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Gemuary 2024 Day 31: Fordite
This last one isn't even actually a stone at all! Back in the day, the way cars used to be painted in factories left mounds of multilayered dried paint on the walls. This paint, cut and polished, is sometimes used in jewelry under "Detroit Agate" or "Fordite"!
I hope you've enjoyed this year's Gemuary challenge! Which one was your favorite?
#my art#creature design#monster design#illustration#lineless illustration#slime monster#slime#car#gemuary#gemuary 2024#monsters
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Some Gemuary extras! Some ideas I had for certain prompts I either turned down or only thought of after the fact.
I was also thinking of a lepidolite "bookworm" (since lepidolite forms in flaky formations called "books"), but couldn't make it look good.
#my art#creature design#monster design#little guys#cute#lineless illustration#rock monster#crystals#dendritic agate#anthill#garnet#pumice#gemuary#gemuary 2024#dendrogaster
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Gemuary 2024 Day 26: Gold-Sheen Obsidian
Gold sheen obsidian gets its sheen effect from gas bubbles inside the stone.
#my art#creature design#monster design#character design#illustration#lineless illustration#rock monster#obsidian#volcanic#gemuary#gemuary 2024#crystal#sun#creepy#weird
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Gemuary 2024 Day 24: Onyx
Onyx is a kind of chalcedony with parallel bands, usually black and white. In the old days, onyx was used to make cameo jewelry.
#my art#creature design#monster design#character design#illustration#rock monster#creepy#gemuary#gemuary 2024#onyx#goblins#goblin week
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Gemuary 2024 Day 30: Bloodstone
Bloodstone is a type of chalcedony with red hematite inclusions.
#my art#creature design#monster design#character design#illustration#rock monster#crystal#crystals#bloodstone#heliotrope#gemuary 2024#gemuary#goth#gothic#vampire#spooky
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Gemuary 2024 Day 16: Chrysoberyl
Sometimes chrysoberyl comes in a "cat's eye" variety called cymophane! Sometimes it even produces a 2-colored "milk-and-honey" effect!
#my art#creature design#monster design#cute#little guys#illustration#lineless illustration#rock monster#gemuary#gemuary 2024#cat#chrysoberyl#cymophane#crystal#crystals
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Gemuary 2024 Day 23: Larimar
Larimar is a unique blue variety of pectolite found in the Dominican Republic.
#my art#creature design#monster design#character design#little guys#cute#illustration#lineless illustration#rock monster#larimar#goblin week#goblin character#goblins#gemuary#gemuary 2024#octopus#squid#symmetry
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Gemuary 2024 Day 15: Padparadscha
Padparadscha is considered to be the rarest of all sapphire. Its name means "lotus-colored" and it comes from Sri Lanka!
#my art#creature design#monster design#character design#illustration#rock monster#crystal#crystals#gemuary 2024#gemuary#padparadscha#padparascha sapphire#sapphire#weird#symmetry
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Gemuary 2024 Day 12: Pumice
Pumice is a volcanic rock that forms from lava foam that has been spewed into the air and cooled down. It has the unique ability among rocks to float on water, so I thought a "rubber duck" shape was fitting!
#my art#creature design#monster design#little guys#cute#illustration#rock monster#gemuary#gemuary 2024#pumice#volcanic#spooky#geology#tw trypophobia#creepy cute
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Gemuary 2024 Day 11: Peridot
Fun fact: Peridot often contains tiny inclusions that look like lilypads! They're caused by stress within the gem when mineral inclusions melt, since it forms deeper in the earth than some other gems.
#my art#creature design#monster design#character design#little guys#cute#oc#illustration#lineless illustration#rock monster#gemuary 2024#gemuary#green#peridot#frog
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Everybody get ready for the second year of Gemuary! Here's this year's prompt list, but you can also use the old one.
Make anything you want! Monsters, humanoids, fakemon, fan characters, just have fun!
Here are all the creatures I made last year!
#gemuary#gemuary 2024#art prompts#prompt month#january prompts#art challenge#character design challenge#gemstones#gems#crystals#minerals#drawing prompt
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Gemuary 2024 Day 4: Orpiment
Orpiment used to be used in paints. Unfortunately, it contains dangerous amounts of arsenic!
#my art#creature design#monster design#character design#lineless illustration#rock monster#gemuary#gemuary 2024#orpiment#witch#transparent image
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Gemuary 2024 Day 29: Anthill Garnet
Sometimes, ants will bring up tiny pieces of pyrope when they are building tunnels!
These three critters like to mimic ants, but their lack of pheromones means nobody is fooled.
#my art#creature design#monster design#little guys#cute#illustration#lineless illustration#rock monster#garnet#pyrope#ant#gemuary 2024#gemuary 2023#gems#gemstones#crystal#crystals#bug#bugs#ant mimic#mimic
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Gemuary 2024 Day 21: Grape Agate
Grape agate is a unique variety of chalcedony made in the voids between pillow-shaped mounds of lava. Its microscopic crystals are arranged radially.
#my art#creature design#monster design#little guys#cute#illustration#lineless illustration#rock monster#crystal#crystals#grape agate#gemuary#gemuary 2024#purple#goblin week#goblins
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Gemuary 2024 Day 20: Pyritized Fossil
Sometimes fossils can turn into pyrite! This helps preserve soft tissues and small details.
#my art#creature design#monster design#character design#little guys#cute#lineless illustration#rock monster#gemuary#gemuary 2024#pyrite#fossils#trilobite#goblin week#goblins
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Gemuary 2024 Day 19: Pearl
#my art#creature design#monster design#character design#little guys#cute#pearls#oyster#goblins#goblin week#gemuary#gemuary 2024
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