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Pet Portraits
Pet Portraits
Would you like to celebrate your pet’s story and create a lasting piece of art that truly captures their spirit?
Commissioning a drawing of your pet is a lovely way to immortalise their distinct personality, that mischievous twinkle in their eye, or the unconditional love they bring to our lives, making it such a sentimental piece in your home.
A Timeless Tribute to Your Best Friend: Custom Hand-Drawn Pet Portraits
A custom, digitally, hand-drawn pet portrait is a unique, handcrafted piece of art that transforms your cherished photos into timeless keepsakes. Unlike mass-produced prints, it’s a deeply personal creation, capturing the soul and personality of your beloved pet with a truly one-of-a-kind, hand-drawn portrait created just for you.
Using the iPad as my canvas, allows for a fluid and precise drawing experience. A significant advantage of using the iPad is the ease in which revisions can be made. This means I can adjust and refine your pet portrait based on your feedback, ensuring the final piece meets your approval.
What Makes My Portraits Special?
Your chosen photograph, infused with my unique style, takes the final product beyond a mere likeness, to an image full of atmosphere that captures their true spirit.
Hand-drawn Perfection: Each portrait is meticulously drawn by myself on an iPad, capturing your pet’s features, textures and that little twinkle in their eye.
High-Quality Materials: From iPad to print, I use only the very best! Pigment Printer inks for long-lasting prints and 100% cotton paper for a premium look and beautiful texture.
Personal Connection: Providing good quality, detailed reference images of your pet is the single most important step. Please see below for an Image guide to help you capture the very best images.
The Perfect Gift: The perfect gift for a loved one or even a treat for yourself! A pet portrait is the perfect gift because it uniquely taps into the deep, emotional bond between a person and their animal best friend!
How does it work?
Place your order: Just choose your delivery month from this section, select Pet Portrait and size, then proceed to checkout.
Share your photos: After you have made your purchase, please send me a message, using the contact form at the bottom of the page, with your own high quality images and order number. You are welcome to send multiple images and we can chat about which would make the best portrait.
The magic happens: I then carefully, digitally, hand-draw your pet portrait on the iPad, dedicating time to capture your pet’s unique personality. The final artwork will be messaged back to you for checking where you can suggest minor changes.
Printing and Finishing: Once you have approved your artwork, it will be printed using pigment inks onto high quality, 100% cotton, heavyweight art paper to ensure longevity. The back of the image will be stamped and signed to show authenticity. It will be backed with card and packaged in an archival-sleeve before being gift wrapped.
Delivery: Your finished portrait will be posted directly to your door, using tracked delivery, ready to be framed and displayed.
Unfortunately due to the personalised nature of custom orders, I am unable to offer refunds.
Reference Image Guide
Providing good quality, detailed reference images of your pet is the single most important step, as the clarity of the photo directly impacts the level of detail, accuracy and personality I can capture to truly reflect your beloved companion’s likeness. A sharp, well-lit reference image allows me to see the intricate details of fur, eyes and expressions, ensuring the final portrait is everything you dreamed it would be.
Top Tip:
Place a treat or ball near to your cameras lens and bend down so you are eye level with your pet.
Ideal Images For a Perfect Portrait
Eye-level Focus:
Take a photo at the dog’s eye level, capturing a clear view of the face and neck to maximise personality and detail.
Optimal Lighting:
Use natural light, ideally taken outdoors or your pet right next to and looking at a bright window, as this clearly shows their colouring, fur details (texture and fur direction) and facial expressions.
Sharp and Clear:
Ensure the image is in sharp focus in high resolution so I can zoom in and capture the fine details of the fur, whiskers and individual features.
The Sparkle Bonus:
Look or get a photograph where a light source (the sun or a bright window) creates a visible reflection or ‘sparkle’ in their eyes, as this adds extra depth and personality to the final portrait.
Images That Don’t Translate Well
Blurry or Low Resolution:
Any photo that is blurry, pixelated or taken from too far away will hide crucial details like the direction and texture of your pets fur, the shin in their eyes and nose, forcing more guess work in the final portrait.
Harsh or Poor Lighting:
Any photos taken in a dark room or using harsh camera flash often create shadows that look too deep that can obscure facial features or bright hotspots that wash out their fur colour.
Angles:
A photo taken from above the pet can distort features making the head look disproportionate and often hiding the chest leading to an unnatural looking final piece.
Cropped or Missing Features:
A picture where a part of their ear, or a part of their face or chest is missing in the frame means I will have to invent the missing section, which compromises the accuracy and likeness of the portrait.