theclockworkkidart: How I make the Gem hair You can even skip step 3 and you can make the basic stuf
theclockworkkidart: How I make the Gem hair You can even skip step 3 and you can make the basic stuff that I usually do in my Gem OC references. Chose Yasuho/Lanthanite-Nd because pink and purple are easiest (Trish’s hair is too complex for this). Other choice would’ve been Melone but I decided to switch things up.It looks complicated in the end but it shouldn’t be because it’s 4-6 steps if you count colouring the base. Shading is just making wonky crescent shapes that follow the strands of hair. Sometimes with little spikes in the middle that follow hair strands. Not too many. Shine as you usually would with hair with added bits to other parts where light would pass through. I just overuse layer types and play with colours until it looks neat. Shading and overlay should always be more vibrant than base colour. Don’t colour pick unless the layer type makes it saturated/vibrant, because photographs tend to be greyer/desaturated.I tried to cover most things. Red I don’t do well with. Experiment a lot to figure it out. Iridescent minerals (rainbow, aura quartzes, Iris agate, labradorite, etc) need their own post along with broken shards with flat planes. Some minerals have patterns. Some need “cracks” if you want more authenticity.You can follow a similar thing for metallic. With grey base, much darker grey (with a bit of blue) as shade that doesn’t reach the edge and almost white as shine. Blue as overlay near the edge of around the shine. Gold sort of follows a yellow gem thing.Yellow gems can sometimes be more green so add green to the brown if that’s the case. Like obviously there’s exceptions and it’s best to experiment but this is just how I do things. -- source link
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