Hand-Embroidered Pet Portrait - Cody 🐾

The thing with pets (cats, dogs, rabbits, turtles etc) - portraits need to capture more than their likeness, reflecting their soul and personality as best as possible. For every portrait that I work with, depending on the breed, I typically spend over 20 hours creating a likeness using threadpainting/silk shading techniques to slowly build depth and texture. To ensure accurate colouring, I refer very closely to your photo references. 

Maker's notes - I have to say that spending over 20+hours staring at cute and beloved pets is no hardship.