A custom portrait of a person turns a photo of your partner, parent, kid or best friend into a charming, wonky portrait, printed on a mug, tee or poster. Preview it in seconds, from $15, and it ships to the door finished.
It is not just pets: people get drawn too
Everyone assumes a drawn portrait means the dog. It does not have to. The same charming, wonky style that flatters a labrador flatters your dad, your wife, your flatmate, the friend who has been your friend since school. A person opening a portrait of themselves has a stranger reaction than a person opening a portrait of their dog: first the double-take (“is that me?”), then the laugh, then the bit where they prop it up on the desk and refuse to put it away. If you have only ever thought of us for the custom dog portrait mug, this is the page that says the people in your life are fair game too.
The funny-warm gift for the person who has everything
There is always one person you cannot buy for. They own everything, they return half of it, they say “honestly, don’t get me anything.” A drawn portrait of them solves it because it is the one gift they do not already have and cannot quietly re-gift. It is unmistakably about them, so it never reads as a panic-bought candle. It is funny, so it disarms the person who finds presents awkward. And it is warm, so the joke lands as affection rather than a roast. They cannot pretend they did not love it, and that small defeat on their face is the whole point of the gift.
Anniversaries, birthdays, and milestones
This is the gift that does the emotional heavy lifting without the cringe. An anniversary portrait of the two of you says “I still think you are ridiculous and I would do it all again,” which is harder to say out loud. A birthday portrait of a parent lands somewhere between a hug and a wind-up, exactly where family gifts should sit. For a big milestone you will want the hand-painted tier, which is why the hand-painted portrait exists: a real artist paints the same recognisable face as a physical piece, the version that earns a frame. A photo print gets a polite thanks. A drawn portrait of the person gets put on the mantelpiece.
Pick the product: mug, tee, or poster
The portrait is the gift; the product is just how it arrives in their life. The portrait mug, from $15, is the daily one: their face (or their person’s face) in their hand every single morning. The portrait tee, from $24, puts the person on a shirt that walks around town being asked about. A poster, from $19, is the proud, framed-worthy version for the wall. All three universal products suit any subject, so the same upload becomes a stocking-filler mug or a centrepiece poster depending on how much you love them. Start cheap, climb to grand.
The hand-painted tier, coming soon
For the gifts that need to feel like more than a laugh, a hand-painted tier is on the way: a real artist hand-paints a physical piece, in the same charming-wonky style, built for anniversaries, retirements and the milestones that deserve a frame. It is not buyable on this page yet, but you can already see how it reads, and how the face stays recognisable while gaining real warmth, on the custom hand-painted portrait page. When it lands, it becomes the premium option for the people who matter most. Until then, the mug, tee and poster do the charming-warm work beautifully.
Pets and people, side by side
Plenty of gifts are really about the whole household: the person and the dog, drawn in the same wonky style, on the same mug. If your recipient is a pet person at heart, the personalized gifts for pet lovers guide covers the animal side, and the Christmas gifts for dog lovers guide is the seasonal run-through. But the move that surprises people is putting the human in the frame too. A portrait of your mum and her cat, your partner and the dog, says “I see your whole funny little life” in a way a single-subject print never quite manages. One upload, one style, everyone they love in it.