Learn the fundamental skills you need for transferring your hand drawing abilities to Adobe Illustrator in order to produce eye-catching, fully rendered jewellery designs. Our Adobe Illustrator classes are ideal for working or aspiring jewellery designers looking to make a move into CAD, an invaluable skill for the contemporary jewellery industry.
By the end of the programme, you will have an effective Adobe Illustrator workflow, enabling you to take your scanned jewellery drawings and transform them into hand-rendered jewellery images.
Skills covered by the first part of the course include building and controlling basic shapes, controlling shading with gradients and using Illustrator’s Pathfinder, Align and Pen tools. The second part of the programme focuses on more advanced skills, culminating in the exploration of precision jewellery design techniques using Transform tools, tolerance considerations for jewellery, and exporting vector lines to laser engraving or 3D CAD.
Learn the fundamental skills you need for transferring your hand drawing abilities to Adobe Illustrator in order to produce eye-catching, fully rendered jewellery designs. Our Adobe Illustrator classes are ideal for working or aspiring jewellery designers looking to make a move into CAD, an invaluable skill for the contemporary jewellery industry.
By the end of the programme, you will have an effective Adobe Illustrator workflow, enabling you to take your scanned jewellery drawings and transform them into hand-rendered jewellery images.
Skills covered by the first part of the course include building and controlling basic shapes, controlling shading with gradients and using Illustrator’s Pathfinder, Align and Pen tools. The second part of the programme focuses on more advanced skills, culminating in the exploration of precision jewellery design techniques using Transform tools, tolerance considerations for jewellery, and exporting vector lines to laser engraving or 3D CAD.
Part 1
- Introduction to Adobe Illustrator
- Navigation and controls
- Building basic shapes
- Controlling shapes with selection and direct selection
- Colours, Strokes and Fills
- Controlling shading with Gradients
- Stacked Objects and Groups
- Pathfinder and Align tools
- Using the Pen Tool
Part 2
- Using Pattern Brushes to build milgrain and chains
- Controlling layers
- Using guides to build 2 and 3 way orthographic drawings
- Laying out Design Specification documents, and creating templates
- Controlling Type in Illustrator
- Building a gemstone using precision placement of vector lines
- Precision jewellery design techniques using Transform tools
- Measurement tools and techniques in Illustrator, and tolerance considerations for jewellery
- Exporting vector lines to laser engraving or 3D CAD
Next dates: This course runs over 4 weeks with 1 session per week.
Wednesday 7th June 2023- 2-5pm
Wednesday 14th June 2023- 2-5pm
Wednesday 21st June 2023- 2-5pm
Wednesday 28th June 2023- 2-5pm
Course duration: Four sessions of three hours each.
Number of hours: 12 hours
Delivery: Our Adobe Illustrator classes are delivered online. Learning via BAJ’s innovative virtual classroom allows students to participate in hands-on, live tutoring sessions in small groups, meaning that you can benefit from personalised feedback in real-time from our world-class teaching staff.
Price: £450 for all students.
Does not include any software, but Adobe Creative Cloud software can be purchased from Adobe.com.
No funding available
Students can consider progression onto BAJ’s Adobe Essentials for 2D Jewellery Design: Intermediate course.
You will need your own computer (PC or Mac) with a webcam and a microphone in order to run this course, as well as your own Adobe licence.
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