Pencil Pet Portraits – Happy Customers & Their Stories

📌 Welcome to Pencil Pet Portraits – Happy Customers & Their Stories (Pinned). There’s something truly special about seeing my pencil pet portraits framed and displayed in my clients’ homes. I try my utmost with each custom pencil drawing to capture the personality and character of each pet I draw, and I love hearing from my happy customers when they receive their artwork!

Here are a few of the beautiful pet portraits photos that my clients have sent me over the recent months. It really does give me so much joy every time I receive photos from my clients, along with their words of gratitude. It has bought both Nicholas and myself to tears on many occasions.

Pencil Portrait Happy Clients

We get to know our pet portrait clients really well and we have a lovely connection with them. Often many emails and messages will go back and forth between us over the months. We get to know about their pets, family and things that are happening in their lives. This was magnified when we were all going through Covid. It was almost like we were making sure we were all ok and surviving. You can also imagine when clients commission us time and time again, they become part of our lives on and off over the years which is really lovely.

So when we receive photos from our customers, it really is like receiving a warm hug of appreciation. Every photo we receive tells a story, a moment captured in time to celebrate a pet, celebrate a special birthday with a pet, or sadly the memorial of a beloved pet. There are always stories behind our portraits and each one is completely personal and unique to that pet and their family.

So, to all of our amazing clients, thank you for allowing us to be a part of your pet’s story. Your photos bring us joy and happiness and inspire us to continue creating artwork that we know will be cherished and admired for many, many years.

Melanie’s April Monthly News – Pet Portraits

I created a really lovely drawing of a gorgeous dog called Indi and my client took some photos of Indi with the portrait. They were thrilled and I have added a quote from Cheryl below.

Hi Melanie 
As promised here is a picture of Indi and my partner with the portrait. Indi is 14 now and couldn’t see what all the fuss was about. Stephen was absolutely thrilled with the picture and has been busy telling everyone about it. We showed it to-our neighbour from a distance who could not believe how well you captured her expression and character.  I can’t thank you enough it’s beautiful and taken pride of place in the hall for everyone to see. You have a wonderful job  and it must be very rewarding knowing that your pictures bring such joy to  so many people, what a wonderful talent you have. Once  again a BIG thank you for the beautiful picture of Indi. We love it.
Cheryl xx

Tosca

The pencil drawing I completed of Tosca last month has now been framed. It is displayed in my clients home along side my other drawing of Monty completed a few years back. You can read Allie’s email below.

Melanie, you are such a talented artist, you have brought our two much loved cocker spaniels to life beautifully with your pencil. 
We are very grateful.
Best wishes
Ally

Erika

We have also received two amazing photos from a client in the USA. I drew two portraits of their cats, one a few years ago and one earlier this year with their new addition. You can see Erika with both portraits below. I am always very grateful for clients taking the time to have a photoshoot with the portraits as it really does make my website all the more special.

Melanie,
I gave the portrait to Erika the day before our Anniversary. We were sitting drinking some wine and it seemed like a good time. She was very surprised and really loves it.
Thank you again,
Kevin

Jasper

My client Josie has sent a lovely photo of her mum with her portrait of Jasper, along with Jasper too! Isn’t it wonderful! The portrait of Jasper was drawn by myself a few months ago at 14 x 11 size. Thank you Josie for the wonderful photo.

Parker

Don’t you just adore the photo of Parker with his portrait! It has to be one of my favourite photos to date.

Essylt

Happy Clients

Jacqueline recently sent this wonderful photo. I drew Emrik for her a couple of months ago at 14 x 11 size. Jacqueline resides in Australia.

Hi Melanie,
Oh I love it…..
Thank you so much for Emrik’s portrait. It arrived yesterday afternoon. ( Beautifully wrapped). It is lovely. Kind Regards,
Jacqueline 

Simba

Following on from Emrik’s drawing above, I received these amazing photos from Elaine. It is drawing I completed a while ago of the gorgeous dog called Simba. Marie commissioned this drawing for her mum Elaine and I very much enjoyed drawing Simba for them both. You can read a lovely email below too.

Dear Melanie,

My name is Elaine and a while back my daughter, Marie, had you draw a picture of her dog.  I “babysit” Simba all the time and love him dearly.  When she gave me your drawing of him as a gift I was so moved.  I finally got the piece framed and it hangs on the wall as you enter my home in Southern California.

It is such a beautiful drawing (see attached pictures) and you are VERY talented.

