Bordando unas figuras para un calendario [ENG/ESP]

Anyway, the calendar is mostly printed digital illustrations and through magnets, you will interact with it. However, believing that I had everything ready, I was missing an important element, the one that would mark the present day; I had doubts whether to make a digital drawing, but in the end I wanted this calendar to have the two things I like to do: drawing and embroidery.

At first I wanted to combine or do something in the style of the digital drawings I had already done, which were as if they were in Chinese ink and watercolor. On the white cotton fabric I drew the portrait of the person to whom this gift is destined and proceeded to make some spots with black watercolor and a black Chinese ink, which was super clear, the spots basically is to apply water on the watercolor and spread it on the support, and as the ink is watery, only certain amounts of water is applied, to make it clearer.

To define the features, I pinned the fabric with some hoops and proceeded to embroider with black thread and the step back technique. In the part of the eyes, I filled it with the same technique, but to make the light part of the eyes, I used the French knot technique. And this was the result.

I did not dislike the result, but it is not what I imagined, first the portrait does not look like the person, second the format was bigger, compared to the dimensions of the drawings of the days of a month, which have an approximate size of 3cm x 4cm.

So I looked for other references on the internet, this time for an image of a dog and a cat together, since I decided not to do a portrait, until I found this image that seemed ideal for embroidery.