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I have decided to start another one but I am a bit disappointed with it.
I love the band Aerosmith so decidded to design a chart of the band. I used Jane Greenoff's cross stitch designer. i am using 18ct aida.
Here is the photo used

I worked on it for 5 hours today and here is the results so far

It is the top corner of his hair but to me it looks like it just blends in with the background. his hair is black in the photo so I feel a bit disappointed. It only has 21 different colours in it, I thought before I started that 21 wouldn't be enough for it to look realistic. I put 99 colours in the box when I was designing it but I guess with being black and white there aren't a lot of colours to choose from.
I will keep going until I reach his face and see what it is like then to see if it is worth carrying on. Any thoughts on this?

Very nice picture. Looks pretty good on the stitching so far, but will definitely have a much better idea once you get to his face!

It is hard to tell so soon but I am seeing the hair as opposed to the background. You are right though, with it being a black and white photo it is going to limit the choices you have to stitch with.

I do agree its hard to tell things apart so soon, keep at it and i'm sure it will look more like the pic

Also, it'll look more realistic when you step away from it -- with these photostitches when you're working on it and looking at it close-up it's just a jumble of odd and unexpected shades and doesn't look like naything, then you look at it from the distance that everyone is going to see it from and suddenly details appear!

Thanks everyone I will carry on to see if there is any improvement. I will post another photo soon to see if you can see Steven Tyler or not!

I have given up with this one now as I did a bit of Steven Tyler's face and it looked nothing like the photo
But all is not lost because Skitzzzzz kindly offered to make me a photo chart of the Aerosmith concert I went to in June so it will mean more to me knowing that I was there! Here is the photo the chart is made from

I can't wait to start it! Just going to finish a page of Wrath HAED and I will start this one!

Your welcome looking forward to seeing it stitched

ooh that looks like it is going to be fun! I am excited to see your progress!!

Ooh, fab pic! And it will mean so much more as you were actually there!

This looks like a better one to stitch, good luck

Yes at least I will have some colours now. I think the black and white would have got very boring.

Looking forward to seeing your progress on the new design!