Wednesday, June 24, 2009 No Comments
In this tutorial, we’ll be creating a illustration of a speeding aircraft shuttle. It’s going to be all vector, but along the way we’ll use blends, and other techniques that give this rocketing aircraft an interesting look. Let’s get to it!
Tags: cartoon, illustrator, space
Category: Drawing
Friday, June 19, 2009 No Comments
In this tutorial, I will show you how to create a cartoon zombie in Illustrator. Starting by creating a fresh corpse, we will then ‘yuck’ it up using a number of techniques. Let’s ‘rip’ this one apart!
Tags: cartoon, illustrator
Category: Drawing
Thursday, June 11, 2009 No Comments
This tutorial covers the process of creating a fantasy pinup illustration with Illustrator CS3. This tutorial uses Live Paint, so you will need CS2 or above to follow.
Tags: cartoon, fantasy, illustrator
Category: Drawing
Thursday, June 11, 2009 No Comments
You’ll walk away with a great understanding of how to use simple shapes to construct interior cartoon style scene. By sticking to simple shapes and lines, you can build a fun interior quickly. Let’s get to it!
Tags: cartoon, illustrator
Category: Drawing
Thursday, May 14, 2009 No Comments
Using some basic shapes, effects, and gradients I will show you how to create a Twitter mascot for your blog or website. Twitter is a popular free web service for social networking and micro-blogging.
Tags: bird, cartoon, illustrator, twitter
Category: Drawing
Wednesday, May 13, 2009 No Comments
It can be quite tricky getting the hang of Adobe Illustrator, but if you take a step back and concentrate on the basics there’s a range of options for creating great looking images. In this tutorial, we’ll take a look at constructing a group of cool vector ninja characters using just the basic shapes and a variety of simple tools, making it a good start for Illustrator beginners.
Tags: cartoon, illustrator, vector
Category: Drawing
Saturday, May 9, 2009 No Comments
In this tutorial, I’m going to give an overview of how developed a character from the initial brief through to the final site mascot and then to go on to create several poses for different parts of the site.
Tags: cartoon, illustrator
Category: Drawing
Friday, May 8, 2009 No Comments
I guess with recent topics being based on vector illustrations and cute characters, it’s about time for another Illustrator character tutorial. Previous versions saw the creation of Captain BlackSpoon and Freddy the Fish which seemed pretty popular, not to mention the quick and simple monster series. This time follow this Adobe Illustrator walkthrough on the creation of a cute little vector monster character, beginning with a quick pencil sketch on paper.
Tags: cartoon, illustrator
Category: Drawing
Wednesday, April 29, 2009 No Comments
In this tutorial, we are going to try a new approach this time where we will use only the Photoshop Pen Tool to make a simple cartoon vector face either for avatars or mascots.
