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Dexter is probably one of those cartoon characters that don’t need an introduction, but anyway, for those who never heard about him, Dexter is boy genius that has a giant secret laboratory filled with his great inventions. In this simple tutorial I will show you how to draw this character inside Adobe Illustrator.

In this tutorial you will be learning the techniques in illustrating your own colorful cartoon drawings using Adobe Illustrator. This is a simple step by step procedure, and can be applied to any drawings that you have done.

There are numerous ways that you could approach using a reference photo in illustration, an obvious option being to 'trace' the photo. Since there are so many microscopic details in a photograph you have to make numerous decisions on how you want the image to look in the end. Do you want it to look photorealistic? Or more stylized? Comic book-esque? Cartoon-like?

You will use the pen tools to trace the outline, shadows, and highlights of the cartoon character image to create a fully scalable vector Bart Simpson.

This tutorial will take you through basic shapes , using basic tools ie pathfinder , knife and eyedropper tools to create a cute duck character.

I’ll show you how to begin with the even strokes that Illustrator creates when you draw, and transform them into looser, variable lines.

How to Create a Cartoon Spaceship Interior in Under One Hour

This detailed tutorial shows you how to make a cool cereal box logo in Adobe Illustrator CS3. It's an intermediate tutorial, but a beginner could do it! Check it out at alandesigns.com/blog

I am currently working with a client who asked me to revise a logo concept I had drawn to be more cartoony or hand-drawn. He thought the original drawing looked too much like clip art. He was right. Luckily, I knew a technique to achieve this cartoony feel. I’ll show you how to begin with the even strokes that Illustrator creates when you draw, and transform them into looser, variable lines.

How to Illustrate a Lebron James Cartoon Character

How to Create a Cartoon Character with Expressive Lines

I recently had the opportunity to work with fellow design blogger Chris Coyier of CSS-Tricks as part of a little project to produce a cartoon monster mascot for the newly launched service; Are My Sites Up. The challenge was to create a monster character that could become part of the Are My Sites Up branding, during the process I took the time to document each step of the project in order to present The Making of Abe, The Are My Sites Up Mascot.

A step by step tutorial for a cartoon bug in illustrator.

A step by step tutorial for adding gradients to a cartoon.

Below is a simple tutorial on a character I made up named Dee Dee. Dee Dee is a weasel who's is going to be animated as a web toon, but first, we need to create Dee Dee as an Illustration to get to know Dee Dee as his past. Finding who Dee Dee is the real key to unlocking the mystery behind Dee Dee and his adventures. This tutorial is created in Adobe Illustrator CS, any version of Adobe Illustrator will do!