Turtle Pave Pendant

Sculpt a turtle whose shell fills with diamonds. Over a 20 × 20 mm reference frame you’ll build the body from a symmetrical SubD sphere, keep every edit mirrored with Reflect, and grow the head — mouth included — the eyes and all four legs from spheres, extrusions and edge loops.

With the anatomy done, Boolean Union and a 0.5 mm Quad Remesh unify the model into clean SubD, the shell surface is extracted as the gem canvas, and Automatic Pave lays 1.3 mm stones down the central axis with 1.2 and 1.0 mm filling outward under Y symmetry. Prongs, fourth-preset cutters and a final Boolean Difference finish the pendant. Follow the step-by-step lessons at your own pace, then watch the video lesson at the end to see the whole build in one sitting. The reference image is in the Downloads below.