How to paint/draw gemstones

Hello fellow artistic minds and other folk!

I will be showing you a technique for painting a "gemstone". Most of the gemstones I paint are on miniature wargaming models.

With this technique you will be able to draw or paint (on a model, canvas, paper, computer painting program, etc.....) a "gemstone" with a metal base(see picture 1). I used a computer program called "The GIMP" for painting this gemstone.

Picture 2 shows the real thing in five different colors.

Step 1 Getting started

The first thing you need to do is decide what color you want the gemstone to be. For this demonstration, I chose red .


Start by drawing a gray oval shape. Then draw a dark red oval shape inside the grey oval leaving an even border of gray around the red.

Comments

[paqrat]

Very good instructable. Very clear instructions. I think I could actually do this. If it wasn't almost 3 am I'd open Gimp and give it a try.

[Nibbler19]

Thanks!

[happyjo]

Yay! I really like this thank you!

[jet h]

love it, well done, good tute too.!!! thank you for all your effords and your sharing'-D

[Ward_Nox]

I've used a similar trick for years the metal setting is a good idea acctually one i hadn't had