Designing Appealing Cartoon Characters in Photoshop
We'll get started by exploring three very simple shapes and how they should play a role in every cartoon character we draw. Software required: Photoshop CS6.
What you'll learn
We'll get started by exploring three very simple shapes and how they should play a role in every cartoon character we draw. We will start by breaking heads down into these three simple shapes and then move into creating body shapes. From here, we'll begin applying these shapes using three different characters. First, we'll design a cheerful Italian chef. When we are done there, we'll design a bone-headed cowboy sidekick. Finally, we'll create a creepy pirate captain. After completing this course, you'll be well equipped to begin designing highly appealing cartoon characters of your very own. Software required: Photoshop CS6.
Table of contents
- Constructing Cartoon Characters from Simple Shapes. 13m
- Combining Shapes to Make More Complex Characters 10m
- Drawing Cartoon Bodies with Simple Shapes 14m
- Drawing the Italian Chef: Head 11m
- Drawing the Italian Chef: Body 15m
- Drawing the Italian Chef: Details 12m
- Drawing the Bone-headed Cowboy Sidekick: Head 12m
- Drawing the Bone-headed Cowboy Sidekick: Body 13m
- Drawing the Bone-headed Cowboy Sidekick: Details 12m
- Drawing the Creepy Pirate Captain: Head 12m
- Drawing the Creepy Pirate Captain: Body 14m
- Drawing the Creepy Pirate Captain: Details 11m
About the author
Eddie began teaching creative professionals over ten years ago for Digital Tutors. In 2014 Digital Tutors was acquired by Pluralsight and he continued his focus on creating high quality training for artists in both the film and games industries. With a background in graphic design and illustration Eddie has always been focused on visual appeal. This can be seen through his courses in which he shares secrets for achieving production level quality for concept art, illustrations, textures, mater... more