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Hello wonderful sharders! I've been getting more into painting lately and have been painting pictures of my dogs and pictures of my friends' and family's dogs and cats too, and realized that there's nothing quite as nice as doing a good portrait of a dog or a cat. I've seen some of your furry family members on the Spread some cheer! Share your pet photos thread (and they are adorable). So here's the deal, you post the two best pictures of your pet (dog/cat/bird/snake/ferret/rat/goat/pig/etc) and I'll paint a portrait based on your instructions. These will take at least 2 weeks to do, so how long it will be until your pet portrait is done will depend on the length of the queue. When your portrait is done I'll post it here and also take a high resolution scan of the painting (or a high resolution photo of it depending on which looks better) and if you want a copy of the high resolution image just PM me and I'll send you a Dropbox link. And the final image is yours to do whatever you want with it, make stickers, make a coffee cup, make a poster, you know, whatever you want to do with it. Here are a couple samples of the reference pictures and the paintings. Here's a picture of my two baby boys, Chewy and Sargeant: And here's the painting: Here's a family members dog: And here's the painting (it was for a birthday card): And here's a family member's cat: and here's the painting (also for a birthday card): And here's a friend's dog: And here's the painting: The more your request deviates from the pose of the reference picture, the less I can vouch for it looking spot on, but hey if you want your dog to be in the cockpit of an F14 tomcat wearing a flight helmet that says "Maverick" on it, then that’s what I'll paint.