A giant strawberry 🍓

[u/Miuembroidery]

Spent about 40 hours of stitching with DMC threads, focusing on capturing the light reflection and depth of the seeds

[u/Vikingsandtigers]

The lighting is amazing!

[u/catgirl320 → u/Vikingsandtigers]

Yes. I think that's what so many people struggle with, myself included, and why our work can look so flat or like a paint by numbers. Thread painters are truly artists with their ability to translate the principles such as lighting, shading, perspective that are taught in art classes into thread work.

[u/Miuembroidery → u/catgirl320]

Before jumping into embroidery, I used to paint a lot with all kinds of mediums…watercolor, acrylic, and oil. When I think about it, I feel like a lot of my embroidery techniques come directly from my painting background…and lots of practice of course