Custom Portrait Drawing, Live Entertainer, Exhibition Entertainment
My drawing skills as a Live Entertainer are an eye-catcher at every exhibition and event! Instead of gray charcoal portraits, I transform people into colorful comic characters with striking accuracy.
The classic “portrait painting” can now also be called “profile picture drawing“. My live caricatures are popular as avatar images. People take home a keepsake with their portrait that will remind them of this event for years to come.
Duration for a colored A4 image with background: 7-10 minutes for 1 person, an image with 2 people takes approximately 15 minutes. If only drawing head portraits in a guest album, approximately 6 minutes per person. For event ideas, please refer to my extensive portfolios, which I send upon request.
My live caricatures are suitable for both a down-to-earth village festival or a cheerful club evening as well as for an appearance at an elegant wedding ball or an exclusive gala event.
I bring a visualizer, a document camera with which the drawing process can be transmitted live to your video projector to entertain a large audience.
Examples for: Christmas Party Christmas Season Christmas Dinner
International bookings:
Price Fee
How much does a Live Caricature Artist cost? My fee corresponds to industry-standard rates. Since you book me directly and we manage ourselves as a family business, we can keep costs low and offer fair prices. I also work with artist agencies.
The rate is influenced by factors such as location, date, or multiple bookings. Non-binding guideline for the price for a standard engagement: CHF 1,500.
For elaborate engagements, long travel, hotel, expect CHF 2,500.
Bookings at partner venues benefit from exclusively reduced rates and occasional special bargain promotions!
I grant a discount for extensive promotion of my appearance.
For multi-day engagements and regular bookings, e.g., for a campaign, I grant substantial discounts.
Price reduction for exhibition appearances.
A short engagement is less worthwhile due to the minimum fee; plan more wisely with an artist appearance of at least 3 hours, preferably 4 hours. I can also draw at events for 10 hours.
It is also possible that a quick everyday engagement in the Lucerne region, on weekdays, costs only CHF 800.
You are welcome to inquire about an engagement at your charity event; I grant non-profit organizations 20% discount when possible.
Agnes paints joy, like the Impressionists
Since her youth, Agnes has felt little appeal or often even amused bewilderment toward modern art. While contemporary art today often deliberately presents itself as critical, profoundly self-reflective, and intentionally deconstructive-disharmonious, Agnes’s clear style appears like a refreshingly naive liberation: relievingly positive, clear, and pleasantly simple.
Yet her art does not fall into ignorance or lack of education. It must not be forgotten that Agnes grew up for years in the chaos of the collapse of the Soviet Union, worked as a political caricaturist for democracy and freedom in a geopolitically unstable world region, and knows the dark sides of human existence sufficiently and perceives them today as well. She is a politically interested and critical mind.
The underlying credo “La vita è bella” does not spring from superficial feel-good esotericism, but stands firmly in the great tradition of Impressionism: It is the honest wonder and deep love for the world and people—precisely despite all the adversities of everyday life. Agnes’s works convey exactly this unshakeable, life-affirming message directly to viewers.
The Greek-Latin baptismal name “Agnes,” unusual for Armenia, means “the pure one” or “the innocent lamb.” Remarkably, her drawing style reflects exactly this meaning and is, by the artist’s nature, harmonious, positive, and benevolent.
Two-Hand Show Artist
I create astonished faces with my original Two-Hand Show, for which I received entries in the Russian Book of Records in the past and which I perform in magical UV light. The entertaining short performance is included free of charge upon request (with sufficient time) when booking me as a Live Caricature Artist.
Staff Portraits at Corporate Team Events
I visit your company as a Live Entertainer and draw the staff, also as an afterwork portrait party. At the end of this Corporate Team Event, you possess a collection of Original Artwork with which you can decorate your business. I can scan them in high-end quality. Digitally, the portraits are perfect for websites and advertising. The Staff Portraits can also be combined on a group picture in poster size. Ideal also for Christmas dinners at company events and corporate celebrations.
