I’m confused. If this is real, what should he have done. She fat, he made her look better.
Is it the artists fault the parents are not doing their job or hired him?
I don’t quite understand how the caricature looks better to anyone. If anything, it’s more emotionless than the girl, but otherwise it’s awful–not just tactless, but a hack drawing. Many bad caricaturists have a formulaic drawing style where they start with the eyes (making them recognizable), “exaggerate” the nose (by making it bigger, never mind that the subject has a tiny nose), and outline a jawline much too big for the rest of the face that’s usually filled with a huge grin.
In this case, the face + the formula = something grotesque and rather sad. A more skilled artist probably could have found some potential cuteness; I wonder if ththis guy even realized what he was doing before it was too late
I hope the pic’s just a ribbing. Otherwise the artist is an @$$. Just because the kid looked unhappy is no reason for the adult to make it a bad experience. If the parent paid for that pic I’m sure it’s trash now. I have two kids off my own that piss me off often, even if I discipline them I make sure it won’t touch their self-esteem.
I’m saving that for when they’re teens 
My parents (mostly my mother) insisted on having drawings of the three of us kids done by a caricaturist at a fair when we were respectively 17, 14 and 9. My sister and I both came out looking unhappy (an accurate portrayal) and my brother (the oldest) ended up looked pissed (he was). My mother insisted on hanging the damn things in the house for many years.
They are now decomposing in a landfill somewhere, which is a good thing.
I sure hope you mean the drawings. 
Is it possible that caricature is photoshopped in?
For starters, he could have drawn a child instead of an older woman.
My sisters, my stepbrother, and I went to Sears early one morning to get group photos as a Mother’s Day gift for my mom. I might have been 10 or 11 at the time. My oldest sister and my stepbrother had hangovers, my other sister had been in her running away from home stage, and I had a bunch of cuts on my face from an accident involving a broken light fixture. Everyone looked pale and unhappy in the picture, but my mother would not take that damned photo off the wall. She loved it.
It was either Hitler or the Kennedy assassins. All 4 thousand of them, each a failed aspiring artist.
I’m guessing trying to narrow out her eye area made her look older but why will that scar her? As was pointed out up thread, he’s a hack artist in a hack profession. What’s with all the social significance? Why is owning this piece of shit any different than buying a ballon animal dog? It’s all crap.
Despite the timbre of my earlier posts I don’t believe THIS will scar the kid. My problem is that it was unnecessary. This COULD be one of many little indignities the kid will have to face.
I thought it was funny as it was presented… It could be fake. I don’t want to make it seem earth-shattering.
Doesn’t anyone one else suspect this is photoshopped or posed?
Edit:
:smack: YEAH, THE POST RIGHT BEFORE THIS!
I think the insightful post 46 should be scrutinized more fully, too.
My guess is not photoshopped, but definitely staged.
I’m not in the ‘this will scar her’ camp. I am in the ‘I didn’t laugh’ camp. It’s a poor caricature, if indeed it’s not a PhotoShop. shrug
my girl didn’t cry,
I wonder why?
What she said to my suprise,
Big girls don’t cry,
silly boy,
good-by-eye-eye,
Frankie Valli
Day #2 and still laughing.
I’m surprised that nobody has suggested the possibility that the sketch was photoshopped.
Call me crazy, but I don’t think it was Photoshopped. Just an inkling I have though. 
And the picture still brings out a smile (a sick and twisted smile I admit) and light chuckle from me.
Here’s what I thought when I saw the photo. The artist had just finished drawing the girl’s mother when the photo was taken. Maybe the girl was being urged to have hers done next and didn’t want to and that’s why she’s staring daggers at the guy. Even the crappiest caricaturist would’ve drawn a more kid-like kid. The drawing looks like an adult.
I don’t think he made her look better, but I’m with you regarding the weight. It’s not like he made her look fatter. The kid seems to have more than “baby fat” as suggested before. If he’d drawn her looking like Barbie I’m sure we’d have a flood of people complaining that he was trying to tell her to lose weight.