Wishing you much continued success…

Elaine Mijalis (Simba’s grandmother)

Eva and Rooney’s Pencil Portrait

This was a very special pet portrait commission. I have worked with Eva’s sister Marcella on a number of pet portraits. I created a pencil drawing of Rooney a few years ago as a surprise for Eva at Christmas. Rooney was a beautiful English Setter and the portrait I drew of him showed his happy face, tongue out, smiling. A fun loving dog which Eva simply adored. He was her heart dog, like Lily is mine. Unfortunately Rooney was diagnosed with an aggressive form of cancer. Marcella commissioned me to draw a portrait of him so that she could gift it to Eva when Rooney had passed away. The drawing shows Rooney with Eva’s other dog, going nose to nose. Marcella said –

“I was wondering if you could do a pencil drawing of her two boys. She loves the ones you’ve done for us to date. The one you did for me of Charlie is on his shrine in my office, and I look at it every day and tell him good morning and I miss him. 

I was so sad to hear about Rooney’s illness and was honoured to create another drawing of him for Eva to cherish. The photo that Marcella had was similar to the drawing, however it was cropped in so you couldn’t see their tails and was taken in a car showroom. So I zoomed out, included their tails and omitted the background. This gave full focus on the central area of the portrait with the noses meeting in a beautiful moment between the two dogs. I really hope that our readers enjoy seeing the drawing in the photo below and I can’t thank Eva enough for taking it for me.

Melanie,

Thank you for the lovely portrait of my boys. I miss Rooney every day and you perfectly captured a special moment between them.
Sincerely,

Eva

Pencil Portrait of Padfoot

The portrait of Padfoot was from another returning client who wanted to commission a pencil drawing of their Newfoundland dog called Padfoot. Nick purchased a gift voucher just before Christmas, as a surprise for his wife. They wanted a portrait to match the other drawing I had completed for them a few years ago. Nick very kindly took a photo of the drawing framed. It is a beautiful white frame with a black inner mount which really drawn the eye onto the portrait.

Hi Melanie,
We absolutely love the picture it’s fantastic thank you so much. It really captures him well.
Nick

Pencil Drawing for Michael and Kathy of Sam

I very much enjoyed working with Michael and Kathy on their portraits of Sam. They commissioned two drawings of Sam from different times in her life. I think this is a great idea as dogs can change so much over the years. I look back at photos of our dog Lily and think how she has changed in her 10 years. Her fur is styled differently, she was a little more svelte when she was younger too! So commissioning two drawings is a lovely idea. Michael opted for a 12 x 10 and a 16 x 12 portrait and the photo below shows one of the drawings all framed and displayed on their wall. Don’t you just love the colour of their wall!

I can’t describe the emotions that came over my wife and I. Incredible and thank your husband as well, you truly are an amazing artist.

Thank you for the artwork of Sam. We received them today and bought tears to our eyes, Thank you for everything. Michael and Kathy

Happy Customers – Dan, Louise & Molly

The portrait of Molly was commissioned by my client Dan as a surprise gift for his wife. Molly is the most gorgeous Cocker Spaniel. Dan had loads pf photos of Molly, however he wanted one particular photo as the basis of the portrait. He requested the portrait to be ready for his wife’s birthday in March, which I was happy to meet the deadline. The drawing was very well received. I conversed with Dan using WhatsApp the entire time. He messaged when he saw the video I took of the portrait…

I absolutely Love it, Thank you. Dan

We absolutely love receiving photos of our pet portraits with happy customers and this is no exception. I know it is not easy to get dogs to sit for photos when you want them too! So thank you to Dan, Louise and Molly for making this photo below possible!

Thank you so much, So happy with the drawing. Dan and Louise

Thank you once again, Very Happy. Dan

Pet Portrait in Pencil of Khona

The montage drawing of Khona was one that I absolutely loved creating and it was my first portrait at the start of the year. It for an anniversary and birthday surprise combined. Khona is half Pomeranian and half Husky. She is absolutely adorable and the photos of Kohna as a puppy were just so cute. I had so much fun drawing the portrait. Just look at her face in the photo below, isn’t she just beautiful! I love drawing montages and If you like Khona’s portrait take a look at my other montage drawing of Archie the cat.

Hello, I absolutely love it and it looks amazing. Thank you, its perfect and exactly that I wanted. I can’t wait to receive the drawing. Josh

Josh and myself conversed using WhatsApp to make all of the arrangements for the portrait. He message above then he saw the final video of the drawing. When he received the drawing and had it framed, he got Khona to sit with her portrait. Thank you so much Josh and Khona!

Thank you so much for the drawing
Josh

I hope that you have enjoyed my blog post about my pet portraits with happy customers. If you missed our previous blog post about our artwork, take a look at Pet Portrait of Dodge in both pencil and oil. Also see more of my pencil pet portraits in my Pencil Portrait Gallery. I hope that you can come back soon and enjoy more of our blog posts. Would you love a custom pencil pet portrait of your pet? Drop me a line at any time!

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