ARTIST:
Shadowmyst Art, Sharon O’Shea Wood.
MEDIUM: Digital Painting
TOOLS: Procreate, iPad Pro, Apple Pencil Pro
STYLE: Painterly realism
ORIENTATION: Portrait
CREATED: 2025
STATUS: Commission
DIMENSIONS: 8 x 10 in
The moment between Chriss and her furry daughter Betty says everything — eyes meeting, lips touching, Betty’s paw reaching up to find her person’s hand. Pure trust. Pure love. This is the kind of moment every pet owner knows and treasures, and exactly the kind of moment a custom portrait preserves forever. Commissions begin with your photo — bring me your moment.
Artist’s Process:
Created entirely in Procreate on a 13” iPad Pro M5 with an Apple Pencil Pro, bringing depth and texture to life through layered digital brushwork. Each portrait begins with structural drawing to establish accurate proportions, followed by layered color blocking, value refinement, and detailed work on skin, light, and texture. The tabby’s striped fur required careful attention to hair direction changes across the body, head, and paw — each area rendered individually to convey the distinct texture of a mackerel tabby coat. The eyeglasses presented their own challenge, requiring transparent frame rendering with subtle lens reflection while maintaining the natural weight of the frames on the subject’s face. The neutral blue-grey background was kept deliberately abstract to hold focus on the emotional exchange between the two subjects.