What is the jewelry design process?
Jewelry originally refers to the ornaments worn by men and women on their heads, and later refers to women's headdresses, earrings, necklaces, rings, bracelets and so on.
Jewelry is [Jewelry] in English, which originated from [joy] in French, meaning [joy]- happiness. If you choose it properly and wear it skillfully, it can make you happy and radiant. However, how to choose jewelry and how to wear it skillfully is appropriate? This should start with human temperament. The so-called temperament is a comprehensive internal feature of human physiology and psychology. It has many meanings, a wide range, calm and lively, sensitive and plain, delicate and rough, mature and naive, which shows that everyone's temperament is very different.
Jewelry and its wearing have always been an absolutely important lesson in people's aesthetic activities. Jewelry will have different feelings because of different materials, colors, textures, patterns and styles, and different workmanship, including different use and wearing methods. According to these different characteristics, people give jewelry different connotations, which is the personality color of jewelry. People with different temperament, if they choose jewelry properly, can not only enhance the personality color of jewelry, but also shape their charming charm and personality, so that people and jewelry complement each other, otherwise they will erode each other and lose each other.
Where is the origin of jewelry?
I'm afraid it's difficult to verify exactly when people wear jewelry. However, it is not difficult to infer that from the time when human beings began to realize the decoration and beautification of themselves, human beings also formed an indissoluble bond with them. The most primitive jewelry of mankind can probably be traced back to the distant Stone Age.
From collecting the data of Paleolithic and modern primitive tribes found all over the world, we can find that the early primitive human body ornaments mainly include necklaces, waist ornaments, arm ornaments, wrist ornaments and headdresses, among which necklaces and waist ornaments are the main ones. To a large extent, they are decorated around the reproductive area of the human body. The reason is that these parts have the ability to support the wearer, and a large number of studies show that this choice has another purpose.
Animals' colors and patterns are also a kind of body decoration. The natural ornaments, headdresses, necklaces, chest ornaments and tail ornaments of male birds often change and display regularly during the breeding season, which are quite effective in attracting the opposite sex. A large number of biological materials prove that the beautiful decoration of animals has great advantages in the process of sexual selection. Human body tattoo is a form similar to body decoration, which is a qualitative change of the extension of animal natural decoration.
The earliest human ornaments found around the world in the late Paleolithic period, whether animal teeth, feathers or stone beads, have a very remarkable feature: smooth, regular, small and beautiful. This feature further illustrates the important psychological motives of body decoration, such as dressing up, showing off oneself and attracting the opposite sex. Therefore, it is very scientific to deduce the psychological origin of body ornaments from the aesthetic feeling of physiological instinct. The function of "beautifying the human body" evolved from this origin motive is the most primitive and fundamental function of jewelry.
There are two other important motives for the origin and development of jewelry, one is the religious function motive, and the other is the social function motive, which are based on the physiological instinct motive and developed and evolved on this basis. Religion originated from the witchcraft of prehistoric people, and the religious motivation for the development of human body ornaments was gradually formed and deeply rooted in people's hearts under the guidance of this witchcraft thought in prehistoric people's witchcraft activities. In the process of labor practice, primitive humans gradually formed a hazy and mysterious view on some substances in nature that are closely related to their lives, such as fruits, seeds, feathers, teeth, bones, stones (jade) and so on. They even regard them as objects of worship in witchcraft activities and give them mysterious power.
For example, they string the fruits or seeds of plants on the mother's body and pray for reproduction; Hanging the fur, teeth and bones of hunting animals on the body to achieve the success of hunting and their own safety; The worship of stone (jade) comes from primitive people's deep affection for stone tools, among which those with slight luster and bright colors are regarded as gifts given by a mysterious master in their minds. They carefully collect and protect them, and gradually enrich the connotation of this natural worship in the process, which is the origin of the initial enlightenment of Chinese jade culture. Jade has always been regarded as a kind of natural worship with rich spirituality in various cultures of the Stone Age in China, and it was widely used in witchcraft ceremonies. They were carried around by prehistoric people, one as a decoration to beautify themselves and the other as a mascot to ward off evil spirits and eliminate disasters. In the western ancient civilization, colored gems has been known by people for a long time, and has been endowed with some mysterious religious power in the process of being familiar with and used by people. Babylon presented emeralds to the statue of the goddess 6000 years ago to pray for some mysterious power. Sapphire was regarded as the essence of seawater to pray for the safety of navigation or fishing.
