Feb 09 2006
Drawing Knitting
In between knitting I’ve been drawing the knitting. This is the handspun, hand-dyed yarn being promoted to a brioche scarf. Brioche stitch is really easy to do and it has the most amazing loft to it. Probably helped out by the light spin I did on the singles yarn.
Drawing yarn, I’ve found, is challenging but also very rewarding because I’m drawing something I want to know more about.
Nita at InkTracks has created an amazing pencil drawing of yarn awaiting transformation.
I’m in awe! This is such a precise and yet lively drawing. How did you color every single stitch individually? Is this painted? or colored in photoshop?
What a delightful sketch this is! You’ve got the perfect light touch here. I did a quick w/c of a scarf I was knitting a while back and it just looks dull and chalky. I must work with washs and find out more about w/c it is so worth it.
Thank you for the comments. This is just an ink sketch with a very quick water colour wash over it. But I used a few shades of blue and purple. Watercolour just seemed to hit the mark with this one.
This is great! So much detail. I’m very impressed.