Guide

Caricature Styles: What They Are And Which To Offer At Each Event

By Lucía Ferrer, Product Specialist at PictiaX® · October 29, 2026 · 7 min read

Search for caricature styles and you mostly get drawing techniques for artists. This guide is for someone else: the event business that owns a caricature robot, or is looking at one, and has to decide which styles to offer at a wedding, a holiday party or a trade show booth. The images are from PictiaX®: the same face run through the system in each style.

What Caricature Styles Are There?

For events, three families do the work. A portrait keeps the real proportions of the face and draws it with a clean line. A caricature plays with the features and loosens the line. Themed styles put the guest's face, bigger than life, on a small body in a costume with a scene behind it.

Drawing has many more techniques, with color, watercolor or shading. A robot that draws with a marker works in line, though, so for an event business the styles that count are the ones a pen can trace.

Which Caricature Styles Does PictiaX® Draw?

Nine come with the system, and the catalog grows with each version of the portal. All of them keep the guest's face, which is what makes people recognize themselves on paper:

• PictiaX® Portrait: a clean, recognizable line. The one that works at any event.
• Caricature: the same features with a looser line.
• Full Body: head to toe, in the guest's own pose.
• Footballer: soccer uniform, ball and the field behind.
• Superhero: cape, mid flight, city below.
• Astronaut: spacesuit, rocket and planets.
• Chef: hat, spoon and a full kitchen.
• Skater: board, ramp and graffiti behind.
• Surfer: board, wave and a palm tree.

Here is the same face in each of the nine, exactly as the system draws it:

To watch the robot drawing live, with photos and videos from PBX Europe in Amsterdam, go to the gallery.

Can The Robot Draw A Comic Starring The Guest?

Yes. On top of the portrait styles, the arm draws a four-panel comic with the guest's face in every panel, as recognizable as the portrait. It's drawn on paper with the same pen, and the guest takes it home.

You choose the story: the wedding, the birthday or your brand launch. Here's a wedding example:

A portrait gets looked at. A comic gets shared and retold, and it's what people show off the next day. That's why it works so well at a wedding with a story or at a booth where the brand wants to be talked about. It uses two PICTICOINS per guest, twice a portrait.

What Is The Future Card?

It's a game. The guest types their name and the arm draws their future: the caricature and a line with their name, on the same sheet. The arm writes the name and the prediction with the same pen, not a printer.

There are ten futures, like fortune, travel, love, success or fame, and you switch on the ones that fit each event. It turns on and off per event: when it's off, the same QR shows the usual kiosk. It runs in English, Spanish, German or Portuguese, one language per event. Here are four cards for the same guest:

It costs the same as a portrait, one PICTICOIN per guest. It imagines, it doesn't predict, which is why it works at any party: switch on love at a wedding and success at a corporate dinner.

How Do Guests Pick A Style At The Event?

When you create an event in the portal, every style in the catalog is switched on. If you leave it that way, guests choose from all nine. If you keep only one, everybody gets that one.

The guest scans the QR code, takes the photo with their own phone, picks a style from the ones you switched on and sees a preview on screen. If they don't like it, they retake it right there, before the robot picks up the pen.

Paper size is set separately, for example 4 × 6". A margin at the bottom holds the logo, the couple's names or the campaign line, and the robot draws the portrait above it.

Which Styles To Switch On For Weddings, Corporate Events And Trade Shows

Switching on all nine at every event makes the choice longer in front of the phone, and nobody at a wedding needs the astronaut. This is what we recommend by event type:

With two or three styles on, guests decide fast and the line keeps moving. One thing we heard from the field: an operator who ran the system at real events in summer 2026 told us guests ask for caricatures far more often than portraits. If in doubt, keep Caricature on.

How Do You Create Your Own Caricature Style?

If none of the nine fits your client, you write your own in the portal: a name, a description of the theme and, if you want, the background. A produce stand, a bounce house company or a soccer team.

You can create it at the event if you need to, you don't have to ask anyone for it and there is no extra charge. It stays in your account for that client's next event.

It is also an easy line on your quote. Check Cherry's 2026 pricing guide, built on about 118,000 US photo booth bookings, shows that only 26% of them include any add-on, and when one is attached the median add-on spend is $147. A style written around the client's theme is the kind of extra that sells after the client has said yes, and what you charge for it is up to you.

Does One Style Cost More Than Another?

No. One PICTICOIN is used each time a new caricature is generated from a new photo, and it covers the face analysis, the line, the style and the brand layer. It starts at $0.12 and goes down with volume. The future card costs the same, one PICTICOIN per guest. The four-panel comic uses two PICTICOINS.

Drawing the same caricature again doesn't use another one: if a drawing comes out wrong, you resend it to the robot from the queue. For 100 guests, PICTICOINS cost you between $13.40 and $19.00.

The pace is about 60 seconds per portrait, 50 to 60 an hour per arm. When the line grows you lower the detail and raise the speed, and when it's quiet the detail goes up and the line comes out finer.

What To Check In The Styles Before You Buy A Robot

Ask to see your own face drawn in several styles, on paper and in front of you. Everything looks good on a screen. On paper you see whether the line is continuous or dotted, and whether people still recognize themselves under a costume.

Ask too whether you can create styles yourself or depend on the manufacturer, and whether the style changes what you pay per portrait. The rest of the checklist is on what matters before you buy, and how the robot fits next to a booth is in how to add an AI caricature booth to your photo booth business.

The complete PictiaX® system costs $3,500 before tax: the arm, the software forever, two bases and 500 portraits, with a three year warranty. Shipping and import duties are extra, as explained in what an AI caricature robot costs in the US. Everything else is on the system page.

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