# Caricature ChatGPT Prompts

Turn the person in this photo into a caricature illustration of themselves at work. Exaggeration: this must be unmistakably a caricature and not a flattering portrait illustration. Find the one feature my face is actually about — the strongest, most distinctive thing in it — and push that hard, then simplify everything else down to support it. Enlarge the head relative to the body to roughly half again as large as realistic, shrink the body and hands accordingly, amplify the expression I am already making rather than inventing a new one, and exaggerate my posture into hunched forward in concentration. Exaggerate only expression, proportion and posture. Do not alter or exaggerate ethnic features, and keep my skin tone exactly as it appears in the photo. Preserve my facial identity: keep the bone structure, the eye shape and spacing, the nose bridge, the hairline and the mouth recognisably mine, so that someone who knows me identifies me immediately. Job: architect. Surround me with the real tools and clutter of that job: rolled blueprints spilling off the desk, a scale ruler, a half-built foam model, three mechanical pencils and a cold mug of coffee — objects rendered with actual weight and material, sitting where they would really sit, some of them worn or half-used rather than showroom-new. Setting: a cluttered studio desk under a drafting lamp, drawn slightly warped with playful perspective distortion so the room bends toward me as the focal point. Expression: absorbed, one eyebrow raised, a faint smile at the corner of the mouth. Art style: hand-drawn ink and watercolour caricature, with confident varied line weight — heavier on the contour and the shadow side, lighter inside the form — and clean flat shading rather than airbrushed gradients. Colors: warm ochre, slate blue and paper cream. Composition: me large and central, the job evidence fanning out around and behind me, one clear focal object in my hands. Quality: high-resolution illustration, crisp linework fully resolved, texture visible in the paper and the ink, warm and affectionate in tone rather than mocking.

Convert the person in this photo into a caricature. Exaggeration level: moderate — clearly a caricature but still comfortably recognisable. Push these specific features: a strong jaw pushed wider, expressive eyebrows raised higher than life, a warm smile stretched wider than realistic — find what is already distinctive about this face and amplify that, rather than applying a generic cartoon template. Exaggerate only proportion, expression and posture. Do not alter or exaggerate ethnic features, and keep the skin tone exactly as it is in the photo. Preserve facial identity completely: bone structure, eye shape and spacing, nose bridge, hairline, mouth shape and any distinguishing marks stay recognisably the same person, so the result reads as a drawing of them and not of someone else. Keep the same head angle and gaze direction as the original photo. Medium: pen and ink with a watercolour wash, with line weight that varies deliberately — heaviest along the jaw and the shadow side of the nose, lightest across the forehead and the cheek — and shading built from flat shapes rather than smooth gradients. Background: plain warm cream paper with a loose wash behind the head. Colors: warm skin tones, navy and cream. Render the face with real structure underneath the exaggeration: the skull still has to make sense, the eyes still have to sit in sockets, the smile still has to attach to the cheek muscles. Quality: high-resolution illustration, crisp fully-resolved linework, visible medium texture, flattering and warm rather than unkind.

Turn the person in this photo into a caricature illustration surrounded by evidence of who they are rather than what they do for work. Exaggeration: amplify proportion, expression and posture — head enlarged relative to the body, my characteristic expression pushed further, my habitual posture exaggerated into a deep slouch in an armchair with legs crossed. Exaggerate only expression, proportion and posture. Do not alter or exaggerate ethnic features, and keep my skin tone exactly as it appears in the photo. Preserve my facial identity: bone structure, eye shape and spacing, nose bridge, hairline and mouth stay recognisably mine. Traits to make visible: always reading three books at once, never finishes a cup of tea, cannot say no to a stray cat — render each one as a physical object, a piece of styling or a detail of the environment rather than as a written label, so the picture tells someone about me without a single word in it. Hobbies and habits in frame: playing an old acoustic guitar, long runs, letting the cat win the armchair, drawn as real used objects with wear on them, not clean icons. Setting: a small warm living room, warped slightly so the space curves around me. Expression and mood: contentedly overwhelmed, half-smiling with eyebrows raised. Art style: hand-drawn ink and watercolour caricature, with confident varied line weight and flat shading. Colors: burnt orange, sage green and warm paper cream. Composition: me large and central with the personal detail layered in depth behind and around me, close objects sharp and heavy-lined, distant ones lighter. Quality: high-resolution illustration, crisp linework, visible medium texture, affectionate and specific rather than generic or mocking.

