Textile Illustration with Acrylic, Felt, and Embroidery
The Lights and the Shadows
A course by Juanamatú (Katerin J Gómez) , Toy Creator
Joined October 2014
About the video: The Lights and the Shadows
Overview
“Having the general tones, I will now begin to provide details of lights and shadows. This brings depth to the piece. Once that's done, I'll show you how to fix some blemishes.”
In this video lesson Juanamatú (Katerin J Gómez) addresses the topic: The Lights and the Shadows, which is part of the Domestika online course: Textile Illustration with Acrylic, Felt, and Embroidery. Learn how to create original illustrations using mixed techniques, from painting with acrylic on fabric and felting with wool, to finishing it all off with embroidery.
Partial transcription of the video
“The lights and the shadows In this lesson we are going to do the lights and shadows. I'll take my darkest color of coffee like the shadow and my cream color like light. I'm going to start with the shadows. I'm going to put one of the shadows on the end of my rabbit's chin. and you will realize I'm going to start putting the lights and shadows where I put those higher or lower tones to start highlighting them. I'm going to start looking for those areas where I put the darker tones, in this case in the part of the arm here, below. These shadows will mostly be lines, and what these lights and ...”
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Course summary for: Textile Illustration with Acrylic, Felt, and Embroidery
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Category
Craft -
Areas
Acrylic Painting, Arts & Crafts, Embroidery, Needle Felting, Textile Design

Juanamatú (Katerin J Gómez)
A course by Juanamatú (Katerin J Gómez)
Katerin Gómez is a craft lover and professional toy creator specialized in the needle felting technique. She graduated in drawing and illustration from La Escuela Nacional de Caricatura, the first illustration school in Colombia, where she worked for almost ten years as a designer, teacher, and events and exhibitions organizer. After returning to Bogotá, following a short but transformative experience at the University of Applied Sciences and Arts in Lucerne, Switzerland, she switched up her career and opted for her great childhood passion: creating characters.
Now she combines her illustration training and her desire to tell stories by designing and making unique dolls in her creative toy store, Juanamatú.
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