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February 2, 2011
When it comes to choosing the perfect gift, most of us look for something that is personal, special and appropriate to the person we are buying it for. That’s not easy – and that’s where Charlie’s Cartoons can help.
Because after all – what could be more personal than caricature cartoons of the people you wish to surprise with a gift? Caricature portraits take a photo of your friend, colleague or relative and exaggerate the main features with good humour until you have warm and charming caricature pictures of them.
We know from our customers that they absolutely love them – and because we supply our caricature pictures carefully framed, they can hang them on the wall for years. Caricature gifts are special because they are completely individual. It takes an expert to create them, of course – our artist Charlie has been creating caricature portraits since he was just a few years old, so he certainly has years of great experience!
Custom caricatures make excellent gifts for many occasions. For instance, if your friends are getting married, you could present them with wedding caricatures of their big day. Or perhaps someone well-liked is leaving work – we can create group caricatures of everyone in the office so he or she has a permanent memory of the friends left behind.
Artist Charlie needs only a few photographs to work from, and possibly a story about the person you wish to caricature. The result is a custom-made gift that will continue to delight for years – well worth the money.
January 30, 2011
Perfect personalised caricatures are a passion for Charlie. His caricature portraits and caricature gifts are highly sought after and coveted by those with discerning tastes and humorous sensibilities. Charlie loves his work because it affords him the unique opportunity of working with some of the most amazing and inspirational people on the planet – his subjects. From film stars to fighter pilots, nurses to neurosurgeons, golfers to gardeners, each subject has a story which is life-affirming and motivational.
Charlie can take a few basic photographs of the subject and combine them with the anecdotes of friends and family, in order to create caricature from photos which amuse recipients to no end. They are often amazed that Charlie has managed to capture all the important elements of their personality and life story so quickly and effectively. He genuinely seems to know them, although they have never met. Moreover, subject recipients are often moved and touched that their friends and families have noticed so many positive aspects of their personalities, which they may have thought went unnoticed or perhaps even unappreciated.
These caricature gifts are a positive affirmation of love, affection and admiration. This type of gift feels as wonderful to give as to receive. Charlie uses his artistic skills to bring life, vitality and dynamism into all of his creations and his passion for art ensures that each portrait is completed to the highest standards. www.charliescartoons.com has some great gallery examples of the type of caricatures which Charlie has created for a plethora of diverse and disparate clients.
January 2, 2011
www.charliescartoons.com creates classic caricature cartoons for your friends, family or colleagues. Charlie just loves to create great caricature from photos and a few amusing and interesting anecdotes. After letting his artistic imagination run riot for twenty four hours after you submit your photographs and background information on the subject, Charlie will develop a proposal for a completely original, hilarious and personalised caricature.
Creating caricature from photos allows Charlie to quickly get to grips with the composition and the stories which you provide allow him to reflect the subject’s personality, passions, professional interests and achievements in a humorous yet respectful manner. Caricature gifts are always received with delight and are treasured for years to come. Charlie adheres to the great satirical tradition of caricature as an art form which conveys a powerful message quickly and humorously, but of course, his creations are always celebrations of his subjects. Once the composition is agreed, Charlie’s will get to work with pencil, Indian ink and various coloured paints which bring your caricature gifts to life in anywhere between three days and three weeks, depending on whether your request is urgent and the state of Charlie’s workload.
Upon payment, Charlie will send a scanned copy of the cartoon and then forward the original work of art. We know that customers just love the original and exciting ideas which spring from Charlie’s imagination, and they agree that Charlie has the unique and innate ability to capture the very essence of their loved one in his caricatures.
December 24, 2010
Charlie has produced amazing caricatures for members of every profession and those who occupy a plethora of employment positions. Personalised caricatures of doctors complete with stethoscopes, surgeons with flashing scalpels, footballers celebrating goals, and lawyers holding the court under their spell are all given a special twist by this virtuoso of caricature pictures. Charlie can create group caricatures for firemen, policemen, soldiers, sailors and pilots. Furthermore, he enjoys recreating famous events in the personal histories of horticulturalists, the lives of leisure attendants and the romances of racing drivers.
