Tutorials

How to Jewelry Quick and easy with Lasso fill

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I reccomend Watching the video as you'll learn everything in 5 minutes!

If not enjoy the text version here!

Basics

Blending Is essentially getting a color from dark to light

Get a smudge tool and stroke left to right and we're finished blending basics 101!

The usual cube with shadow, you've seen this tutorial a million times

Also the ball with bounce light, highlight and shadows you've also seen this one everywhere you go!

Now for the real meat and potatoes of this content.

Jewelry.

The Main Workflow

So pretty much jewels or gems in general are like an eyeball

And the eye ball is very similar to the ball exercise with lighting and all but just taken to the next

level, it shines in different areas

Essentially an eyeball with lots of triangles

But first let me show you the secret sauce I always use.

It begins early in the process too

Select your Lineart layer and make it a reference layer clicking the highlighted icon

Then get a new layer under the lineart

Put in some rough colors lets say we think we'll be doing a ruby so add some reds

and have the overall gist of the shadows, I want it light to dark this takes a very short amount of time

Lets add a dark green background because red pops more near green dark colors

Select your Lineart layer

Go to Edit

Colorize

Use hint image and colorize

Press ok

Something you may run into using the colorize tool is that

Colorizing turns the layer into a multiply layer therefor making everything darker on whatever color it is on

So keep the object you're painting on, Make sure under it is completely clear/blank

This is the result of the colorizing and it saves me so so much time blending

Also its a lovely mixture of base colors to start off from as well

Most people throwaway the original Base colors we layed on and this is where it gets spicy.

Take the original base color layer and place on the TOP

And set to overlay

On a new layer also on the blending mode overlay

We control which side we want lighter/brighter or darker

This is done with an default soft round air brush

Now my best friend, the lasso fill tool!

You can find this tool in the figure section [ U ]

But I hotkeyed it to my brushes because this does 80% of the work in my art.

Again my point being gems are essentially an eyeball with lots of triangles

Fill away the triangles going along the form

More lasso fill triangles randomly but with a multiply layer at 40% opacity this time

With a soft air brush on add glow layer

Emphasise what is light

Flatten the image

Now that you have your gem you can control the color anytime by pressing CTRL + U

It'll bring up the hue saturation menu

Slide away and it'll change the properties of the gem

Take your time

My workflow essentially stays the same for almost everything I do

This time I'll take my time on the tutorial and be more neater as the last one I was rushing to display what I usually do

First the lineart

Colorize with base colors

Use original base color on overlay

Clean up the lines and show form on the ring by adding shadows

Multiply with lasso tool

Overlay with pinkish/red on overlay to show the glistening shine of the ruby

I want to punch in some lights this time

and going further on my point that gems are just an eyeball with lots of triangles

Use an add layer on 40% as its very strong and hard to control and go nuts with the lights going along the form of the ring/crystal

Place pure reds on the top thats just my style since i love saturation to the max so much

Final touch by placing an add glow layer with a soft round brush

with an pure light orange color

Color choice

The simplest way of choosing colors I always personally stick to [ Left ]

Is choose your color first, then for the shadows just go two shades to the right on the color wheel

and that's your color!

Polished Gem

Same workflow!

Lineart

Colorize

Overlay with original base colors

Have a dark background two shades to the right

So it teal > purple

Follow the form with the lasso fill tool on the ring with warmer colors

Overlay with a cyan default soft round air brush

Lasso fill tool and add more variety to your polished gem!

Smudge tool and make the edges of the shapes you just made softer

New layer on 30% opacity and go around the form with a lasso fill

Add glow with cyan/purple with a soft round airbrush again and we're done

Simplified jewelry

This is my friend Sarah!

Her instagram is @Rinn.y_u

Usually you focus on details when the accessory is the star of the show but if its a person then mostly the accesories dont take up as much space on the canvas therefore not having as much detail

Base

Colorize

Overlay in lights

Clean up the separated shapes

I overlayed the background a bit darker then used lasso fill to block in lights on the form of the hair

Rendered the face abit more

Also This is a scrapped version

I want to let you know that things don't always go perfect the first time around and dont be afraid to start all over again!

Sometimes you don't have to put a tonne of detail into your jewelry

For examply my friend sarah is wearing flattened gold jewelry so we'll do the same and place flat colors resembling the shape

Lasso fill in the colors

Add glow with a hard orange soft air brush

and we're done!

Simplified but detailed

This is my friend Kira!

Her makeup and aesthetic is honestly on another level, this is just her normally and it boggles my mind with the effort she puts in appearance everyday.

Her twitch is @thehouseofcthulhu

As usual, you'll probably get what Im about to say with the workflow by now!

Lineart

This time I felt like colorizing the whole image

Overlay

This time I applied a gradient map at 8% opacity

But you can just overlay to get the same effect, I was just lazy to brush across the whole screen!

Rendered in some makeup

Overlay in to truly punch in those colors in the makeup

Back to rendering

Now that Kira's face has been finished!

We lay in this base colors for the necklace, this time without colorizing!