Caricature illustration of a bride and groom in their early thirties. Exaggeration: heads enlarged relative to bodies, expressions amplified, postures pushed into mid-laugh with foreheads almost touching — exaggerate proportion, expression and posture only, never ethnic features, and keep both skin tones natural and unaltered. Both faces must stay individually recognisable and, importantly, flattering: this is going on an invitation, so push the charm and the warmth rather than the flaws. Attire: an ivory A-line dress with lace detail and a navy three-piece suit, with fabric drawn as real cloth — the weight of the skirt, the break of the trouser, visible texture in lace or wool rather than flat printed colour. Shared detail that ties them together: their scruffy terrier wedged between their feet, looking up, drawn small and specific, the sort of thing only the two of them would notice. Setting: a simplified garden arch reduced to a few strong shapes, simplified into a few strong shapes so the couple stays dominant in the frame. Medium: pen and ink with a soft watercolour wash, confident varied line weight — heavy on the contours and where the two figures overlap, light inside the forms — flat shading rather than smooth gradients. Colors: blush, ivory and sage green. Composition: the two figures leaning into each other so their silhouette reads as one connected shape rather than two people standing side by side, generous clean space around them for text to sit later. Quality: high-resolution illustration, crisp fully-resolved linework, visible medium texture, warm and celebratory.

Caricature illustration of a golden retriever. Exaggeration: enlarge the head relative to the body, push the eyes larger and the expression further, and amplify the breed's own distinctive features — the broad open grin, the heavy feathered tail and the soft dropped ears — so the exaggeration comes from what this animal actually looks like rather than from a generic cute-animal template. Personality to make visible in the face and posture: relentlessly optimistic, ears up, tail mid-swing, expressed through the set of the ears, the angle of the head and the weight distribution of the stance rather than through any human facial expression pasted on. Keep real animal anatomy underneath: the skull structure holds, the eyes sit properly, the legs attach where legs attach, the fur grows in the direction fur grows. Fur and coat: rendered with visible direction and texture — soft where the undercoat is, wiry where the guard hairs are — not a flat colour fill. Styling: a small red bandana. Setting: plain warm cream paper with a loose wash behind, simplified so the animal dominates the frame. Medium: pen and ink with a watercolour wash, confident varied line weight, heaviest along the back and under the jaw. Colors: warm golds, russet and cream. Composition: head large and slightly turned toward camera, body foreshortened behind it, one clear focal detail. Quality: high-resolution illustration, crisp fully-resolved linework, visible fur texture and medium grain, affectionate and funny rather than grotesque.

Black-and-white editorial caricature sketch of an older man with a heavy moustache and deep-set eyes, in the tradition of newspaper and magazine caricature. Exaggeration: build the entire likeness around one defining feature — an enormous moustache that dominates the lower half of the face — pushed hard, with everything else simplified down to support it. Exaggerate proportion, expression and posture only; never ethnic features. This is the discipline of the form: find the one thing the face is actually about, amplify that, and let the rest go quiet. Line: long confident unbroken contours with a few decisive interior marks, drawn with a dip pen with a flexible nib. Line weight must carry the whole image since there is no colour to help — heaviest along the contour on the shadow side, tapering to nothing where the form turns into light, with the pen lifted entirely where the eye can complete the shape on its own. Shading: cross-hatching and stipple only, no grey wash, density building where the form turns away from the light. Leave at least a third of the face as clean untouched paper. Paper: off-white cartridge paper with visible tooth, with visible tooth catching the ink. Accent: none — pure black ink on white. Composition: head and shoulders, three-quarter angle, generous white space, the drawing sitting slightly off-centre the way a printed caricature sits in a column. Quality: high-resolution ink illustration, every stroke crisp and individually resolved, real ink behaviour with slight bleed where strokes cross, confident and economical rather than laboured.

Photorealistic render of a 3D caricature figurine of a woman in her thirties with short curly hair, photographed as a physical collectible product. Proportions: stylised caricature scale — head roughly a third of total height of total height, hands and feet enlarged, torso and limbs shortened, in the proportion language of a designer vinyl collectible rather than a realistic scale model. Exaggerate proportion, expression and posture only; never ethnic features, and keep skin tone natural. Profession or identity props: an oversized coffee cup in one hand and a laptop tucked under the other arm, sculpted as part of the figure at the same stylisation level and the same material quality as the body. Pose: mid-stride with weight on the front leg, with weight visibly on one leg so the figure has real balance rather than standing to attention. Material and finish: matte painted vinyl with a faint satin sheen on the raised surfaces — the surface must read as a real manufactured object, with subtle mould seams, faint fingerprint-scale surface irregularity, and slightly softened edges where a real cast would soften. Lighting: soft studio key from camera left, cooler fill from the right, clean rim light behind, three-point product lighting with a soft key, a cooler fill, and a rim light separating the figure from the ground. Background: a seamless neutral grey sweep thrown gently out of focus, thrown gently out of focus. Detail: micro-scratches and dust caught in the light, contact shadow anchoring the figure to the surface it stands on. Quality: 4K ultra-high definition product photograph, shallow depth of field with the face plane sharp, physically accurate materials and reflections.

