The Customer is Always Right Have you noticed this new trend of “happiness teams” or “Happiness Engineer” or some other form of “Happiness Somebody” emerging as the replacement for what we used to know as customer service teams? I started noticing this trend a while back and now it seems to have become a “thing”. […]
STS #40: All About Harmony
Woo hoo! We move into the forties this week – episode 40!!! Yay!! I love the sound of that. I’m still a couple of episodes behind (6 to be exact) but we’re making progress. So that’s all that counts right now. 🙂 This week I decided to think harmony as I created this piece. So […]
STS #39: Negative Space – A Design Asset
A negative space is the space that surrounds the subject in a piece of artwork. It’s easy to forget or ignore the negative space when designing artwork. And that’s exactly what I’d been doing for the past couple of weeks since I started working on the circular blocks series. I’ve been so intent on finding […]
STS #38: Creating The Illusion of Depth
In this episode of Stitch the Sketch, I’m exploring one of the principles of art: how to create the illusion of depth. Creating the illusion of depth is important when working on a 2-dimentional surface. Needless to say, real life is three-dimensional so when working on a two-dimensional piece of work you’ll have to find a way […]
STS#37: Bright Color Scheme
Who doesn’t love color? Most of us do. Maybe because of its ability to affect our moods, or maybe because of it’s pleasing effect on our eyes. Whatever it is, I’m sure you’ll agree that color is quite irresistible. When I started work on the “Circular Blocks” series, I set a few parameters to follow. One […]