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This may have started off as a joke, but Hercule Van Wolfwinkle's "rubbish" pet portraits are being sold like hotcakes and have raised over £50k for a homeless charity. Also, we want one too. 

As BBC News reports, Phil Heckels, from Worthing, West Sussex, started working until the alias Hercule Van Wolfwinkle in 2020. Jokingly, he drew his his dog and put it on Facebook, offering paid-for commissions. He was just as surprised as anyone when genuine requests started coming in. Not only that, but his drawings have gotten really popular, and as pet owners ourselves, we can totally see why. Because the volume of requests was so big, it essentially became a lottery where Wolfwinkle decides who he draws and who he doesn't.

In addition to the drawings, Wolfwinkle writes accompanying fake profiles for each pet as well as reviews from the 'customers' - also written by Wolfwinkle. Additional merchandise, such as tea towels and calendars, has also been created. 

Initially, the drawings were marketed at the joke price of £299. Later on, that became Wolfwinkle's original fundraising target. Now, "he has ambitions to reach £75,000, and has publicly vowed to get his first tattoo - his signature on his buttocks - on reaching that goal."

Wolfwinkle told BBC: "This whole thing is absolutely brilliant. To be honest it still doesn't feel real. I remember being sat on the sofa with my wife, laughing that we would never reach £299, and now we're here. I'd love to do this forever, it's just working out how we keep it going because I've basically created a second full-time job for myself. The money and publicity for Turning Tides has been phenomenal."

If you ever watched Disney's 101 Dalmations, you may recall the opening scene in which the Pongo is searching for a match for his human. As he looks out into the street, he sees multiple people, with their dog in tow, and each person matches their dog in some way or another. It's an adorable scene and now we're itching to re-watch that masterpiece. 

In general, they say owners tend to pick out pets that look similar to themselves. Professional animal photographer, Gerrard Gethings, has created these portraits to prove that theory. And honestly, we're completely convinced. 

The resemblance between these pet owners and their beloved pets is uncanny and cannot be ignored. The series is called #doyoulooklikeyourdog and #doyoulooklikeyourcat. Gethings then compares the portraits and highlights the similarities.

Follow Gerrard Gething on Instagram or Twitter for amazing photography! 

Yikes. We're not entirely sure if some of these are purposely bad or if at the time, someone thought these pictures were fantastic and decided to share them with the world. We're hoping for the former, that these are just ironically bad portraits with the sole purrpose of making us laugh. 

If that's the case, they've totally nailed it! These portraits have everything that would make a classic awkward portrait. The bad photoshop, the ugly Christmas sweaters, the seductive poses, and of course, a shot where your pet looks confused as heck. 

We'll be honest with you... we'd like to see more of these portraits this upcoming holiday season.  

Now your pet can truly be royalty! Crown & Paw specializing in custom pet portraits with an interesting and fancy twist. All paintings look like rare and authentic 19th-century oil paintings! You can now have a Renaissance-era painting of your pet! And the results are majesty and hilarious all rolled into one. 

Truly the perfect painting. 

Everyone thinks that their cat is the cutest cat in the world, with a beauty that deserves to be documented. People usually do it by overwhelming everyone's social media feeds with photo after photo. But why not take your showing off one step further and get your cat's face perfectly replicated in a 3D portrait? Wakuneco is a Japanese artist who only needs is a photo of your fluffy cat and she can create what looks like a carbon copy of the cat's head to mount in a frame, so you can proudly display his or her good looks anywhere you like. Check out her amazing working process. 

Etsy crafter PetCharacters is offering custom pet portraits of your dog or cat sitting on the famous chair of swords. All animal lovers have to do is purchase one of the portraits (starting at $79.99) and provide a photo of their pet.  This cool crafter offers portrait options for multiple pets in one painting, and also has custom Star Wars, Star Trek, and Doctor Who pet portraits. Check out some of these awesome portraits! 

What if your dog turned into a human? What would they be like? Their characteristics and manners? Look no further. Here are 22 dog "people" to satisfy that imagination. 

Today we bring you some artwork from a very talented female Chinese Artist named Xuedaixun. Her artwork consists of multiple categories and today we have chosen a specific category where Xuedaixun has created human versions of Cats and Dogs. So scroll on below and take a look. Fir more, visit her page.  

Wild Master Piece company offers to create a unique portrait of your pet, using a selected landscapes as a background. Check out some of of this digital art.    

Amelia Paul Forman is nineteen years old and has a mom who is a world-class photographer with a predilection for photographing animals. Since she was three years old, Amelia has been her mother's muse and the subject of her photographs. That is why she has portraits of herself with elephants, llamas, ponies, tigers, kangaroos, chimpanzees, endless dogs, cats, and other animals—portraits that hang in the collections of art museums around the world. Take a look at some of these amazing photos on Rubin Scwartz instagram page as well as on her homepage. 

Photographer Felicity Berkleef captures different personalities and characteristics of cats and her amazing portraits further amplify the reasons cats are the internet's favorite animals. For more, visit her instagram page. 

With his Chattel series, photographer Kevin Horan wondered what would happen if his neighbors, goats and sheep from the Whidbey Island, came to him in his studio to be photographed like humans. Some funny anthropomorphic portraits that reveal the hidden personalities of these animals…

London-based photographer, Tim Flach, with a new project titled "More Than Human", which brings his subjects into close focus with wild animals and allows them to read their poses and gestures as we would the body language of a human figure, face or hand.  

These characteristic portraits of animals were taken by David Boni who fell in love with animal portraiture. With their heads raised high, these animals look nothing short of noble.

Photographer Monika Malek wants to change the way people think about disabled cats and show that they are just as wonderful as any other regular feline. Her project is called, "I Am Still A Cat". Monika says: "The goal is to bridge the gap between people's perception of able-bodied and disabled cats. This is my attempt to show people that a disability does not mean that a cat is inferior. A disabled cat doesn't require care 24 hours a day, the same as an able-bodied cat. He eats the same amount. He plays the same way. Meows, as well, and purrs the same," she writes. Via: Pulpastic

These wonderful artworks were created by Ryan and Lucy Berkley, a husband and wife art and business team from Portland, Oregon.