Gem Turtle

An interesting concept I made was combining a gem with an animal. After accepting a prompt challenge, which was combining an object (gem) and an animal (turtle), this is what came to mind. Turtles would be far more interesting if they carried gems on their backs. Not to mention, far more valuable and nice to look at in nature!

The illustration was all done in photoshop. The character and gems were done by looking at a reference images. The turtles scales were hand-drawn with a hard round photoshop brush.

Here, the gems were painted using a soft round pressure photoshop brush along with a grunge brush. Then, a white hard round was used to mark the crystal forms.