Caricatures are all about characters. The artist seeks to capture his interpretation of the person, (in our case using just the photo/s supplied).

Here is a recent job from artist George who was asked to capture an Australian ‘bushie’ - that is, someone who lives not only in a rural area, but perhaps even in a remote area. Typically they are involved in the cattle industry.

As you can see, the stance is great, just like a man who has lived the hard life would stand.

See more of caricature artist George’s work.

For many businesses having a picture of staff is one aspect of personalizing the profile page. You are dealing with a company and you get to see the person’s picture.

Sometimes however, staff are reluctant to have their photos taken for use on a public website.

One way around this is to use a caricature of the person. This allows enough of who the person is to be shown, but at the same time not revealing the look of the person 100%.

Some businesses like to use caricatures because they are different. This is great for a business that may want to remove some of the ’stuffiness’ that may be associated with their type of business.

Using caricatures of staff can also be used to portray that your business has an  ‘outside the box’ capability.

A while back artist George did a series of caricatures for Pyramid Educational Consultants.

I think they have shown good use of the caricatures by using them on their consultant’s profile page, plus on a map on the same page. Have a look here.

The caricatures are also used in email signatures.

I think this helps show potential and existing clients that their organization is not the same as everyone else - that they can and do think outside the square and all success to them for doing that.

An added advantage is the staff members also get a copy of their caricature to use!

Want to get caricatures of your staff? We have a number of artists who can create great staff caricatures for you.

The use of caricatures is always of interest and I am pleased to be able to show you this use of a caricature sent to us by one of our clients.

As you can see it was displayed at the wedding reception and looks very classy in the black frame and dark mat and this helps set off the red roses on the crisp white linen. As the client said “everyone loved it. THANKS!!!”

The artist on this occasion was George - however we have other artists if this style does not suit your taste.

If you would like a caricature for a wedding date claimer, invitations, sign-in board (in frame) etc, please visit our site to view artists and their styles.

Or perhaps you would like to give a caricature or a caricature gift certificate.

Here is just a quick bit of feedback from a client - the job spec for this full body with props job was to use the picture of the ‘victim’ running (he his also a competitive runner) but to have him holding a laptop - he is always running between meetings and always has his laptop and his favorite soda drink with him.

Matt (and George)!Thank you so much for this - It looks great and I really appreciate you being able to accommodate my request on such short notice.
I have been passing the word on about your site!
Thank you so much! ~ Kristen

Not only was it a quick turnaround, but at the last minute it was decided to color the image.

Sometimes international times zones work in our favor!

I wrote recently on our other blog that giving a caricature as a gift can make you a hero in your workplace - everyone will think how clever you are and the recipient will really appreciate the thought.

So here is a caricature with a different story.

Rhonda Lou was doing a tour of company locations to roll out a new training program called “Respect”. (Top marks for the company for doing the training program!!).

To mark her involvement, her boss thought it would be a fun idea to have a special T-shirt printed with her caricature image on it - a sort of a pun on a rock tour.

As you can see the result drawn by artist George is quite fun and the customer liked it as well “Absolutely outstanding! This is going to be a big hit! Thanks much for taking care of this on such a short time frame. We really appreciate it and will think of you next time!”

If you have need of a caricature, just drop us an email or visit our main site