How To Draw Crystals And Gems

How to draw Gems, Crystals, and Gold

Learn how to depict a gemstone's geometric cut patterns, the natural form of the crystals, & massive, shining gilt with this tutorial by The Etherington Brothers.

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Gems and Crystals

Gems and Crystals are often characterized by having flat, geometric surface patterns.

The surfaces of cut stones are divided up by edges which join the corners of the key shapes inside the pattern.

Simple or complex, this process ever works!

Here's how to make a more irregular, rough-hewn gem:

Depict a shape with multiple straight sides of different lengths.
Draw a smaller shape with less sides, and place it off-heart.
Add together a few smaller shapes.
Connect to corners on outer shape.

For a raw mineral look, add more internal shapes!

Some crystals naturally grade in columns.

The coloring in many gems gives them reduced transparency . This makes capturing their translucent nature a picayune different from that of glass.

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Crystals ofttimes appear in groups of columns or shard-similar arrangements.

Hither are a few more shapes to try:

Gilded

Gold produces both high shine and deep, dark reflected shadows. Merely before nosotros get to the polished stuff, let's begin with gilt ore…

In its unrefined form, the surface sometimes shows many thin layers.

Sketch random flat surfaces at different angles, and connect.

Random surfaces.
Join with random edges.
Use shadow to plant forms.

When drawing gold bars, retrieve about how the bars themselves reflect each other.

The surface is rarely perfectly flat, and so reflections tend to ripple.

If we pull dorsum to describe a larger group of confined, simplify reflections, simply recollect to reflect nighttime shadows.

With more circuitous gilt forms, reflections and highlights will exist pulled along curved edges.

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Shadows (which help describe form) tend to get lost on gilt, due to the high reflectivity. Counter this by using the reflections on convex curves as cross-contours to assistance establish the shapes.