Greetings dear community, today I am very happy to share with you a new achievement in the macramé technique, it is a wall hanging with the image of the face of Hanamichi Sakuragi, a character from the Japanese manga and anime Slam Dunk who is one of my favorites since childhood and currently after more than 25 years a movie was released, which is why I watched the anime again to remember old times and also enjoyed the new movie to the fullest in the company of my son. Now, in terms of working with threads, I am super satisfied because I was able to make a pattern using a reference image, patiently putting my drawing and color skills into practice, making it as close as possible to a portrait of the character.
Proceso / Process
To make this wall hanging I used acrylic yarn to crochet in different colors depending on the area of the drawing, I chose to make the background yellow, for the hair I used a red wine color for the shadow, red for the main color and orange for the brightness. For the skin I used a dark beige for the shadow, wheat beige for the main color and light beige for the highlights, for the inside of the mouth I used a dark red wine color and light pink for the tongue, for the character's shirt I used the colors red wine and red, in addition to white. The outline is with black thread. For this wall hanging I used a lollipop stick, I like to recycle whenever I can so even though I could have used a wooden stick I thought it would be convenient to use the lollipop sticks that my son has consumed 😄. I used two clothespins for support and a board.
With the yellow thread I cut 13 strands of 60 cm and kept one last strand attached to the ball. I joined each strand in half to the stick making a knot that has the name lark. In this way, there are 27 guide threads of 30 cm and a knotting thread attached to the ball.
With the long thread I made five rows of simple knots, that is to say that the thread that ties wraps each guide thread twice, back and forth until completing the five rows. From the sixth row I added the black thread, then the red, the red wine and the orange to make hair according to the drawing.
When I reached the level of the character's forehead, I added the three strands of beige tones for the character's skin, I added the white when I reached the level of the eyes, the dark beige color is used in the least illuminated areas of the face for example in the dark circles and neck.
I also added the white thread for the teeth, which make quite a contrast with the inside of the character's open mouth. The knots are still simple but it is a job that requires a lot of attention in the use of the wide variety of threads, even if there are similar colors, a small mistake can change the image. Also in the area of the basketball jersey, the use of red wine thread creates the shadow that generates the visual illusion of folds in the fabric, that is to say that visually it is not a completely flat drawing.
When I finished making the knots, I divided the 27 guide threads into three parts, with red thread I made three knots and cut the yellow threads. With 6 yellow strands I made a braid to tie at each end with the lollipop stick and thus finally finish making the wall hanging.
Resultado / Result
This has been one of the projects that I have enjoyed doing the most, because the process allowed me to expand my learning in the elaboration of patterns from more complex figures, with different tones that have the same color and chiaroscuro principle as a traditional painting, but made entirely with threads, I am very happy because I also adore the character. I hope you like it.
Imágenes tomadas con dispositivo Samsung A54. Portada editada en Inshot.
Pictures taken with Samsung A54 device. Cover edited in Inshot
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I hope you liked it. I invite you to read my next publications and I will always be willing to answer your questions and comments, you can also follow me and contact me on any of my social networks. Thank you!
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