Lili is an animation artist and producer by profession, but she started Doggie Drawings in April 2008, about a year after starting to foster special needs and senior Boston Terriers through Boston Buddies. She became very involved with the group and the cause and eventually adopted her current BT, Boogie, from Boston Buddies.
She got the idea to start Doggie Drawings because she was getting requests from random people to draw their dogs. She decided if she was going to do it, that she’d use it as a fundraising tool. Eventually, she started donating some of the proceeds to other groups like the American Boston Terrier Rescue in Texas and French Bulldog Village in Massachusetts. In fact, if you commission a work from Lili, you can request that your donation go to a specific rescue group, if you have another in mind.

I like Lili’s portraits because they’re stylized, yet pretty spot on in terms of resemblance. She captures her subjects’ personalities and highlights their unique features. And her professional experience shows in her great sense of composition and color.