Realistic Portrait Embroidery

Overview

“Here you will start to create the embroidery pattern on the garment and on the background or as I like to call it: the embroidery map. This will serve as a guide to later embroider it on the fabric. ”

In this video lesson Yamila Yjilioff addresses the topic: Embroidery map, which is part of the Domestika online course: Realistic Portrait Embroidery. Learn how to illustrate, transfer, and embroider images to create portraits full of texture and expression.

Partial transcription of the video

“Embroidery map I continued with the details. As you can see, I added a few points to the eye to create a bit more realism, pencil strokes without using my hand to soften, so it has this idea of a pencil drawing. In this lesson, we'll do our embroidery map. The embroidery map is our embroidery pattern. We'll draw it here, and we'll print it on the transfer paper to print it on the fabric. Depending on the reference images on our mood board, we'll use these graphic resources for our pattern. As my reference is the 70s and optical art, that plays a lot with the division of the work table to dr...”

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Course summary for: Realistic Portrait Embroidery

• Level: Beginner
• 99% positive reviews (137)
• 2711 students
• 4 units
• 18 lessons (2h 28m)
• 6 downloads

• Category

  Craft

• Areas

  Embroidery, Fiber Arts, Textile Design