Wow.
I was tasked to design this really elaborate necklace for a customer who wants it for her daughter for her daughter’s wedding day.
In the past, I simply complete half of the necklace and use the copier to flip and duplicate the image. After that, I just cut what I need and paste on the original drawing. Same goes for earrings.
Only today that I realized that I don’t have such luxury in my new work place. The only “copier” is those multi-function machine which does fax and scanning as well. Not only the image quality is bad, the copier doesn’t have a flip/ mirror image function to it. The boss sent me out to look for a shop that does photocopy, I didn’t manage to find one.
In the end, I used a piece of tracing paper and traced out a rough guide of the necklace with a pencil. Flipped it over and laid it on the actual work and sort of just shade the back of the tracing paper with a pencil so that the traced design on the front will leave a mark on my actual work. Then with the guidelines imprinted from the tracing paper, I had to inked the whole thing down to complete the necklace. That is my first experience with tracing paper.
It was really tiring and time consuming, but in the end, I felt really satisfied with the finished drawing. Hope the customer will like it when she drops by tomorrow!
Hi there!
am wondering if you know any place that conduct short courses on rings making? im interested on it but kinda of hard to find one without any contacts. do you happen to know any? Thanks..
Hello Hassan!
I don’t know any place which you can learn just rings making. They usually conduct a proper basic jewellery making course which teaches you several techniques and also designing. You can find these part-time jewellery making courses at Nanyang Academy of Fine Arts or JDMIS.
Good luck!
Oh ok.. Thanks for the reply.. appreciate it! Take care…