Comment on Sleep well
AllNewTypeFace@leminal.space 1 week agoCould you not also control the height of the pattern by having more stitches under the raised parts?
Comment on Sleep well
AllNewTypeFace@leminal.space 1 week agoCould you not also control the height of the pattern by having more stitches under the raised parts?
Warl0k3@lemmy.world 1 week ago
You for sure can! Were I doing this I’d use a 3D stitch for the teeth/gums/lips and the outlines of the eye and lower jaw (probably also combined with stitching over layers of felt (or similar) to really bulk up the depth for the whole piece, especially for the horns), but it’s going to be miserable to do.
The issue I see is that the shading is just too gentle - most complex embroidery like this looks “cel shaded” because you can’t get smooth gradients with thread, and swapping different colors of thread to produce that look ruins the stitch pattern.
There are a handful of techniques wherein you create the stitch using a single thread on a blank piece, paint the color gradients on with dye, unravel the whole embroidery then recreate it exactly on the final piece. (I own an edo period piece where this was done, though it’s faded to where it’s extremely difficult to tell. Needless to say it’s incredibly rare for anyone to take the time to do it this way anymore)