Filed under adobe illustrator, cartoon character, character, Design, design tutorial, Graphic design, illustration, illustration tips, Illustrator, illustrator tutorial, screenprint, texture, Tutorial, Tutorials, Vector, vector graphics by Chris Spooner
I’m sure we all remember painting with sponge (or potato!) stamps as a child, but back then we didn’t really appreciate the cool distressed effect the printing technique created. Today designers and illustrators strive to add that retro/vintage style to their work with textures, so in this tutorial we’ll cover the process of creating a [...]
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Follow this step by step Illustrator tutorial to create a cool vector Yeti character. We’ll use as many basic shapes as possible to achieve that quirky style of illustration, then bring the character to life with a palette of cold colours. Despite the use of basic shapes this tutorial includes a good spread of intermediate [...]
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Follow this step by step Adobe Illustrator tutorial to create a simple vector ninja character. The design is made from basic shapes and uses Illustrator’s core tools, which makes this tutorial perfect for beginners. The ninja character we’ll be creating is made up of simple shapes to create a cute overall appearance. Despite being generally [...]
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It might only be November but we all know Christmas sneaks up on us fast! A couple of years ago I released a set of free sketchy Christmas vectors which were pretty well received. This year I’ve created a pack of cute Christmas themed characters, including a reindeer, polar bear, penguin and a robin, not [...]
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There are indeed numerous ways to design websites and to make them look appealing to many people. You may use textures, patterns, and many other elements. Some just play with colors and others just use black and white. Another way of making the website…
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Follow this step by step Illustrator tutorial to create a cute vector monster character. We’ll create the character from basic shapes to give a cute and friendly appearance then we’ll bring the character to life with gradient colours and a detailed fur effect. The fantasy woodland monster we’ll be creating is made up of lots [...]
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Since the ‘trend’ became popular a number of years ago we’ve seen the idea of including some kind of illustrated character in a website’s design continuously reappear. A cartoon mascot can really help give a website a friendly and inviting appearance to help draw in the user. This post showcases great use of character and [...]
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Follow this step by step Adobe Illustrator tutorial to create a simple vector penguin character. We’ll be using many of Illustrator’s basic shapes to create the structure of the character, which makes this tutorial great for beginners. We’ll then make use of various gradients to really bring the character to life with depth and dimension. [...]
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Follow this step by step Illustrator tutorial to create a cute vector mushroom character with a Japanese kawaii influence. We’ll create the basic structure using Illustrator’s basic shapes, add variation in the linework to define the character then finish it all off with some vibrant colour fills. The character we’ll be making is a little [...]
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Looking to learn the basics of Adobe Illustrator? In this tutorial we’ll use various tools and techniques to create a simple vector robot character. With this robot being made of lots of basic shapes it makes for a great tutorial for beginners to get to grips with the Illustrator application. Here’s the simple vector cartoon [...]
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Follow this step by step Illustrator and Photoshop tutorial to create a retro style book cover featuring a stylized vector illustration of Superman. We’ll create the Superman illustration with simple vector shapes before laying out the complete retro style book cover with textures in Photoshop. The design we’ll be creating has similar traits to old [...]
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Follow this step by step Illustrator tutorial to create a grumpy Internet troll character. We’ll start the process with a basic pencil sketch then build up a complete vector character design with linework, colour fills and basic shading to create a funny cartoon mascot. The grumpy troll character we’ll be creating is made up of [...]
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