Hello my friends and welcome to another Tuesday of tutorial!
I am Leonardo Pereznieto and today we will draw a sapphire.
We begin by sketching a tilted line for the inclination…
and which also will work as a middle line
and then we sketch the shape.
We erase the lines that we don´t need anymore.
I´m making as you see an almond shape…
and in the center it will have a flat area.
We start drawing some triangles, that will be the cuts of the stone.
I started doing them with the mechanical pencil, but I think
I will rather do them directly with the color pencil.
And also I go over the general shape.
The triangles can be of different shapes and sizes.
In fact they don´t necessary need to be triangles,
they may be other geometrical figures.
Very good!
And we also will draw some pliers that are holding it or that are about to place
it down.
Of course the pliers will be made out of metal.
Next we will begin coloring the blue.
And for this we will use some watercolor pencils.
I dipped the pencil in the water and then I paint with it.
We will use blues of different tones but as I only have a couple that are watercolor,
I will add some other ones which are regular pencils.
As you see some are very light! almost white, while others are pretty dark
…on the purple side.
With this I create a full range of reflections
…of different blues.
By the way if you are interested in going deeper, in learning
how to draw jewels, of different types as well as other kind of surfaces
and textures such as metal, marble wood, the texture of flowers or water,
I recommend you to get my book with the title ¨You can Draw! Simple
Techniques for Realistic Drawings". Which I´m happy to tell you, it is available
across the U.S. at the Barnes & Noble bookstores, as well as at Michael´s
and Hobby Lobby.
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We can go back to the stone and give it more layers to give more tones
or modify the ones we have.
For example giving a light or a shadow or degrading from one tone to a different
one, on something that we already colored.
I want the central part to give the illusion that it is flat.
However to be able to see through the cuts that are on the other side.
The edge of the pliers will have a reflection, and therefore they
will be very light!
The rest, I do it in gray.
This gray that I am using is not a watercolor pencil.
It is a regular wax based color.
To melt it, I will use a brush and mineral spirits, it´s the one
I normally use when painting with oil colors.
Good!
Sapphire is the third hardest stone.
We normally know it blue, but it can also exist in other colors
such as yellow, orange, green, and pink.
Depending on the amount on the trace elements that it has
of titanium, chromium, copper, magnesium, etc.
By the way, if it has a lot of chromium, it will become red, and it will not
be a Sapphire anymore, it would be a ruby.
We draw the shadow and some reflections of different tones.
The blue Sapphires are considered of the best quality, when they are
very blue!
They may have some purple tones in them but not more
than 15% percent or so, but when they tend toward
gray or green, they are considered of a lesser quality.
We give another layer to the shadow...
do the last details, and it´s ready!
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Subtitled by Grethel Trejo