How to Design Your Own Jewellery

You might not be a jewellery designer, but if you have a custom idea for jewellery in your head, it is important to get the idea right on paper. Unless you have a sketch that a jewellery manufacturer can get a clear idea from, you are always risking your money getting handcrafted jewellery online. There are several steps to designing your own jewellery. However, this blog post will focus on the drawing aspect of the design process.

Things to keep in mind when drawing your jewellery idea

Perspective

In any kind of drawing, deciding on a perspective before you begin is important. Perspective, in drawing terms is basically where your lines converge. For instance, if it is a 2D drawing of a 3D object you are making, the lines will converge at the center of your piece. This is called one-point perspective. If you wish to give the audience a 3D perspective of a space, they would see angles converging on a plane instead of lines.

For drawing jewellery, it is simple. You want a one-point perspective.

Scales

When you are representing a real-world object on paper, scales is the next thing you decide. Jewellery pieces are generally small, which means you can easily keep a 1:1 scale. For something like audio equipment though, you would have to reduce the scale to probably 4:1. Similarly, if you want to show intricate details in your jewellery, you would have to increase the scale.

Apart from the scale of your drawing, proportions are also important. Proportions in layman terms mean the ratio of two different lines in a drawing. Proportions play a very important role in jewellery design. A slight shift in proportions can make a world of difference to the final product.

Practicality

Of course, this is important. At the end of the day, you want something that isn’t a hassle to wear. Thus, your crazy brains might want to come up with all sorts of weird designs. However, before you send your sketch to a manufacturer, be very sure that the design is wearable and comfortable.

Other than that, you also want to make sure that it complements what you already have in your wardrobe. A lot of items, people just throw a combination of idea that look cool together but do not go very well with their existing collection.

If you aren’t too sure about your sketching skills, it is best to just buy silver jewellery online. You can customise existing designs and hence save time and money.