03/24/2022 Today’s Topic: Gems and water droplets - How to simulate light hitting small transparent objects

This kind of painting method works well not only for general droplets but also for gems:

Here Musha shows really well how to paint gems (together with glowing eyes but the topic will be discussed in the future)

While this is a step by step guide which has worked for me at the beginning:

https://www.goonhammer.com/how-to-paint-everything-gemstones-lenses-and-vials/

In our How to Paint Everything series, we take a look at how to paint different models, armies, and materials, and different approaches to painting them. In this article, we’re exploring how to paint gemstones, lenses, and other glass-like or highly reflective surfaces.

Highly reflective surfaces like glass and particularly gemstones are fairly common on models in the 40k universe but they can be pretty daunting to paint if you’re relatively new to the hobby. The need to do complex shading work and give the impression of a reflective surface can seem difficult if you haven’t tackled it before, but in this article we’re going to de-mystify the process of paiting them and give you a few different ways to tackle this challenge.

Yours,

Jaka