Caricatures by Charlie

My name is Charlie and I live in Tucson Arizona. I’ve always wanted to be an illustrator ever since childhood. I did my first caricature for the high school newspaper. It was for an editorial on wrestling and depicted the wrestling coach. I got in real hot water with the coach over that, but my journalism teacher backed me up. All in all it was a very encouraging experience.

I’m recently re-married have 24 year old boy/girl twins and a 28 year old Daughter from previous marriage.

I majored in fine art with the University of Illinois. My first art job was creating hand painted signs for outdoor advertising. I later worked as a textile designer for fifteen years. I started freelancing full-time about two years ago and besides caricatures; I design textiles such as throws, tapestries, and upholstery. I also design 3d sculpted metal products such as belt buckle, medallion, and coins using 3d software.

I created period piece hand painted billboards for the TNT movie “White Heat” and I illustrated birds for the iBird app for the iPhone.

Everyone has a unique nose, chin, eyes and headshape. I look at those things on a person and see what makes that person unique. I then exaggerate those features. What I like most about doing caricatures is bringing out the personality and life energy of the subject.

I’m new to Caricaturetoons, but my experience has been very positive. They are very supportive.

New Home Page, what to do, what to do.

Here it is, we will be launching a new home page in the next week or two. We have these two designs and we are not sure which one will show off our caricature toons best. Any feedback is appreciated. There is design #1 on the top and below is design #2. Which do you think would give you a better user experience? Any suggestions are also welcome.. 

Awesome New Artist Caricature Style...

The wonderful thing about working at Caricature Toons is we see some wonderful artists apply to be part of our team. Some make it, many don't. We're always looking for that caricaturist that has a unique style unto itself that will make our customers say WOW!!! THAT'S COOL!!! Are new artists Theodore fits that bill. If you have some time check out Theodore's Gallery and see more samples of his work. It's great stuff. 

The world has evolved, even caricatures...

Here is a really cool video. It shows how many of our caricature artist create our caricatures. There is technology involve but it's just another style of pencil and brush. This video shows how many of our caricatures are made, we love it!!!

John get's a touchdown...

It's Christmas time and people are getting gifts. This caricature was one of them. What makes this football caricature special is it was done by our new caricature artist John. It was his first and the customer was thrilled. Here name was Katie and said she wrote a review on her blog called You Brew My Tea, check it out.  The best part of her email was  "I LOVED John's work!!!"  And here at caricaturetoons.com we are thrilled that we put a smile on your face. Life should always be fun!!! 

Congratulations John....

Here at Caricature Toons we are pleased to announce that one of our good friends, Mr. John Klain, finished his first ever Ironman Triathlon in Arizona last month. The race consists of a 2.4 mile swim, 112 mile bike ride and a 26.2 mile run. We love the finishing shots of John, he's all happy and wearing a Triathlon Toons jersey. Over here at Caricaturetoons we want to congratulate John on his wickedly awesome accomplishment. Getty up Johnny boy!!!! Nice.

Newsflash - Matty O goes for caricature number two...

Another satisfied customer returns. Mr Matty O and his wife Heather. Way back when Heather had our caricature artist Chris do the Tank O caricature of her husband Matt for a birthday present. She liked it so much she came back for seconds and we just finished their Christmas card style caricature of the two of them and their two dogs. Their babies. If your looking for your own caricature don't hesitate to check out all our artists and the different styles at www.caricaturetoons.com http://www.caricaturetoons.com/ And don't worry, there's still plenty of time to get it made before Christmas.