Idea for a wavy, fluid ring design with a pear shaped blue topaz. The sketch still hangs on my black board month after I sketched. Still never worked on making it into a wax model or even cast in metal.
Elaborate design for fused gold on sterling silver with garnet sparkle.
I am more productive without sketching. I do brood over new design in my head for days or weeks before actually trying to model them. I sometimes have a vague image in my head and then just start with a new piece of wax and just carve it out there. Once I get into carving the design changes a bit, which is good. I find new ideas when I model in wax. It's as if there is a piece hidden in the wax block that just wants to grow out of it. The wax block, heat pen and carving tools become my "sketch book".
I have the advantage of working/ sketching in a cheap material like wax. If I screw it up or decide I actually don't like the design, I can just trow it away or melt the wax into something else. If I would do more fabrication work, I would start sketching more. It would be way smarter to sketch on paper before actually cutting into expensive metal.
I also do not think I am a good sketcher. I just can't get those 3 dimensional shapes translated on the 2 dimensional paper. Sketching in wax stays all in 3 dimensions, so it feels more natural to me.
To sketch decent one needs to stay in practice. At the beginning of my architecture career I used to sketch more and had a fairly good sketching hand. Now everything is done in CAD model and drawing software and I barely ever sketch anything. If I ever have to sketch now, it looks horrible to me. Gone are the times when I just hand the contractor a sketch of a detail I want him to built. Now I have to go back to the office and sketch it up in CAD.
Wax model of ring for fancy cut sapphire
Once I am satisfied with a new design it goes into the next casting run and eventually will be finished in a few weeks time.
Please check out what other EtsyMetal members sketching up right now.
| Rebecca Bogan - http://www.AdobeSol.com/blog Shirlee Grund - http://lichenandlychee.com/blog/ 2Roses - http://www.jewelrytutorial.blogspot.com Beth Cyr - http://www.bcyrjewelry.blogspot.com Kate Jones http://www.katejonesdesign.blogspot.com Erin Austin http://metalmusing.blogspot.com/ Michele Grady http://www.michelegradydesigns.blogspot.com Elizabeth Scott http://esdesignsjewelry.com/blog Su Trindle http://quercussilver.blogspot.com/ Evelyn Markasky http://markasky.blogspot.com/ ArtigianoJewelBox: http://www.artigianojewelbox.com/category/blog . |
