Lively Pet Portraits: Fur Embroidery Techniques
Adding Names
A course by Santo Cielo , Designer and Textile Artist
About the video: Adding Names
Overview
“If you like, you can write something to add character to your embroidery: a name, a date, a message, or a famous quote. In this lesson, I will show you different types of fonts and how to embroider them with two very simple stitches.”
In this video lesson Santo Cielo addresses the topic: Adding Names, 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
“Adding Names Welcome back. Now our portrait is ready. What do you think about adding his name? I'm going to show you now how to do it. First of all, I'm going to introduce you to different types of typography. I made a file that you can download to put the name. It's really important always to play with the sizes, so you can also play in the portrait. I recommend that you do this part in the tracing part. Add the name while you are tracing your pet, but you can also add it later. That's why we are here. The fonts that I use, I download them from the internet, and they are free to download. ...”
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Course summary for: Lively Pet Portraits: Fur Embroidery Techniques
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Areas
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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