It’s a learning CRV: Rhino CAD
Build a Sculptural Celestial Signet Ring
3 Days | Group Size: 4 | Price: £650
14th 15th 16th June 2026
Training Room: Gilded Cage Tattoo Studio, 106 st James street, Brighton, BN2 1TP
(You will need your own working laptop computer with a roller ball mouse to use Rhino 3D. Rhino 8 is free for 90 days before a paid licence is required)
Day 1: 12-4pm
Procreate Technical Drawing and Rhino Foundations
- Master class in Procreate
- Technical drawing perspective views,
- Ring and gemstone proportions
- Gemstone sketching
- Gemstone digital painting
- make gemstone reference sheets
- Colour swatches for design work
- Gemstone mood boards for clients
Day 2: 10-5pm
CAD Rhino 3d (Stephen Barnett)
- Building ring body
- Importing gemstones
- Creating stone seats
- Prong and bezel basics
- Tolerances & clean geometry
- Exporting Sculptural ring forms
Day 3: 10-5pm
Advanced Jewellery Rendering. Presentation rings on your own Ai models
- Refining and smoothing CAD geometry using Blender
- Preparing models for high-level rendering workflows
- Creating custom environments in Rhino to control reflections and lighting
- Material setup for polished metals and realistic gemstone behaviour
- Understanding light logic for believable luxury jewellery renders
- Producing final presentation images suitable for client proposals and marketing
- Creating a bespoke AI model to showcase your jewellery on a realistic wearer
- Compositing rendered jewellery onto a model for studio-style presentation imagery
It’s a learning CRV (add on): Procreate
Digital model placement (rings)
5 Hours |Group Size: 5 | Price: £120
28th June 2026 (For students of The Illustrated Academy)
Once you have designed and modelled your piece in CAD, this add-on shows you how to turn it into a high-end visual presentation.
You will learn:
- Metal/gemstone variations
- Clean-up in Procreate
- Generate AI model
- Realistic placement
- Lighting, shadow & reflection
- Client presentation boards
- Social media visuals
The Illustrated Photoshoot
AI Jewellery Visualisation and Digital Photoshoot Workshop
1 Day Intensive | Group Size: 5 | 10am – 4pm
Sunday 19th April
Location: Gilded Cage Tattoo Studio, 106 St James Street, Brighton, BN2 1LL
AI Jewellery Visualisation Workshop – Brighton
This Procreate jewellery visualisation workshop in Brighton, (The Illustrated aCADemy) focuses on transforming jewellery designs into believable luxury visuals using AI tools, rendering workflows, and digital photoshoot techniques.
During this one-day intensive workshop you will learn how to create your own AI generated models, build a studio-style jewellery photoshoot, and present jewellery designs on realistic models using professional digital workflows.
Students can either bring their own jewellery pieces to photograph and present, or design a new hero centrepiece during the workshop using FacetFlow AI design tools.
FacetFlow can be used either to develop a new jewellery design from sketch to render, or to improve the lighting and rendering of an existing piece of jewellery before presenting it on an AI generated model.
By the end of the day you will leave with professional jewellery presentation images suitable for websites, social media, and client proposals.
What You Will Learn: PROCREATE masterclass
• Creating your own AI generated models for jewellery presentation
• Building a studio-style AI jewellery photoshoot environment
• Creating a camera-roll style sequence of images for storytelling and marketing
• Understanding prompt writing techniques used in professional AI workflows
• Using FacetFlow AI to generate jewellery concepts from sketch to rendered design
• Enhancing jewellery designs using FacetFlow lighting and rendering tools
• Photographing your own jewellery pieces for digital presentation
• Integrating jewellery renders or photographs onto AI generated models
• Using multiple AI platforms together as part of a professional jewellery workflow
• A Procreate masterclass on resizing, editing, and fitting jewellery precisely onto a model
• Producing luxury jewellery visuals ready for client presentation or social media