Beaded Embroidery Portraits
A course by Camila Rubio , Contemporary beaded embroidery artist
Learn how to embroider your favorite characters' faces to give personality and texture to your garments
"Insanity is doing the same thing over and over again and expecting a different result", this well-known quote should be the mantra of any creative mind, and it seems that the contemporary beading embroiderer Camila Rubio—known as Pasionaria Pedrería—has it engraved in her mind. The world of embroidery offers endless possibilities and Camila, day by day, explores each one of them with the aim of offering original, striking, and unique pieces, investigating different media, experimenting with formats and sizes, and trying to incorporate non-traditional materials in her embroidery.
In this course, Camila will teach you how to make a portrait embroidered with beads from start to finish, which will serve as a way to express your style and creativity, using materials that add shine and texture to your piece.
What will you learn in this online course?
16 lessons & 21 downloads
- 99% positive reviews (338)
- 9,986 students
- 16 lessons (2h 49m)
- 21 additional resources (11 files)
- Online and at your own pace
- Available on the app
- Audio: Spanish, English, French, Italian, Portuguese, Turkish
- Spanish · English · Portuguese · German · French · Italian · Polish · Dutch · Turkish · Romanian · Indonesian
- Level: Beginner
- Unlimited access forever
What is this course's project?
An embroidered portrait made entirely of beads.
Projects by course students
Who is this online course for?
This course is suitable for everyone, both beginners and experienced embroiderers, as well as anyone who wants to learn to create beautiful portraits embroidered with beads.
Requirements and materials
No previous knowledge or experience in drawing or embroidery is required, just the desire to learn.
As for materials, you will need pencil and paper, access to a regular printer, a 7-inch rack, cotton fabric, scissors, a fabric marker, jewelry needles, sewing threads, a couple of small containers, a microfiber rag, beads, and sequins.
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Camila Rubio
A course by Camila Rubio
Camila Rubio is a contemporary beaded embroidery artist and more commonly known as Pasionaria Pedrería. She got herself into the world of embroidery through the exploration and application of materials that caught her attention—especially shiny ones— in a self-taught manner.
Camila focused on developing a beaded embroidery technique that was as complete and thorough as possible, not only in the study of different stitches but also in the use of various materials, which would allow her to turn her drawings into embroidered pieces full of nuances, shine, and texture.
She worked on the Gabriel Vielma summer collection in 2017 and from there, continued to be linked to the intervention and decoration of clothing and publishing houses. She has developed all kinds of projects: beaded embroidery kits to create patches or pins, large-scale embroidery for showcases, embroidered gardens, paper with rhinestones, among other projects.
Content
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U1
Introduction
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Presentation
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Influences
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What will we do in this course?
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U2
Before embroidering
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Color
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Portrait, face and expression
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Utensils, tools and materials review
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Knowing your rhinestones
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U3
Let's get to work: portrait embroidered with rhinestones
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Materials, color palette and calibration
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Create the Embroidery pattern and pass it to the fabric
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Border
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Eyes, mouth and details
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Nose, forehead and eyelids
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Cheeks, chin and neck
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Hair
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U4
Portraits and more; how to take care of your rhinestones
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Do you want to hang it or do you want to use it?
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How to take care of your rhinestones and closure
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FP
Final project
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Portraits in embroidered rhinestones
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el curso genial, super bien explicado, te da herramientas para poder crear donde el limite es tu imaginación, super profesional como todos los cursos de domestika
Very useful course,i recommend it !
Este curso me ha encantado, el bordado en pedrería es hermoso !!
es un curso super entretenido si te gusta crear. me ayudo a como coser correctamente la mostacilla y a entender colores y luces.
gracias
me ayudo muchísimo a dar mis primeros pasos en bordado con mostacillas, super recomendado.