Lively Pet Portraits: Fur Embroidery Techniques
Embroidering the Ears, Jaw, and Forehead 3
A course by Santo Cielo , Designer and Textile Artist
About the video: Embroidering the Ears, Jaw, and Forehead 3
Overview
“This lesson will see the embroidery come to life! I will fill in the final areas of the dog, paying special attention to the light and shadows.”
In this video lesson Santo Cielo addresses the topic: Embroidering the Ears, Jaw, and Forehead 3, 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
“We have to switch. To the darkest gray for the highlight. that we use also on the other side, because as we said, this side of the face is more in shadow than the left. Other. but we are using the same colors. to represent the fur. the reflection on this side of the face, we're going to put some black and brown, to emulate the other hairs that are under the reflection. A little bit of Stitches. in between But, Not so many. So you need to have this contrast to say, It's not a grey... Animal is just a reflection that is forming. remember to do this ear first before getting into the hairs that...”
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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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