This is Nakey, the sweetest lil corn snake!
This piece was incredibly challenging, but super rewarding as well! The scales shine differently as you move the hoop and they catch the light, creating shifting depth. I’ll upload another post with a vid showing that off cause it’s one of my favorite things about this, and the reason I chose to embroider each individual scale.
Image ID: A hand embroidered corn snake sits on an off-white muslin fabric inside an embroidery hoop. The snake has a pattern of red, orange and brown patches, bordered in dark brown. He is arranged in loops, one loop shows off his underbelly which is cream spotted with dark patches. He also has his tongue sticking out.
It’s so beautiful! How did you get that texture for the scales? It looks like secondary stitch over your base layer, though I can’t quite tell what it is the effect is breathtaking! Wonderful work!
Thankyou! The scales are all done by satin stitch, that gives the uniform look to each of them so they stand out from their siblings. Sometimes i bordered the scales with single lines of threads, (or closer to the head more satin stitches) sometimes it was to nix the fabric colour coming through, sometimes it was to create highlights or shadows. But the rest of the time i let the satin stitch speak for itself!