MARCH Challenge - Minimalism!

[missabaldwin]

Love the R im guessing team rocket from pokemon?

So love the smile cat from alice in wonderland? Cnt spell his name. Love the glow effect to i need to find somewhere in aus that sells it to try xD

Yes ma'am! Team Rocket.

I'm worried I won't be finished in time! My entry is much larger than a lot of the others appear. My bad. I will know to make it smaller next time!
Now back to stitching my butt off trying to get this finished!

I feel the same about how small mine is. My bad. But I am very impressed with the stuff others are entering! So many creative ideas!

[gamerwolff]

So here is my submission. It's the Assassin's Creed logo with Desmond in the middle done in a black-work style. What do you guys think?

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[Kareesh]

I'm loving all the entries.

I thought mine was pretty big. I think it was 50x50 stitches. All that blue was driving me crazy.

And gamerwolff, your pictures aren't showing up. Just an FYI.

[tnitnetny]

They are showing up now. AMAZING! I love the shadow effect you make for Desmond. I love the technique you used!

So now submissions from me this month. My new job and the commissions I have are just taking up all my time.

[WeeRamekin]

Alright guys. Here is my second and final entry for this contest. This is the logo for the game Ingress with the Enlightened logo overlayed. It's an Android game that is in closed beta right now. It's a game between the Resistance and the Enlightened for control of the real world. It's really fun!...

My BF and his buddies play this game - I'm going to have to show him this!

[QueenBex]

Oh my chickens!!! That Assassins Creed is AMAZING!!!! Please please please please could you share the pattern for it! I've seen one for the symbol but this is inspired! Absolutely wonderful!

[acidMiasma]

I'm worried I won't be finished in time! My entry is much larger than a lot of the others appear. My bad. I will know to make it smaller next time!
Now back to stitching my butt off trying to get this finished!

My entry will be fairly large too (45x120 stitches now). The boyfriend caught sight of it while I was creating the pattern. It's from his favourite game so he wanted it BIGGER so we could frame it afterwards lol I'm struggling to find time to stitch it by month's end. I had another entry in mind but it definitely won't hit the deadline, as it's from the same game, but had to be even BIGGER than the one I'm working on right now, cuz it's his favourite weapon from his favourite game haha. That pattern currently sits around 280 stitches long. Thankfully it's a narrow weapon!

All these entries are amazing.. I especially love the Assassin's Creed. I never think to use any stitches other than cross stitch haha.

[gamerwolff]

I'm loving all the entries.

I thought mine was pretty big. I think it was 50x50 stitches. All that blue was driving me crazy.

And gamerwolff, your pictures aren't showing up. Just an FYI.

They're showing up fine...I had to edit them...they were humongous......lol but thanks for the fyi *high five*

[gamerwolff]

Oh my chickens!!! That Assassins Creed is AMAZING!!!! Please please please please could you share the pattern for it! I've seen one for the symbol but this is inspired! Absolutely wonderful!

I can't claim credit totally...I saw this graphic and then made it into a pattern. It took me while to clean it up and make it symmetrical.

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the original artist is David Goh, and you can see some of his other work here

http://www.behance.net/gallery/Revisiti ... ls/5325341

I'll share the pattern but if you are going to want to do the black work like i did... I don't have a pattern for that....

Here's what I did. I just basically backstitch around the outside of the entire pattern with 2 strands. Once that was done i just searched blackwork on google and picked 3 patterns I liked and thought looked good. I thought the red in the symbol kind of looked like DNA strands to tie into Desmond. Then it's just about filling in the hole with that pattern. Beware this technique takes a lot of thread. it took almost a whole skein of red.....

Also there are a few shadows under the hood to show his face protruding a little bit...but when I did them in the gray....it looked really weird and almost like his face was caving...not a good effect. So I omitted them. You can also obvious just do regular cross stitch too. I'll post a photo of what I mean by fillling in the space with the pattern here in a minute...it's on my iphone.

Here is what I mean by outlining and then filling in.

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*see what I mean about that shadow in the face looking horrendous?*

[gamerwolff]

All these entries are amazing.. I especially love the Assassin's Creed. I never think to use any stitches other than cross stitch haha.

Thanks so much it was a lot of fun to make! And fast. It took me like 4 days.