25 Tutorials for Learning Character Design

If you would like to be able to design awesome characters that could be as mascots or in illustrations, this post is for you. There are a lot of excellent tutorials out there that show how to design characters. In this post we’ll link to 25 character design tutorials. Some of the tutorials use Illustrator and others use Photoshop. Whatever your preference, you’ll be able to pick up some new skills and techniques from these tutorials.

Create a Cool Vector Panda Character in Illustrator

Create a “Minion” Character from the Despicable Me Movie

Draw a Pirate Character in Photoshop

Create a Textured Female Robot in Photoshop

How to Create a Fun, Red-Haired Boy

Milk Monster and Chocolate Splash

How to Create a Vector Soldier Character in Illustrator

Create a Cute Vector Reindeer Character in Illustrator

Create a Simple Mechanic Character in Illustrator

Create an Elegant Patterned Vector Owl in Illustrator

How to Draw a Cute Vector Dog Character in Illustrator

Draw a Character Concept Using Drapery in Photoshop

Create a Cool Vector Yeti Character in Illustrator

How to Create a Cute Gooey Blob from Scratch in Photoshop

Character Design for the Boomrock Saints

How to Create Vector Mascot Characters Using a Graphic Tablet

How to Create a Stinking Zombie Flesh-Eater in Illustrator

Create a Simple Character Face with Vector Shapes

How to Make an Animated Paper Robot

How to Design a Cheeky Koala Mascot Head

Create a Dirty Water Drop Character

Create a Happy Sun Character

Create the Face of a Greedy Monkey

Create the Face of a Grumpy Bear

Create a Simple Penguin Character

For more Photoshop tutorials please see:

• 25 Helpful Tutorials for Lighting Effects in Photoshop
• 25 Useful Photoshop Background Tutorials
• 30 Gadget Design Tutorials for Photoshop
• 25 Photoshop Tutorials for Stunning Photo Manipulations
• 25 Excellent Photoshop Texture Tutorials

Published April 11th, 2012 by Steven Snell