40+ Vector Characters Adobe Illustrator and Photoshop Tutorials
- By Noupe Editorial Team
- Posted in Graphics
- 44 comments
Having a unique design is a must to get your visitor’s attention. Vector characters can establish a memorable image of your site in the reader’s mind. Adobe Illustrator & Photoshop are great for a sketchy or hand-drawn feel. Creating these effects are relatively easy with Live Trace, Live Paint, Brushes and the ability to create you own brushes. This article contains a mixture of Adobe Illustrator and Photoshop tutorials that will be a great help to you to create visually appealing cartoon characters.
At the end of this post you will find breathtaking & interesting illustrations from some of the best graphic designers and artists.
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Kimcool, 23 July 2009
Nice Photoshop tutorials..love so much.
joyoge designers' bookmark, 23 July 2009
beautiful characters and nice tuts, thanks for the list..
Jash Sayani, 23 July 2009
I LOVE ALL OF THEM !!
umiar, 05 March 2010
Jash u r right all good thems
Atlanta Printing Company, 23 July 2009
Wow. this list is amazing
Brant, 23 July 2009
Nice post, lots of cool digital art.
Rick, 23 July 2009
Always looking for these type of roundups. Thanks
Freelancer Crowd, 23 July 2009
Thanks for the very nice selection!
derp, 24 July 2009
these types of tutorials are of no use to anyone. all they will show you how to do is copy someone elses drawing. and especially in the case of the ‘emo kid’ the drawings are horrible.
doruman, 24 July 2009
Very intersting idea and very nice Photoshop tutorials, many thanks for the share
Nilson Saavedra, 24 July 2009
hey derp, in my opinion, im sorry but ur wrong, copy makes u understand how the draw was made, so u know the procees u can apply for ur own, not necessarily u need to copy, or u gonna tell me that when ur learning to play piano, u dont play Mozart pieces, Chopin or else, see, ur playing someone else´s composition, here its the same, thanks!
pelfusion, 25 July 2009
I will try the twitter characters first…nice roundup
mamdouh, 25 July 2009
good,thanks
Promoteware, 28 July 2009
This is a great collection of characters. Could come in very useful for many things down the road.
Eric Shafer, 28 July 2009
Really nice tutorials, thanks for the roundup!
Featured here: http://www.presidiacreative.com/best-of-the-web-30/
Kaplang, 02 August 2009
really love the tutorial and especially the image of kirby :) thanks for this.
shravan, 03 August 2009
Love the characters and whole collection.
Web Overhauls, 03 August 2009
Wonderful characters and tutorials, thank you! Too bad I’m not a graphic designer, but can keep tryin’.
DesignDazzling, 05 August 2009
nice vector graphics
Diane, 07 August 2009
Nice collection, but not all look neat
Andrey, 07 August 2009
Creative!
Priti, 10 August 2009
amazing tutes…
Luis Lopez, 13 August 2009
Excellent collection, some of those are my favorites, thanks for the quality.
Ezuca, 31 August 2009
This is such a cool list. I wish I could try creating one.
Commander Selvam, 08 September 2009
The designs are amazing, thanks for giving tutorial on illustrator
dandy, 15 September 2009
Very nice. Illustrations are cool as always.
Regards.
Honey Singh, 23 October 2009
Very informative for creating an unique design with these vector characters for Adobe Illustrator and Photoshop.
Tanjila Jesmeen, 26 December 2009
itz really great.thanks for sharing.
PSDDude, 19 March 2010
Very cute characters !
Kevin, 20 March 2010
Can you update the tutorial links please. Some tut dont have tut at all…
Narender, 06 October 2010
Very nice and easy to understand tutorial!
Brett Widmann, 23 October 2010
Very nice selection here. Thanks for the post
warawat, 19 November 2010
very good lighting effiects.
designerdorsey, 08 December 2010
Great tutorials! Thank you :-)
Preston Racette, 20 December 2010
Amazing tuts! Keep it up!
Cgbaran, 02 January 2011
Great tutorials thanks;)
Katheleen Mailman, 18 January 2011
Aw, this was a very nice post. In thought I want to put in writing like this additionally – taking time and actual effort to make an excellent article… but what can I say… I procrastinate alot and not at all appear to get one thing done.
Erica, 03 October 2011
This post was phenomenal. I am doing a lot of research for my own blogging project and hope to create my own graphics for it.
Praveesh, 08 November 2011
Wow! I was looking for such a tutorial. Thanks for posting…
Harish Kotra, 07 December 2011
Well, these kinda tutorials inspire people to create their own mascots and icons :) Thanks mate ;)
Steve, 22 May 2012
You definitely forgot to mention these vector characters: http://vectorcharacters.net/ (Btw – these are all free)
Anna, 26 June 2012
Just what i was looking for, thanks mate!
M.Mohamed Rafi, 20 September 2012
Nice.. super Vector tutorial…thanks for the post… keep on post …
Pete, 20 October 2012
The furry monster is great! Keep posting more vector characters!