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AI Caricature Generator
An oversized head, playful exaggeration, and features your friends still recognise. It is the cartoon a street artist would draw, from a photo you already have.
One photo, a funny cartoon
A real caricature, drawn by the model this page runs on. Drag the divider to compare the original photo with the cartoon result. Every output is AI-generated, so your finished picture varies with your photo, your prompt, and the style you describe — treat this as a guide to what the tool can do, not a fixed result you will get back exactly.
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What is an AI caricature generator?
Exaggeration is the easy half; keeping the likeness through it is the hard one. One photo of you comes back redrawn as a funny cartoon — a playfully oversized head, stretched features, bold hand-drawn linework instead of camera detail — with the same person still reading through all of it.
Instead of hiring a street artist or fiddling with filters that just add outlines, you upload a clear picture and the model reads your features, pushes the ones that make you you, and colours the whole thing like an illustration. The photo goes in as it is, you pick a size, and the price of the run is on screen before you agree to it.
A failed run is refunded automatically unless it broke the content policy, so a render that does not come back never costs you a credit. Exaggeration is the point: a drawing that flatters everyone equally has stopped doing the job. What makes one land is restraint about which features get pushed — two or three, chosen because they are the ones a friend would describe you by, while everything else stays close to the photograph so the likeness holds.
Creative engine
How the cartoon comes together
Upload a photo, pick the vibe, choose the format and resolution, and the credit estimate updates before you generate.
A bold drawing, not an outline pass
The model redraws you as a bold cartoon with an oversized head and lively illustrated colour. A filter that traces edges over a photograph leaves the photograph underneath; a redraw replaces it, and the difference shows in the hands and the hair.
The features people know you by
The smile, the glasses, the hair — those get pushed rather than smoothed, which is what keeps the drawing recognisable instead of generic. If the result could be anybody, the exaggeration went to the wrong three features.
Set the format, check the credit estimate, and generate; a run that fails is refunded unless it broke the content policy, and the estimate moves with the format so the cost is visible first. Exaggeration is the point here. The pet portrait plays the same joke straight-faced on an animal, and the oil painting portrait drops the joke and keeps the likeness.
Draw your cartoon in three steps
From one photo to a big-head cartoon, with the cost shown before you commit.
Make my caricature
Add one clear photo where your face and expression are easy to read. A big smile and clear features give the model the most to play with.
Pick the vibe
Steer it if you like — more or less exaggeration, a colour or black-and-white ink look, a prop or a background. Clear direction keeps the drawing on-brief.
Check credits and generate
Confirm the estimate, generate the cartoon, and download it. A cartoon that fails to render is refunded, unless the content policy stopped it.
Who draws a cartoon
Leaving gifts, team pages, avatars that should not look too serious.
Birthdays & parties
Turn the guest of honour into a big-head cartoon for a card, a poster, or a laugh in the group chat that always lands.
Fun avatars
Swap a plain headshot for a playful drawing on socials or a gaming profile, an avatar with personality that still looks like you.
Team & about pages
Give a company page a friendly, human feel with a matching set of drawn portraits instead of stiff corporate headshots.
Cartoon portrait FAQ
Common questions about turning a photo into a fun cartoon with Kavel.
By default the head is enlarged and the standout features are pushed for a classic big-head look, on a smaller body. Want it milder or wilder? Say so in the prompt and the drawing follows. A failed or unwanted run takes seconds to redo.
Yes — that is the point. The exaggeration lands on the real features, so the smile, the glasses, the hair, and the face stay recognizable. A clear, expressive photo makes the likeness read strongest.
It is a full redraw, not a live filter. The model rebuilds you as an illustration with clean linework and flat colour rather than tracing outlines over your photo, so the output is a finished cartoon image you can download.
A sharp, well-lit, front-facing photo with a clear expression. A big smile and visible features give the model the most to exaggerate; heavy shadow or a tiny, blurry face give it less to work with.
Both. Ask for lively digital colour or a black-and-white ink style in the prompt and the model matches it. If the first result is not the look you pictured, adjust the wording and run it again — the estimate is on screen before each attempt.
New accounts start with free credits, so the first few runs cost nothing. After that the price depends on the resolution and how many images you ask for, and the estimate updates on screen before you press generate. A failed run is refunded automatically (unless it broke the content policy).
Kavel pricing — you pay per generation, never per seat
Credits are shared across everything Kavel runs. You see the cost before each run, and a failed job is never charged.
Free
What's included
- 15 credits before you sign up
- +40 when you create an account
- +100 a week from daily check-ins
- = 488 a month — 97 images or 12 videos
- No card, no account
- Free engine every day Grok Imagine
- Photo editing Nano Banana 2 Lite
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Starter
What's included
- 3,150 credits per month
- Up to 630 images or 78 videos Grok Imagine Nano Banana
- Clean downloads, no watermark
- Every model unlocked Veo 3.1 Seedance Nano Banana
- Cost shown before you generate
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Creator
What's included
- 7,200 credits per month
- Up to 1,440 images or 180 videos Grok Imagine Nano Banana
- Clean downloads, no watermark
- Every model unlocked Veo 3.1 Seedance 2 Nano Banana 2
- No shared queue
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Studio
What's included
- 13,200 credits per month
- Up to 2,640 images or 330 videos Grok Imagine Nano Banana
- Clean downloads, no watermark
- Every model unlocked Seedance 2.5 Kling 3.0 Veo 3.1
- No shared queue
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Charges appear as “KAVEL AI” on your card statement. You can cancel any time from Settings → Billing; cancellation takes effect at the end of the period you already paid for. Operator details, the full model list, and the refund window are on the about page.
More cartoon treatments for a face
Other art styles for the same photo, and the model behind the edit.
Draw your cartoon
The head grows, the features stretch, and your friends still know who it is. That is the part worth checking first.