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Apologies for the clumsy sounding title. I just don't know what are the appropriate words to use to describe it. Which also explains why all my attempts at googling seem to turn up everything except painting.

Basically I am trying to paint a fleur-de-lis but I don't want it to look too 2 dimensional. How do I decide which parts to paint darker and which parts lighter to give an impression of a 3 dimensional image? As if it is raised with beveled edges, like the ones on the side of the Sisters Rhino.

What you're looking for is a technique called trompe l'oeil.

It can become fairly involved, but in short, choose a direction from which you want the design 'lit', and highlight edges in that direction, applying normal rules for effects like cracking or NMM.

Thanks! Finally the google search is making sense.