Retirement is a big deal for many people, including the colleagues who are faced with thinking about an appropriate leaving gift.

This was the task facing a recent client who, as a past customer naturally thought of a caricature!!

Here you can see they have captured Alan’s love of rugby, even putting the jersey of his favourite side on the dog, and the traditional opposing team on him. (Hence the banner saying “We’d have him on our side anytime.”)

retirement gift caricature idea

The artist for this job is Brian – see more of Brian’s samples here

One of the appealing aspects for many people about being online is being able to create the sort of persona that you want to portray.

In the case of Twitter there are a whole range of profile images used to create an ‘image’. These range from rather bizarre graphics, to ‘hey look at me I’m some kind of success’ image.

Then there are those who want a good, honest quirky image that is them but at the same time is not really them.

Some time ago we did a caricature for very nice, polite Indian lawyer. Today I have seen how this image is also being used as an identity picture on twitter.

You can see it again here http://twitter.com/nrsrinath

This caricature was created by artist Zalo (in a more complete form)

See more samples

At Caricature King one of the great aspects of having a team of experienced artists is that they are all so talented.

This means that not only can they draw caricatures, but they can also do work in other genres – including portraits.

There are times when a caricature is not the best way to go for a gift or presentation, while a portrait would be perfect.

For this reason we have decided to have a page specifically for portraits.

These will be idea for formal graduation, family milestone, professional gift etc.

Our artists can assemble people into formal poses working from several photos – even black and white photos, so an unsuitable photo can be used to create a wonderful piece of art!

Follow this link for our portrait page and links to samples.

Here is a caricature recently completed by artist Brian. The job detail included that the subject was a big fan of Dr Who, was an IT whiz who specializes in using Microsoft (celebrating a 10th year) and is very patriotic!

As you can see the result is fun!

If you would like a fun caricature created by Brian or any of our other artists, please feel free to browse and select from our main website.

If you have question email me or use the chat tool to the left.

If you have been toying with the idea of a caricature for a retirement gift – take a look at our retirement caricature page. New images have just been loaded and I’m sure you will get some inspiration from them!