This digital caricature was a Christmas gift for the pictured chap and features his pet dog and his favourite shirt! My digital caricatures are supplied by email, have a short turnaround time (there’s no postage involved!) and can be printed yourself, or just delivered digitally (they make great avatars for social media and LinkedIn profiles). As they’re contactless they’re the perfect gift during lockdown. If you’re looking for a funny gift with a quick turnaround time drop me a line today!
Allan Cavanagh
Head and Shoulders Personalised Colour Caricature
This personalised head and shoulders caricature was a gift for the subject from his friends. He’s surrounded by objects relevant to his life including pet dogs, swimming googles, a bike pump, suitcase for travel, a cook book, and a pint of Guinness (remember those?). Also making a cameo is his wife in the background! He’s saying some of his well-known catchphrases.
Personalised Caricature: Accountant and Carpenter!
This personalised caricature from photos was a gift from the accountant to the carpenter! There’s references to darts, snooker, DIY shows, signposts for Hospital and Newmarket. They’re wearing Limerick GAA and Cork GAA jerseys respectively, and the family pub is pictured in the background. They’re havin a West Coast Cooler and a pint of Guinness (Remember those!)
The customer said
“Thanks Allan looks super 🙂 ”
Cartoon: Not Trying Zero Covid
My take on the Irish state’s infuriating reluctance to even try #ZeroCovid. It simply means getting the number of cases down to a traceable and controllable amount while restricting international travel with quarantine measures. Other countries are doing it and can move about, go to work, continue their educations, avail of services, see friends, go to gigs, all that stuff we’re denied. There’s an effort to divide and conquer on this simple message by talking about hotel quarantine being “detention” and travel restrictions not being a “magic bullet”. No one is saying they are, we know they’re measures to be taken as part of an overall plan of suppressing infections. How the Government can keep on saying we have to continue a cycle of boom and bust infections with lockdowns and 5km limits is beyond me.
You can find out more about the Zero Covid approach at We Can Be Zero https://www.wecanbezero.com/
50th Birthday Gift Caricature
This personalised caricature was a gift for a 50th birthday last year. The subject is a Disney fan and loves travel, hence the Minnie Mouse ears and Eiffel Tower and the cruise ship in the background. She’s partial to a cocktail and also meticulous about cleaning, so the mop and apron was an in-joke from her family! Other references are Facebook with a signpost for Limerick and Dublin in the background. And of course a few balloons to mark the big day for good measure!
The Turfcutter!
This caricature brought back childhood memories of being in the bog (or the hill as we say in Donegal)! It features the subject in a Kerry GAA jersey with his Ford tractor in the background behind a HAPE of turf! I’m old enough to remember spade-dug turf, trying to catch clouds as they drifted in over us (and realising they weren’t the cotton wool substance I thought they were) and drinking sweet tea from vacuum flasks. My back remembers the days spent footing them. Drawing this was very evocative of those memories (probably some of my earliest).