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Page of Pentacles.

1 year ago

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, 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.
now GO FORTH AND DAZZLE YOUR FRIENDS WITH YOUR SPARKLE

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melhattie:

Japanese Macaque monkey at Arashiyama, near Kyoto, Japan
These guys were so cool. After a 20 minute hike to the top of this small mountain which overlooks Arashiyama and Kyoto (and is higher than the Kyoto tower, so it offers quite a view), you reach this plateau which is just COVERED in monkeys; like pigeons in a city park. Even though the monkeys seem pretty chill for the most part, the occasional scuffle in the sand and their howling screeches, really remind you that they are very wild animals, with sharp teeth. I was getting pretty close to them for some shots, so I comforted myself by reasoning that if one did charge me, I felt reasonably confident that I could give it a good kick. Also, although the official species name is Macaque, Japanese for a long time simply referred to it as ‘saru’ (さる). Literally: monkey, since it is the dominant species in the archipelago. Although, many now use ‘nihonzaru’ (日本ざる）or ‘Japanese monkey’ to refer to it for the sake of specificity.
Also, Japanese language fun fact: many ‘s’ words in japanese (ex: sushi, saru) adopt a ‘z’ sound, when a modifying adjective is placed in front of them (ex: makizushi, nihonzaru)
Newfies should note, with some humour, that its name is pronounced (ma-cack).

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