Can the average person learn to design?
Of course they can. My point here to use an analogy is that everyone can learn to play golf and enjoy doing it, but only a few can play like Tiger Woods or Arnold Palmer. Same applies to designing and most other things in life, it does take talent to become the best at some thing. The other key ingredient in designing quality gemstone designs (besides art) is experience. I do not mean experience with the tools and computers, although that helps. I mean experience with cutting/faceting and the actual real gemstones. There is just no substitute for experience and actually cutting stones. Have the designs been cut? The answer is YES on my designs and I have the pictures to prove it. In most cases the designs are cut by me or a friend(s) that is helping me proof cut. I have several people that I have helped and taught to cut over the years and a lot of them are making a living faceting (what I would call pros) and they often proof cut new designs for me. Actually they generally are in a hu
