Embroidery from photo: What is an embroidery prototype? Does it show me what my finished picture will look like?
We'll show you how an artist's image is transformed into a prototype embroidery design. And for comparison, we'll also show you the finished embroidered picture.
The original painting after Ferdinand Hodler: 
An embroidery prototype is an embroidery pattern on a sheet of paper: 
To create a high-quality embroidery, we need a clearly legible embroidery pattern so that all the colors can be easily distinguished. Therefore, the embroidery pattern for a large picture consists of several sheets: 
You embroider sheet by sheet and cross off the completed embroidered areas on the embroidery template.
Embroidery pattern sheet 1:

Thus, sheet by sheet, your own embroidered artwork appears on the canvas: 
Gobelin wool is used for embroidery with half cross stitches . Gobelin wool emits a particularly soft light and creates very smooth color transitions.

Embroidery patterns for you to stitch yourself