Embroidered Linear Portrait

Meet Koral Antolín, who tells you about herself, her art direction project (Imagination Factory), and about her embroidery brand (Studio fi). She shows you her main influences: artists, photographers, and textile artists.

Before starting the practical side, she talks to you about the materials needed to start drawing and embroidering your linear portrait.

See the differences between a painting and a line drawing. Get into drawing the portrait and Koral will show you two ways to do it: based on the proportions or starting from a photograph that you will transfer to the fabric.

Move on to the embroidery phase! Learn the basics such as chain stitch, festoon, and filling with flat stitch, to raised stitches such as French stitch. Make a sample book out of these stitches.

Koral shares with you how to embroider your project with a traditional needle, but also how to embroider with the Kantan needle, a tool that will allow you to achieve results in a faster and more effective way.

See how to transfer the drawing to the fabric. Start by embroidering the lines of the face and hair (with a traditional needle or Kantan), then embroider the nose, eyes, and mouth. Finally, learn how to integrate the textures and raised stitches into the background by combining stitches, beads, and sequins so that they can function as a frame.

Once you have your garment, Koral gives you some tips on how to take care of it and ideas for other applications.