Making earrings

Earrings are a fun accessory; there are all sorts of styles: long hoops, small rings, diamond-encrusted dangling designs, and so on. There are so many to choose from. For this section, we'll try a simple stud design with four prongs holding a diamond in the center.

Getting ready

For this section, we have provided a sculpture of a woman with vertex colors and materials already applied. With this provided scene, we can create our accessories and see them in their best quality using the Material Preview viewport shading mode. Download the womanAccessories_Start.blend file from https://github.com/PacktPublishing/Sculpting-the-Blender-Way/blob/main/Chapter08/womanAccessories_Start.blend.

Launch Blender and open the .blend file. This scene comes with the sculpture that you can see in the following screenshot:

Figure 8.1 – The woman with no accessories

Let's give her some earrings to bring out the color in her eyes. A blue...