Any tips for crocheting from a graph

[ConfuciousSayWhat]

I've decided to make a graphgan and I'm under no illusions this thing will take me weeks to do as I'm both a chronic procrastinator and painfully slow at crocheting. But nevertheless I've found a graph generator and I'm determined to make one. So I ask for your help on how to make the process less painful please!

[ConfuciousSayWhat]

And if anyone can recommend an affordable yarn with equivalent colours to lionbrand I'd be very grateful.

[Akire]

No idea why you are making a graph are you writtung patterns? The odd book that I've used that's had graphs I have just written them out long hand so less confusing. Can you explain more?

I use style craft wool alot dk lots of similar colours www.woolwarehouse.co.uk/yarn/special-dk-all-colours

[scaredofthecity]

Not at all helpful but I consider myself quite an experienced crocheter and I'm not brave enough to go anywhere near a graphgan!
Good luck, and make sure you come back with pics

[ConfuciousSayWhat]

Thanks, Im doing it because I can't find anything vaguely like the pattern I want so I found this site, stitchboard.com that converts pictures to patterns. I'm not doing anything exciting, just a simple cartoon character, I'm not that brave!

[ConfuciousSayWhat]

It also doesn't just generate the graph but the stitch count per row too

[ConfuciousSayWhat]

Here

[ConfuciousSayWhat]

Thanks. How do I keep the back tidy? So say I only need to do a couple of stitches in on colour before moving to the next how does that work?

[ConfuciousSayWhat]

It's OK I've worked it out