Sarah Hopkins has always felt a deep love and respect for animals. She has been illustrating animals and wildlife for over ten years. Sarah grew up in the countryside of South East England in a family of artists and learned many of her techniques from her parents. She fell in love with pencil drawing in her early teens and went on to study Art and Photography at the Norfolk Institute of Art and Design in the UK where she continued to broaden her skills.
In 1991, Sarah emigrated to Northern California. As well as establishing her pet portrait business, she has done several independent illustration jobs including portraits of children, logos for business cards, magazine covers and hawk images for the Golden Gate Raptor Observatory. She designed the hawk images that appear on Mendocino Brewing Company’s ‘White Hawk IPA’ & ‘Raptor Red Lager’ beer labels. Sarah’s work is a true labor of love; working from photographs, each tiny detail is carefully and precisely drawn to create a lifelike rendering which beautifully captures the personality and soul of your pet.
Sarah Hopkins - Animal Illustration 