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Sculpted Elegance: Statement Jewelry Designs
Model six statement pieces in RhinoArtisan, from a pavé teardrop pendant to orbital rings, eternity bands, bamboo cuffs and sculptural stone settings. Advanced curve work, SubD sculpting, revolves and flows for jewelry that commands attention.
By Paula Jiménez
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What you'll learn
- Revolve a pavé-set emerald teardrop pendant from blended curves, complete with basket, connecting rings and a rendered client presentation.
- Sculpt an orbital ring from a cut sphere, flowing gem rails around it with SubD remeshing and clean hollowing.
- Build a sapphire eternity ring with a diamond channel, polar-arrayed cutouts and dynamic prongs.
- Model organic bamboo cuff bangles with sculptural surface detailing.
- Design a dual pear diamond ring balancing two center stones.
- Set a three-stone princess ring to close the collection.
Requirements
- A computer meeting the minimum system requirements
- RhinoArtisan installed and updated to the latest version
- Completed the Kickstart course, or equivalent RhinoArtisan experience
- Comfortable with curve editing, gem placement and boolean operations
Who is this for
- Jewelry designers
- CAD professionals
- Jewelry manufacturers
- RhinoArtisan users
- Jewelry design enthusiasts
What's included
- Video demonstration of each project, showing the full modeling process end to end
- Illustrated step-by-step guide for every tutorial, to follow online or in print
Statement Pieces, Sculpted with Intent
Some jewelry whispers; these pieces speak. Sculpted Elegance: Statement Jewelry Designs is a project-based course where you’ll model six bold designs in RhinoArtisan, each one built on a different construction idea:
- Emerald Teardrop Pendant — blended curves revolved into a pavé-set teardrop, finished with basket, bail and a rendered client presentation from RhinoArtisan Connect.
- Eternal Orbits — gem-set orbits flowed around a sphere, unioned with a parametric shank, remeshed to SubD and hollowed to a wearable weight.
- Sapphire Eternity Ring — eleven oval sapphires over a continuous diamond channel, built on measured offsets and polar arrays.
- Bamboo Cuff Bangles — a SubD bamboo band bridged from nine segments and wrapped around an ellipse with SmartFlow.
- Dual Pear Diamond Ring — two pears facing each other across a rotated open shank, with carved pavé channels and millgrain edges.
- Three-stone Princess Ring — a cathedral setting whose organic claw prongs are sculpted by hand, tip by tip, in SubD.
Along the way you’ll work the full advanced toolkit: Revolve and Network Surfaces, Flow Along Surface and SmartFlow, Quad Remesh and SubD sculpting, Quick Polar Array, boolean hollowing and cage editing — always finished to production standard with pavé, prongs, cutters and clean booleans.
Every section pairs a short overview with illustrated step-by-step lessons — over 100 annotated captures across 35 lessons — and closes with the full video demonstration, from the first reference curve to the final render.
Curriculum
6 topics · 35 lessons
01 Emerald Teardrop Pendant
6 lessons
Emerald Teardrop Pendant
- 01.01 Overview
- 01.02 Teardrop Profile & Revolve
- 01.03 Pavé on the Teardrop
- 01.04 Center Stone, Basket & Rings
- 01.05 Bail, Cutters & Rendering
- 01.06 Video Lesson
02 Eternal Orbits
7 lessons
Eternal Orbits
- 02.01 Overview
- 02.02 Sphere & Orbit Curves
- 02.03 Shank, Union & SubD
- 02.04 Orbit Bands & Ring Cutting
- 02.05 Gems, Prongs & Pavé
- 02.06 Hollowing & Final Cuts
- 02.07 Video Lesson
03 Sapphire Eternity Ring
6 lessons
Sapphire Eternity Ring
- 03.01 Overview
- 03.02 Reference Curves & Center Gems
- 03.03 Shank & Cutout Pattern
- 03.04 Diamond Channel & Hollowing
- 03.05 Gems, Prongs & Final Cut
- 03.06 Video Lesson
04 Bamboo Cuff Bangles
5 lessons
Bamboo Cuff Bangles
- 04.01 Overview
- 04.02 Ellipse & SubD Segments
- 04.03 Mirroring, Bridging & SmartFlow
- 04.04 Pavé, Prongs & Final Cut
- 04.05 Video Lesson
05 Dual Pear Diamond Ring
6 lessons
Dual Pear Diamond Ring
- 05.01 Overview
- 05.02 Shank Curves & Profiles
- 05.03 Pear Stones & Baskets
- 05.04 Carving the Gem Channels
- 05.05 Pavé, Millgrain & Finishing
- 05.06 Video Lesson
06 Three-stone Princess Ring
5 lessons
Three-stone Princess Ring
- 06.01 Overview
- 06.02 Cathedral Shank & Gems
- 06.03 Organic Prong Curves & Pipes
- 06.04 Claw Tips, Baskets & Final Cut
- 06.05 Video Lesson
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