The Little Things Your Pet Does

Quieter, on purpose. There is one small rescue at the centre — a dropped glove that only your pet goes back for — and the rest is one ordinary day: the wait at the door, the lamp post, the bench, the sofa. The pleasure is recognition. Nothing frightening happens anywhere in it.

You are. The book is written to the person on the other end of the walk, and that person is never drawn. The pictures are painted from your side of the day — the doorway at first light, the kerb, the found glove held up to you — so the pet looking up is looking up at you. Read aloud to a child, “you” becomes whoever is holding the book.

It sticks to the ones almost every animal shares — waiting, the breakfast fuss, checking the same spots on the walk, circling before bed — and paints each one the way your kind of animal actually does it. The one thing it takes on trust is the walk itself: a cat who never leaves the house borrows the neighbourhood for the day, and the wait, the stare, the lean, and the circling are all theirs. Any animal that can come on a walk can star — a dog, a cat, a rabbit, a bird, a horse; a pet that lives in a tank cannot, and each book’s page says which animals it fits. The likeness comes from your photo; the dedication page is where you add the habits that are only theirs.

A 40-page 8.5-inch square hardcover, printed just for you. Your pet is the star of every picture, and their name is on the cover. A page at the front has a note in your own words. A real person checks the book before it prints. Shipping in the U.S. is free. If it arrives damaged, we send a new one for free.

Yes, one page. After the cover, you can see one page from inside the book with your pet in it, free. We paint the rest after you order. A real person checks every picture against your photo before it prints.

One pet, facing the camera, in good light. Daylight near a window is best. The face, colors and markings should be sharp. Skip heavy shadows, busy backgrounds and photos with two pets. A phone photo is fine.

Yes. We make the pictures with AI from the photo you send. They are not painted by hand. A real person on our team checks every book before it prints.

We keep it, with what you typed and the art we made. That way we can reprint your book if something goes wrong, and make your next book without a new photo. To have it deleted, email support@illustratedyou.com, or ask us to close your account. No public gallery. No ads without asking you first. We don’t train AI on your photos, and we set up the AI services we use so they don’t train their general AI models on them either.