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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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