Charlie’s group caricatures are always that little bit special and can be the ideal way of honouring the collective achievements of a group of glaziers, a collection of choristers, a team of tree surgeons or even a posse of palaeontologists. Caricature gifts can be treasured for generations and are a lasting testament to the personalities, lives, lives and achievements of their subjects. Whether they hang on the walls of surgeries, barracks, judges chambers, trophy rooms or common rooms, they will become a talking piece for all who survey them.
Charlie can produce cartoons for graduations, anniversaries, retirements and reunions- he is the professional’s professional and guarantees that you will be delighted with any custom caricatures which you commission him to complete. Therefore, if you have a colleague who is due to leave for another department, or has reached the point of retiring and you are considering purchasing a carriage clock, watch or trophy to end them on their way with all of you love and best wishes, think again! Your wisest option is undoubtedly to order a classy customer caricature from Charlie!
December 12, 2010
Caricatures are all too often associated with a man near a beach who will draw you with your hair full of salt and your freshly pinked skin as a focus of the piece. Yet despite the fact people know that they are going to be drawn at a time when they are probably not looking their best does very little to dissuade people from buying them.
The simple reason for their popularity is that they are quirky and fun, and a great way to remember something special such as a great holiday. However, very few people are going to want to frame a picture of themselves dressed in only a bikini with sunglasses, tan lines and hair that is not so much demur as drowned.
So how can one go about getting great personalised caricatures to remind themselves of special occasions that they will want to show off to the world?
Well, caricatures don’t have to be reserved for the moment you have just got off a donkey. There are plenty of online artists who offer personalised caricatures based on your own unique photos that will give you a fun and interesting way to remember any special events from weddings to particular achievements. And rather than a swimming costume and a whole load of fake muscles languishing on a surfboard despite the fact you have never surfed in your life, the end result will not only be much more realistic, but also much more personal to you or the lucky recipient.
Whether you are looking for a unique present that has the most personal of touches possible or whether you simply want something more interesting to adorn your walls, creating your own cartoon of your life or the life of your loved one is a great way to do it.
December 10, 2010
Personalised caricatures can be ideal gifts for groups as well as individual subjects. Therefore, if you are a member of a sports team, school class, workplace team or armed services regiment, Charlie can easily produce group caricatures which exceed your requirements. The beauty of group caricatures lies in the fact that Charlie can depict group relationships and dynamics as well as individual characteristics.
Even group caricatures which involve small numbers, this dynamism can lead to exciting and vibrant results which will tickle the funny bones of each member and only strengthen bonds of camaraderie. Custom caricatures for groups are also ideal for reunions of school friends, sports clubs or workplaces. If you are organising an event like this, group custom caricatures can be exciting surprise centrepieces which really get the party as old friends and workmates reminisce about days gone by and discuss what they have been up to in the intervening years.
Furthermore, if a sports team is faced to split up by circumstances, gorgeous group caricatures can be excellent parting gifts at the end of a successful season. Whether you are a member of an abseiling club, gymnastic club, origami association, karate club, real ale fan club, motorcycle club, political organisation or social club, group caricatures are sure to be right up your street. Anecdotes, recollections, photographs and team histories can be effortlessly blended into fantastic artistic compositions by Charlie at any time. For examples of past group caricatures and to contact Charlie about your requirements, contact us today.
December 3, 2010
Personalised caricatures are the ideal gifts for those people who seem to have everything. At Charlie’s Cartoons, caricature gifts are a speciality, drawn personally by Charlie himself using his supreme talents and keen perceptions of personality quirks. Most people would love to own caricatures which capture their interests, personality, passions and life story in a unique artistic expression of love and appreciation.
Charlie can create custom caricatures from photographs, personal recollections, videos and all manner of sources which allow him to rapidly ascertain the most important and unique aspects of the subject’s personal story and blend them together to humorous and loving effect in an artistic expression of sheer joy and exuberance. Charlie has produced many caricature cartoons which have been used in prominent newspapers in order to comment on current affairs and famous faces, has several celebrity clients and many more satisfied customers who are amazed and completely satisfied with a stunning end result.
