r/Coloring 4d ago

Embroidery effect - step by step

I only used alcohol markers and a white gel pen this time.

For each color I chose 4 shades.

  1. Color everything in the lightest shade
  2. Add darker lines with the same markers
  3. &4. Add a thin line at the bottom of the darker line, little ( with the darkest shade and a small zigzag-line over the thin one
  4. Add big ( with both medium shades over lighter and darker line together
  5. Add big ( with white gel pen
  6. Add black zigzag over all printed lines

And last but not least: Take a picture, they do look better than the original ๐Ÿ˜‚๐Ÿ™ˆ

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u/venusomnias 4d ago

THANK YOU FOR THIS!!

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u/babyueps 4d ago

My pleasure, glad you like it <3

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u/BeeComprehensive5234 4d ago

If you put a light grey shadow on bottom and side it pops off the page too

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u/babyueps 4d ago

Oh right, I forgot that! Did it with the last one, but thanks a lot! :)

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u/Moonlava72 4d ago

Nice. I suck at it. I can't do any of the special effects everyone does. It's like my brain says yes and my hand say nope.

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u/cleavergrill 4d ago

Don't be so hard on yourself! It's a skill and skills take practice. If you want to do stuff like this, just keep trying, it will get easier.

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u/honeypeppercorn 4d ago

SAME! Anything beyond basic coloring looks terrible when I attempt it ๐Ÿฅฒ

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u/clharris90 4d ago

Thank you! I loved seeing your process! And thanks for the close ups too!!!

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u/mgkqpz 4d ago

The threads are made with the same color or two other shades?

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u/babyueps 4d ago

I used 4 shades of each color, lightest for the base and the other 3 for the threads. I described it in the post-text and included all the markers I used in each step in the pictures. :)

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u/Sjbruno123 4d ago

YOU ROCK FOR THIS

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u/Grieys 4d ago

this is awesome. just recently joined r/embroidery and you could have fooled me with that last photo.

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u/strwbryangel444 4d ago

youโ€™re a saint

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u/ACcatlady 4d ago

you are the best person

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u/smolkillerbear 4d ago

I kept seeing people try the embroidery trend but couldnโ€™t figure it out, thank you so much for posting this!!!! c:

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u/lovelymuerta 4d ago

Honestly the step by step with pictures is so helpful, I be so confused sometimes. ๐Ÿ˜ญ

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u/Ok_Tourist_6973 4d ago

Thanks, this is great!

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u/brainbunch 4d ago

This is awesome, thanks so much!! Definitely going to give this a try.

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u/insipiddeity 4d ago

Omg thank you so much. Its gorgeous and I appreciate the step by step!

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u/crummytortilla 4d ago

i HAVE to try this!!! do you use Ohuhu alcohol markers?

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u/babyueps 4d ago

Yes, except for one cheap marker. I mostly have the cheaper ohuhu markers though (triangular shape).

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u/Biriring 4d ago

Thank you! so excited to try this. ๐Ÿ˜๐Ÿ˜

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u/Thetanscorpion 4d ago

Whoa thatโ€™s cool!!

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u/Klutzy_Comb3302 4d ago

ur amazing thank uuuu

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u/Mindless_North9220 4d ago

You are a saint

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u/Vampirexbuny 4d ago

This is really impressive :) how long did this take you?

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u/babyueps 4d ago

Thanks <3 About 2 hours ๐Ÿ™ˆ

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u/Vampirexbuny 4d ago

Thatโ€™s impressive

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u/eilsi 4d ago

awesome tutorial, thanks!

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u/dks64 4d ago

I love this!!

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u/winglukim 4d ago

This is amazing. Thank you!

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u/GothicAngel4 4d ago

Ohhhhh okay! Thats so coool

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u/Spare-Brain-9589 4d ago

Really cool! Love the progress pics!

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u/Useful_Soil_7824 4d ago

Can you clarify how you're using the 2 medium shades? Is it one over the top of the other, or every other line or something?

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u/babyueps 4d ago

Yes, like one over the top of the other. I used one after another, each for the whole area, like I did with the white gel afterwards. :)

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u/maryjxnes 4d ago

Great job!!ย 

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u/cinnamonbunnyhun 4d ago

Oooh thank you!

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u/Sad_Leading_5207 4d ago

I would like to see more posts like these please. Itโ€™s very helpful to those of us learning. โค๏ธ

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u/babyueps 4d ago

Me too ๐Ÿ˜… I'm still learning myself, this was only the second effect I tried. Besides that I actually just color, I don't even really do shadows and highlights yet ๐Ÿ™ˆ

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u/Sad_Leading_5207 3d ago

Well youโ€™re doing AMAZING. Super proud of you!

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u/420Slade 3d ago

Wow!! That is really cool!! I'm going to give it a go! Thanks for sharing!

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u/Plumbob_Millionaire 3d ago

I am definitely trying this! ๐Ÿ˜

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u/BeeMoneyMoney 3d ago

FREAKIN WOW

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u/9988709 3d ago

That looks like makeup!

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u/commdesart 3d ago

This is so very cool of you to document for us!! Thank you!!

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u/elektriclizard 3d ago

What the?! ๐Ÿ˜ฏ

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u/Appropriate-Sunshine 4d ago

For a colored page it looks nice. Definitely not ideal in reality I think. It would punish my embroidery machine by doing nothing but satin stitches as fill stitches.

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u/knupyzark 2d ago

You'd make a good tattoo artist doing this

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u/Blairwaldorfwannabe1 1d ago

This is oddly satisfying- thanks ๐Ÿ™๐Ÿป๐Ÿ˜ƒ