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
