Illustration And Design For Jewellery Short Course
Course description
Course overview
This course is designed to provide participants with new skills in drawing, tips and shortcuts for creating beautiful work and a portfolio to build on in the future. It will help you successfully communicate your creative design ideas. The course will also explore several illustration and design skills and culminate with a group critique that will enable you to share your approach and ideas with others.
Who this course is for
Anyone with basic making skills who wants to learn how to research concepts and to understand the jewellery design process. Jewellery students keen to develop their drawing skills towards building a portfolio of work for future studies or for personal development and enjoyment.
Key information
Topics covered
- Explore drawing skills for jewellery design whilst developing your own personal style
- How to render different metals and gems and create visually stunning 3D images
- Investigating how to find unusual reference material from a variety of sources, using London and its museums and galleries as a source of inspiration
- How to successfully utilise this research as part of the design process
- Work on a more substantial personal project based on the previous sessions work
- How to present your work to the highest of standards
- Group critique to share your approach and ideas with others
Learning outcomes
- Develop new skills in drawing
- Gain tips and shortcuts for creating beautiful work and a portfolio to build on in the future
- Learn how to successfully communicate your creative design ideas
- Digital badge and certificate of attendance
Materials
- Laptop / Tablet (or printouts of images you are inspired by or magazine clippings)
- Retractable pencil 0.3mm (preferably H lead)
- Mechanical pencil 2mm (H lead)
- A hole guide (plastic template with lots of different circles cut out)
- Sharpener for 2mm mechanical pencil
- Paper smudge stick
- Regular graphite pencils in B, 2B, 3B
- Paint Brushes - one extremely fine, one or two slightly larger. 0000, 000 (or 4/0 3/0) and 00, 0 (or 2/0, 1/0) can be sable or synthetic
- A small selection of coloured pencils - golden yellow/warm yellow colour, white, dark brown, cool. grey/mid grey, red, blue, green and black (a simple set of 12 will work for experimenting)
- A sketchbook for taking notes and for drawing out ideas (A4 size minimum)
Things you might also find useful that I will demonstrate in class:
- Blender for coloured pencils (normally shaped like a regular pencil but all grey)
- 0.1 and 0.05 ineliner pens (pigment liner)
- Templates with ovals, other shapes and ellipses
- Static or flexible curve templates
Books:
IMPORTANT READS:
- The Art of Jewelry Design, by Gali, Riviere and Li.
- Techniques of Jewellery Illustration and Colour Rendering, by Adolfo Mattiello
- Drawing for Jewelers: Master Class in Professional Design, by Berenguer and Asuncion
- Drawing Jewels for Fashion, by Carol Woolton
Extended reading (if really interested, as these books contain excellent examples of jewellery illustration):
- Seaman Schepps - A Century of New York Jewelry Design, by Vaill and Zapata.Verdura - The Life and Work of a Master Jeweler, by Patrick Corbett
- Art Deco Jewelry, by Sylvie Raulet
- Marina B - L'Art de la joaillerie et son design, by Viviane Jutheau de Witt
- Paulding Farnham - Tiffanys Lost Genius, by John Loring
- Cartier Design viewed by Ettore Sottsass (Exhibition catalogue)
- The Art of Jewellery Design: From Idea to Reality, by Liz Olver
Books on gemstones that can be good reference for illustrating gems:
- Gemstones - Cally Hall
- Gemstones of the World - Walter Schuman
- The Jeweller's Directory of Gemstones - Judith Crowe
Tutor
Coline Assade
Coline Assade is a French jewellery designer based in London. Inspired by the intersection of nature and mythology, she creates bold, colourful and joyful pieces from her studio at the Goldsmiths Centre, in the heart of London's jewellery quarter. Coline graduated from Central Saint Martins with a degree in jewellery design where her exploration with enamelling and wax carving started. Her love for sketching and figurative work stems from her background in illustration.
She has since returned to Central Saint Martins to teach 'Presentation and Technical Drawing' to first-year students, sharing her knowledge and passion for hand-drawn jewellery illustration techniques. She has honed her craft working alongside renowned designers such as Melanie Georgacopoulos and Alice Cicolini while developing her own eponymous label in parallel.
Her work has been exhibited internationally, from Las Vegas to Munich, with notable showcases at JCK, Objet d'Emotion gallery, LAPADA art fair, and the Museum für Kunst und Gewerbe in Hamburg. Coline's designs have earned her two silver awards from the prestigious Goldsmiths Craft and Design Council Awards. Through her jewellery, she aims to empower individuals to carve their own stories and express themselves fearlessly.
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