Best Photoshop Tutorials » Comic Style

Get Your Groove On with this Music Inspired Tutorial

Pete — Tue, 28 Jun 2011 07:22:03 +0000

Author: John ‘Keebs’ Lee at Psdtuts+

In this advanced tutorial, John has taken photos given to him by the group Boomrock Saint and created two great characters using Photoshop and Illustrator. Check out their profile with music downloads Here.

For those of you who know how to draw, this tutorial is right up your alley. For those of you that think you can’t draw, why don’t you give it shot anyway? You might surprise yourself with your new-found ability. The drawing doesn’t have to be perfect to create a character image – so what do you have to lose?

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Sketch a Charming Lion Mascot in Photoshop

Dee — Wed, 15 Jun 2011 06:19:42 +0000

Author: Pintilei Adrian at Photoshop Tutorials

Try your hand at drawing a charming Lion Mascot with this very detailed and easy to follow tutorial, while practicing your skills using the pen tool. Enjoy!

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Create a Stylish Business Woman in Illustrator & Photoshop!

Dee — Sun, 08 May 2011 18:27:55 +0000

Author: Ainsley

Try your hand at a fun sketch of a business lady with lots of pizzazz, and then make her come to life through Illustrator and Photoshop touches. Let’s give it a try!

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Create a Whimsical Cartoon Penguin

Dee — Thu, 24 Feb 2011 06:25:38 +0000

Author: Ainsley

In this tutorial you will learn how to create a cute cartoon penguin and a blue sky background poster with billowy clouds – in Photoshop and Illustrator. Let’s get started!

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Create a Vector Style Magazine Cover

miche — Mon, 24 Jan 2011 06:08:16 +0000

Author: Niranth M

Vector images are hot right now. Check out this great design which combines vectors and vivid colors for a truly imaginative and fun magazine cover. The tutorial is a detailed and step-by-step tutorial for creating an Vector based cover page design in Photoshop. You’ll be creating your own magazine covers in no time after running through this tutorial. Let’s get started!

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Create this Sexy Witch in Photoshop

miche — Tue, 12 Oct 2010 23:25:39 +0000

Author: Amber Chen

Have a little fun and learn how to create this sexy witch in Photoshop for Halloween. Don’t be afraid just because there is drawing involved. Get over your fear and give it a shot!

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Roy Lichtenstein Style

Pete — Tue, 24 Aug 2010 15:43:30 +0000

Author: Fabio Sasso

Here’s another cool tut by Fabio! He’s been playing with the Halftone filter in Photoshop and the Width Tool in Illustrator CS5. See how he combines these two things to create this image inspired in Roy Lichtenstein.

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The Jellyfish Invasion

Pete — Sat, 21 Aug 2010 20:02:41 +0000

Author: david123rf

Photo manipulation is widely accepted as an art form. It includes combining images, creating collages, adding artistic and painterly effects to photos and pictures, removing an object from its background, cloning, reproducing photographic effects, colorizing, and more. David loves photo manipulation because he can transform ordinary photos into something alluring, unexpected and totally out of the box, which is what he does in this fun and creative tut!

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Create Manga Art to View with Retro 3D Specs

Pete — Thu, 03 Jun 2010 06:40:00 +0000

Author: Mark Mayers

This is a Photoshop & Illustrator tutorial.
“Whether you think it’s genius or a bit of a gimmick, 3D is huge in movies right now. However awed you were by ‘Avatar‘ and its stereoscopic 3D effects, there’s something pleasingly nostalgic about anaglyph 3D – the sort where there’s a clear red and blue border around everything. But what if you want to convert an existing image, or illustration into 3D? In this tutorial you’ll discover how to produce great results every time!”

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Learn How to Draw Hand-crafted Pixel Art

miche — Tue, 05 Jan 2010 17:15:42 +0000

Author: Russel Tate

In this tutorial reminiscent of earlier days in our digital heritage, legendary Aussie illustrator Russel Tate teaches you how to draw with pixels. Recreate some nostalgia and learn how to create awesome artwork in the style of eBoy and Army of Trolls. Read on and enjoy!

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Turn sketches into fantastic digital paintings

miche — Wed, 30 Dec 2009 13:45:10 +0000

Author: David Cousens at Digital Arts

This is a great tutorial for readers good with a graphics tablet and a Prismacolor col-erase blue pencil. The benefit of using a col-erase pencil is that you can use it to draft your lines and rub them out easily. We’re going to use Photoshop to make the blue lines invisible later, so you can draw loads of construction lines and be as messy as you like!

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Make a great Santa Wallpaper for Christmas

miche — Mon, 21 Dec 2009 00:12:44 +0000

Author: Johnson Koh

This tutorial will show how we can create a sketchy Santa wallpaper for Christmas this year! Using a pen and tablet, we shall cover watercoloring, pencil sketching and some simple lighting effects.

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Rendering Hercule Poirot in Photoshop

miche — Fri, 11 Dec 2009 18:11:22 +0000

Author: Silas Chosen over at Abduzeedo

Silas is an Illustrator from from São Paulo, Brazil. He decided to do a cartoon version of one of his favorite characters, Agatha Christie’s Detective Hercule Poirot, always portrayed as a strong willed and serious man. So he grabbed his pencil and drew and colored it entirely on Photoshop CS3.

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Draw An Underwater Scene From Scratch

miche — Mon, 23 Nov 2009 15:11:01 +0000

Author: George55

“In this tutorial posted over at pxleyes.com, George will show us how to create a colorful underwater scene with fish.

You’ll learn how to use the following:

* Gradients.
* Difference Clouds.
* Line Drawing, using a simple brush.
* Hue / Saturation.
* Layer Blending Mode.

You’ll be amazed of the infinite ways to work with Photoshop. Have fun, and learn.”

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How to Create an Original Pin-Up Girl in Photoshop

Sebastiano — Fri, 21 Aug 2009 14:26:56 +0000

Author: Ron Davey

“In this tutorial, I will be taking you through the steps that I do when creating a cartoon pin-up. I will start off with thumbnails and continue on to the final image.”

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Firefox Inspired Mascot

Sebastiano — Thu, 13 Aug 2009 13:44:53 +0000

Author: Jonathan Olsen

“In this Photoshop Tutorial, you’ll learn how to design a mascot based on the Firefox logo, and mimic the fire effect using the pen tool and gradients.”

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