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Illustration And Design For Jewellery Short Course

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Illustration And Design For Jewellery Short Course | On campus
This jewellery course equips participants with new drawing skills, practical tips, and shortcuts for creating beautiful work. You'll build a portfolio for future development and learn to effectively communicate your creative design ideas.

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

  • Tablet or laptop for researches (possibility to use the library if they don’t have one)
  • A thin mechanical pencil
  • A selection of 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
  • Your favourite tools to draw if you have them (it could be colourful pencils or markers for example).
  • A sketchbook (A3 would be great)
  • A4 GREY paper: needs to be non textured. At least 115gsm but could be thicker

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