Live Digitization with Scanner & AI Animations
I repeatedly observe that guests immediately photograph their freshly drawn portraits with their smartphones to send them digitally. However, the quality of such a photograph is rarely ideal due to unfavorable room lighting. Digitization with a flatbed scanner is much more professional. This also offers the advantage that with group or team portraits, all involved persons can receive a digital copy of the shared work.
Upon request and for an appropriate additional fee, I bring my mobile equipment, consisting of a notebook and an A4 or A3 scanner, directly to your event. This way, the hand-drawn live caricatures can be digitized in highest quality on-site! Please note that an additional table as a workspace is necessary for this.
There are various flexible options for delivering the digital data:
- Directly on-site: I can hand you the unedited image files during the celebration, for example on a USB stick, directly.
- As a digital keepsake: Alternatively, I take the scans to my studio and send you a Digital Compilation Collage of all drawn guests afterward.
- Immediate printout: Combined with a mobile photo printer, I can even print the scanned artworks immediately on-site.
An important note for smooth operation: Scanning, saving, and printing means additional technical time. So that I as a Live Caricaturist am not slowed down and can concentrate 100% on drawing your guests, this service is ideal if an assistant from your side is assigned to me for this task. This guarantees a rapid workflow!
With my “Agnes AI Apps”, I convert digitized portrait drawings into short video animations. The results often remain a gamble, as bizarre mis-animations can occur. Or they cost, if you choose the qualitatively strongest, tendentially error-free AI models, from $3 per animation. For specific applications, the AI option can be suitable, even for full-body drawings.
Live Visualization & Visual Protocol
Are you planning an appearance at a congress, staff training, or an exhibition and looking for an alternative to a standard presentation? Create a live visualization with me, in which your speech is effectively supported by live cartoons. Ideal with my visualizer or on a flipchart.
Pictionary & Live Cartoons
As an entertainer, in addition to live caricatures, I can also support your celebration with other funny drawing interludes.
Discuss the motifs with me during planning that I should draw for a Pictionary game. Guests must guess the pictures as quickly as possible. Perhaps you would like episodes from the life story of the celebrant drawn as live cartoons, or you wish for a drawing show for your party theme.
Exhibition Entertainment and Promotional Event
At an exhibition appearance, sales event, or promotional event, it is crucial to capture the attention of the audience. A Live Caricaturist as an entertainment artist is the right choice.
This form of promotion at an exhibition event is quietly discreet yet still a visitor magnet. For Exhibition Entertainment with a product presentation of smartphones, computers, or artist supplies (e.g., drawing tablets), I can also draw the live caricatures digitally. Instead of a video projector, my portrait drawing can also be transmitted live on a television.
My skills as a portrait artist are popular as a marketing event for Valentine’s Day. I draw your customers as romantic couples with hearts and little angels. The enticing promotional campaign “free live caricatures for Valentine’s Day” attracts customers.
Examples at: Messeanimation.ch
Digital Art Portrait Painting on Tablet
Especially when very little space is available, e.g., at exhibition stands, I can also draw digitally on the tablet. This also has advantages in the process of creating a digital AI animation of the drawing.
However, my clients appreciate the unique value of a genuine original painting, precisely because today only a few artists still draw by hand on paper.
Cartoon Painting as Gift Idea
A unique gift for unique people! The surprise and joy at the gift presentation will be unforgettable. The colorful cartoon painting radiates a positive mood that is contagious.
A cartoon painting is the perfect choice as a birthday gift or wedding gift, as an exclusive expression of appreciation in the business world, for example at an employee retirement, or as a shared gift idea at a family celebration or anniversary.
The portrait can be drawn from a photo or live. The picture includes a hand-decorated mat.
My websites with many picture examples from simple to luxurious cartoon paintings:
Examples: Custom Portrait from Photo
Hand-painted Illustrations for Cards, Flyers, Invitations
Deliberately hand-drawn and with unique character. Whether company anniversary, personal Christmas greeting, or exclusive invitation to a customer event: I create Hand-painted Artwork for cards, flyers, and mailings.
As genuine craftsmanship, my works convey a feeling of approachability, tradition and humanity, human warmth. Especially today, in the era of interchangeable digitization and perfectly polished AI graphics, Original Artwork stands out in a striking way. It breaks the sterile perfection of the screen and remains in people’s memory precisely for that reason.
