Original artwork by darkly-shaded-shadow! Thank you for letting me do this for Mattsma and then further allowing me to sell it for everyone.

Okay this was a project a long time ago (July last year exactly, actually) and I did a pretty crap job on it. To be fair, it was really good at the time but I've become so much better at patterns. You can see a part of the original conversion below (the top koi, the lower koi is just this image):

Originally, the goal was just to make a pattern without black outlines and fill them in. Mattsma and I agreed that I would leave gaps in the pattern and just do a sketch line around, and that line would become bullion knots to give the entire piece structure and texture like the original artwork. The thing is, at that point in time I wasn't refining colors, and Mattsma hadn't given me a size limit so it just became really massive. Like, really. 20 3/8ths x 32 1/4th inches on 14 count. Outrageous.

The new pattern, the one you see here, was inspired by me looking through the old patterns I'd done and noticing just how much better this COULD be! darkly-shaded-shadow had done such a nice job with the coloring after all, it could be easily sectioned out and put back together in a couple of colors instead of a pile of random shading that the program creates. So... I did. And the result is what you see above, very pretty, very clean lines. Lots of partial stitching to get the effect. But worth it.

62 colors in 6 x 9 3/4th inches on 18 count. No beads, no blends. But there is silver metallic in the water.