Wednesday, February 9, 2011

A female Elephant!

Did you know that a female elephant is called a cow? You can thank the trivia game "You Don't Know Jack" for that useless bit of information. My last guess-my-stitch was pretty easy. Almost everyone got it. I dunno, I think it could look like a pig or sheep. Congratulations! You get to see the finished product!

Original sprite:
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The piece:


Again, I ran into the problem of not having enough colors. The physical piece only took 5 colors (the tiny nose bits are the 5th). But the original sprite had at 9 I believe. There are 3 colors for the shadow effect, 2 for the brown fading, 2 for the nose, and the rest is obvious (the shadow itself is off-black). I realize that if I want greater depth in my pieces, I'll need to do the shadows but if I do not use the EXACT right color, The piece looks completely horrible. Lighting effects just look like sunburns or miscolors. It was hard to do, but I had to consolidate my colors/shadows into one, making the sprites look flat. I also found that stitching white/off-white/beige on white linen is a pain in the ass. I need good lighting to do it without messing up. You can see on the middle beige area where I was stitching while under bad lighting and "watching" a movie, haha.

Edit: yes, it is the cow from the original SNES Harvest Moon.

23 comments:

  1. reminds me of the cow from harvest moon :D

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  2. harvestmoon was an awesome game! i actually played it a couple of times to get the different girls ;p

    http://skybluetrading.blogspot.com/

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  3. Ha I remember harvest moon brings me back. nice work as always!

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  4. Hahaha! Thank you for that random bit of trivia. I was sitting there like..."But that's a cow?"

    Very nice job!

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  5. that realy nice and makes me very nostalgic for a time when I wasn't a creepy rapist.

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  6. man you really have quite the amazing talent keep up the good work!

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  7. After a big build up of those cross stitches, you should sell those!

    It'd be really cool.

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  8. Wow, I had no idea the HM franchise was that old
    http://tinyurl.com/6c56er2

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  9. That is one cute female elephant! Looks just like the ones from Harvest Moon! >:3

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  10. it looks great anyway even without the lighting effects

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  11. I loved Harvest Moon. Now that Farmville has taken over everything, it's gotten a little sour for me.

    If I had a polo with that cow stitched onto the breast, I would wear it every day. No joke. I love cows.

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  12. Looks like a cute cow for sure :3

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  13. i did know that a female elephant is called a cow.

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  14. Wish I could patch my old bag with cows.

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