Illustration And Design For Jewellery Short Course
Course description
A jewellery course 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. The course will help you successfully communicate your creative design ideas. It will explore a number of illustration and design skills and culminate with a group critique that will enable you to share your approach and ideas with others.
Who should take this course?
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.
Entry requirements: none
Level: beginners with some basic making experience
Clear, easy to understand lessons:
- Our tutors will explain things in easy to understand, accessible English. If they need to use any special terminology, they will make sure they explain what they mean.
- New methods will be shown to students through live demonstrations, in a way that’s crystal clear and easy to understand.
Experience life on campus:
- Study at Central Saint Martins, Granary Square a world-famous art and design college
- Network and share ideas with students from across the globe
- Access the technology and materials relevant to your discipline
- Ask questions of your tutor in real time
- Receive feedback and critique on your assignments
- Experience the many sights of London on your down time
Digital credentials (certificate of completion and digital badge):
- You've put the work in so we want to make sure you have something to show for it.
- Students will receive a UAL Short Courses digital badge and certificate on completion of the course.
- We always recommend you attend all of the classes so that you get the most out of the experience.
- Certificates and digital badges are a great way to enhance your CV, celebrate your accomplishments and stand out from the crowd. Find out more about our digital badges and credentials.
Available dates
Details
Topics covered:
During the first section of the course you will explore drawing skills for jewellery design whilst developing your own personal style.
You will learn how to render different metals and gems and create visually stunning 3D images.
You will then spend time investigating how to find unusual reference material from a variety of sources, using London and its museums and galleries as a source of inspiration.
You will also learn how to successfully utilise this research as part of the design process.
Towards the end of the course you will work on a more substantial personal project based on the previous sessions work, and be shown how to present your work to the highest of standards.
A group critique will conclude the course so that you can share your approach and ideas with others.
Entry requirements: None
Materials
Materials
- Laptop/ Tablet. If you don’t have a laptop: 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. Minimum size A4
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)
- Fineliner pens (pigment liner) in 0.1 and 0.05
- Templates with ovals, other shapes and ellipses.
- Curve templates – static or flexible
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
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