Embroidered Linear Portrait
Line drawing: referent and simplification
A course by Koral Antolín Maillo , Designer, embroiderer, and art director
Joined March 2013
Joined March 2013
About the video: Line drawing: referent and simplification
Overview
“We will simplify a portrait and convert it into a line drawing to later embroider it on a shirt. You do not need to know how to draw, since I will teach you to do it by tracing a reference on vegetable paper. If you have experience, you can also do it freehand. ”
In this video lesson Koral Antolín Maillo addresses the topic: Line drawing: referent and simplification, which is part of the Domestika online course: Embroidered Linear Portrait. Combine embroidered stitches with a traditional and Kantan needle to create unique portraits.
Partial transcription of the video
“Line drawing: referent and simplification Since we know how to fit a portrait, we will work on a reference image. You can search for a portrait on the internet, you can use the portrait we made in the previous lesson or you can ask a friend or family member to pose for you. In this case, I have worked with an image of my sister. At the beginning you can start doing portraits of people you do not know because if you do not look all the time that resemblance and it is a little more complex at first to achieve that physical resemblance, we not only need the proportions to make it look like the...”
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Course summary for: Embroidered Linear Portrait
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Category
Craft, Illustration -
Areas
Embroidery, Textile Design
Koral Antolín Maillo
A course by Koral Antolín Maillo
Koral Antolín is a multidisciplinary creative: embroiderer, designer, photographer, art director... although her two great passions are drawing—since it allows her to synthesize ideas—and embroidery, with which she gives life and texture to her drawings stitch by stitch.
She is the founder and creative mind of the studio Fábrica de Imaginación and has her own brand of embroidery products, Studio fi.
Her work has been published in specialized magazines such as Interiores, Molly Makes, Elle Casa, Mr. Wonderful, Labores, AD, and Sewing box.
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