Sometimes bigger is better...when it comes to canvas size! Diamond painting is pixel art and turning a design or painting into a diamond canvas template involves breaking the image down into individual pixels. Each pixel is a space for a diamond drill and that means if you shrink the design to a smaller canvas, a single diamond will cover more area on the design.
On a large canvas, an image of a bird may be several pixels. When you paint it with diamonds, you could have different colors in the bird, which means it would look more realistic.
If you were to shrink that same picture to a small canvas, the bird could be reduced to just a few pixels and just one color - definitely not as realistic!The small canvas would look more “pixelated”, which means the individual dots (or diamonds in this case) would be noticeable.
With Dreamer Designs - Diamond Canvas Kits, we try and avoid as much pixelation as possible. With some of our landscape designs, pixelation is inevitable but this is why we recommend to try and choose a bigger canvas size when opting for a design with lots of detail. We have many smaller kits with more of a basic design to avoid pixelation and this is perfect for beginner diamond painters.