Some of my sketches I spent some time last week with a colleague from the LJS, Zoe Harding , working on technical drawing for jewellery making. Zoe has worked designing for Vivienne Westwood and Swarovski and regularly designs costume and fine jewellery this way. As a metal clay artist I tend to draw sketches of pieces before I start work but the material is more forgiving than precious metal: if I don't like a piece I can just scrunch it up and start again! However, I am interested in wax carving (see my first ring here ) so I wanted to practice my orthographic technical drawing particularly. This is drawing a piece from three angles (see image below). I have to practice but I feel I got a good grasp of the basics with Zoe's expert help. Source
by Anna Campbell