Ruff & Royal
Your dog will never sit still for a painter.

Your dog will never sit still for a painter.

So we built something that doesn't need them to. One photo you already have, and they come back painted — properly painted, at a size you can hang or wear.

Four steps, about three minutes, nothing charged until you've seen it.

Why we make these

People want to look at their animal more often than the animal is around to be looked at.

That sentence is the whole business. Every portrait we have ever shipped was ordered by someone in exactly that position.

Some of them were gifts. A great many were for pets who had already died, and those orders arrive with the photo attached and very little else said. That changed how we build this. No novelty filters, no cartoon eyes, nothing that treats the animal as a joke — unless the joke is the one you picked on purpose, in which case we will paint it completely straight-faced.

The rest is craft. Real paint weight in the artwork, real fabric under the print, and a preview you approve yourself before anything is committed to fabric.

— Ruff & Royal

It starts with a photo you already have

Not a studio session. The one on your phone from a Tuesday afternoon, where the light happened to be good and they happened to look up.

It starts with a photo you already have

Hand us the photo

One clear shot of their face, taken at their eye level, in daylight. That is the entire requirement. A phone camera is not a compromise here — most of the portraits we are proudest of started as ordinary phone snaps.

What makes a good photo?

Your photo is used to make your order and nothing else. It is processed by us and by our AI technology providers to produce your design, and it is never sold.

One photo comes back as six paintings

Not six filters over the same image. Six different painters' hands, each with its own light, palette and idea of what your animal is. You see all of them, from your own photo, before you choose anything or pay anything.

Modern

Modern

Flat colour, confident shapes, a great deal of empty space.

Floral

Floral

Loose botanical washes closing in around the face.

Renaissance

Renaissance

Oil paint, dark ground, a costume, entirely straight-faced.

Vintage Studio

Vintage Studio

A 1970s portrait studio, film grain and slightly too-formal light.

Bathroom Reader

Bathroom Reader

Your pet reading on the toilet, painted completely straight-faced.

Animated

Animated

Bold outline and cel shading, built to survive being printed small.

Don't like any of the six? Send a different photo and go again, as often as your credit balance allows.

Nothing prints until you approve itProof

Nothing prints until you approve it

Every preview carries that stamp until you approve it. Check the crop, the colour and the markings against your own photo — ear patches in the wrong place, a face cropped too tight, a palette that has drifted are all things you can see at full size while it still costs nothing to change.

The stamp comes off when you approve it. Not before.

Then choose what it lives on

The painting you approved is saved to your account at print resolution. Put it on a sweatshirt today and the same artwork onto a print in December — no re-upload, no second design fee.

Every item is printed after you order. Production takes two to seven business days, then about three to five days in transit — most orders arrive five to twelve business days after you order.

If your item arrives defective, damaged, or not what you ordered, email us within fourteen days with your order number and clear photos. We arrange a free replacement or a full refund, and you never ship it back.

And then they stop being a photo on your phone.

And then they stop being a photo on your phone.

They are on the sofa, on the wall, on the thing you reach for on a cold morning. Which was the point.

Free replacement

Arrives defective, damaged or not what you ordered? We replace it at no cost, and you never ship it back.

Free shipping

On every order, no minimum, fully tracked to United States addresses.

Preview before you pay

Nothing goes to print until you have seen the artwork and approved it.

Secure checkout

Shop Pay, cards, Apple Pay and PayPal.

Frequently asked questions

The six paintings come back in about a minute. Once you approve one, production takes two to seven business days and delivery about three to five more — most orders arrive five to twelve business days after you order.

You have paid nothing at that point, so nothing is lost. Send a different photo and go again, as often as your credit balance allows. And if the item you ordered arrives defective, damaged or wrong, we replace it free.

Yes — pick the number of pets on the product page, up to six. Upload a separate clear photo of each animal rather than one photo of them together; separate photos give a far better result than one where they are half hidden behind each other.

It is used to make your order and nothing else. It is processed by us and by our AI technology providers to produce your design, and we do not sell it — see our Privacy Policy for how we handle it.

Often, and it is a large part of why this exists. Older or lower-resolution photos are usually still workable — send the best one you have and we will tell you honestly if it is not enough to paint from.

Yes. The approved artwork is saved to your account at print resolution, so ordering a print or a mug months later takes two clicks and no second design fee.

Go and find the photo

You already know which one it is. Six paintings come back in about a minute, and nothing is charged until you have seen them.

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