Knowing which details to include and which to omit are probably the most difficult decisions you will encounter when designing embroidery. In the design above I limited the colors to just 3 shades of gray and gold. I also focussed on the major construction of the bag and angled the bag to exaggerate the perspective of the different details, and used the darkest gray to define edges of the different shapes and bring out the shadows. All of these techniques work together to give the illusion of a real three dimensional object in embroidery.