How to Draw a Cartoon Duck , Character illustration
This tutorial will take you through basic shapes , using basic tools ie pathfinder , knife and eyedropper tools to create a cute duck character.
Following this tutorial you can draw a step by step illustrated vector tutorial file which will help you to actually look at how it is done! it is as simple as that!
Final preview
Step1
Using simple shapes circles and ovals draw an outline quite similar to the one below.
Step 2
The wing place holder is a circle and for the tail i drew a triangular shape using the pen tool.
Step3
Added 3 more ovals to the wing shape
Step 4
Using the Direct selection tool (A) work on the Beak of the duck.
Step 5
Select the wing placeholder shapes and using pathfinder join them.
Step 6
Duck has started to come into shape once i used path finder to join the duck body with the triangular tail shape. Also draw three circles for the eye. You can see below their placement.
Start filling with colour and a thick black stroke
Step 7
Using the knife tool cut out at the points as seen below.
Step 8
Make sure the stroke is now Round Cap just to give the stroke some life.
Step 9
Here the tail needed some adjustments after using pathfinder , use Direct Selection tool and reshape the tail.
Step 10
Lets start coloring !
Create 2 copies of the body part on over another slightly shifted upward , using pathfinder tool subtract from shape area and then click to expand.
Step 11
Give the subtracted coloring a little bit of opacity to fit nicely.
Step12
Add shading to the head area in the same way
Step 13
Add some highlights by adding circle of white fill.
Step 14
For the background for the duck draw a freehand puddle in blue colour , create a copy and give it a stroke and no fill.
Step 15
Draw a few circles and give it a bit of gradient fill.
Step 16
Scatter filled circles in various sizes all around the puddle
Step 17
Give the outline a stroke access the dashed borders brushes Window>brush library>borders>dashed.
Step 18
And you are done! Here is a little duck in a waterpool setting !
Download the source file once you login , the source files explains to you step by step the process i created this tutorial through!
Source File- Create a Duck Character
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I am not an photoshop expert, but I need to use it for editing pictures. I will be interested If you can post some tutorial on “making cartons of real images”.
Thanks
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Tks a lot, your step-by-step tutorial is very good and show us how to make shades and colorize with vector, I bet it’ll help lots of people who’s learning drawing.
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any chance getting just the duck gray scale 30X30>? I would be willing to pay a donation for it
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greate work, thanks for sharing your idea
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[...] Cartoon DuckThis tutorial will take you through basic shapes, using basic tools ie pathfinder, knife and eyedropper tools to create a cute duck character. [...]
[...] Cartoon Duck This tutorial will take you through basic shapes, using basic tools ie pathfinder, knife and eyedropper tools to create a cute duck character. [...]
[...] Cartoon Duck This tutorial will take you through basic shapes, using basic tools ie pathfinder, knife and eyedropper tools to create a cute duck character. [...]
[...] Cartoon DuckThis tutorial will take you through basic shapes, using basic tools ie pathfinder, knife and eyedropper tools to create a cute duck character. [...]
[...] Cartoon DuckThis tutorial will take you through basic shapes, using basic tools ie pathfinder, knife and eyedropper tools to create a cute duck character. [...]
[...] Cartoon DuckThis tutorial will take you through basic shapes, using basic tools ie pathfinder, knife and eyedropper tools to create a cute duck character. [...]
[...] Cartoon Duck This tutorial will take you through basic shapes, using basic tools ie pathfinder, knife and eyedropper tools to create a cute duck character. [...]
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[...] Cartoon DuckThis tutorial will take you through basic shapes, using basic tools ie pathfinder, knife and eyedropper tools to create a cute duck character. [...]
[...] Cartoon DuckThis tutorial will take you through basic shapes, using basic tools ie pathfinder, knife and eyedropper tools to create a cute duck character. [...]
[...] Cartoon Duck This tutorial will take you through basic shapes, using basic tools ie pathfinder, knife and eyedropper tools to create a cute duck character. [...]