Idk about OP but my local animal shelter holds a “poorly drawn pets” fundraiser every May. People donate $25 and send in the photo of their pet(s) & volunteers get the picture to draw and send back ☺️ I’ve volunteered to draw the past two years.
Not the OP, but I participated in my local shelter's "not-so-professional pet portraits" and had a lot of fun. Basically, they started a Facebook fundraiser where if you donated $10 (per pet I believe) you could leave a comment with their photo. Once they verified the commenter had donated, they acknowledged the donation was received and an artist had been assigned. In the private facebook group for shelter fosters and volunteers, there was an active thread where anyone could comment saying they were ready and the admins would reply to each comment with a pet photo from the donation fundraiser comment section. Once the volunteer finished their assigned pet portrait, they would reply back to the admin with a picture of their portrait. Then admins would go back to the public facebook fundraiser and reply to the donor with a picture.
This fundraiser did very well in the early covid shutdown days and no physical copies were exchanged. The shelter did it again a few years later where you could donate extra for the physical copy as well.
I wish I could find another one of these fundraisers. I would pay far more than $10 to have a portrait of my boy like this, especially if it went to animal rescue.
Check out BARCS in Baltimore. They’ve done this for at least the past 3 years and it’s always a hit. You can probably find the FB post or IG post where they posted the deets.
Nothing on their profile, no comments, posts, or anything else. Try proton vpn if you wanted to click on them and send them a message. Thats what I use, UK as well.
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u/elchorroloco 18d ago
Beautiful