Mother’s Day might be still eight weeks away, but now is the time to be thinking about a family caricature for a Mother’s Day Gift idea.

Rather than getting everyone to try and sit still, our artists can work from several photos wo produce a wonderful keepsake.

Have a look at this great example.

What an ideal gift for any Mother!

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Here is a brief show of how a couple of photos can be transformed into a very nice caricature gifts.

The instructions for the job were that these two sisters should be shown dancing on stage, dressed as if they were in an Oliver Twist play.

The artist (Harry in this case) then provided this pencil sketch to make sure all was as it should be.  Some changes were to rid the small microphones, to put hats on the girls and to lower the hand on one of the girls.

Here is the final image all coloured and ready to go give. I am sure you will agree that it made a wonderful family caricature gift!!

Father’s Day is just around the corner – why not give Dad a nice caricature as a gift?

As you can see from this sampling from our artists (click for larger image), we can go any style, and any pose/scene you like!

Feel free to browse our artists for more ideas and order online – all we need is a clear photo!

While a photo of a family provides a lasting keepsake, often they are rather posed and therefore lack the fun they possible could show.

A family caricature drawing on the other hand, provides the scope to include aspects of people and events that are lost in individual photographic records.

Take this family caricature:

This scene was made up of a range of photos of the family’s horseback riding outing, that featured pictures of horses rears, shots where the horses were not even featured, shots from poor angles and often shots that did not capture a key fun aspect of the outing. Not one of the photos captured the memory as well as it could have. Therefore the client thought caricature!

Dad leading at the front was famous on the day for his ummmm…impeccable dress sense, right down to the push-bike helmet, while the son did not feel so happy about having the smallest horse, nor that it was called Sparkles. Anyone riding a small horse called Sparkles deserves a pink cowboy hat!

And the other two ladies just had a ball as they rode past the lake in their City Slickers blue hats.

What did the client say? “That is fabulous!!!  Thank you so much!  John did a GREAT job!”

So if you have a memorable family moment, why not take it that extra step and have a great family keepsake caricature created from several photos to capture many aspects of the occasion.

All of your artists can create a wonderful family caricature for you.

Browse their styles from this page.

Having a great photograph of all the extended family is something that is often hard, if not impossible to achieve. From a family history perspective, getting an image with everyone together  is important.

But the truth is that family members live far away, or cannot all get together for the photo. If they can Aunty Mavis has fallen asleep, the kids are distracted and looking in the wrong direction and baby Joe is crying and Mom Lucy is looking frazzled!!

One option is to invest in something special and have a family caricature created. This has many benefits and can achieve things not possible in a photo:

• You can include everyone, even if they are far away – simply by having a photo of them is enough to have them included and that photo can be taken at your leisure so it shows people how you want them to be shown!
• Through the addition of props, you can show what their interest is, or something that is associated with them like their occupation.
• You can get good poses for people as required.
• By supplying photos of people with a desired expression, you can create unique interactions between family members, like brothers sharing a joke, or Granny pointing and smiling at something one of the kids is doing.
• Things can be as formal or informal as you wish.

We have some examples of family caricatures of our group caricatures page

Family caricature by artist George

The final digital product is easily shared around the family, and unlike a professional portrait photographer, you can make as many copies as you like without paying any more.

If you are interested in having a family caricature drawn, please contact Matt via our contact page (or use the live chat tool to the left) for pricing.