Creation of Embroidered Portraits
To embroider line II
A course by Bugambilo , Visual Artist
About the video: To embroider line II
Overview
“Second part of the lesson.”
In this video lesson Bugambilo addresses the topic: To embroider line II, which is part of the Domestika online course: Creation of Embroidered Portraits. Learn to illustrate portraits by combining embroidery techniques.
Partial transcription of the video
“To embroider the line. There are lots of stitches to work line. How are we only using the most classic stitch, the back stitch, the idea is not to use it in a traditional way, but go modifying it so that it really reads as a pencil or as a drawing. That is, the effect I'm looking for is not a super precise embroidery, but basically of a freehand drawing. So, to work the shadows I'm going to start opening the stitch and instead of doing it as a line, I start working as in a seed format. It is opening and I will go giving small pickets as to give shade using the same criteria we worked when w...”
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Course summary for: Creation of Embroidered Portraits
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Category
Craft, Illustration -
Areas
Embroidery, Textile Design

Bugambilo
A course by Bugambilo
Sol Kesseler, better known as Bugambilo, is a visual artist and drawer who uses embroidery as a form of plastic art. Although she is trained in visual arts she stumbled across embroidery by chance. Her work has appeared in specialized magazines, private collections, and national as well as international exhibitions.
She currently has her own studio in Buenos Aires, Argentina, where she embroiders her illustrations and teaches others to discover their passion for thread.
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