Creation of Embroidered Portraits
Nose and mouth
A course by Bugambilo , Visual Artist
About the video: Nose and mouth
Overview
“There are many types of noses and mouths, it is important to pay attention to the photography we choose as a reference to see how light affects these features. We have already seen how to work contour lines, now we are going to focus on surface lines. These will help us to work the volume of the forms. Join me, I will teach you to differentiate and embroider lines that build volume, and others that mark or delimit shapes.”
In this video lesson Bugambilo addresses the topic: Nose and mouth, 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
“Nose and mouth We have already resolved our eyes, and the last stitches I gave were these that mark a shadow that descends. I will try to continue the shadow that remained from my eye, to retake the nose, but I'm going to do it very carefully so that the line is not all constant, and it can be understood that the partition comes out a little more. Then I will mark with dark the zones that see that they go down. For example, the base of the nose, the nostrils, but I'm not going to put that same dark tone in this part, because I need it to look a little brighter. I'm going to take care of the...”
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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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