Finally! After about three months of work I have finished up this massive project. It's an eight inch hoop and the biggest thing I've ever embroidered.
I love Henry and thought it would be awesome to do something similar to art of the time period. I did most of his noble set with the Hornskull helmet and Pebbles is wearing the saddle you can get second half of the game in the biiiiiiig bandit camp. Honestly, the photomode in game provided a great reference for everything. I'd love to do more embroidery of the game (maybe something of Eric and Istvan since I love their dynamic) but it might be a bit before I do that....
For those interested in the process and types of stitches I used I've compiled everything here -> (link)
The Erik piece is done! This one I have been working on for about two months but I'm glad I got it done during isterik week <3 (I'm not going to tag though cause it's not really applicable to any of the prompts) Erik is a fascinating character/antagonist to me and I loved making this with references to parts of the game/events that are discussed but not shown.
I have explanations on the little illustrations and comparisons to my Henry piece below.
The top illustration is of course the dog that Erik killed when finding out that Istvan was killed. The left flowers are carnations which mean love, distinction, and motherly affection. The flowers were common in medieval manuscripts. I have them blooming healthily on the left and the right they are withered - aka Erik's mental state after Istvan's death.
Then I have Erik on his horse during the horse race with Godwin - I thought about putting Godwin too but decided not to. Then on the right I have when Istvan gave Erik the message for Sigismund since that's the last scene they had together.
Bottom left I had a house burning and a small Erik standing in front of it and mirroring it to the right we have a fully grown Erik standing in front of the burned remains of a house he's burned no doubt with Istvan. Bottom picture of course is Istvan's grave. The yellow all around is Ivy, a very common plant in manuscript work as well.
I hope that a KCD fan can see that Henry is on the left in his outfit stolen from a guard that he's in when he kills Istvan and on the right is Istvan - his face in shadow of course because he died. The green bit above Istvan is a bloody footprint in grass - it doesn't quite come across but I kept it in cause it was fun.
This is a 6in hoop rather than an 8in so this is smaller than my previous piece. I wanted to do a small quick tribute to Erik but it got away from me. Here is a picture comparison to the previous Henry embroidery is below (no matter what I did I couldn't get the lighting right whoops). You can see how he's a nice foil to Henry - blue background and yellow filigree to Henry's yellow background and blue filigree.
Since KCD2 came out, the fandom got a lot bigger and seems very much alive! so I decided to repost my old kcd fanart - made before the second game came out.
I still love the first and the second one very much.
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