Needle Painting for Beginners
How to draw the portrait of an animal
A course by Valentina Castillo , Embroiderer and Graphic Designer
About the video: How to draw the portrait of an animal
Overview
“In this lesson, I will explain how to draw your pet's portrait; An important step for the final result. I will teach you two ways, one manual and one digital, so you can choose the one that suits you best.”
In this video lesson Valentina Castillo addresses the topic: How to draw the portrait of an animal, which is part of the Domestika online course: Needle Painting for Beginners. Paint with embroidery and learn to create unique animal portraits.
Partial transcription of the video
“How to draw the portrait of an animal? Here I will show you How can we draw the portrait of our pet. To make the portrait you will have two options. You can draw the dachshund with me and find the design in additional resources Or you can draw your own pet yourself. In addition to this, you will have two options to do so: You can do it digitally or manually. First we will start by the digital form. For that, you will need to have Illustrator installed and the chosen photo. You will go to File in Illustrator, Open and select the chosen photo. Once we have the chosen photograph, we will selec...”
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Course summary for: Needle Painting for Beginners
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Category
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Areas
Embroidery, Naturalistic Illustration, Textile Design
Valentina Castillo
A course by Valentina Castillo
Valentina Castillo is a graphic designer and embroiderer. She started to teach herself to embroider in 2015. At first, she embroidered her own animal illustrations, as these little critters had always been her main source of inspiration, and later began to take her use of embroidery as a form of expression further.
After the death of her dog, she decided to portray pets through embroidery to immortalize and honor their memory. Since then, she has made more than 100 embroidered portraits of dogs, cats, hedgehogs, you name it! Her specialties within embroidery are needle painting and silk shading.
She also gives embroidery workshops at Revesderecho to teach people their own way of understanding embroidery. In 2018, she collaborated on Makikoart's "I love my dog embroidery" book, where she embroidered more than 40 different breeds of dog.
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