I've been drawing, sketching, creating artwork and have enjoyed art from a young age. Art was one of my favourite subjects at school. I then went on to study art in sixth form, then art college for two years where I learnt different techniques, how to use different materials and media, then I went to university for three years and studied Design in Illustration. During this time, I was very creative and created lots of artwork using different media. After completing my degree, I completed a course in multimedia design because I wanted to learn about design on computer.

So, the reason why I decided to take up this project of creating artwork for my mum's dog, who she's had for 12 years and he is very dear to her and she loves him very much,...is because he doesn't have long to live. He has cancer of the liver and a malignant tumour/growth which has spread to his lymph nodes. He's very ill. It is so sad.😔😔😔

After drawing, I then decided to use the different versions of the photos above to combine and merge these layers into one image as you can see in the left picture below. I then edited this image using the photo I had as reference and added extra marks, tones and lines etc and adjusted the contrast, brightness, sharpness and other aspects etc on the computer/digitally, until I was happy (the right image below).