It’s early afternoon and you’re scrolling through Instagram, when all of a sudden a very cool post catches your eye. It’s a picture of one of your friends drawn inside a cartoon family portrait with some cartoon pet portraits to match! It’s utterly fascinating.
As you read the description, it states that it's a custom-made cartoon portrait. You’ve seen them before, but never really thought they could look this awesome! It’s such a unique piece, and you wonder how you can do this yourself. The colors and attention to detail makes it all sort of complicated, that your thoughts go something like:
Wow! How’d they get a cartoon self portrait to look like THIS? Did they draw this?! I wouldn’t even know where to begin creating something like this. Where could I get something like this done?
Well my friends, today is your lucky day! In today’s post, we’ll be going over the whos, the hows, and the whats of cartoon portraits. We’ll talk about the basics, initial concepts, and how easy it is to create them using a service like Cartoonely to put them together that you can give as gifts. We’ll even go over the five most popular cartoon portraits that are bestsellers!
And psst… they’re all from your favorite cartoon sitcoms! Let’s get into it!
What Are Cartoon Portraits?
Cartoon portraits in the literal sense are animations or hand-drawn pictures depicted in an emphasized way that’s mostly used for humor. The process of a completed cartoon portrait can either be drawn using sketches, watercolor, graffiti style, and in today’s age it’s usually done with a computer software program like Photoshop or Procreate. That’s certainly how it’s done in these neck of the woods.
A cartoon is a simplified version of who or whatever you’re planning to draw or animate. You’ll be picking out key features that make them, them. It can be a distinct face shape, expression, height, or body type. Another key element to focus on are gestures and facial expressions. This brings more “life” into the photo, making it more emotional and realistic to the viewer of who or whatever the cartoon is about.
How You Can Create a Cartoon Portrait Using Cartoonely
If after reading this you feel overwhelmed about creating cartoon portraits, a “done for you” cartoon service like Cartoonely would be your next choice! When you use our service, you not only get to use a simple and easy system to help create incredible custom cartoon portraits, you’re also getting a stellar team of artists with TONS of experience. This guarantees that you’ll be receiving a 5-star custom cartoon portrait that you and your loved ones will cherish!
And while some other quick service can be fun for the budget-conscious, it’s focusing on details that will evoke a more realistic feel and overall sense of familiarity in the cartoon. And if given as a gift, your loved one will love you even more for the attention to details! Read on for more details.
First, Select the Cartoon
At Cartoonely, we give you different options to create your cartoon portrait. Select and transform you or your loved ones into some of your favorite cartoon sitcom characters. Below you’ll find well-known cartoons from movies or shows that you can choose from our categories. These include:
Simpsons Style Portraits: Love the clever and witty humor of this show? Create a cartoon family portrait as one of the most popular families on television in one of the longest, running cartoon sitcoms!
Disney Style Portraits: Who wouldn’t want to be living in a magical fairytale? Whether you want to be like Cinderella, Jasmine, or even a villain like Captain Hook, there’s a character to fit everyone’s personality. This style is perfect for cartoon pet portraits.
Rick & Morty Style Portraits: Are you into sci-fi, vulgar comedy? Transport your cartoon portrait into another dimension and experience outer space calamity after calamity.
Marvel Style Portraits: See yourself saving the world from bad guys like Thanos and Ultron? Become your favorite Superhero as Captain America or Ironman and save the world from impending chaos!
Futurama Style Portraits: Do you want to experience “a very real-world of tomorrow”? Experience 1000 years into the future like Fry, and battle work mundanely with one-eyed Leela and robot Bender. It’ll literally be out of this world!
Select the Number of People
What’s great is that you choose how many people you’d want in your cartoon portrait. So if you decide to include your great cousin’s goddaughter, you can! And pets? Be it a cat, dog, fish, turtle, or ALL of them - they can be a part of the portrait too. At Cartoonely, we believe the more characters included, the merrier.
Select the Plan of Portrait
For the body of the cartoon self portrait, you select if you’d want either a full-body or half-body feature. AND if you want a full-body featured in a half-length photo, we can do that too. This is important to consider as you’re able to draw a position of your body in a specific way that can really help to evoke an overall emotion from the portrait. For example, if you tell the artist to draw one character in the portrait with their arms crossed, it gives off a “closed-off” emotion.
Select the Background
There is an array of various backgrounds to choose from. They’re pre-made so you can jump right into the world and totally customizable so you can add small items that are important to you. And if you decide you want your own 100% customized background? The artists can do that for you too.
Whether you want to create a custom cartoon portrait for yourself, or for your loved one, it’s a great gift to give that they’ll be in awe to receive! Getting a custom-made gift like a cartoon portrait is something unique and will stop anyone in their tracks to stare at how amazing it is.
So go ahead friend! Start creating your own cartoon self portrait now. You can guarantee that you’ll be getting professional, high-quality cartoon portraits created that’ll make even Bart Simpson say, “¡Ay, caramba!”