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30 Tutorials for Designing Fun and Creative Characters

Published October 12th, 2009 in Design

This post features tutorials for designing various characters and cartoons in Illustrator and Photoshop. Characters are often used for branding  websites or companies, so it is certainly a useful skill. For other tutorials, you may be interested in:

Create a Super Happy Octopus Character

Create  a Super Happy Octopus Character

Create a Cute Furry Vector Monster in Illustrator

Create  a Cute Furry Vector Monster in Illustrator

Create Simple Cartoon Characters in Photoshop

Create Simple Cartoon Characters in Photoshop

How to Create an Original Pin-Up Girl in Photoshop

How to Create an Original Pin-Up Girl in Photoshop

Drunken Monkey Photoshop Tutorial

Drunken  Monkey Photoshop Tutorial

Drawing Homer Simpson

Drawing Homer  Simpson

How to Create a Website Mascot

How  to Create a Website Mascot

Create a Blue Vector Character from Pencil Sketch to Coloring

Create a Blue Vector Character from Pencil Sketch to Coloring

Create a Cute Vector Monster from a Pencil Sketch

Create a Cute Vector Monster from a Pencil Sketch

Create a Cute Panda Bear Face Icon

Create a Cute Panda Bear Face Icon

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

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

Illustrator Tutorial – Create a Gang of Vector Ninjas

Illustrator  Tutorial - Create a Gang of Vector Ninjas

How to Illustrate a Cute Emo Kid

How  to Illustrate a Cute Emo Kid

The Making of Abe, the Are My Sites Up? Mascot

The  Making of Abe, the Are My Sites Up? Mascot

How to Create a Stinking Zombie Flesh-Eater in Illustrator

How  to Create a Stinking Zombie Flesh-Eater in Illustrator

Create a Character Illustration Wallpaper

Create a Character Illustration Wallpaper

Vectorial Character Design with Illustrator

Vectorial Character Design with Illustrator

Character Illustration

Character  Illustration

How to Create Your Own Vector Cartoon Character

How to Create Your Own Vector Cartoon Character

Create a Vector Art Twitter Bird Character Icon in Adobe Illustrator

Create a Vector Art Twitter Bird Character Icon in Adobe Illustrator

Animate a Flying Bird

Animate a Flying Bird

How to Create a Cute Hippo Character

How to Create a Cute Hippo Character

How to Create a Cute and Adorable Twitter Icon in Photoshop

How to Create a Cute and Adorable Twitter Icon in Photoshop

Create Your Own Monster

Create Your Own Monster

Iron Man Movie Wallpaper

Iron Man Movie Wallpaper

How to Create a Killer Chainsaw Bunny Character

How to Create a Killer Chainsaw Bunny Character

How to Create a Cute Bunny Vector Character

How to Create a Cute Bunny Vector Character

Cartoon Tutorial with a Wacom Tablet

Cartoon Tutorial with a Wacom Tablet

How to Illustrate a LeBron James Cartoon Character

How  to Illustrate a LeBron James Cartoon Character

16 Responses to “30 Tutorials for Designing Fun and Creative Characters”

aledesign.it October 12th, 2009

Awesome! Some illustrations are really nice!! Congratulations..a good post! For every graphic! I love this creations!

Andrew Gerber October 13th, 2009

I am a beginning designer and currently working on creating creative characters. That’s why I have found this post very informative. Very helpful tutorials, indeed.

Quicken Websites October 13th, 2009

So cool) Thanks for sharing)

MCEctoCooler October 13th, 2009

There are SO many styles you can use for your design! Where to start!?

i’ve always wondered how one would start to illustrate a maniac chainsaw bunny.

Dzinepress October 14th, 2009

cool designs.

Click October 15th, 2009

Collection design that is very very good and creative and funny.

Chris October 20th, 2009

This is amazing. I bet some of these are difficult to do and require advanced artistic skills. I hope this can be made dumb-easier.

Tanya October 20th, 2009

Just what I needed! Got my inspiration back after seeing so many cute creatures and great designs. Thank you

SEO Luke November 3rd, 2009

This is fantastic. Got talent? With so much focus on security, SEO, and coding, its nice to see pure visual talent.

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