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How To Make A Custom Pet Portrait Using Photoshop (Renaissance, Pop Art & Costume Video Guides)


Custom pet portraits have been all the rage for a few years now. Our Insta feeds are full of awesome dog portraits, cats as princesses and parrots as pirates. It leaves many of us asking, where have they come from and how do you make your own. 


Pet portraits break into many categories, including the below most popular formats


Costume based pet portraits - how to make a Renaissance style pet portrait 


Costume pet portraits are where your pets face appears on a wide array of different costume designs, from renaissance style royalty costumes, to awkward step brothers, Harley Davidsson bikers and just about everything in between. 


These portraits are digitally rendered using tools like Adobe Photoshop. The process always begins with a costume design which will have a placeholder on the design for your pets face. He majority of the technical (photoshop) expertise lies in the creation of the base costume (we have 3 full time graphics team members here at SquishyFacedCrew and they focus on making new concepts between fulfilling your orders). Once the base costume with face placeholder is ready, next up is the pets photo. 


We have spoken previously about how important pet photography is in this process, and you can read our best tips here. The key takeaways are clear photos taken in daylight work best. 


The pets face then needs digitally copying from the provided photo and adding to the costume design. This is done in Photoshop, and the pets face is then blended into the costume and the design is done and ready to go. 


How to make a fun oil painting pet portrait This style of pet portrait is incredibly popular. They're quirky, super unique and a sure fire way to raise a smile with all the family. Also, frankly, lets face it - your pet IS the king or queen in your household, right?!

Some Of Our Renaissance Pet Portrait Templates

SquishyFacedCrew™ 'Churchill' Custom Pet Canvas

5.0
€20,95

SquishyFacedCrew™ 'Napoleon' Custom Pet Canvas

5.0
€20,95

SquishyFacedCrew™ 'Lieutenant' Custom Pet Canvas

5.0
€20,95

SquishyFacedCrew™ 'Mr Darcy' Custom Pet Canvas

5.0
€20,95

SquishyFacedCrew™ Peaky Blinders Custom Pet Canvas

5.0
€30,95
€20,95

SquishyFacedCrew™ 'SUPERPAWS!' Custom Pet Canvas

5.0
€75,95

SquishyFacedCrew™ 'The Astronaut' Custom Pet Canvas

5.0
€70,95
€55,95

SquishyFacedCrew™ 'THE AWKWARD STEP BROS!' Custom Pet Canvas

5.0
€58,95

How to Make a Pop Art Pet portrait 


Pop are designs are executed slightly differently to costume based pet portraits. Pop art designs require digital reengineering of the photos you provide. At SquishyFacedCrew we have built out 3 unique filter designs to match our unique pop art designs. This enables our team to efficiently make our pop art designs at scale. 


The first step in the process of making a pop art custom pet canvas is to open the original photo in photoshop. The photo will need a degree of digital cleansing, some photos much more so than others. We then apply our filters and make the requisite edits to ensure the pet pop art canvas looks out looking great. 


Pop art canvases are much more subjective than the costume designs. On the latter, so long as the face sits as expected, the expectation is quite defined and clear. You want to see your pet as the King, Queen, Superman or whatever it may be. Pop art on the other hand is much more subjective as its much more of an artistic design. 


This is why we have our unique digital proofing service, which we coded from the ground up. Its a tremendously valuable element of the SquishyFacedCrew service and enables our customers to benefit from unlimited revisions before we print their design, whether its then printed on canvas, t-shirts, mugs, phone cases or whatever else is chosen. 


In this video you'll learn how to make a digital illustration of your pet from a photo. This is a How To Draw a Pet Portrait with Procreate Tutorial. In this video we will show you step by step how to make Flat Illustration & Cartoon Pet Portrait from a high resolution photo on your iPad. Both of these styles are very trendy now, and they are so easy to draw! Hope you will enjoy this tutorial!


