🇺🇸 CHARLOTTE-CARICATURE
Caricature Artists, Illustrators, Entertainers

Live Caricature Artists & Custom Studio Illustrations Across Charlotte, NC Welcome to Charlotte Caricatures — where southern charm meets creativity! Whether you’re hosting a corporate event in Uptown, a festival in NoDa, or a private celebration in Ballantyne, our professional caricature artists bring fun, laughter, and memorable keepsakes to every occasion. We offer studio caricatures from photos, traditional paper caricatures for live events, and digital caricatures, all designed to capture personality and the vibrant spirit of Charlotte.

Why Charlotte Loves Our Caricatures From the energy of Uptown to the artsy charm of NoDa, Charlotte is a city full of personality — and so are our caricatures! We blend humor, creativity, and southern hospitality to make every event memorable. Whether your celebration is a wedding near the Cotswold neighborhood, a corporate gala downtown, or a festival at Romare Bearden Park, our caricatures capture the spirit of Charlotte and the smiles of your guests.

Serving North Carolina and Beyond While based in Charlotte, we travel throughout North Carolina and neighboring states, including Raleigh, Greensboro, Winston-Salem, Asheville, and Columbia, SC. Wherever your celebration takes place, our artists bring professional caricature entertainment to your event.

Book a Caricature Artist Today Make your next event unforgettable — or surprise someone with a custom caricature from a photo. 📞 Contact Charlotte Caricatures today to check rates, availability, or request a free quote!

Studio Caricatures from Photos

Looking for a unique, thoughtful gift? Our studio caricatures are hand-drawn from photos, perfect for birthdays, retirements, weddings, anniversaries, and corporate gifts.

Each piece reflects the personality of your subject with the playful charm that Charlotte locals love.

Book a Caricature Artist Today Make your next event unforgettable — or surprise someone with a custom caricature from a photo. 📞 Contact Charlotte Caricatures today to check rates, availability, or request a free quote!

Live Caricatures for Events

Bring energy and creativity to your next event in Charlotte with live caricature entertainment! Guests will enjoy watching their portraits come to life, creating fun keepsakes they’ll treasure.

Perfect for corporate events, weddings, school functions, trade shows, and community festivals, we frequently appear at events like Charlotte Pride, Taste of Charlotte, Queen City Jazz Festival, and the Carolina Renaissance Festival.

Our artists serve Charlotte and surrounding areas, including Concord, Matthews, Mint Hill, Huntersville, Rock Hill, and Gastonia.



Book a Caricature Artist Today Make your next event unforgettable — or surprise someone with a custom caricature from a photo. 📞 Contact Charlotte Caricatures today to check rates, availability, or request a free quote!

Digital Caricatures for Modern Events

For tech-savvy events, conventions, and brand activations, our digital caricatures are a perfect fit. Guests can watch their portraits appear live on-screen and receive a digital copy instantly — ideal for social media sharing or corporate giveaways.

Great for events at the Charlotte Convention Center, Spectrum Center, or local co-working spaces.

Book a Caricature Artist Today Make your next event unforgettable — or surprise someone with a custom caricature from a photo. 📞 Contact Charlotte Caricatures today to check rates, availability, or request a free quote!

Custom Designed Template

 Custom templates and pre-printed paper add a corporate or personal touch to your event. Simply send us your design and theme ideas, logos, imagery and text. We create the image, produce the paper or digital template and bring them to the event. Each guest leaves with your branding, hashtags and contact information

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We produce quality caricature and illustration work in various forms and media: Custom Studio Caricatures From Photos or Live Subject, Live Digital Caricatures at Parties, Trade Shows, Weddings and Corporate Functions, Drawing live caricatures at your events, functions, picnics, trade shows, corporate or private parties, Illustration work for publications or advertising, Digital and Vector Comical Imagery, Animated caricatures for presentations, web sites, ecards or desktop

Custom Studio Caricatures From Photos or Live Subject

We start from your photos and theme. A pencil draft is produced which you critique and comment on. Upon receiving your changes we redraw the image according to your feedback. You critique the new draft and approve or request new changes. We repeat these steps in two rounds of changes. Additional changes after the two rounds are billed on an hourly basis.

Once you are happy with the rough draft we produce the complete artwork and Voila. Your first experience as an art director was a success!

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Live Digital Caricatures at Parties, Trade Shows, Weddings and Corporate Functions in Charlotte, NC

Digital caricature artists are great for trade show, conventions & corporate events and product promotions. We also draw live digital caricatures at weddings, birthday parties, reunions and many more kinds of personal or corporate gatherings. Everyone in all age groups enjoy digital caricatures. We draw them on the sport and send them to the guests electronically. We can also print the digital caricatures on the spot and give them to the clients in plastic sleeves. These make great avatars and social media posts.

Charlotte NC Event Caricature Art

Other than being a solid form of entertainment for all age groups, the attendees take an original piece of art with them. Our live party caricatures are often framed and remain in offices and homes for years. Impress your guests by hiring us to draw them at your function, event or party.

We draw live caricatures in all major cities and smaller towns across North Carolina State. Hundreds of companies and organizations have hired us to draw live caricature sketches at their corporate functions, picnics or galas. Our traditional caricature clients have been using our services since 1991.

Custom Caricature Illustration, Cartooning

Caricatures are great to be used as gifts, avatars, mascots, or as logos for a businesses or as imagery for websites and apps. They make great corporate gifts or employee awards that impresses them in a personal way. Caricatures are attention grabbers and a unique and memorable style of gift-giving.

We create the initial artwork for you and will customize it to be used for any medium and any environment. They can be used for murals, embroidered, ironed on, silk screened, carved or printed in many different ways. We come up with innovative ways to make it work for you. You can have the same image used on clothing, mouse pads, coffee cups, online and printed publications, bumper stickers etc.

Digital and Vector Imagery

We create digital vector caricature illustrations. These can be resized to any extend without getting jagged or pixelated. From business cards to hot air balloons, one file fits all!

Animated Caricature Art

Adding motion to a caricatures literally brings it to life. Full color digital caricatures can be used on your web site, desktop or for social media. They can be created in GIF or SWF formats. SWF files can have sound as well. We have created animated education tools using caricatures.

Electronic greeting tools can also be created this way. We match the electronic files with the printed and hand drawn art. Having the same fun-filled style of cartoon imagery on your company web site, Christmas cards, party collateral corporate gifts, signage and t-shirts shows you are aware of the value of brand. We can do it all for you.

How much is a caricature artist?

The price of a caricature artist can vary greatly across The USA. For an experienced caricature artist you can expect to spend between $200 and $250 per hour per artist for traditional paper based caricatures and between $300 and $350 per hour per artist for digital caricatures.

What is the meaning of caricature?

The Meridian-Webster Dictionary defines "caricature as exaggeration by means of often ludicrous distortion of parts or characteristics" We strive to draw slightly distorted but pleasing - appreciated caricatures of everyone we draw.

How long does a caricature take?

The artists in our collective each average 15 years experience in event caricature drawing. We draw 10 to 12 people per hour live - black and white, head and shoulders. This means it takes us between 4 and 5 minutes per person to draw a caricature.

What is a digital caricature?

We have been drawing digital caricatures across North Eastern US for the past 20 years. Digital caricatures are hand drawn caricatures, similar to traditional paper based caricatures. Digital caricatures are drawn on a laptop or tablet with the drawings being displayed on monitor or projected for all the guests to see the caricatures take shape.

Digital caricatures are a versatile and can be used as custom framed art, t-shirts, coffee cups, social media avatars and marketing.


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