60+ Outstanding Character Design Tutorials
Characters and mascots are often used by brands, products, and websites to help with identity and communicating a specific message to customers/visitors. For many web designers character design is not an area of particular strength. Fortunately, there are a lot of quality tutorials that are readily available to explain the ins and outs of character design and to lead you through the process of designing a sample character.
Being able to design characters and mascots for your clients can be a great way to allow your services to stand out and to offer something that can make a big impact for your clients. If you’re looking to get started with character design or to improve your skills, here is a collection of 30 character design tutorials on the subject. This collection includes tutorials for Illustrator and Photoshop, and CorelDRAW is even represented.
Create a Happy Sun Character (Illustrator Tutorial)
Creating a Simple Kawaii Yeti with Basic Shapes in Adobe Illustrator
Create a Cool Vector Robot Character in Illustrator
How to Create a Fun, Red-Haired Boy Character (Photoshop)
Draw a Pirate Character in Photoshop
Draw a Cartoon Monster Character in Photoshop
How to Create an 8-Bit Pixel Character in Illustrator
Fun Vector Monster Character Illustrator Tutorial
How to Create a Cool Vector Yeti Character in Illustrator
How to Create a Cute Hairy Vector Monster Character (Illustrator)
Create a Cute Vector Penguin Character in Illustrator
How to Create a Cute Robot Game Sprite Using SSR in Adobe Illustrator
How to Illustrate a Super Cute Monster with Custom Brushes (Illustrator)
How to Create Vector Mascot Characters Using a Graphic Tablet (Illustrator)
How to Create a Web Site Mascot (Illustrator)
Create a Cute Creature Character from a Sketch (Illustrator)
Create a Cute and Simple Hippo Face (Illustrator)
Draw a Funny Cartoon Character in Photoshop with Shapes and Pen Tool
How to Create a Very Scary but Cute Monster in Illustrator
How to Create a Cute and Cuddly Vector Dinosaur Character in Illustrator
Create a Lady Bug Using Adobe Illustrator
How to Create Angry Birds Characters in Adobe Illustrator
Create a Cute Twitter Bird Character in Illustrator
Design a Business Chick Character (Illustrator)
Create Monstrous Characters with Illustrator CS5’s Bristle Brush
How to Create a Happy Drummer Using Adobe Illustrator and VectorScribe Plugin
Using Gradients to Create a Slick & Fun Cartoon Worm in Adobe Illustrator
How to Draw and Vector a Kawaii Vampire Chibi in Illustrator
How to Create a Geek Zombie Mascot in CorelDRAW
How to Illustrate a Cute Basketball Player with Simple Shapes (Illustrator)
Create a Super Happy Octopus Character
Create a Cute Furry Vector Monster in Illustrator
Create Simple Cartoon Characters in Photoshop
How to Create an Original Pin-Up Girl in Photoshop
Drunken Monkey Photoshop Tutorial
How to Create a Website Mascot
Create a Blue Vector Character from Pencil Sketch to Coloring
Create a Cute Vector Monster from a Pencil Sketch
Create a Cute Panda Bear Face Icon
How to Create a Vector Illustration and Prepare it for Micro-Stock Sale
Illustrator Tutorial – Create a Gang of Vector Ninjas
How to Illustrate a Cute Emo Kid
The Making of Abe, the Are My Sites Up? Mascot
How to Create a Stinking Zombie Flesh-Eater in Illustrator
Create a Character Illustration Wallpaper
Vectorial Character Design with Illustrator
How to Create Your Own Vector Cartoon Character
Create a Vector Art Twitter Bird Character Icon in Adobe Illustrator
How to Create a Cute Hippo Character
How to Create a Cute and Adorable Twitter Icon in Photoshop
How to Create a Killer Chainsaw Bunny Character
How to Create a Cute Bunny Vector Character
Cartoon Tutorial with a Wacom Tablet
How to Illustrate a LeBron James Cartoon Character
Create a Cool Vector Panda Character in Illustrator
Create a “Minion” Character from the Despicable Me Movie
Create a Textured Female Robot in Photoshop
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
How to Create a Cute Gooey Blob from Scratch in Photoshop
Character Design for the Boomrock Saints
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 the Face of a Greedy Monkey
Create the Face of a Grumpy Bear
Create a Simple Penguin Character
Showcase of Original and Clever Digital Illustrations of Characters
The Pied Piper by Otagoth
Dark Sweet Rapunzel by hannsaki
Hyper Cinderella by Metaborg
Dorothy and Friends OZ by Giacobino
Gerard Butler by Sarah Rose Oliver
Doves Angel by Dahlig
The Cheater by Samuel123
The Light by Natsuki-3
Dragon Crash by Hamsterfly
Three Lil Pigs by GabrielHerrera
Three Kingdoms, Zhang Chun Hua by Artgerm
Frog Prince by juliedillon
Blowing Bubbles by AquaSixio
Green Whisper by nell-fallcard
Sinbad the Sailor
Robot Headshot by shalomone
Survivor by 88grzes
Sternberg by Yu Cheng Hong
Cherry Bear by Zutto
Hooded Woman by Charlie Bowater
Dog by Kamirah
Mariel by Kyvie
Native Woman by Takumer
Man with Pistol by Robotpencil
