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40+ Cartoon Character Illustration Tutorials

Over at Smashmagazine.com, they have compiled a list of 40 Online Cartoon Character Illustration Tutorials, including character design, coloring, painting, and more.If you are interested in cartooning, illustration or painting, it certainly will be worth your time. Go check it out.

Everybody likes cartoon characters. They make us happy and keep our mind tension-free. We present here beautiful and mind-blowing Cartoon Illustration Tutorials for you. This article contains a mixture of Photoshop and Illustrator tutorials. Some are intermediate level and some are advanced tutorials that include coloring processing, character sketching, pen tool tricks for tracing line art sketches, shapes processing, vector conversions and much more.

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