Downloads: 4322
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Check out the Exercise on shading Gems and Download the Practice Sheet HERE Artist: Tim Von Rueden (vonn)REFERENCE: Here's a standard step by step on how to shade a gem.
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This was just a circle hard edge brush with no "shape dynamics" turned on, just "transfer"
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looks like someone spilled honey...(yum!)...or amber... awesome work. I just wish that I was this good at drawing things...
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maybe this will help for the comic I'm working on.
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Darn I was hoping it was an egg yolk. oh well xD
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This is quite helpful. thanks for the post.
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Looks so soft! I think I would rub my cheek against it.
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Thank you~ This really helped!
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exellently done and infinately helpfull!!!!a big thank you for posting!!!!wonderfull stuff!!!!
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It feels as though I can pick the gem off the screen.
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Just don't scratch your moniter =]
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AAAH And you even did the shadow/light on the surface under the gem!!
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That part is the most important in taking the concept to the next level!
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The key to this is translucency, which is why the human eyes are illuminated the same way these gems are here.
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This tutorial is really simplistic and helps everyone, who want to try digital painting. Work through each step and you see the logic in toning 
Keep it up.
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This honestly looks more like amber, or as someone below me said, honey
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Agreed, when I went about doing it, I had more fun creating that amber look so I guess it could be called, shading an amber stone lol
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... amber IS a gem...
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Technically, amber is tree sap, so it's not from the ground, same with pearls, so I don't count them as gems, since they are from other things than pressure and heat on certain minerals. (Amber to me is a fossil, as its solidified tree sap)
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If you want to get even more technical, amber is tree resin not sap
And the defenition of a gemstone is "a precious or semiprecious stone that may be used as a jewel when cut and polished".
Some might want to include amber into that category, some might want to limit that to crystals.
In my case, the jury's still out
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well, i say amber isn't from the ground in the typical 'stone' sense
(also, what's hilarious is that Amethyst is just normal quartz but its oh so precious because its purple (and its my birthstone, so why am i hating on it?))
also, i believe this was meant for the literal gemstones like ruby or tigerseye (is that even a real one? or am i just too addicted to WoW?)
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Things get very special and sought after if they're of an unusal colour: amethyst, blue amber, pink and black diamonds etc.
Only 100kg of blue amber is found every year.
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I never knew there was a such thing as blue amber!
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