[Jewelry making - Article 00355] - Re: [Orchid] Jewelry design - what & where to learn

[John Donivan]

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>     I understand that finances, time, or health can limit ones ability
>     to take classes or workshops 

    I've been studying 3d graphics for some years now - the sort that
    movies are made of more than jewelry design. I've watched many
    tutorials, many more than once. What I am is a skilled tutorial
    watcher, and I have a great mental grasp of the field. What I am not
    is good at it, because I don't sit down and draw enough, I watch
    tutorials. The "Professional Student" syndrome, I guess. On some
    level there are two schools of jewelry design. One is what I call
    "Process oriented", which is what most schools promote. That is, "I'm
    going to make something using granulation, or etching, or with
    plastic." The other school is what we do, which I'd call design
    oriented (there's no black-and-white, of course), which says, "We
    have this design, what do we need to do to execute it?" It seems that
    process oriented types are all the time taking classes to learn some
    new process - that's a good thing, BTW. On the other hand, IMO almost
    everybody would be better off getting a job than taking classes after
    some level is reached. To use Helen as an example, because as she
    said she sent me some pics - her work is as good or better than most
    people here in fundamental terms - straight, clean, appealing
    designs, she is just getting started, and isn't mature at the bench.
    What Helen (for one) really needs is not more instruction but more
    practice and some widening of her skills and knowlege, which comes
    with time. Really just to say that after one learns the basic skills
    of soldering and bending and polishing (Helen?), then classes, which
    teach something specific (engraving...), aren't going to help much,
    though they might open some new level of thought, as one said about a
    Revere design seminar yesterday. What will help much more is some
    venue, like a job with people who know more than you do, that
    stretches your abilities. But this isn't to say that's it's the best
    or the only, as usual. There are a lot of professional students out
    there, though. 

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