A New Embroidery Piece

Greetings Adventurers! 

I have been sick (recovering from surgery) for the last few months, so that is why I have been absent from blogging. But, I intend to respond to comments that I missed and hope to get back on a posting schedule (eventually). 

I have artwork to share: an embroidery piece I recently made.

I decided I wanted to create a tapestry-like scene with this large piece of fabric. And I wanted to have each individual section be a part of the scene. Here are the close-ups of the six different sections. I will let the images speak for themselves: 

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Which section of the scene do you like most? 

-Quinley 

My Issues with Glaze

So, this post is a bit different than my other posts. It's a cross between a review and a question-oriented post. So let's begin. 

I learned from other artists online that a recommended way to protect your art from A.I. is through a new program made by people at the University of Chicago. This program, which provides a mask for your art, is called "Glaze."

I was working on updating a character page, and just to see if I could get Glaze to work, I attempted to use it in three different ways. Unfortunately, the mask that it puts on my art ends up distorting it in ways that are obvious to me or just completely ruin the art. 

To give you an example, here (above) is the unglazed drawing that I am using to demonstrate.

Now, here it is on Glaze's highest mask setting (most distorting). This one was put on the longer exporting setting compared to the other two (this one took about an hour and a half). 

The other two I am going to show were set to the shortest exporting limit (twenty minutes): 

I set this one (above) to the default setting, and it still made it look wrong. It ended up distorting the background, no longer making it smooth. 

Lastly, with this drawing, even when I put it on the lowest possible setting, it still looks distorted texturally. The distortion is more seen in zooming in and in color difference than in distorting the whole image. It also has a tendency to remove the transparent background of an image, so if you want to mask a transparent image, it seems (but I could be wrong) that you have to do the transparent background part after you mask the image with Glaze. 

If anyone who follows this blog uses Glaze to protect their art, do you have the same problems as me? Or is what I am running into going to happen always, since my art style tends to be flat in terms of shading? 

-Quinley 

Making a Halloween Decoration

I was inspired by a video about painting a ghost on an old thrift store painting in doing this project. The video that I'm referring to can be watched here. 

The object I decided to paint was not a painting, but instead a free-standing art piece that looked as if it needed some adjustments. I decided to change her into a ghost girl. 

I began by working on the flowers. I felt as if they needed to stand out more. 

I then adjusted the leaves and decided to give them more detail. 

I placed a skull near the flowers, and drew some blood around it. 

I then painted the dress white, and gave it spider motifs, such as spider webs in her hair and around her dress. I was partially inspired by a drawing of Victorian children in making her dress. 

And here is the final result: 

Before                             After 

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Do you like making your own Halloween decorations (if you celebrate)? Are you excited for Halloween in a few days? 

-Quinley

My Process of Making "The Sorceress's Hide-Away" | A Textile Art Piece

 

Greetings Travelers,

This is a continuation of this post where I talked about and showed my textile art pieces. However, since the videos that were posted in that post didn't show how I made it, I thought it would be time to show you my embroidery process and how I made this art piece: 

The backstory for this art piece is that the figure at the top (Rosalind by Arthur Hughes) is coming through a magical portal into the Sorceress's Hideaway. And the figure at the bottom is the Sorceress (Boreas by John William Waterhouse) performing a spell in her cauldron. 

Anyway, here is my process of making it. It took two days to finish making it. 

And this was also the first time I've recorded myself doing embroidery, so I will be doing more in the future. 😉

--------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------Have you done embroidery? If you met a sorceress how would you react?

-Quinley 

Some Textile Art Pieces

I have recently started doing embroidery, it is a way for me to de-stress. I found when I do it I focus on what I'm sewing and end up forgetting why I'm stressed. 

A small update, you may have already noticed (since I did put it on my sidebar), I created a second YouTube Channel for my artwork (ex. Art, embroidery, and animation) called "Quinley's Art." You can check it out here 

But back to this post...along with photos of the art pieces, I will be posting videos of them, too. The videos will basically allow you to look at the art in different ways. 

Let's begin: 

This art piece is a mixture of embroidery, COPIC markers, and figures from pre-existing art pieces. The red haired figure is from John William Waterhouse's painting "Ophelia (1894)" and the other figure is from A painting of a girl and a unicorn. As far as I know the artist is unknown, but the model for the girl was Giulia Farnese. Anyway I put those two figures together in a forested scene that is different than the scenes they were in previously. My goal in this is to tell a different story with these figures, than the original paintings presented.  

Also, here is the video I made of the art piece.  

This I made for an embroidery challenge. I was given the fabric beforehand, so I didn't get to pick it out. The challenge was to how to use this as a backdrop for embroidery. So, I decided on a scene of a dragon and a castle. 

I'm not entirely sure if it is completely done, but at the moment I am done messing around with it.  

Here's the video of it. 

And lastly, this piece I made before the first one. I was experimenting with embroidering on paper, I had previously been writing in a note-book when I decided to embroider on the pages which then gave me the idea for this piece. 

I first drew in the circles, then embroidered the flowers in them, and continued till the page was full of flowers. I really like how it turned out in the end. 

Here's the video for it. 

------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------Which art piece is your favorite? Have you done embroidery? 

-Quinley