Caricature Invitation Brief Builder

• A clear, front-facing photo of every person The face is the whole job. A side profile hides the shape of the nose, the chin and the smile — the three things that make a caricature look like you.
• Taken in good light Daylight near a window, or a well-lit room. Harsh shadows and dark photos hide the features our designer has to draw.
• No sunglasses, caps or heavy filters We need the real eyes, eyebrows and hairline. Beauty filters smooth away exactly the details that make the drawing recognisable.
• A full-length photo if the outfit matters Lehenga, sherwani, saree pleats, the jewellery, the pagdi — we can only draw what we can see. If the outfit is not decided yet, send a photo of one you like instead.
• A hairstyle reference The hairstyle you will actually wear on the day — bun, open hair, turban, beard trimmed or full. An old photo with different hair sends the drawing in the wrong direction.
• A separate photo per person, not a group shot In a group photo each face is only a few hundred pixels wide. Zooming in gives us a blur. One photo per person, please.
• Sent at full quality from your camera roll A photo that has been forwarded around WhatsApp a few times is compressed every time. Open your gallery and pick the original, rather than forwarding the copy someone sent you.

Not every point applies to every order — for a pet, there is no hairstyle to match. Tick it anyway once you have decided it does not apply, so we know you have looked at it.