Retirement gift are a great time to think about caricatures because caricature make such great gifts for people who are retiring.

The reason is you can include elements that personalize the image – in fact every image is custom created from scratch.

In this example the man retiring was involved in ship engineering. So he has a picture of the ship he was first involved with on the wall. Plus he has “Steam Engineering” on the spine of the book beside him as his speciality is that type of marine power plant. In addition a specific nameplate on his desk and his famous reference library behind.

So why not browse more retirement caricatures for ideas and browse our artists to see who’s style you like best!

I hope everyone had a great Christmas/New Year break. In some parts of the world it seems weather was the greatest focus, even overshadowing gifts and get-togethers.

So the New Year brings with it renewed hope and a renewed focus on many things, including gifts! At this time of year??

While the big gift giving time seems to be behind us, the early part of the year also presents many gift-giving opportunities.

Often this come from people retiring or moving jobs – caricatures provide wonderful scope for a truly personalised gift that cannot be matched by anything else. How else can you include someone’s traits, quirks, interests and life influences all in one gift?

Our caricatures are total custom. We don’t start with templates, though some customers say a scene just like the one on the artist’s sample page.

And why do people love getting caricatures? Interestingly it seems they like to see how other people see them. They like the bit of quirkiness, and the thought that has often gone into the extra elements to make a good picture great!

So think about who you can give a caricature gift to this year – the opportunities are endless…birthdays, weddings, invitations, retirement, moving job, staff profile pics…

Here is a small selection of some recent work that shows the awesome diversity of styles we can provide to suit everyone!

Here is a fun retirement themed caricature from artist Shane.

What better item to signify the travelling intentions than a groovy caricature feauring the motorhome!

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As you can see Shane has a fun cartoon caricature style. Order a caricature from artist Shane today.

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.

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!