When people think of caricatures, they often think of a comic, rather distorted image that due to its humor is good for a fun gift, but little else.

However, if you want to broaden your thoughts on what a caricature is, it can include the term avatar, and mascot; and this is exactly why they can be so good when used on blogs.

Take this for example:

OK the quality here is a little off as the image size was reduced, but you can see the full sized image here on their blog.

Note also how the images have been cropped and used as avatars for each post. Neat.

So if you are developing a blog, and want something a bit more funky and cool to represent you, then we can help create a fun yet professional persona for you! Feel free to visit our main site or contact us directly

Company conferences can be tired, drawn out affairs, but when you get a caricature order for caricatures like these, well! This is one conference I would not mind going to.

Seems they are going to have their own version of the Deal or No Deal game and the three company bigwigs (no pun intended) are going to get to be the Case Girls.

The brief was two of the guys always scowl and the other is well, see the ‘Gal’ in the middle and have a guess…all needed garish make-up and look a bit like drag queens (did they ever have hope of looking any other way?)

This caricature was created by artist George. How can you use caricatures in your business?

Three hot dates

Here is a fun caricature by artist Brian that celebrates the work of an employee who is getting a Rep of the Year Award.

After going through the draft process, during which one small change was made, this is the final product. Of course other than being placed in a frame, something like this also works really well on a coffee mug as a daily celebration!!

See more of Brian’s art here

He also does great custom avatars

Here is a logo for a UK business that helps people reduce debt obligations by finding loopholes in financial contracts.

The brief was to have a Zorro like approach with a character a bit like the guy in the Matrix movie.

This was created as a vector image to allow resizing from business card size to print ads, plus various colour combinations.

See more logo samples here.

Digital caricatures are sooo versatile. Unlike the traditional paper-based ones that get framed and put on the wall, the flexibility of digital leads to some great fun uses.

Artist George recently completed a group caricature of 14 guys who make an annual trip to Las Vegas during Super Bowl week.

This year, to mark the 20th year, they had special T-shirts with a great caricature printed on the front.

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Remember – if you have some special occasion that needs something special – think caricatures from www.caricatureking.com