FFD02) Jewelry Design

About this class

This course will help students turn their inspirations into designs. They will learn drafting, shading, how to illustrate shape and form using several mediums, and more. By the end of the course, students should have a full practical and theoretical understanding of the new techniques required to do hand rendering for jewelry. This course will teach different types of materials that can be used to develop your own style and techniques for jewelry rendering. In addition, they should now have acquired better research and development skills and be able to express their ideas and thoughts creatively on paper.

Class Outline

Class 1 
 • Introduction to Rendering
• Introduction to Material
• Learning Line Control through pencils

Class 2

• Learning Line Control through brushes

• Shading Shapes with these pencils and brushes

Class 3

• Introduction to metal rendering silver

• Introduction to light source
• Flat surfaces and dome surfaces
• Render a chain

Class 4

• Introduction to metal rendering gold

• Flat surfaces and dome surfaces
• Render a chain

Class 5

• Introduction to stones
• Colorless Cabochon
• Colored Cabochon
• Light source in Cabochon

Class 6

• Introduction to faceted stones
• Faceted Stones (Colorless)
• Faceted Stones Colored
• Light source in Faceted Stones

Class 7

• Replicate a picture of a gemstone

Class 8

• Replicate a picture of a small jewelry piece.

Materials needed

Please note: VCUQatar reserves the right to cancel classes for which not enough participants are registered. Already paid fees will be refunded.

Please do not purchase materials until VCUQatar has sent final course confirmation.

Items to buy for this class

• Water Colours
• Water Colour Pencils
• Paint Brushes
• Scotch Tape
• Art Board
• Patty Eraser
• Drawing Pencils
• Vellum sheets (can be purchased from the instructor)
• Grey Sheets (can be purchased from the instructor)

On occasions, there may be some more materials to be bought and brought in if and when advised by the instructor.

Where to buy your materials

Most of the materials are available from any art supply shop, for example:

• Cass Art (Fire station): Community Classes students get a 15% discount upon presenting the registration ticket
• Jarir Bookstore: on Rayyan Road or Salwa Road
• Color Note: on Al Nasser Street
• Ibn Al Qayyim: at Markhiya Roundabout
• Al Rawnaq

Schedule

Start: Mon, 1 Nov, 2021
End: Wed, 24 Nov, 2021
Lessons: 8
Days: Mon and Wed
Time: 6:00 PM – 8:00 PM
Location: At VCUQ
Cost: QAR 1050

Instructors

Aamina Malik

Register

To register for this course, access the form.