see the form inside the material · photo overlay compositor
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Composite
Load a photo of your material to begin
Tool: LineView ADraw what you see inside the material · Switch views to draw all angles · Export composite
Sketch
form studies · gesture · contour · maquette planning
Tool: Line
Material
stone · clay · metal · wood · found · properties & tools
The material is not neutral. Marble has a direction — the grain determines how it fractures. Bronze shrinks as it cools. Clay has memory. Wood moves with moisture. Know your material before you touch it.
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Scale
maquette to final · proportion · weight estimation
The maquette is the sculptor's sketch — a small-scale model used to study form, proportion, and composition before committing to the final material. Get the maquette right first.
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Process
stage-by-stage production log · document the making
Document the making. Not just what you did — what you discovered. The moment the form revealed itself. The decision that changed everything. The mistake that became the piece.
Brancusi kept notes. Giacometti filled notebooks with observations about the impossibility of capturing the human form. Rodin wrote about the surface of things. The sculptor's notebook is where the work thinks before the hands begin.
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Material
Technique
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Reference
stone · gem · clay · metal · precious metals · armature · finish · display
The blueprint is where the piece lives before the metal is touched. Every decision made here saves time, material, and error at the bench. Draw it, spec it, commit to it.
Know your stones before you set them. A gem logged before it goes into the setting is a gem you can account for, price correctly, and describe accurately to a client. Log everything.
Order the right amount of metal. Not a guess. Every calculation here is based on standard jewellery bench formulas. Run the numbers before you place the order.
Ring Blank
Sheet Weight
Wire Weight
Casting Allowance
Ring blank length = π × (inner diameter + metal thickness)
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Casting shrinkage: most metals contract 3–8% on cooling. Calculate additional metal needed to account for sprue, button, and shrinkage.
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Every commission is a promise. Log the brief, the stones, the deadline. Never rely on memory for a client piece.
A setting that fails is not a design problem. It is a construction problem. These are the structural rules that keep stones secure and settings intact.
Direct metal sculpture is built, not carved. The form is constructed through welding, cutting, forging, and assembly. The material is permanent from the first weld. There is no roughing out — every decision holds.