Jewellery rendering
Hand rendering has been an essential skill for jewellery designers for centuries, and the demand for hand-painted designs continues into the modern age, despite having new technologies to create designs with. Using gouache watercolour paints, Edward can create renders for all types of fine jewellery.
Below, you can see examples of Edward’s work; all are hand-painted jewellery renders and original designs.
For all rendering enquiries please email edward@edwardflemingjewellery.com. As well as rendering, Edward can also teach you how to draw your own designs, either in small groups or 1 to 1; please e-mail for availability.
Edward can render all types of precious and semi-precious gemstones.
Cushion cut red spinel, pearl, pear cut and cushion cut earring render in white gold.
Emerald cut Aquamarine and trapezoid diamond 3 stone ring in white gold or platinum.
Tsavorite, demantoid garnet, diamonds and pearl broach.
Emerald cabochon, pearl, pear cut and round brilliant cut aysemmetrical earring design in 18ct white gold.
Puffin Jewel design
Pearl and diamond earring render.
Baroque pear and Tsavorite earring design in white gold.
Opal and diamond necklace on turquoise silk cord and white gold earrings.
Tanzanite and diamond ring render for Flawless Jewellery
Turquoise in silver pendant design.
Lavender, pave set, round spinel, cushion and pear cut diamond brooch design in white gold.
Jewellery rendering meaning
When we talk about jewellery rendering, we can mean one of two things. There is hand rendering, the traditional art of illustrating and painting jewellery designs, by hand, and there is CAD rendering. CAD rendering uses software to make semi-realistic images of jewellery that has been designed on a computer.
Many companies will use both traditional and modern technologies in the creation of their jewellery. We use CAD in the design and manufacture of our unique fine jewellery collections, however we stick to hand rendering rather than CAD renders.
With the advent of CAD technology, hand rendering isn't as vital to the jewellery design process as it once was. There was a time when a painted design was the best way to showcase designers’ ideas to clients and to bring their vision to life. Despite the advent of CAD, in the digital age, the constant need for visual content and revival of interest in hand skills has meant that the hand painted jewellery render has found a new lease of life.
How much does jewellery rendering cost?
The process of jewellery rendering is both slow and detailed, meaning it is expensive, today only the top jewellery houses continue to add renders of their new designs to their archive.
Edward charges £90 for an orthographic ring render, while more complex pieces are priced individually.