Jewelry designs with a sculptural twist
Your jewelry designs will achieve expressive form with the help of these models. Take your jewelry to new levels of three-dimensional design. Let your customers gasp in amazement at the wearable sculptures you will craft. Using three-dimensional concepts in your jewelry will give movement, space and air to your designs. Understanding these models in terms of the conceptual, visual and relational elements inherent in them, you will acquire the expertise to structure your own jewelry designs.
Increase the three-dimensional character of your design ideas for jewelry.Here are some basic models of three-dimensional design. They are:
Serial planesSerial planes are born, as we have seen before, from a point in space. That point repeats itself until it forms a line; the line stretches until it creates a plane and these in turn determine a volume. That means that you can shape a volume by means of the transverse sections that make the volume up. Or, you can create a volume by piling-up planes or “loafs” of that volume. These planes can become a volume by repetition or gradation. If you wish to use repeating planes, you pile up a number of same sized planes. You can vary the shape of the volume produced by rotating, stretching or shifting the planes. You can also vary the design by means of changing gradually the geometric outline of your plane. Surface Structures
Surface structures can be developed with modules or cells. These modules will be the primary component of your surface structure. You can use any kind of simple volume.
It’s up to your creativity to start making more complex designs by varying the geometry of the volume used, piercing some of its surfaces or even distorting the volume itself. Surface structures are attractive design resources and are easy to craft. Just have in mind the type of visual effect you want to achieve, the message of your jewelry and your skill level. Prisms and CylindersThe stylish possibilities offered by prisms and cylinders are a must for contemporary jewelry designs. Prisms and cylinders can be hollowed-out and their ends can be designed using other shapes, holes, mixing figures or by subtracting or adding volumes.
The prisms geometry can be used to rotate or reflect the given prism to achieve a completely different but unified structure.
Two or more prisms or cylinders can also be combined to develop new forms. They can be attached by their faces, their edges or they can interlock with each other. RepetitionThe principle of repetition is a widely used design resource for two-dimensional or three-dimensional design. To structure repetition, a module or cell will have a repeating pattern with which a new form is made. Repetition can be attained by means of repeating modules to create layers, and these in turn will be repeated to create volumes. These layers can move around to create different effects. You can also attach modules in different arrangements and these in turn can build-up a whole new volume. Think of those wooden 3D mind puzzles that are sold to defy your genius. They are constructed according to the structures of three-dimensional models found here. Polyhedral Structures
Polyhedral structures are widely used in sculptures and many other decorative designs. They can be specially useful and appealing in jewelry. They are born from the platonic solids, which are regular structures and Arquimede´s solids which are irregular geometric structures. You can use polyhedral structures in your jewelry designs to create bold and elegant pendants or earrings.
We will get into more details about polyhedral structures in the section about polygons as a design idea. Triangular PlanesTriangular planes offer one of the most varied and plastic structures of these three-dimensional models. Because of the geometry of triangles they can fit with one another achieving great movement and intricate shapes. You can use equilateral or isosceles triangles for your jewelry design. They are the easiest shapes to use. They can be combined to create planar surfaces, regular volumes and pyramidal forms. They are structurally very strong which is an advantage when it comes to manufacturing. Linear Structures
Linear structures can be used to build any regular structure. All geometric form with straight edges can be composed by linear structures. However, building a coherent linear structure is more complex than the planar structure we saw before. The possibilities of jewelry design with linear structures are fantastic. The modifications that can be achieved with lines can range from a change in size of one of the faces, a change of length in one of the edges and a change in angle of one of the edges.
Linear LayersLinear layers are a different three-dimensional model from the previous linear structure because they lack the vertical “columns”. Linear layers are made up of flat lines piled up to form a volume. These flat lines can rotate, shift, recede or move about in any way your imagination wishes. Linear layers used in jewelry designs give light-weight pieces plenty of ornamental possibilities. Interlocking LinesInterlocking lines are structures created by linking sequential points with lines. The basic structure of this model is that of two parallel planes with equidistant points and lines linking each point in a parallel fashion. When you move the planes around, the lines start “dancing”, linking with each other in gracious movements. These three-dimensional models are best used when you follow the golden rule: Keep It Simple. Keep it simple for yourself and for your viewers.
You can also add excitement to your designs by mixing and matching, varying formal arrangements within any model.
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You can also design the edges and faces of prisms and cylinders to create different shadow-light effects, to create bulging planes or lines, or hollow figures.