Balboa Digitizing
Advanced Blending & Shading
The Better the Art the Better the End Product
• A Digitizer’s Job is to Copy the Art they are given
• You cannot digitize what you cannot see.
• The Art Must give you the Necessary Information
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Information from the Art
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How accurate was the Artist?
Photos (DPI?) Clarity
Contrast
Color
Blending: Mixing your colors
• Fill or Tatami
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a. To Fill an area
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b. To add texture
• 2.Variables:
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a. Length of stitch
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b. Density
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c. Partition Sequence ( Needle Penetrations)
• 3. Properties: may curve
• a. Longer = more sheen, Shorter- matt
• b. Longer= More pull, Shorter less
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1. more it pulls in the more it fills in
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2. Cross Hatch
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3. Width will vary as to underlay
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Fill or Tatami
• 7.Pull Comp
• a. Traditional underlays
b. Layered Fills: Stitches per square
inch
Intensity of Color: Value Scale
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8. Blends:
Shading: Knowing where to place
the colors.
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1. Through Dark and Light areas you create form.
2. Realistic subjects fit together like a puzzle
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3. Light comes forward, dark recedes
Texture from Contrast
Wrinkled/Matt (Pug) High contrast Shorter Stitch,
Quarter Horse, Low contrast, Shorter Stitch
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Five Elements of Shading:
Five Elements of Shading: Five
Elements of Shading:
• Full light: where the light is the strongest
• Shadow: Opposite side of the light source
• Half Tone: Halfway between the light and
dark areas
• Reflected light: Light that bounces up from
the table the object sits on
• Cast shadow: Under the Ball where no
light reaches
Shading with Thread: Note the
Direction
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E. Shading with Color
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1. Warm Colors: Red, Yellow
2. Cool Colors: Blue Green Purple
3. Intensity: Compare the Value Chart
4. Light or Dark
Shading With Color
Other Elements for Realism
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Detail
Texture and Sheen depends on length of the stitch the
angle of the stitch, and the color
Shiny (longer stitch) or Matt (shorter stitch)
Wrinkled or Scaly (Pug) High contrast shorter stitch
Patterns, walking between the spots, pathing
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Detail
Shiny (longer stitch) or Matt (shorter stitch)
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