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How to design and render a ring in under 20 minutes. #jewellerydesign #jewellerydesigner #jewellery

Updated: Oct 24

In this short video I show the basic steps of how to draw & render by hand a simple design for a customer in under 20 minutes. The idea is to show the customer what it would look and feel like, more than a perfect representation of what the item will be (hence the large scale and the 20 minute time frame).


With a little practice anyone can do this, what you need to do is start with a very light pencil, sketch out your oval (it's a circle but viewed from an angle of course), then pop on the bits and pieces that make up the design into a 3 dimensional environment. Once that basic part is done, go over it with a ball point pen to give the final outline, remove the pencil marks using an eraser and leaving only the pen on the paper.




This gives you the basis of the image, now to add the "feeling" by using the colour, here I use just 3 colours, yellow, orange and light blue. I use watercolour pencils as they are soft and blend nicely, additionally, when doing more exacting work, I can paint or blend with them, using them with gouache etc. The yellow forms the base colour for yellow gold, pressing harder or going over a second time gives you a richer colour, then using orange we give it warmth and depth, used primarily in the shadow regions.


Lastly, some pale blue to make the white gold sections "pop" against the yellow metal background. Don't worry about accuracy when doing a quick sketch, it's the colour and design elements that we are communicating to a customer using this technique.

I hope this video helps you and gives you confidence to try some sketching/design/art too.


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