Custom Portraits
Your people. Your pets. Your places. Your things. Your story.
From a favorite photograph to a meaningful memory, custom artwork can begin with almost anything. Choose a simple illustration, add more of the details you love, or let me create a fully customized Story Portrait around the story you want to tell.
One Story. Three Ways to Tell It.
Simple Illustration
$20
Detailed Illustration
$50
Story Portrait
$85+
The same subject is shown at each level so you can easily compare the artistic treatment. Your piece can feature a person, a pet, home, place, object or anything else meaningful to you.
Choose the Detail That Fits Your Story
Simple Illustration
A simple, colorful keepsake
Your photo is transformed into a clean illustration featuring the essential details that make it recognizable. Expect flat color, simplified surroundings, and a polished minimal finish.
favorite photos, simple gifts, and meaningful moments you want to keep without extensive detail.
Best for:
$20
Detailed Illustration
More of the details that make it yours
This option adds texture, fuller surroundings, and more of the defining details from your reference while keeping the artwork clean and illustrated.
photographs where the setting, textures, or smaller visual details are an important part of what you want preserved.
Best for:
$50
Story Portrait
Your story, turned into artwork
Story Portraits go beyond simply illustrating what appears in a photograph. They allow for greater artistic interpretation, atmosphere, detail, and customization. All guided by the story behind what you're asking me to create.
meaningful stories, heirloom-style pieces, memorials, milestone gifts, or artwork that deserves a completely custom treatment.
Best for:
Starting at $85
Not sure which one is right for you?
Tell me what you have in mind, and I’ll help you choose.
What Makes a Story Portrait Different?
A Story Portrait begins with something meaningful to you, not necessarily a person, and not necessarily a single photograph.
It might be someone you love, a beloved pet, a family home, a favorite place, a meaningful object, or a memory you want to hold onto.
Using your photographs and the story you share, I create a one-of-one piece that goes beyond simply illustrating what the camera captured. Details can be combined, removed, simplified, or thoughtfully added to create artwork that reflects not only what something looked like, but what it meant.
The result is artwork that feels unmistakably yours while becoming something entirely its own.
Every Story Portrait is individually created from beginning to end, making your finished artwork a one-of-one piece created specifically for you.
Every Story Portrait Includes
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A professionally printed copy of your completed Story Portrait.
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A high-resolution digital copy of your finished artwork to keep.
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A coordinating version of your portrait created specifically for your phone.
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A signed certificate documenting your one-of-one Story Portrait.
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Your portrait is carefully packaged and ready to keep, frame, or give as a meaningful gift.
How It Works
From your idea to finished artwork.
01-Tell Me Your Idea
Start by sharing what you'd like illustrated and what makes it meaningful to you. A person, pet, home, place, object, or something entirely different. There's no need to fit your idea into a box.
02-Share Your Photograph(s)
Send the photograph or reference images you'd like me to work from. Simple and Detailed Illustrations will typically begin with one primary photo, while Story Portraits may use multiple references to bring the full story together.
03-Choose Your Illustration Style
We'll decide which option best fits what you're imagining: Simple Illustration, Detailed Illustration, or Story Portrait. If you're unsure, I'll help you choose based on the amount of detail and customization you're looking for.
04-Your Artwork Comes to Life
I'll illustrate your piece by hand in the style you've selected, thoughtfully preserving the details that make the subject recognizable and meaningful.
05-Your Finished Piece
Once your artwork is complete, you'll receive the finished piece based on the option you've selected. Story Portraits include the full keepsake package outlined above.
A Story Portrait In Real Life
The Story That Started It All
The first official Story Portrait began as a gift from one friend to the person she loves.
Created from one meaningful photograph and the story behind it, SP-001 became more than an illustrated version of a favorite image. It became a way to preserve the relationship, the memory, and the meaning already held inside that moment.
Every detail was individually illustrated before the finished artwork became an 8 × 10 print, digital portrait, and coordinating phone wallpaper.
And when the portrait finally made its way home, I received the kind of message that explained exactly why Story Portraits needed to exist.
“He loved it so much. He cried. Thank you times a million.”
That is what a Story Portrait is meant to hold.
Not simply what a photograph looks like.
What it means.
What Will You Turn into Art?
People
Family, couples, friendships, milestones and the people who matter most.
Places
Favorite beaches, vacation memories, wedding venues, and meaningful destinations.
Pets
Favorite companions, everyday moments, and memorial pieces.
Objects
Cars, bouquets, heirlooms, keepsakes, or something seemingly ordinary that holds an extraordinary memory.
Homes
Childhood homes, first homes, family properties, and places that feel like home.
Memories
Something that doesn’t fit neatly into a category and doesn’t need to.
If it means something to you, tell me about it. Your idea doesn’t have to fit into a category to become artwork.
Have Something Meaningful in Mind?
Maybe you already know exactly what you’d like illustrated.
Maybe you simply have a photograph, place, person, pet, object, or memory you don’t want to lose.
Tell me about it, and we’ll figure out the right way to bring it to life.
Every Piece Begins with a Story.