Trending Pop Art Products & Designs 

SquishyFacedCrew™ Custom Pop Art Canvas Gallery Wraps

5.0
€120,95

SquishyFacedCrew™ Personalised Pet Pop Art Canvas

5.0
€38,95

SquishyFacedCrew™ Pet Pop Art Canvas

5.0
€50,95

SquishyFacedCrew™ Custom Pop Art Phone Case

5.0

SquishyFacedCrew™ Custom 'The Champion' 11oz Mug

5.0

SquishyFacedCrew™ Custom Pet Socks Featuring Your Pet

5.0
€28,95

Personalised pet paintings 


Personalised pet commissions are an entirely different process again, and they’re much different to the previous digital examples. This is not an area of expertise for us at SquishyFacedCrew; we’re not making pet paintings. There’s a whole bunch of tremendous pet artists on sites like Etsy.com and we’d recommend that you start there. There’s lots of really talented artists who have great ratings. Expect to be paying in the range of 2-5+x the costs of a digital pet portrait when buying a physically painted portrait. 


The above are the three predominant forms of pet portraits on the market at the moment. 


If you’re ready to start exploring pet portraits of your own, but maybe you don't fancy making your own or you want to let the SquishyFacedCrew professional artists handle it for you, we have some of our most popular designs below for you to take a look at:

Have you taken our fun pet personality quiz yet? 

THE QUEEN PET PORTRAIT

She always had that air of royalty. A pampered paw, pristine coat, never much fancied walkies (perhaps walkies becomes 'carries'?) and yet she is, quite unmistakingly, the leader of not only your house but frankly, your whole local neighbourhood.

THE PEAKY BLINDERS PET PORTRAIT

As the leader of your notorious gang of furry friends, these handsome fellas have got an eye for trouble around the house. When these two lads have been 'playing' cops and robbers in the living room, you'd be hard pressed to tell if the house has been raised let alone if the game has ended!

THE AMBASSADOR CUSTOM PET PORTRAIT

Dignified to the point of being regal, a calm leader of the pack but with an air for adventure. In times of strife, your pet is a calming force. When tension is at its highest, he reaches peaceful resolutions using his patented belly-rub school of global diplomacy. After all, what issue can not be resolved with good old fashioned rub of the old tum-tum? The ambassador is gentle, pacifying and thoughtful. Although sometimes the old diplomatic impunity comes in handy if his mischievous side has re-awakened 

AWKWARD STEP BROS CUSTOM PET PORTRAIT

They make the best 'ever so slightly awkward' brothers from other mothers. They came together as brothers in arms when their hoomans decided they were both too dammed cute to not own. 

Like all step-brothers, their relationship took some time to blossom. They might not have been totally sure of one another at first sight, but after some good old ball play and tug of war, some epic wanders around the park and some mom and dad peacekeeping envoy missions, they became more like blood brothers 

THE ASTRONAUT PET PORTRAIT

As Nasa once said, Houston, we have a paw-blem. 

Your pet is an explorer, a trail-blazer, a one-of-a-kind rule writer. He took one small step for dogs, and a giant one for dogkind… right into a muddy puddle! 

THE COMMANDER PET PORTRAIT

In a sea of toys, your pet reigns supreme. He knows that he can get away with anything, with your ‘fleeting’ discipline and the high [seas] chance that he will get a lovely treat when its all said and done. He is the commander of the house, and he reigns supreme.

THE SUPERPAWS PET PORTRAIT

They say there is a superman in all of us, you just need the courage to put on the cape. Your pet doesn’t lack for such courage, he lives life with his cape on, large and in charge! 

Much like Superman himself, your pet has some paw-some superpowers of his own. When he plays tug of war, his Superman-like strength is there for all to see. 

THE ROCKER CUSTOM PET PORTRAIT

Your pet is never happier than when there’s a party at the house. Your fur-baby is front and centre, demanding all of the attention and constantly in need of more of it. 

When your pet appears on your insta, that picture will get all of the likes. 

He pops the ol’ treats (wink) like they’re going out of fashion, and constantly seems to need more and more of them… 

April 22, 2021