Pet Portrait Sketches That Will Eventually Become Stitches [Brown Paper Stitch Dispatch]

This article is brought to you by Brown Paper Stitch, my business that makes your wardrobe pawesome by embroidering your pets on clothing and as patches.

With the hol­i­day sea­son quick­ly approach­ing, I’ve been sketch­ing a lot of pets for soon-to-be embroi­deries. In fact, I had a marathon sketch­ing ses­sion over the past cou­ple of weeks; I was def­i­nite­ly doing that more than stitching.

But, I don’t mind. My back­ground is in illus­tra­tion, and so sketch­ing is an inte­gral part of the process. As an illus­tra­tor, the typ­i­cal work­flow is that I’d cre­ate a sketch that would then go to review from the client. (In this case, it’s the per­son who orders a pet por­trait patch.) Once I get the OK from the client, I then move on to the “final,” or the embroidery.

Because I don’t have much in the way of stitch­ing to share right now (check back here in the next month!), I want to show what’s on deck. I’m real­ly excit­ed about all of these por­traits! If you’d like your own spe­cial pet por­trait, just vis­it my Etsy shop—I have com­mis­sions available.

My inten­tion in the near future is to make these types of dig­i­tal por­traits avail­able as an option for a pet por­trait (no stitch­ing). I’m still work­ing on the logis­tics of this, but stay tuned—I’ll let you know when these are a possibility.