Bold cartoon caricature illustration of a man in his mid-twenties with messy hair and round glasses, in the flat-colour animated-series style people use for profile pictures. Exaggeration: push proportion and expression well past realism — an oversized head on a small body, with wildly exaggerated hair volume and a huge grin — while keeping the face specific to this person rather than a generic cartoon type, which is the whole difficulty here. Exaggerate proportion, expression and posture only; never ethnic features, and keep skin tone natural. Line: a confident heavy outline around the silhouette with lighter interior lines, tapering where the form turns, in the clean inked style of a modern animated series. Shading: flat cel shading built from hard-edged shadow shapes, one shadow tone plus one highlight per colour area, and no soft airbrushed gradients anywhere. Eyes: wide and delighted, eyebrows high, drawn large and highly expressive with clean specular highlights, but with the eye spacing and shape kept individual to this face. Hair: rendered as distinct clumped masses with a strong readable silhouette, not as individual strands. Hands: drawn simply and correctly, four fingers and a thumb, in a clear readable gesture. Background: flat radiating speed lines in a single bold colour, drawn with playful perspective distortion so the space warps slightly toward the subject. Colors: bright saturated primaries with a teal accent, bright and saturated with clean graphic separation between areas. Composition: energetic and lively, subject dominating the frame, one strong diagonal running through the pose. Quality: high-resolution cartoon illustration, crisp fully-resolved linework, flat clean colour fills, comedic and warm in tone.

Live-event caricature of a laughing woman at a wedding reception table, drawn in the fast loose style of a caricaturist working a party or wedding table in under five minutes. Exaggeration: large head, small quickly-indicated body, one dominant feature pushed hard and the rest resolved in as few strokes as possible. Exaggerate proportion, expression and posture only; never ethnic features, and keep skin tone natural and warm. The whole point of this style is economy — leave strokes visible, leave edges open, leave the drawing looking made rather than rendered. Activity or prop that identifies them: a raised champagne glass, indicated in three strokes, indicated with a few confident marks rather than fully drawn. Line: thick black brush marker with visible stroke direction, laid down fast with visible stroke direction, occasional overshoot past the corner, and no reworked or corrected lines. Colour: applied as loose flat marker blocks that deliberately overrun the linework in places, with large areas left as bare paper. Paper: cheap white cartridge paper, slightly buckled where the marker went down wet, slightly buckled where the marker went down wet. Background: one sweeping stroke of colour behind the head, one or two strokes at most. Colors: black line, warm skin tones and one bright coral accent. Composition: head and shoulders large in frame, body dropping away fast in scale, drawing sitting slightly off-centre on the sheet with visible paper margin. Quality: high-resolution illustration, individual marker strokes and their soft bleeding edges fully resolved, energetic and warm, clearly hand-drawn and clearly fast.

Group caricature illustration of five colleagues in one scene. Exaggeration: every figure gets an enlarged head, an amplified characteristic expression and an exaggerated posture — exaggerate proportion, expression and posture only, never ethnic features, and keep every skin tone natural and unaltered. Each person must be individually distinguishable at a glance by silhouette alone: vary height, build, hair mass and posture enough that no two figures read the same from across a room. Roles and what each one is known for: one wearing a headset with a hand raised mid-shout, one hugging an overflowing basket of snacks, one holding a wrench and a tangle of cables, one hunched over a desktop keyboard ignoring everyone, one clutching their head in front of a large desktop monitor covered in overlapping windows — show it through what they are physically doing and what is in their hands, never through written labels. All food packaging in frame is plain unprinted foil, and all screens are plain bezels showing only abstract shapes. Group activity: crowded around a whiteboard, all reacting differently to the same thing, with the figures arranged at genuinely different depths and heights so the group forms a shape rather than a line, and with at least one person half-out of frame or partly hidden behind another to stop it reading as a posed row. Setting: a small startup room with a covered whiteboard behind, drawn with playful perspective distortion so the room bends inward and the group stays dominant. Medium: hand-drawn ink and watercolour caricature, confident varied line weight — heaviest on foreground figures and lightest on the ones furthest back, which is what creates depth in a flat illustration. Colors: warm ochre, teal and paper cream, with foreground figures more saturated than background ones. Composition: a clear focal figure at the centre of the action, the others angled and looking toward that focus so the eye is led there. Quality: high-resolution illustration, crisp fully-resolved linework, visible medium texture, warm and celebratory rather than mocking.