Darío de León is a freelance illustrator and caricature artist from Palma, Spain. Darío’s caricature style is similar to styles found in the pages of old Cracked or Mad Magazines. In fact, movie stars are the subjects in many of his caricatures. So, he’s got that in common with those magazines as well. In the featured art piece, Darío caricatured Jason Statham and Dwayne Johnson in rolls of the machismo powered action flick, Hobbs and Shaw. He’s got them shirts off and flexing in all their cheesy glory, complete with explosions and a helicopter in the background. Darío captured the feeling of Hobbs and Shaw’s as fun brain candy.

Find more of Darío de León’s work here!
https://www.artstation.com/darilarts

Ekaterina Grusovskaya, or Ekat for short, is a concept and character designer living in Moscow, Russia. As is so often the case, her skills as a character designer overlap with those of a caricature artist. The featured piece above is a particularly dynamic caricature of Jürgen Klopp, a famous football/soccer coach. Not only do we have a further exaggeration of an already exaggerated expression, but we also have exaggerated body movement as well. Ekat doesn’t copy the pose exactly. She brings one arm up and adds more girth to the coach’s gut. It makes for a comical scene.

If you’re looking for more work from Ekaterina Grusovskaya you can find it here.
https://www.artstation.com/ekatherinagorelko

Sean Gardner is a much sought after artist out of Salem Massachusetts. He’s known for his vivid yet gothic “new school” style tattoo work. However, before he worked on skin he was known to throw ink on paper. Sean carved himself a niche in the wide world of caricature. He doesn’t just exaggerate his victims, I mean his subjects, he slays them on the paper. Sean specialized in zombie caricatures. His strong skills and his flair for the macabre are on full display on the featured image above. Look at his subject’s unsuspecting face in the photo. I bet Sean knocked him dead with this caricature! Figuratively speaking, of course.

Sean Gardner has mostly traded in his marker for a tattoo gun, but his work is still great.
Find more of it at the links below!
https://www.instagram.com/seangardnerisawesome/
https://www.helheimgallery.com/sean-gardner

Rafael ‘Rafa’ Caballero is an illustrator and caricaturist from
Cordova, Spain. Rafa specializes in a style very similar to a portrait in their realism, but the way-out and wacky proportions make his work unmistakeable as caricature. He seems to like to target mouths, teeth, and lips. In the featured piece, a caricature of Julia Roberts, the subject almost has more gumline than teeth. The nostrils are also ridiculously stretched. This kind of caricature strays into distortion for its humor. And humor is definitely achieved. One might wonder what Ms. Roberts thinks of the work.

You can find more of Rafael ‘Rafa” Caballero’s art in the links below:
https://www.instagram.com/rafael_caballero_art/
https://www.artstation.com/rafacaballero

Jean-Baptiste Monge is a well-known illustrator, concept artist and character designer. He’s particularly known as an artist who does a lot of otherworldly characters. especially fairies and wee folk. So it’s no surprise he drifted into caricature when he sought to capture Peter Dinklage in his role as Tyrion Lannister for Game of Thrones. Jean-Baptiste lists Brian Froud, Alan Lee, an Frank Frazetta among his early influences. On close inspection, you can find homages to those artists in this piece. Jean-Baptiste exaggeration extends beyond just likeness and into the expression of the character. Tyrion’s story is not a happy one. His tired expression and his dead eyes hint at the complexity of this character.

Find more of Jean-Baptiste Monge work here:

http://www.jbmonge.com

https://www.artstation.com/jeanbaptistemonge

https://www.instagram.com/jbmongestudio/

Kiko Yamada is a traveling caricature artist working shows and fairs across the U.S. and around the world. An entrepreneur, she’s also run live caricature stands across the west coast. She has a bold cartoony art style typical of someone influenced by the 2d cartoon renaissance of the ’90s.
She uses a few thick expressive lines to define a likeness. Her style is minimalistic but very funny. She exaggerates not only the likeness but the expression as well. In the featured picture, all of the subjects have great expressions. Especially the little girl. She may not be having a great time, but the rest of her family looks like they are enjoying themselves.

More of Kiko Yamada work can be found at the link here.
https://www.instagram.com/ninjasketch/

Sam Gorrie is a caricature artist that travels where ever caricature takes her. Her style is constantly evolving as she tries out new things and works them into her repertoire. Her caricatures come in any shape and size, including six-foot cut-out form. In the featured caricature the subject is a newborn. A daring feat, because most babies this young don’t have very distinct features yet. She does a great job of capturing the cute baby burrito making good use of his little hat and blanket wrap, as well as nailing his expression.

You can find more of Sam Gorri’s wacky work at the links listed:
https://www.instagram.com/sam_artypants/
https://en-gb.facebook.com/Sam.Artypants/

Prosenjit Mondal is an illustrator, concept artist and animator specializing in 2d working out of Hyderabad, India. He’s also a great caricature artist. Prosenjit took his time gathering photos of Morgan Freeman. He studied the actor’s different expressions before settling on one for his caricature piece. Then Prosenjit got to work in photoshop to compose and render the caricature. He uses the same basic oval shape over and over again. This creates rhythm that holds the work together. Prosenjit makes great use of Photoshop’s features to add texture and detail, making the image very lifelike despite the fact it’s a caricature.

Prosenjit’s work is all around the web here are a few of may places his work can be found.
https://prosnarts.artstation.com/
https://prosn.cgsociety.org
https://www.deviantart.com/prosn/

Miller Almeida is a caricature artist and illustrator with a painterly and high polished style based out of Porto Alegre, Brazil. He specializes in a high-end style that could be commissioned to grace the glossy cover of a magazine. The composition of Miller’s work is fairly simple. A famous head front and center, with a kind of fish-eye-lens type view for the base of the exaggeration of likeness. That seems to only be the starting point. From there Miller simplifies and stretch the likeness almost to the point of distortion. Finally, Miller adds fairly realistic paint rendering to finish. The featured piece of Rowan Atkinson as Mr. Bean exemplifies this, down to the little bumps on his face to the stitching on his Teddy.

Find more of Millar Almeida’s work around the web below.
https://www.instagram.com/maptcom
https://www.artstation.com/maptcom
https://www.deviantart.com/maptcom

Ricardo De Los Angeles, or Ricky for short, is an artist with many skills under his belt. He’s an illustrator, an animator, a character designer, and of course, he’s a caricaturist. Currently, Ricky is working in California at Walt Disney Imagineering as a character artist. He still delves into caricature every now and again. Ricardo’s art style is flowing and cartoony. He favors large basic shapes, that allow him to create characters with strong silhouettes. The featured art piece is a caricature Benedict Cumberbatch in his role as Dr. Strange. This highly geometric interpretation, at first glance, might seem like a stylized version of Marvel Comics’ Sorcerer Supreme: Dr. Strange. However, that triangular face and the high chiseled cheekbones are unmistakable as Cumberbatch as the MCU version. Although he’s not active as a caricaturist at the moment, he still has his exaggeration skills.

Have a look at more of Ricardo De Los Angeles’ work below.
https://rickyanimation.carbonmade.com
https://www.instagram.com/rickyanimation
https://rickyanimation.tumblr.com