Illustration And Design For Jewellery

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.

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

Level: Beginners

Please note: This course is for students aged 18 and older