What is a jade carving tutorial?

1. Reading of Simple Design Drawings

Pre-production design drawings for jade carving are pre-designed drawings made by the designer based on the characteristics of the jade material and utilizing the form of line drawings. Design drawings are the embodiment of the designer's comprehensive conception of the materials used, the selection of the theme, and the modeling, and are an important basis for the craftsman to think about the modeling and to implement the technological goals in the crafting process.

2. The Role of Lines Drawn on Raw Materials

Before jade carving is styled, the lines are used to draw sketches, design drawings, and effect drawings, reflecting the styling conception of jade carving. In jade carving modeling, according to the design drawings of the jade material for the shape of the ambidextrous cutting processing of graphic symbols. After the jade carving is modeled, the image line of the outline of the shape, the structure of the inner contour, the dynamic line, the line of the center of gravity and the division of the interval line, etc., comprehensively reflect the material of the jade carving, the craftsmanship of the modeling of the beauty of the jade carving.

3. Line is the most basic element of jade carving drawing and modeling

The external contour of the jade material, the internal concave-convex twists and turns, the ideograms, and the patterns, etc. can be clearly broken down into two parts. The so-called line drawing is to depict these two parts with lines. Line drawing is characterized by clarity. The characteristics of line drawing are clear and definite, thus in the jade carving process, the method of line drawing can successfully express the stylized image of jade.

4. The Use of Cutting Tools

When cutting jade materials, side thalli or thallium are used to remove the residual materials outside the contour of the jade pattern, in the order of side thallium followed by thallium, the large pieces are removed first, and then the small pieces are removed, and the side thallium and thallium tools are used in the order of the larger pieces first, and then the smaller ones. Cutting straight, diagonal or curved lines is a basic skill in jade cutting that must be skillfully performed and mastered.

Jade carving techniques:

1, round carving

Round carving, also known as three-dimensional carving, meaning that all sides of the jade carving can be seen from different angles. It requires the carver to carve from the front, the back, the left, the right, the top, the middle and the bottom in all directions, and is the most basic technique in jade carving. Round carving requires that special attention be paid to the unity and harmony of all angles and directions of the work, and only in this way can it withstand the all-round "perspective".

2. Relief Carving

Relief carving is a kind of sculpture that carves out concave and convex undulating images on a flat surface, making it detached from the plane of the original material, and lies between round carving and painting. Relief is divided into high relief and shallow relief. Shallow relief general carving thickness in 2~3mm or so, deep relief as the name suggests carving out the shape of the deeper.

3, openwork carving, sculpture

Openwork carving is based on relief carving, hollowing out its background part. Skeleton carving is very similar to perspective carving, there are single and double-sided carving, also known as skeletonization, perspective carving.