Icon artist Dirceu Veiga over at FastIcon.com has a nice little video screen capture showcasing his technique of creating cartoon characters as vector art in Illustrator for his icon creations.
The video isn’t really a tutorial or walkthrough, but it’s kind of nice seeing the approach to building the vector objects and adding shading and highlights. You’ll have to reverse-engineer some of the techniques, but sometimes just seeing something done can be helpful in itself.
Personally I don’t work like this in Illustrator (and I use way more keyboard shortcuts, especially for tool switching), but it’s always great to see someone else’s approach to doing things in graphics software.
Be sure to browse around the site as well, there’s some great character art throughout the icon sets. The Creatures 1 icon set and Creatures 2 icon set are especially nice. And they’re free if you are into custom icons.
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