so today I got stoned and saw the results of someone doing a gemstone tutorial on the front page of furaffinity, and I decided that trying to replicate it procedurally in illustrator sounded like fun
this isn’t a direct reproduction, I went off in my own direction after a little while, but each of these gems is drawn entirely with one graphic style, overlaid on itself
they’ve all got the same underlying paths, they just have different stacks of appearances applied to them
I ended up making three variations of these styles, with different amounts of sparkle; this one combines some of them. Same paths though.
Then I used these styles to draw a horny witch and her fox spirit friend. I tried organizing my work on this one via grouping stuff instead of layering, and I’m still not a fan. Really I think the one thing layerers have is that they can select an entire group with one click on the canvas and I have to do a fiddlier thing to select a whole layer. A select tool that selected the entire layer containing it would be useful here.
I might post the source to this on Patreon later. It uses a lot of Astute effects so I dunno how useful that is. I gotta take a cat to the vet now though, Peebs is having trouble peebing.
edit. Back from the vet. Peebs is going on a diet for cats who have peeing problems. Whee! Also the source file is on Patreon now.