After my tutorial with Nick, I realised I wanted to begin finding other sources for my drawing. Although the starting point for my drawing was some of my Gran's jewellery, she only had a few pieces that I found inspiring, there was a lot of costumer jewellery in there which didn't really interest me much - the pieces I really loved were those that had a bit of history, they were the more expensive pieces, antiques and heirlooms, that sort of thing. However, as much as I love those, it's not enough to build a collection from so I've began to look elsewhere for inspiration... Starting with a lovely book on Victorian Jewellery and strangely, a book contacting patterns for Renaissance lace - the look of which just reminded me of my technical drawings and gave me a few ideas for composition when it does come to fitting my drawings together and into repeat prints!
I also started looking for inspiration in the world around me. Just by chance I was looking around some of the charity shops in my home town, found nothing of use, but then in the cheap tacky shop next door, I found these earrings and necklaces on sale! Even though they are obviously made quite cheaply (I'm not even sure if they were metal or not) I could see that the designers of these had clearly taken inspiration from an art deco style of jewellery as well, so I can still draw from these. You can't tell in my technical drawings where the imagery has come from, especially because I can add finer details and what would represent jewels quite easily, thus making the design my own.
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