Comic and mascot design - the ultimate collection of resources and tutorials

Perhaps you already noticed? On many websites you can find today cartoon characters, mascots or vector characters in the layout.

These small, fresh upbeat figures to the layout and many online visitors, it's really fun to surf on such sites.

Maybe you want to design your own mascot like myself, but have not for a good idea or do not know how to implement it? No problem!

In the following summary I will introduce a variety of resources on this topic. Whether tutorials, drawing elements, sources of inspiration, fonts ... everything is possible.

Here is a partial list of the 6 themes of this article:

Part I - Tutorials
Part II - How to Draw / Drawing Tips
Part III - Downloads
Part IV - Comic and Cartoon Fonts
Part V - Buy Graphics
Part VI - Inspiration

Be inspired and design your very own website mascot.

Part I: Tutorials

illustration class
A really very successful resource for tutorials, illustration is www.illustrationclass.com .
Here you will find currently over 70 guides to illustration design processes, including the mascot or figures.
In the download archive of each tutorial, you will find the description of the steps documented in pictures. Here is a selection of five instructions offered there:

First Tiger Illustration

Second Character Illustration

Third Scorpio Illustration

4th Symmetrical Illustration: Thug Bunny!

5th Pop Art Illustration

Vector tuts +
Provide the best tutorials on the WWW, the time has come to my mind very clearly from the "tuts +" series. Whether Vector , Photoshop , Flash , audio , net , etc. - There is hardly anything here that is not addressed and explained in an excellent manner by various authors step by step.
For a monthly fee of only $ 9 you get any additional source files and additional information.
(The account is valid for all projects do +)

Also on the subject of comic mascot and there are several brilliant tutorials. Making a choice is very difficult browse in any case there myself! Here is my selection of appropriate instructions from Vector tuts + :

6th How to Create a Cartoon Character with Expressive Lines

of Designious

7th How to Illustrate a LeBron James Cartoon Character

by Wardell Brown

8th How to Create a Web Site Mascot

by Scott Jackson

The mascot of the tutorial is made equal in 9 different poses as EPS or Illustrator file to download at no charge!

9th How to Create a Vector Illustration and Prepare it for Micro-Stock Sale

of Oksancia

10th How to Illustrate a Cute Emo Kid

of Designious

11th Mascot Design In Real Time Order - the SOSFactory Way

by Sergio O.

More tutorials

12th Drunken Monkey Photoshop Tutorial

at smashingmagazine.com

13th Vectorial illustration with Illustrator

by Sergio Ordonez

14th Drawing Homer Simpson

by Dr Diablo

15th Cartoon Tutorials

in Illustration Info

16th You Got Mail Mascot

17th Drawing a Cool Cartoon Robot

18th 3D Cartoon Painting Tutorial

19th Making of Fantastic Cartoon Photographer

20th How to color drawings in anime style with Photoshop

by Amano Hikari

21st cartoon smart

This page I would like to emphasize:
The offer CartoonSmart.com I've known for several years and find it a unique quality.
Initially, one could find "only" flash tutorials on Comic and Cartoon, but the offer has grown immensely. There are tutorials for Photoshop, Blender, Illustrator, Dreamweaver etc.

Most tutorials are video tutorials that low a price can be purchased. Who is not entirely convinced by the offer, can be downloaded free courses to ensure any remaining doubts were allayed.

Part II: How to Draw / Drawing Tips

Who wants to learn how to find records on the Internet for this purpose also lots of tips. Here are a few sites that make it easy for you to attempt the first steps:

First Everyone can draw

I personally find this site very informative. Using simple "step by step" instructions, the procedure is explained to create different character and animal figures. Not just for children

Second How to draw funny cartoons

On this website, simple instructions in the creation of animal figures and other characters are discussed.

Third CoolCartooning.Com

In CoolCartooning.Com there are some useful video tutorials that deal in detail with the drawing of the head, body and hands.

4th Manga University

Who in the topic of "draw manga" is certainly interested in the "Manga University" find. There is really easy to-follow instructions pretty well on the local PC can be downloaded.

5th Workshop - Male Heroes

of AenTheArtist appeared at deviantArt

6th Cartooning Horses

of fyuvix appeared at deviantArt

7th The Drawing Studio

Informative site with free and paid tutorials.

Tutorials by the provider at deviantArt:

8th Easy Eye Tutorial

of Sesshomarus-woman appeared at deviantArt

9th Hairstyles

by ron-Guyatt appeared at deviantArt

10th Characters tutorials

of AndrewAnimation appeared at deviantArt

11th Nanoda.com

12th Manga Tutorials

Part III: Downloads

Those who draw their own mascot or cartoon like, you can also rely on various finished items. Here is a small collection of available downloads:

First Comic Hands

Second "Pow"

Third Cute Face Maker v2

of Karsciyin appeared at deviantArt

4th Cartoon Faces

of Stephasaurus-floor appeared at deviantArt

5th Manga Eyes

of epuscasu appeared at deviantArt

6th Manga Heads

of epuscasu appeared at deviantArt

7th Manga Speech Bubbles

by Faeth-design appeared at deviantArt

8th Manga Eyes

by Faeth-design appeared at deviantArt

9th Manga Mouth

by Faeth-design appeared at deviantArt

10th Cartoon Brushes

of Najuj appeared at deviantArt

11th Cartoon Emotions

by dazzle-textures appeared at deviantArt

12th Cartoon Man

of pablorenauld appeared at deviantArt

13th Anime hairs brushes

of OrexChan appeared at deviantArt

14th Cartoon people brushes

of devipaul appeared at deviantArt

Part IV: Fonts

Not yet found the right font that fits your comic? Here is a selection from the mass of comic and cartoon fonts which I particularly liked:

First Badaboom BB

Second Komika Posters

Third Anime Ace BB

4th BD Cartoon Shout

5th Laffayette Comic Pro

6th Yard Sale

7th Manga Temple

8th Smartie

9th Caveman

10th Batman beat the hell outta me

11th Year supply of fairy cakes

12th Flying Leatherneck

13th Sprague

14th BB BlamBlam

15th International Super Hero

Part V: Graphics Buy

Who then in the end itself would not lend a hand, can acquire images as mascots or comic on the following resources:

First Pro Cartoons

Second CartoonStock

Third BoxedArt

4th SOS Factory

Would you like to let you create very individual mascot of experts? Then my recommendation SOS Factory .

In this report you will find several links to this agent mascot. All the designs I find consistently excellent. Even the price, according to vendor "around $ 500-600," I find very acceptable for an individual design.

Examples of SOS Factory:

Part VI: Inspiration

Finally, a few graphics for inspiration.

First www.psdelux.hu

Second ChocoTux

Third Freddy

4th Mascot design: Otter Ninja

5th Mascot design: nosolopadel

6th Stone City Riot

7th Ratemysite.com Pack

8th Lecherita

9th Univeros Anime_ e logo mascot

10th Babee_Mascot logo