Abstract: A caricature generating system and method. The caricature generating system comprises an edge tracing and stroking unit, a posterizing and texturing unit, an image blending unit, a facial image adjusting unit, a cartoon theme composition unit, a styling parameters database comprising a plurality of styling parameters including the control parameters for edge tracing, stroking, posterizing, and texturing, a face adjusting parameter database comprising a plurality of face adjusting parameter set, and a cartoon theme database comprising a plurality of cartoon themes, thereby creating a caricature from a facial image. The styling parameters (including the control parameters for edge tracing, stroking, posterizing, and texturing), created manually or by a software, comprise oil paint, pastel, a wax crayon, marker pen, pen drawing, tempera paint, glue color paint, halftone, watercolor paint, block print, woodcut, color pencil, charcoal and their combinations.