The course guides you through the natural and logical process of drawing jewelry. You'll start by learning how to sketch eight different faceted cuts, complete with handy tips to help you memorize the facet patterns and understand where to place each facet.

Next, you'll explore the basics of light (highlights) and dark (shadows) and discover how to apply these principles to different surfaces such as faceted cuts, cabochons, pearls, and metals. Mastering this stage is crucial before starting to paint with gouache, as it equips you with the skills to add depth and dimension to your artwork.

Then, you'll move on to painting various types of cabochon stones—opaque, transparent, and those with inclusions. This segment, placed between lessons on faceted cuts, light and shadows, and diamonds, helps you become confident and familiar with gouache paint.

Following this, you'll delve into drawing different diamond shapes and progress to colored gemstones. In addition to the standard faceted stones, you'll learn to paint rose-cut, briolette, drop, and pavé set stones before exploring how to paint the three metal colors.

Finally, in the last chapter, you'll learn the techniques for painting pearls.

With this comprehensive course, we believe you'll acquire the essential fundamentals for drawing jewelry and develop your unique artistic style.

Additionally one of the unique features of the upcoming course is the option to schedule a private one-on-one lesson with a instructor. This personalized attention allows you to address specific questions, challenges, and areas of improvement directly, ensuring a tailored learning experience.

See your skills grow!

A short drawing exercise to compare your drawing skills at the start of this course and how much you have improved at the end of this course.

Before you jump in to painting diamonds and gemstones with gouache and watercolors, you have to take a moment to understand the basics of most faceted cuts and learn how to put those faceted cuts on to paper.

Step 1 Covers round, oval, cushion, marquise, pear, brilliant, emerald, and rose-cut gemstones.

8 videos

Now that you’ve mastered drawing faceted cuts, dive into the fascinating world of how light and shadows interact with these facets. You’ll explore the nuances of how they reflect and behave on the surfaces of faceted gemstones, cabochons, metals, and pearls

Step 2 covers one video explaining the interaction of light and shadows on cabochon faceted gemstones, pearls, and various objects.

1 video

To acquaint yourself with gouache paint, let’s kick things off by drawing cabochons. This approach will help you understand the behavior of gouache paints and gain controle over the medium, before making the jump to drawing faceted cuts.

Step 3 includes opaque cabochon, transparent cabochon, emerald with inclusions, malachite, turquoise, and white opal.

6 videos

Here’s where you get to bring together your expertise in faceted cuts, understanding light and shadows and your newfound skills with gouache to draw your first diamond! We’ll also let you in on a secret tip to master fine lines and prevent any unwanted bleeding.

Step 4 covers round, oval, cushion, marquise, pear, radiant, elongated cushion, and heart-shaped diamonds in various sizes.

14 videos (including 6 bonus videos without voiceover)

Now that you know how to draw facet stones, apply light and shadow, controle your gouache paint and have drawn your first faceted stone with gouache.. Let‘s add color, and draw some colored gemstones!

Step 5 covers sapphire, ruby, aquamarine, amethyst, citrine, emeralds, and ametrine.

7 videos

When drawing jewelry, it’s not just about the classic cuts and standard cabochons. In this chapter you will master the fundamentals of unique cuts and settings.

Step 6 covers rose-cut, drop, briolette, and the pavé setting.

4 videos

When you want to draw jewelry you have to know how to draw metals. So in this chapter you will learn how to draw yellow, white, and rose gold in multiple shapes.

Step 7 covers white, yellow, and rose gold.

3 videos

Last but not least, we’re delving in to the art of drawing pearls. Building on the information about rendering three-dimentional objects in STEP 2, this final chapter will focus on pearls as captivating three-dimensional entities and how to draw them.

Step 8 covers white round and oval pearls, as well as peacock-colored round and oval pearls.

4 videos

Let‘s redraw the jewel you did at the start of the course to see the progress you have made! This way, you can showcase your new required skills!