The royal dog portrait - on a shirt, not a canvas
Royal Portrait is the oldest joke in pet art, and it still lands: your dog, painted with the total seriousness usually reserved for a monarch.
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The style samples share one golden retriever wherever they can (the astronaut is a beagle), so you can compare all 10 mediums like for like.
How Royal Portrait is drawn
The rendering is renaissance oil - visible brushwork, deep chiaroscuro, ornate gold detail - with your pet in a crown and a velvet royal robe. The humour comes entirely from the sincerity of the technique. Nothing in the picture winks at you, which is why it works.
Which pets it suits
Breeds with a naturally solemn face are unbeatable here: bassets, danes, greyhounds, anything with heavy jowls or a long nose. A three-quarter head-and-shoulders photo composes best, because that is the angle formal portraiture has used for five hundred years and the style is built on those references.
Whatever the medium, identity outranks it: the generator is told never to change breed, face shape, coat colour, markings, eye colour or ears. The photo guidelines cover what to upload.
How it prints
Royal Portrait is made for dark shirts and keyed into them: the deep, warm shadows of the oil painting are left as bare fabric, so the lit face, the gold of the crown and the red of the robe seem to come out of the shirt rather than sit on it in a frame. Black gives the classic gallery look of a portrait hung in a dark room; berry picks up the velvet and warms the whole picture.
Every design prints at a 12-inch chest placement on a 16-colour garment range - the mockups above use the real print box.
Price, shirt and shipping
- $34.99
- The printed shirt with your portrait on it, listed at $49.99. Generating and previewing artwork is free.
- Free US shipping
- Every order, no minimum, US addresses only - typically 7-12 business days with tracking.
- Sizes S-2XL
- A premium shirt - Comfort Colors 1717, a garment-dyed heavyweight tee. Printed to order in the USA; the blank is imported.
- Approve before print
- Three free previews a day, for everyone. Nothing prints and nothing is charged until you say yes.
Custom items are not returnable for change of mind. A damaged, misprinted or wrong order is reprinted free or refunded within 30 days - the FAQ has the details, and the size guide has the measurements.
Royal Portrait questions
How is this different from the Your Majesty look?＋
Your Majesty keeps your dog photographic, with a jewelled gold crown, an ermine-trimmed cape and flat gold rays behind. This is a repaint: the whole image becomes an oil painting. One changes the outfit, the other changes the medium.
Will the crown cover my dog's ears?＋
It sits on the crown of the head, and upright ears usually frame it. Ear set is one of the features the generator is told never to alter, so whatever your dog has is what you get.
Can I order it for a cat?＋
Cats may be the best subject this style has. Any pet works - dogs, cats, rabbits, birds and reptiles included.
Compare another style
Mostly the same dog, a different medium each time - that is the whole point of these samples.
See your own pet in Royal Portrait
Upload one photo and this style is already chosen for you. The preview is free - decide after you have seen it.
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