WIP2-Nouveau Princess Patterns (Hannah-Alexander)1

Progress continues.

These patterns no longer much resemble the original WIP I posted, which is exactly the intention I had.
The wonderful Hannah-Alexander has given me permission to create and sell some patterns based on her work. If these are successful I hope to partner with her further to do the other princesses. This is a Work In Progress and does not reflect the final product.

Something I really need to point out: my pattern maker matches colors closest to what it can see with the pixels. Often, this leads to random green squares in the middle of a yellow area because the artwork Hannah provided me is being stretched to two feet tall and every pixel has to be translated. Hence, I have been redrawing and coloring these by hand. You'll notice how ridiculous the coloring on Belle's dress looks right now - I assure you, in the real world these colors do blend seamlessly in shades of orange to yellow. This is just difficult to display with the program and I didn't want you all to think I'm over here derp'ing up everything.

Originally these princesses were dumped onto one pattern that gave me a lame register of 240 colors, 16.5 x 12.5 inches on 28 count. Now they are three separate patterns with their own symbols, color keys, timers, etc and so forth.

Firstly, they're all now on 18 count at 24 inches tall (their width varies slightly around 11 inches). This is so that one could do them on 36 count over two, leaving a fine background and making it easy to do the ridiculous amount of half-stitches these require.

Belle started out with 124 colors and has been reduced to 37. She will likely gain colors as I clean up the rest of her dress shading. It's surprisingly difficult to find accurate orange-pale yellow shading in DMC colors. That's also why her skin tone was lightened up from the tan - the tan I had on originally was literally the same tones as the skirt and nothing was working out. Magical525 helped a great deal in picking out the color tones for her gown and her hair (originally her hair was made by the program to be a deep ruby.. bleh). She has beads all over her center belt as in Hannah's original description ("embroidered with dusky, earthy beads, though the very middle design is made of mirrored beads") and may have metallics before I'm done.

Rapunzel started with 180 colors and has been reduced to 129. This number will fall rapidly once I begin coloring her gown properly. The most difficult part on her so far has been those eyes... I never knew I'd have to shade white and eyelashes so strangely. She'll have plenty of metallic in her gown before all is done to reflect the sparkles Hannah had originally drawn in. Beads will be added.

Meridia started with 210 colors and has been reduced to 199. Much of these colors are redundant in her gown (how many shades of teal does the program think we need to buy, honestly...). She is the backstitching goddess and I'm certain she will, of the three here, take the longest time to finish because of it. Her gown is just SO detailed! Her circlet has as gold metallic blend already in place and she will have, most likely, the most beading of the three as well.

Current work times: Belle 16 hours, Rapunzel 7 hours, Meridia 5 hours.

Fabulous watermark created by GraniteFire

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