City nanren's ornaments
Inadvertently found that urban men are getting more and more refined. They have soft voices, decent clothes and bright faces, and appropriate accessories make them more graceful. Some people think that jewelry is a woman's patent, and there are few jewelry suitable for men, which is wrong. In fact, all decorative items worn or carried by men are called ornaments. Such as rings, necklaces, bracelets, pins, tie clips, watches, glasses, pens, belt buckles, cufflinks, cigarette cases, lighters, key chains and so on. They are all men's accessories.
necklace
Men's necklaces are generally large and rough in shape, with geometric patterns such as squares, angles and circles. They are made of pure gold such as platinum, gold and silver, and the chain body is basically not inlaid with gems or matched with pendants. The overall lines are simple and smooth, and the style is rich and full of strength, which complements the masculine beauty of men's perseverance, persistence and heroism.
ring
Men have a wide choice of rings, both plain gold rings and inlaid rings can be used by men. Thick, heavy, wide and big are the characteristics of men's ring. Plain gold rings have a narrow back handle, and the ring face is often made into a square or rectangle, with auspicious words such as "Fu" and "Shou" cast. Gemstones are often used to set men's rings, while jadeite and sapphire are often used in traditional men's rings. The combination of diamonds and platinum is the mainstream at present, and the weight of diamonds is much higher than that of women's rings.
Wrist cuff
Men's wrist ornaments are made of precious metals, mostly pure gold, or inlaid with dark gems such as black diamonds and black opal. They are very wide in style and usually stick to the wrist. They are neither as soft and slender as women's bracelets, nor as hard as women's bracelets, which conforms to the style of men's quick and capable work.
tie clip
Men who pay attention to appearance will cherish several exquisite and beautiful tie clips. Most men's jewelry can't please people with colors, but tie clips can break through the tradition. Ties are varied, and tie clips are naturally eclectic, as long as they are coordinated with the color of the tie. Warm color series inlaid with rubies and garnets and cool color series inlaid with emeralds and sapphires are good choices, and dazzling diamonds make men shine at the moment.
Collar insertion
Some organizations in society often embed collars in badge style, mostly in 18K gold. Common ones are rectangle, circle and diamond, and the pattern on the collar has certain significance and shows identity. Collars without a sense of membership can be gilded and even made into cartoon animals, plant leaves and other shapes, which can better show the noble, elegant, mature and gorgeous characteristics of men.
Cuff button
Cufflinks are square, round, diamond and other shapes. In fact, cufflinks are inlaid ornaments. High-grade cufflinks are generally made of 12K or 18K gold, and are inlaid with various gems.
How to do jewelry design well
1. Dig for inspiration with keen eyes and quick mind.
If you want to make jewelry design better, you should use your discerning and quick-thinking mind to dig for inspiration. Inspiration is the premise of jewelry design, and the creative inspiration of jewelry design should be inspired by critical eyes and flexible minds, so that the pictures of jewelry design conceived by him can be fully displayed in his pen and form the initial composition of jewelry design. So inspiration determines the soul of jewelry design.
2. Clever conception and attention to detail.
If you want to make jewelry design better, you must be ingenious and pay attention to details. The inspiration in jewelry design is only a preliminary prototype, just like a big tree, with only the trunk and no branches and leaves. If you want to make a big tree flourish, you should add branches and leaves to make it flourish. However, ingenious ideas and changes in details will make jewelry design works more brilliant.
3. Have art knowledge and profound art foundation.
If you want to make jewelry design better, you must have art knowledge and profound art foundation. Because jewelry design is inseparable from exquisite composition. Jewelry design drawings are the key to jewelry design and also play a core role. The successful completion of the drawing depends on the artistic knowledge and solid artistic foundation of the jewelry designer in order to draw a perfect jewelry design. Therefore, artistic knowledge and skills are the basic requirements for better jewelry design, because art needs the combination of aesthetics and painting, and jewelry design has the same effect.
4. Skillful use of computers for jewelry design.
Due to the development of modern electronic equipment, in order to better design jewelry, we can use computers and other equipment to complete the composition of jewelry design more conveniently and quickly. This depends on jewelry designers being able to skillfully use computers to design jewelry. Familiar with the functions of related computer composition software, and can use it freely in jewelry design.
5, not complacent, found that the lack of design will often modify the design of satisfactory jewelry works.
In order to make jewelry design better, jewelry designers must guard against arrogance and rashness and not be complacent. When you find the shortcomings in jewelry design, you should constantly revise it and strive for perfection until you design a satisfactory jewelry work. Because perfect jewelry works are full of hardships and hardships of jewelry designers, and complacency and pride will weaken this indomitable and enterprising force in jewelry design.
6. Dare to accept criticism and actively strive to improve jewelry design.
If you want to make jewelry design better, you must dare to accept criticism. For jewelry works designed by jewelry designers who are not recognized by the public, it is a good embodiment of the professional quality of jewelry designers to accept and absorb effective opinions and suggestions with an open mind, actively improve and perfect jewelry design, and satisfy the public as much as possible. Because jewelry design is only recognized by the public, it is an affirmation of the professional and personal ability of jewelry designers, which can make jewelry designers feel more fulfilled and an intangible encouragement to make jewelry design better.