About The Project
For some reason this topic proved difficult to get a grasp on. My first thoughts were about the TV show Saphire and Steel and I considered making a digital dollie of the character Saphire. But this didn't really inspire me so I let the project wait.
Then I got the idea of putting a blink inside a saphire. I didn't want to use a photo of a saphire and my drawing skills are not such as to draw a realistic eye so I decided to experiment with vector drawing and node editing to produce cartoon type representations.
Having recently discovered the retouch tool I used this set on darken RGB then lighten RGB to add some shading to the saphire to represent a light source.
By placing the eye layer below the saphire layer then reducing the visibility of the saphire layer just enough to allow the eye to be seen I simulated the effect of the eye being inside the saphire.
