Lively Pet Portraits: Fur Embroidery Techniques
The Movement of Fur and Layers
A course by Santo Cielo , Designer and Textile Artist
About the video: The Movement of Fur and Layers
Overview
“Understanding the movement of the fur is a very important step in the creative process. Not only will it allow you to know the length of the stitches, but also their direction. In this lesson, you will learn how to make an arrows scheme from the reference photo and identify the layers on which the pet will be embroidered.”
In this video lesson Santo Cielo addresses the topic: The Movement of Fur and Layers, which is part of the Domestika online course: Lively Pet Portraits: Fur Embroidery Techniques. Learn to embroider realistic animal portraits by exploring fur and stitching techniques to give your favorite pet life and texture.
Partial transcription of the video
“Now that we choose the photo of Toshi, that we're going to work with. I will invite you to understand the firm movement and also recognize the layers that will help us in the process of embroidering. recognizing the layers will help us to understand the order that we're going to embroider. And the fur movement will help us to understand the direction of the stitches. and also the transition from one direction to the other. We will need the picture of our pet, the photograph. I printed it. bigger because I prefer to work with bigger photos in this part. and we need the tracing paper and the ...”
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Course summary for: Lively Pet Portraits: Fur Embroidery Techniques
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Arts & Crafts, Embroidery, Textile Design
Santo Cielo
A course by Santo Cielo
Santiago Celio Cioli is a designer and textile artist from Montevideo, Uruguay. Although he earned his degree in industrial design at the Escuela Universitaria Centro de Diseño, and has since worked in many design and artistic fields, his passion is handmade embroidery.
For the past few years, Santo has been living in Berlin, where he currently works as an embroidery artist. His work ranges from portraits of pets, people, memories, and even imaginary creatures. Apart from taking commissions, he also hosts embroidery workshops for beginners.
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