Character Design Tutorial Roundup: Best Illustration Tutorials

Character design is the art of creating realistic and recognizable characters for comics, websites, vector illustrations, and even animated films.  Not only do you have to have a mastery of whatever character design software that you’re using, such as Photoshop or Illustrator, but you also have to understand how to capture and illustrate emotions and body language.

In this character design tutorial roundup, we’ve gathered up the best Illustrator tutorials and Photoshop tutorials for character illustration.  These character illustration tutorials will take you through step by step on your journey of creating your own illustrated characters.

If you want a quick background on character design, there is a great thread on CGSociety: Character Design Tutorial

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Let us know if you have your own character design tutorial in the comments!  Also, be sure to let us know which character design tutorial was your favorite!

Character Design Tutorial Roundup:

Character Design Tutorial: Cartoon Character Tutorial in Photoshop

Character Design Tutorial: Create a Minion Character from DespicableMe

Character Design Tutorial: Create Character Driven Book Cover Art

Character Design Tutorial: Create a Vector Soldier Character in Illustrator

Character Design Tutorial: Draw a Cute Santa in Illustrator

Character Design Tutorial: Create a Cute Vector Reindeer in Illustrator

Character Design Tutorial: Create a Tiger Striped Cat with Illustrator

Character Design Tutorial: How to Draw Ferb Step by Step

Character Design Tutorial: How to Draw a Cute Vector Dog in Illustrator

Character Design Tutorial: Create a Gang of Vector Ninjas

Real World Effects

Create an Evil Flesh Eating Zombie in Illustrator

Creating Cute Vector Characters in Illustrator

Character Design Tutorial: How to Create a Website Mascot

Character Design Tutorial: Create a Cute Vector Bunny Character

Create Convincing Characters

Create a Character Mascot in Illustrator CS4

Character Design Tutorial: Create a Twitter Style Bird Mascot

Character Design Tutorial: How to Illustrate a Cute Emo Kid

Character Design Tutorial Create a Cardboard Character

Draw Fairy Tale Characters in Photoshop

How to Create a Vector Illustration and Prepare it for Micro Stock Sale

How to Get an Anime Look in Photoshop

Character Design Tutorial: Create an Original Pinup Girl in Photoshop

Yupyland Character Art

Japanese Kamon and Hanko Stamp Workshop

Blurring Effects for Depth of Field on a Cartoon Character

Drawing Figures from Photos

Inking and Coloring a Comic Strip

Character Design Tutorial: Design a Food Packaging Character

Calligraphic Strokes in Character Art

Create Line Drawings in Illustrator

Pixels and Vectors for Character Design

Character Design Tutorial: Illustrate a LeBron James Character

Character Design Tutorial: Drawing Homer Simpson

Create a Cartoon Character with Expressive Lines

Create a Furry Vector Monster in Illustrator

Character Design Tutorial: Create Your Own Monster

Cartoon Tutorial with a Wacom tablet

Character Design Tutorial: Create a Vector Pirate Character in Illustrator