"Custom dog painting" covers everything from a $10 auto-filter to a four-figure oil commission. This is exactly what sits behind ours, so you can judge where it falls.
Step 1 — You send a photo
One photo is enough. It does not need to be professional; it needs to show the face clearly in decent light. The photo guide covers what helps.
You can upload it during checkout, or tick the box to email it afterwards — useful when you are buying a gift on your phone and the good photo is on a laptop.
Step 2 — An artist paints it
A person works on your portrait. The style is a starting framework, not a template: the proportions of your pet's face, their markings, the particular set of their eyes all get worked in by hand.
This is the difference between a hand-finished portrait and an automatic filter, and it is the reason there is a preview stage at all. Nobody needs to approve a filter.
Step 3 — You see a preview before anything prints
You get a digital preview and nothing goes to print until you approve it. This is the part that matters most, because it inverts the usual risk: you are not buying a finished object and hoping, you are approving one you have already seen.
Step 4 — Revisions, as many as you need
Revisions are unlimited and free. In practice the common ones are small and specific: the eyes are slightly too dark, the gray on the muzzle is not quite right, one ear sits lower than that.
Those notes are useful, not awkward. You know the animal better than any artist can from a photograph.
Step 5 — Choose a format
- Digital download — arrives as a file, nothing ships. The right answer when the occasion is sooner than any courier can manage.
- Fine-art poster — printed on matte art stock. The flexible option if you already own frames.
- Gallery canvas — stretched and ready to hang, no framing needed. The most substantial object of the three.
Prices run from $39. Size drives most of the difference; framing is optional on the printed formats.
Honest timings
The preview is the fast part. Revisions depend mostly on how quickly you reply. Printing and delivery is the slow part, and it is the part no one can compress once the file is sent.
The practical implication: if there is a date attached, order earlier than feels necessary. If you have left it too late, the digital download sidesteps shipping entirely — several people have given a printed preview on the day and the canvas two weeks later.
What you are actually paying for
Not the printing — that is a commodity. You are paying for the hour or two a person spends getting one specific animal's face right, and for the fact that you can reject the result before it becomes an object.
See all fifteen styles, or start with the two people choose most.
