A golden retriever mid-smile, tongue out, ears flopped — the universal good-mood dog, drawn in three stepped golds so the coat waves without whiskering into noise. Retriever fur wants to be painted as ribbons, and that is exactly how the chart treats it: broad honey shapes over the skull, deeper amber under the ears, cream at the chest, each region big enough to place in relaxed stretches. The face does the heavy lifting with almost no colors at all: brown eyes with single highlight drills, a black nose, and the open smile’s pink tongue against dark mouth shadow. That little tongue patch is, frankly, the most cheerful thirty drills in this entire catalog. A flat sky-blue background with one lazy cloud keeps the whole canvas sunny and fills fast. This is the kit people buy twice — once for themselves, once for the friend whose actual dog this could be. For that friend’s actual dog, photo uploads run through the same pipeline at app.pixelmade.ai.
The chart, measured
Every number on this page is read from this design’s actual manufacturing chart — the same
file the 106×106 symbol canvas is printed from — not estimated for marketing.
| Spec |
Value |
| Canvas |
30 × 30 cm (11.8″ × 11.8″) |
| Grid |
106 × 106 cells |
| Drills |
11,236 round drills (2.8 mm), full-drill coverage |
| Colors |
18 DMC colors, individually bagged |
18 DMC colors over 11,236 drills is a mid-complexity build — enough palette changes to stay interesting, not enough to feel like admin. The workload skews orange: 7 of the 18 colors are orange steps, covering 34% of the canvas, with DMC 519 alone accounting for 31% (3,505 drills). 9 accent colors each cover under 1% of the canvas — small bags that carry the highlights, so keep them sorted.
Full DMC palette (18 colors)
Your chart doubles as a shopping list — the complete palette with exact per-color counts:
| DMC code |
Hue |
Drills |
Canvas share |
| DMC 519 |
teal |
3,505 |
31.2% |
| DMC 977 |
orange |
1,992 |
17.7% |
| DMC 826 |
blue |
1,392 |
12.4% |
| DMC 3826 |
orange |
1,275 |
11.3% |
| DMC 3855 |
yellow |
1,259 |
11.2% |
| DMC 154 |
deep red |
581 |
5.2% |
| DMC 976 |
orange |
413 |
3.7% |
| DMC 939 |
deep blue |
264 |
2.3% |
| DMC 3756 |
pale teal |
183 |
1.6% |
| DMC 326 |
red |
80 |
0.7% |
| DMC 3743 |
gray |
72 |
0.6% |
| DMC 3328 |
red |
55 |
0.5% |
| DMC 902 |
red |
39 |
0.3% |
| DMC 838 |
deep orange |
34 |
0.3% |
| DMC 3706 |
red |
33 |
0.3% |
| DMC 632 |
orange |
31 |
0.3% |
| DMC 918 |
orange |
16 |
0.1% |
| DMC 407 |
orange |
12 |
0.1% |
Chart-true by construction
The mockup above is rendered drill-by-drill from the finished chart (11,236 cells,
18 colors — the exact numbers in the tables), using the deterministic pipeline
that processes every Pixelmade order: saliency-weighted DMC selection, nearest-color
mapping, no dithering. What you approve is what gets printed. Each kit is made to order —
printed, picked, and packed when you buy, MOQ 1.
For sellers
Run a craft or Etsy shop? Offer kits like this dog diamond art design — or your own artwork, or your
customers’ photos — under your brand with zero inventory via
app.pixelmade.ai. Preview how any image survives a
106-cell grid with the free
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