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Drawing Tips for Digital Drawing
Drawing Tips for Digital Drawing
Introduction to our digital drawing templates
In drawing apps like Photoshop, Illustrator or Procreate you can draw illustrations and pictures and create beautiful designs for knitted products.
The size of the drawing templates
Our digital drawing template file is a .jpg format that you can open in any drawing app. The digital drawing template is the exact canvas for your Relooped product. Always draw within the original drawing template and do not resize it. Designs should always fit in a low-resolution format that exactly matches the size for a Relooped product. Always scale your artwork to fit within the drawing template.
Design with shrinkage in mind
Please note: Our products may shrink in length by up to 10-15% during production. This shrinkage percentage can vary depending on several factors and is difficult to predict. That is why our digital drawing templates are longer than the final product.
When creating your digital design, we recommend drawing it 10% shorter than your desired final length. Then scale your design back in length until it fits within the digital template of the product. This will ensure that your final product retains the correct proportions. If you have any questions about this process, please don't hesitate to contact us for guidance.
Check out the following drawing tutorials to help you get the most out of your design:
Photoshop tutorial
Let's knit pixel art!
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For knitting, digital illustrations should be prepared as pixel art. Each pixel (small square) on your drawing will become a knitted stitch.
Use the pencil tool
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Always draw with a pencil tool. Do not use the brush, it creates gray hatching that we cannot knit.
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Draw lines with at least 2px pencil thickness or more to ensure your drawing lines are knitted firmly.
Draw in black and white
Draw with black color on white background. Use only two colors - solid black and white. Black will be the main knitting yarn and white the contrasting knitting yarn. On the back of your knitting your drawing will be knitted in negative colors. You can choose the two colors later when you place your order.
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If your background color is white, and your line color is black, then you can get the best impression of your artwork.
Sharp lines and no gray colors
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No gray shading. Use the pencil and not a brush. Brushes create gray hatching which creates gray colors in your pixel art.
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We can't knit this because we only need two colours at most - black and white. Anything in between these colours we can't knit.
Sharp text
Turn off text anti-aliasing
Turning off anti-aliasing in Adobe Photoshop will give you the best results with your text once we start knitting.
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We accept the following file formats: PSD, JPG, PNG, PDF.
ProCreate tutorial
Pixel art
For knitting, digital artwork needs to be prepared as pixel art. Each pixel (small square) on your drawing becomes a knitted stitch. To create pixel art in Procreate, we use pixel brushes that you can download here and add to your Procreate brush library. A pixel brush allows you to draw lines without gray hatching around the lines. Open the digital drawing template for your product in Procreate. Simply use our pixel brushes to draw your illustration.
Download our ProCreate pixel brushesWhen drawing your design, also keep these important drawing tips in mind:
DRAW IN BLACK AND WHITE
Draw in black on a white background. Use only two colors - solid black and white. Black will be the main knitting yarn and white will be the contrasting knitting yarn. On the back of your knitting, your drawing will be knitted in negative colors. You can choose the two colors for the knitting yarns later when you place your order.
DESIGN WITH SHRINKAGE IN MIND
Please note: Our products can shrink in length by up to 10-15% during production. This shrinkage rate can vary depending on several factors and is difficult to predict. For this reason, our digital drawing templates are longer than the final product. When creating your digital design, we recommend drawing it 10% shorter than your desired final length. You can then scale your design back in length until it fits within the digital template of the product. This will ensure that your final product retains the correct proportions. If you have any questions about this process, please do not hesitate to contact us for guidance.
Enlarging your design
When you enlarge your pixel drawing, make sure to enable 'Nearest Neighbor' in the bottom menu. This will ensure that the lines, even after enlarging, remain strictly in pixels with no anti-aliasing.
IMPORTANT FOR THE BLANKETS: NOT TOO MANY OPEN SPACES
Important, especially for all blankets! Don't leave large parts of your artwork empty. Draw something at least every 200px in length and width to create color changes. Our knitting machine will love this and your final product will be of higher quality. If you have a large empty space in your design, see it as an opportunity to fill it with something creative. You can also fill the empty space with a grid of dots or thin stripes.
