ref: https://openclipart.org/detail/14522/funny-bee

Just felt compelled to render a Swarovski Crystal ornament.

https://www.flickr.com/photos/34520999@ ... 1/sizes/o/

Excellent, Lyle!

Thanks Diego.

Lyle, it is beautiful! You amaze me with your creations.

Thanks Pat; just had a lot of time on my hands over the past few years. Now, no longer do, so, just re-spieling old binges. lol

Lyle, That is awesome! HOW did you do it??????

Thanks for the comments, Issabella; belows sort of an outline.

Polygonize>random setting (decreased the opacity of the black line to 20). Then blended in my ruby texture followed by metallic something (one of many gradients I have) gradient mapping. Did a few other things as well (nuance things that are hard to explain but enhances the reflections) and voila.

Beautiful

Mine isnt as translucent as lyle's, but the basic effect isnt too hard.

Nice result, Konstantin.

Konstantin: Very nice. I can never get my attempts to look like Lyles.

Thanks ! Any tips how to improve it ?


I usually cant as well, but he gave pretty clear steps, so it wasnt difficult.

Konstantin, you did a very nice result, too.
I think Lyle is a pioneer to find and create new surprising technics in art.

Your result's perfectly fine, Konstantin. Only you know what you need to make your own result better to your liking. That is your path alone to follow (i.e, who am I to judge).

Thanks Issabella. Many years ago, someone deemed me as an experimental retoucher. That's pretty much how I see myself. Regardless, I wish I had the gumption to be a programmer like Diego, Tran, and many others here. Just grateful that we have such talent that frequent are abode here.

Love the crystalline effect Lyle - nice work!

Thanks, Artloader.

Lyle - really like the effect you have achieved here but failed miserably in trying to replicate it myself. More learning required

Learned a lot in the past 14 years of my retouching quest. Keep pursuing the pixel and eventually you'll find your own pixel path, OMG. lol