Sandor Veres – SAVE Jewelry Sketchbook

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Sandor Veres – SAVE Jewelry Sketchbook
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I’ve been working as a graphic designer for over 25 years. I’ve been drawing and designing since childhood — constantly searching for form and structure. 3D modeling has been part of my life for more than 15 years, starting with hard-surface sci-fi projects and later moving toward original tabletop figures and digital sculpting.

For a long time, I worked in 3D-Coat, fully immersed in the freedom of voxel sculpting. In 2018, I completed a 30-day challenge, interpreting the daily Inktober prompts as 3D models — one new piece every day.

I’ve worked on game development and VR projects, and later collaborated with a jewelry company creating V-Ray renders, animations, and visual materials. That’s where I began to understand jewelry more deeply — even though it had always attracted me. In my early twenties, especially during my rock–metal years, I wore jewelry regularly.

For years, I avoided ZBrush. I watched tutorials, but the interface felt overwhelming, so I tried to solve everything in other software. Eventually, I reached my limits — particularly when working on precise, polished forms.

Then I gained access to a workstation with a 2021 ZBrush license. Within days, it became clear: this was the tool I had been missing all along.

One night, after watching a live session by T. S. Wittelsbach, I sat down at 2 AM to experiment. That experiment became my first jewelry design. At the time, I had no idea that this wasn’t just the beginning of a new model — but the beginning of a completely new direction in my life.

I’m not a formally trained jeweler or goldsmith. I’m an independent jewelry designer — intentionally building myself into that role. SAVE Jewelry is not just a brand for me; it’s a long-term commitment.

This thread is an open documentation of that journey — including the growth, experimentation, and everything I learn along the way.

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Looking back – March 18, 2024
Sci-fi septum and fake septum
After finishing the Victorian pendant, my mind was racing with ideas. I could feel that something new had started – something different, something that might become a much more defining direction for me. ZBrush revealed a completely new technical level, so I dove into it.

For nights I watched tutorials and live streams while my family was asleep. I discovered techniques and approaches I hadn’t even imagined before. The work of T. S. Wittelsbach was especially inspiring — he remains a major influence for me.

I couldn’t wait to sit down and create again. Not following a strict plan or reference, but working freely, letting the shapes and intuition guide the process.

One evening, while scrolling through Instagram, I came across a jewelry page selling ear gauges, ear weights and septum clickers. That aesthetic has always fascinated me, so I started experimenting with my own design.

In a single night, two sci-fi inspired concepts were born: a septum clicker and a fake septum piece.

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Looking back – March 23, 2024
Infinity Loop Ring
After finishing the two septum clicker designs, I was completely fired up. I realized this was the tool I had been searching for all along. Ideas kept racing through my mind — I could barely sleep, just waiting for the next chance to sit down and create.

My next direction shifted toward something more minimal: a narrow, lightweight ring inspired by the idea of infinity and flowing waves.

It was an incredible feeling to watch the form take shape under my hands.

This is how my next design was born: the Infinity Loop Ring.

Keyshot renders:

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Looking back – March 24, 2024
The All-Seeing Eye Ring: Listen to Your Inner Wisdom!
This ring was more of an experiment.

It’s built around an “all-seeing eye” motif, but the real focus wasn’t the design itself — it was about exploring the tools: testing different brushes, settings, and the balance between surface depth and raised details.

I wanted to understand how fine details translate into resin 3D printing — what holds up, what starts to fade, and where forms need to be intentionally reinforced already during the modeling stage.

This piece is more of a study — but an important step in the process.

Keyshot render:

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Looking back – April 4, 2024
Artnouveau Animals Ring
This marks the beginning of a new direction.

I’ve been drawn to Art Nouveau since childhood, especially the way animal motifs are expressed within that style. I’ve always admired the work of Maurice Pillard Verneuil, and I’m sure those influences played a role in leading me here.

I’ve had many ideas in this direction for a long time, but I didn’t want to wait any longer — so I created my first Art Nouveau-inspired animal ring.

When I showed it to my wife, she instantly fell in love with it. She simply said:
if I ever truly start this journey, no one else can wear this ring — only her.

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Looking back – April 4, 2024
Artnouveau Animals Ring v2
The previous Art Nouveau ring had such a strong impact on me that new ideas kept coming constantly afterward. Different animals, new motifs — some I quickly sketched, others I simply wrote down in a few words so the idea wouldn’t disappear.

While balancing work, I kept waiting for those small moments of free time when I could finally sit down and create again.

As this piece started taking shape, I could already feel during the sculpting process that it was becoming something special. Some works just give you that feeling.

I was very satisfied with it then, and honestly, it remains one of my personal favorites to this day.

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Looking back – May 8, 2024
Critiques with Tomas Wittelsbach
About a week later, after finishing these two designs, I saw that T. S. Wittelsbach was about to host a Live Critique on the official ZBrush YouTube channel.

On impulse, I decided to send him my work.

I never imagined that both of my ring designs would make it into the live stream — and even less that I would receive such incredibly positive feedback on both of them.

For me, this was a huge honor and a massive source of motivation. It gave me a strong sense of confirmation that maybe I truly have a place in this field.

Most of his feedback was focused on technical and production-related aspects — structure, wearability, manufacturability — and I’m especially grateful for that. I’m not a trained jeweler or goldsmith, just someone who genuinely loves designing jewelry. I took that advice seriously, revised both pieces, and finalized them.

It meant even more because I’ve admired his work for a long time. In this field, he has always been someone I look up to.

The impact of that experience is still with me today — and it continues to push me forward.

Forever grateful, Tomas — you’re the absolute best

Designs revised based on Tomas’s advice

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Looking back – Sep 6, 2024
Asteroid Ring
After completing around half a dozen Art Nouveau animal-inspired ring designs (still awaiting finalization in a later collection), I started thinking about a new direction.

I wanted to step away from my focus on living forms and explore something more elemental, inanimate, yet deeply primordial.

Very quickly, the idea took shape: Earth, stone, and ancient matter, distilled down to one of the most primal forms imaginable: the asteroid.

I decided to develop this into a three-piece series, with the first piece being a delicate yet structurally strong ring with feminine, flowing proportions.

I simply named this piece the Asteroid Ring.

It was the first time I worked with such a thin, almost wedding-band-like silhouette, while still embedding strong, fractured stone-like details into the surface, balancing fragility and strength.

In the end, this became the most elegant piece of the series.