Cartoon Character Logo

This is a more advanced tutorial, teaching you how to make your own cartoon character using photoshop from scratch. note, this is advanced and all pictures have been scaled down by at least 50%

1. So, we start off with a background, i used 650px x 750px. if we fill the background white to start.

2. On a new layer (called red base) grab the circular marquee tool and draw a an oval - fill this any colour you like, i chose a dark red.

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3. With the paintbrush tool set with a 0% hardness and about a 100px size, set your foreground to a slightly darker colour. just go around the outside of the circle to make it look a little 3D

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5. On a new layer (named highlight one), hold CTRL and click the thumbnail of the layer with the circle onit. This should add marching ants around it. Then, click Selection > contract - and contract it by about 7 px. now, fill it white.

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6. With the marquee tool, delete a selection at the bottom making it a little curved.

7. Hold CTRL and click back on the thumbnail (on the layers palate) named "red base". Now, click Filter > Blur > Guassian blur - and give a setting of 2.0

8. Now repeat this process 2 times more

9. Duplicate this layer, and set the blending options to overlay. (On the layer 'highlight one' , you might want to make it a fraction smaller for the layer above to show through.)

10. Now go back onto your layer named "red base" and make a new layer, called "eyes white" With your marquee tool, fill 2 circles white in a position where they will look like eyes. (now, the same way as we added a slight inner shadow on the 'red base' layer, do the same to this one)

 

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11. Now, inside make some black circles that will be the pupils, again with the circular marquee tool.

12. You can add a highlight, basically the same way as we made the layer "highlight one" without the blur. Then, 2 more white circles on the top.

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