Quick Anime Avatar
Posted by admin on 11/2/07 in All, Designing, Drawing
In this tutorial, I’ll step you through how to create an anime avatar in Photoshop CS3.
To start off, I’m going to need to draw my character. I’m going to do it rather quickly and use shapes in conjunction with Edit > Transform > Warp. All these shapes will use a 1px black stroke. The first shape will be the head and have a tan fill. Once I’ve finished warping the head shape, I’ll make two more shapes for the eyes, and give them a white fill:
Next, I’ll make pupils and use the line tool to create a nose impression:
Moving one, I’ve used the Ellipse tool to make a black oval behind the other layers, rasterized the layer, and then used the Eraser tool to make the hair as seen below:
Another shape will make the body:
To add some highlights and shadows, I’m creating a new layer and using a black brush with the opacity set to 10%:
For the background I’ve used the pen tool to create the custom shapes:
The mouth is a rounded rectangle, and again I’ll use the warp tool to shape it:
Here’s our evil avatar dude:
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lol | Feb 1, 2008 | Reply
you realize you suck right?
Ctr+Z | Feb 1, 2008 | Reply
Is it a joke?!
admin | Feb 1, 2008 | Reply
What? You don’t appreciate my art? This is a creation of great talent.
Hachimangu | Feb 2, 2008 | Reply
Please tell me this is a joke. Please?!?
admin | Feb 3, 2008 | Reply
No. It’s serious. Really. Honestly. Don’t you like it?
admin | Feb 3, 2008 | Reply
Have a look at the Goth/Emo tut. That might have the same effect on you.
http://designertuts.com/quick-emo-goth-makeover/
Tim | Feb 5, 2008 | Reply
Does that suck horribly on purpose?
admin | Feb 7, 2008 | Reply
I’d love to put some REAL anime tutorials on the site. Can anybody help out?
Amy | Feb 17, 2008 | Reply
These comments are harsh! It’s actually great! I like it. I wish I was that good.
Ally | Mar 14, 2008 | Reply
dont be mean people it may look bad to you guys but that is the way the guy does his art there is no bad art every 1s art is a work of art it is all different
Tizzi | Mar 16, 2008 | Reply
you should check out Manga University and get some real tutorials on how to use PhotoShop for creating an anime character! My 3 year old nephew could do the avatar you drew.
I’m sure it took effort, but if you are making a tutorial, make it educational and not embarrasing. Sorry Dude!
admin | Mar 17, 2008 | Reply
Could your 3 year old do me some tutorials please, I’m always on the lookout for good stuff
Manga University is very poor. The section entitled “Photoshop Tutorials” is all about Paint Shop Pro! My 2 year old knows the difference between PSP and Photoshop!
YahTrickYahEwwe | Apr 15, 2008 | Reply
Well its not teh best but uhh….good effort??
Proud Deviant | Jun 2, 2008 | Reply
I won’t say this sucks but… okay it sucks, if you’re looking for good anime tutorials head over to Deviantart.com, the users there are very helpful and always eager to encourage new talent no matter how questionable said talent is at the moment, anything is better than nothing.