“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 for Jewellery Design for Beginners (Online) course is 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 course, you will have developed an effective Adobe Illustrator workflow to turn your scanned jewellery drawings into beautiful hand-rendered jewellery images.
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. “
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.
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.
Led by Jack Meyer, a senior lecturer in CAD at BAJ, our Adobe Illustrator for Jewellery Design for Beginners (Online) course is ideal for working or aspiring jewellery designers looking to make a move into CAD, an invaluable skill for the contemporary jewellery industry.
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: 15th July 2021
Course duration: Four sessions of three hours each on Thursdays, from 2pm to 5pm. The course runs from 15th July 2021 until 5th August 2021.
Number of hours: 12 hours
Delivery: This course is taught through Zoom video-conferencing.
Price: £450
Students can consider progression onto BAJ’s Intermediate Adobe Illustrator and Photoshop Essentials for Jewellery Design (Online) 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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