Caricature cartoons can be perfect gifts for any occasion, from birthdays to weddings to graduations, anniversaries or retirements. Charlie is versatile and flexible and can produce stunning original personalised artworks to extremely tight deadlines- please take a look at www.charliescartoons.com today for some excellent examples of his past works and for expert advice and guidance as you prepare the gift of a lifetime for your loved one.
Your stunning personalised caricature gift can be prepared faster than you think and will be treasured for lifetime by any gracious recipient. Charlie’s Cartoons- proudly produce classic caricatures for any occasion and any subject.
November 20, 2010
The Danish Foreign Minister has made an attempt to defuse some of the tension that was caused by caricatures of the Prophet Mohammed which offended many Muslims.
After meeting with a top Egyptian cleric, the Foreign Minister said she had found the cartoon caricatures “very regrettable.”
Lene Espersen was speaking after a book was published with caricatures denoting Mohammed under the heading, ‘The Tyranny of Silence.’
These caricature cartoons were published five years ago in the Jyllands-Postens newspaper which led to rioting and massive demonstrations in a number of Muslim countries. It also led to the death of a number of people in Nigeria in 2006.
Although the book has not printed copies of the pictures individually, it does show the front page of the newspaper in which the pictures had appeared.
Speaking at a press conference in Cairo, Ms Expersen stated that she recognised the pain felt by many Muslims when the pictures were published five years ago.
She said: “I would just like to make it clear that this was something we found very regrettable and didn’t wish to see it repeated. The Danish government respects all religious creeds and communities and condemns any attempt to demonise groups of people on the basis of religion or their ethnic background.”
The pictures sparked a lot of controversy and outrage when they were initially published as they depicted the Prophet Mohammed with a lit bomb in his turban.
A violent response ensued and an Iraqi Kurd was arrested in Norway as part of a plan to commit an attack on the Jyllands-Posten newspaper headquarters.
Dia Rashwan, from the Al-Ahram Centre for Political and Strategic Studies has claimed that the actions of the Danish Foreign Minister would, “play a large role in calming tensions.”
Planning an event is a big responsibility. Entertainment is always going to play a big part and by getting that right, the rest of the night cannot go too wrong. Getting an artist to draw caricature pictures is a great way to get your guests laughing at themselves and fellow guests. Another advantage of having custom caricatures at an event is that guests actually have something to take home at the end of the night.
The type of event will determine the type of caricature cartoons your guests will receive. For instance if it is a family event such as a birthday party or wedding, then group caricatures may be more suitable than individual pictures. By thinking about the type of venue your event is being held in, you can also work out the best way to have your caricature cartoons drawn. A larger venue may call for a walkabout caricature artist. He or she will be able to walk around the venue, speaking to guests and drawing their pictures on the spot. This will undoubtedly prove very popular and will help break down any initial awkwardness between guests who have never met before. Everyone can get involved and the pictures will get everyone laughing.
If you are hosting a special occasion such as a Christening party or wedding you may think about having a more formal setting. Guests may be able to sit down in turn to have their caricature pictures drawn while everyone else looks on and awaits their turn all in the name of fun.
November 15, 2010
Personalised caricatures will mean much more to a person than yet another bottle of perfume or T-shirt. It is worth considering that your daughter may much prefer custom caricatures of her in a favourite dress with her favourite toys around her. In the same way, your wife might enjoy receiving a present which is less predictable. While it can be nice to know what you are likely to receive at Christmas and birthdays, having a pleasant surprise once in while can be fantastic.
Choosing caricature cartoons show you have put a lot of thought in to picking the right present, as well as being unique. There is no way anyone else will have custom caricatures as they will be personally tailored to your daughter’s face shape, right down to tiny details such as her favourite dress. These are some things you simply cannot buy in the shops, which can only be found by getting an artist to create impressive personalised caricatures.
Unlike a bottle of perfume, a caricature will not need to be replaced when it runs out. This is a gift that the recipient can cherish for the rest of their lives, as they will always be able to look at it and recall many happy times.
Likewise, as many artists can work from photographs and other details you give them, there is no need to tell the recipient about the picture they are going to receive. This makes cartoons and caricatures the perfect surprise when they tear back the wrapping paper on their birthday.
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