Scan with the high-end device WideTEK 12, which surpasses the quality of regular scanners (even in copy shops) unreachably. Despite this world-class quality, often relatively extensive post-processing of the digital image data is necessary. As a reward for this effort, the scan of an original drawing possesses outstanding uniqueness and stands out clearly from AI-generated images.
Custom Poster Painting & "Thank You Posters"
Agnes’s painting filled with joy is fabulously suited for “Thank You Posters.”
In a world full of interchangeable digital advertising and sterile graphics, hand-painted poster art sets an unmistakable sign. A hand-drawn poster exudes down-to-earth naturalness, genuine tradition, and a feeling of approachability that immediately touches people. Printing is done digitally, of course: Agnes paints the works in the studio and delivers the graphic data as a high-end scan in print resolution. The digital images can then be scaled up to poster size.
Airy, cheerful, and unmistakable
The “Agnes Style”
Agnes’s colorful posters stand out, they are eye-catchers in public spaces that attract attention without ever provoking. They adorn their location and bring a noticeably positive radiance and happy mood directly to passersby.
High recognition value: After over 20 years of professional practice as an artist in Switzerland, her unmistakable style is already known to quite a few people throughout the country. These passersby recognize a genuine “Agnes” immediately. This automatically gives the poster even more attention and lends it a high-quality, artistically attractive note.
Clarity instead of complexity: Where others need long advertising texts or awkwardly original photo motifs, the artist puts complex themes directly, clearly, and easily understandably into the picture. No convoluted language, but visual messages that immediately get to the point and are understood.
Drawing Pictures for Calendars
A custom calendar accompanies a company throughout the entire year and is a comprehensive design project. A tailor-made company calendar with 12 original drawings, delivered as edited high-end scans in best print quality, is a real eye-catcher.
To maintain the common thread and keep the project within scope, I focus on simple, charming motifs that alternate with lots of wit and heart. A typical company object that serves as a recurring cartoon character through the months is particularly suitable. Equally effective is the humorous representation of internal values and guiding principles, which thereby remain present in everyday life. The drawings radiate positive energy that is appreciated by employees and brings a little smile to the office every day.
A commission for the Road Traffic Office Canton Lucerne on the theme “Corporate Culture”: Hand-painted and digitized with a high-end scanner illustrations for a unique annual calendar. Through its positive emotionality and the cheerfulness it radiates, the calendar is popular with customers and is hung up and kept.
Unique Logo Design & Character Design:
Bringing Objects to Life
My great strength and passion lies in Character Design: I bring inanimate objects to life and transform them into witty, likeable, and appealing cartoon characters. Whether a piece of furniture, an everyday object, or a factory production good, I give every product its own personality and form an emotional character with recognition value from it.
In a time when almost all Logotypes are created as purely digital, often sterile computer graphics, digitized Hand-painted Artwork stands out from the crowd. A hand-drawn logo gives your brand or company an unmistakable, approachable face. It conveys to customers at first glance tangible quality, genuine artisanal tradition, and trustworthy down-to-earthness.
Drawing Art and Artistic Painting
Thanks to my many years of study at the art academy in classical art, I am versatile. I work not only as a Live Entertainer but also as a cartoonist, comic artist, and illustrator, and I also dedicate myself to the supreme discipline of oil painting. Feel free to inquire.
In addition to my appearances as an entertainment artist, I work in my studio as an illustrator. I draw versatilely from business logos to greeting cards and paint from stage sets for theater to templates for tattoos. My virtuosity, however, is the children’s book.
AI Artificial Intelligence Cartoons
As a gag and exciting conversation topic, I offer especially for live events the mass processing of AI-generated portrait cartoons.
Own Productions Pedagogy
My illustrations in the workbook developed by my husband for using Swiss rap music in school lessons: 
My husband is a Catholic religious educator and developed innovative Bible games for religious education in primary school. My careful drawings based on historical research contribute significantly to the charm of these “Serious Games.” Through the educational games, learning is combined with entertainment; religious education becomes an event for children and young people.
