The portrait that feels like them.
Colour pencil on white · A4 portrait
Turn the photo that lives in your camera roll into a beautifully detailed colour-pencil portrait — unmistakably your pet, ready to keep, print or gift.
From $11.99 AUD Digital portrait, delivered by email
- Drawn from the photo you upload
- Traditional colour-pencil texture and clear line detail
- Clean white background, A4 portrait
- Any pet — dogs, cats, horses and the rest
Meet the Pencilled Paws look
Colour pencil on white, in A4 portrait. These representative examples show the finish, detail and multi-pet composition you can expect.
Representative artwork created to demonstrate the Pencilled Paws AU house style.
Every detail, still unmistakably them
A warm, refined colour-pencil treatment built around the face, markings and expression in your own photograph.
Every portrait is
- Traditional colour pencil, with the strokes still visible
- Clear dark pencil and ink line detail through the whole drawing
- A faithful likeness of the pet in the photo you send
- Set on a clean, plain white background
- A4 portrait orientation
No portrait is
- A vivid colour-splash treatment
- A generic digital, airbrushed, vector or 3D look
- Sitting on a glossy or coloured background
- Loose and painterly, with the linework lost
Pencil-style artwork drawn from the photo you upload.
The texture is the point
Colour pencil leaves something a screen filter never will — the direction of every stroke, the grain of the paper underneath, and a dark line holding the whole face together. That is what makes a portrait look drawn rather than processed.
- Visible pencil strokes and paper grain
- Dark line detail through the eyes, nose and muzzle
- Their real markings, not a generic breed drawing
- Nothing behind them but clean white paper
From camera roll to keepsake
No brief to write and nothing to measure. Pick your portrait, upload a photo, and leave the rest to us.
Choose your file and pets
Pick the standard or high-resolution file, and whether you would like one, two, three or four pets. However many you choose, they are drawn together in one portrait at the same price.
Upload their photo
Attach the photo you want us to work from. A clear, well-lit shot where you can see the whole face gives the best likeness.
We draw and send it over
We work up the colour-pencil portrait on a clean white background and email it to you when it is ready.
One portrait. Two simple options.
The same drawing either way. The only difference is the size of the file you get back.
Standard digital
One portrait, up to four pets
- Colour-pencil portrait on plain white
- A4 portrait, ready to view and share
- One to four pets in the one portrait
High resolution
One portrait, up to four pets
- Everything in the standard file
- A larger file, for printing at A4 and above
- One to four pets in the one portrait
One, two, three or four pets — all drawn together in a single portrait, at the same price.
Before you order
A clear, well-lit photo taken at your pet's eye level, where you can see their whole face. Daylight beats a flash. If their markings are hard to make out in the photo, tell us about them in the notes box when you order.
One style only: traditional colour pencil with clear dark line detail and visible pencil texture, on a clean plain white background, in A4 portrait. We do not do splash-colour, digital-looking or loose painterly work.
Yes — up to four, and they are all drawn together in the one portrait. Choose the number when you order and upload a photo of each. If they are all in a single photo together, that works too. Adding more pets does not change the price.
The drawing is identical. The high-resolution file is simply larger, which is the one to choose if you plan to print it.
Any of them. Dogs, cats, horses, rabbits, birds — if you have a clear photo, we can work from it.
We use it to draw your portrait. See our privacy policy for how your information is handled.
Still not sure? Send us a message and ask.
Send us a photo and we will get drawing
One photo is all it takes to start.