Started off tracing a photo of a girl wearing a turban with big and unique features such as her lips, neck and face. This image is a little example of the type of photos I will be taking to use for my final outcome, I will only be doing head shots because trying to do embroidery and stitching onto a whole body would not be finished in 8 hours. Doing only head shots I will have more time to add detail and make the embroidery stand out, this technique I will be using relates back to the theme Covert& Obscured because of the effect Needle Art adds to illustration, when looking at the image you would have to take a second look to view the detail the stitching/ embroidery has and the detail that has been put in. I may use heat transfer and heat press onto fabric first then add the stitching's.
I traced a photo onto tracing paper using black fine liner trying to highlight the main features of the face and creases on the clothing etc. using lines. Once I had finished tracing, I scanned the tracing paper to start editing and to begin adding color on Illustrator. To do so I selected the Live Trace and Live Paint Bucket tools to give the animated/caligram effects. Because I did not join my lines together in some sections of the drawing I came across the problem where when I tried to use the paint bucket tool to fill in color it would go into the whole background or other sections.
I had to go back to the drawing on the tracing paper and join my lines together, to fill in individual sections.
This is the completed image where I will add embroidery/ stitching, I will try using sewing machine but I think that hand stitch will be easier to each into and around curved lines for example. I this is the theme or idea I use in my final outcome I will maybe do more than one but using different embroidery and color pallet.
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