Jewellery Illustration and Design: Techniques for Achieving Professional Results

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AUTHORS: Manuela Brambatti began her career in the fashion world in the late 1970s working for Style and other fashion magazines. We pride ourselves in being a community of local book lovers which allows our passion and devotion to shine in everything we do. The goal is not to show finished pieces of jewelry but to provide the tools that will enable readers to acquire a work method that allows them to represent their ideas effectively.

Instead, it aims to provide readers with the tools needed to be able to accurately convey their ideas and master use of colour, as well as to draw different facets and effects such as brilliance, transparency and opacity. By using the Web site, you confirm that you have read, understood, and agreed to be bound by the Terms and Conditions.

The present volume tackles the process from the initial idea, based in natural or geometrical forms, to the final drawing of the completed piece, including illustration techniques and sources of inspiration, all aspects that will stir up the reader’s creativity. There are only a few books about jewelry rendering, and none of them reaches back to the basics with the depth or detail found here.

Alessandra Possamai is a curator at the Jewellery Museum in Vicenza (Italy) and collaborates regularly with different Italian institutions in the organization of exhibitions on contemporary jewellery. In 2020 we not only celebrated our 20th birthday but our 1st birthday as being completely employee owned after becoming an E. He has designed jewellery for famous fashion brands such as Versace, Versus, Balmain, Montana, Laura Biagiotti, Valentino, and Etro.He has designed pieces for famous fashion brands such as Versace, Versus, Balmain, Montana, Laura Biagiotti, Valentino and Etro. Run by Kate Baxter, a jewellery designer and expert, The Cut London was set up to meet the demand for design-led, non-conventional engagement rings. Different volumes, spaces, surfaces and finishes are explained in detail, as are methods for depicting different materials, from timeless metals and precious stones to substances such as celluloid and bakelite. Currently a freelancer, she works with some young contemporary designers and jewelery houses and produces illustrations for firms in the fashion and design industries.

The relationships of volume, balance between full and empty, treatment of metal surfaces, warm and cool materials and the relationship between the support and the stone are explained in depth along with ways to illuminate jewellery, treatment of light and chiaroscuro play to add depth. The goal is not to show finished pieces of jewellery but to provide the tools that will enable readers to acquire a work method that allows them to represent their ideas effectively.This book is incredibly good for showing how to render and accurately scale your jewellery design ideas in pespective. With over 6 million of the world’s best eBooks to choose from, Kobo offers you a whole world of reading.