Requirements:
- Adobe Photoshop 7.0 or CS2
- Basic knowledge of photoshop tools.
- Ability to draw, not only on computer.
- A bit of patience.

You do NOT need a pen tablet to make these. Infact, it would be much harder doing this in my style if you use a pen tablet. This method of making cartoon sigs is very easy to do and I'm sure anyone that has photoshop and knows how to draw can do this.
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In this tutorial, we will be learning how to draw a shemale. She will be wearing a blue partyhat, full dragon and whip. She will look very alluring and I'm sure you will believe she's a girl.

Let's begin.

The first thing you need to do is make a new document (Ctrl + N) and set up your own dimensions. For this tutorial, I will be making an image with the dimensions 250x250. Also, we'll do something quick. Make a new layer. Go to Blending Options and set it to Stroke, 1 Pixel Wide, 100% Opacity. Then go to your styles tab and click on new style (similar icon to the new layer button) on bottom of the tab. This will be very effecient in making your sigs because you won't have to go to blending options every time you make a new shape. After you make your shape, just click on this style and it will have the border.

Okay, we always start with the head. The head will help you create the rest of the body because you know how big/small to make it. Click on your Eliptical Marquee Tool.



Now create the size for your head. Your heads don't also have to be circles. You can make them any shape you want. I will go over this later in the tutorial. I make circle heads in MY sigs. You don't have to. Okay, so you've made your shape for your head. A tip is to hold down shift when you're making your circle. This way it will be a perfect circle and you won't have to work to try to make it perfectly circular. Then, take your paint bucket tool and fill it in with a skin tone. Now, remember when you made that new style? Go to your styles tab and click on the one you made with the one-pixel wide stroke. Your image should now look like this:



Now we need to do the hair. I think the hair is better to do before the eyes because like doing the head first, you know exactly what size to make it. Since we're making a shemale, we'll make her a blonde pigtail girl. Alright, so the most important tool of Cartoon Sig making is the POLYGONAL LASSO TOOL. You will find it very very useful. If you cannot find it, it's right here:



Okay, there is a more useful way to make pigtails that I know (it involves making circles) but that's too difficult to explain. So we'll make her a dirtball shemale and give her messy hair. Make a new layer (do this after every shape! every shape has to be its own lever or it will not work!) and make the shape for your shemale's hair.



Now fill it in with her hair color. Since she's a shemale, it will be blonde. Now, add the "stroke style" that you made.



Alright, now make her pigtails. Use the lasso tool, make the layer behind the hair and the head (Always try to keep this in mind. You can put things behind other layers. This is very very useful). Okay, so now your shemale has hair.



Keep making all your shapes. You should now understand how I do this. Since you should have basic knowledge of photoshop, I'm sure you've already grasped how to finish your sig. It takes a lot of patience but it comes out worth it in the end! So, finish all your basic shapes.



I would never sell a sig that looked like this. It was a quick job just to demonstrate how to make the sigs. So anyways, you've made all your shapes but it looks kinda boring, do you know what it needs? Yep, shading.

Alright, for this tutorial, we'll shade the hair. After you see how I do this, I'm sure you can figure out how to do the rest. Alright, so grab your Polygonal Lasso Tool.



Move to your layer that has the hair on it and make the shape for the part that you want shaded.



Notice how I made the lasso bigger then it needs to be? Since you only filled in a part of the layer, the rest is transparent. A transparent part of a layer won't fill in when you do Hue & Saturation!

Okay, so, now you press CTRL + U. Now, make your brightness -20. It can also be a higher number (-10, -15), whatever looks right to you. Another thing you might want to adjust is the saturation. You should make the saturation higher depending on how high you make your brightness. Since I set mine to brightness -20, I would set the saturation to +20. Get it? Okay, and this is what you get:



Now just continue doing this and your person will be fully shaded!



If you want extra anti-alias, just minimize your image slightly. Merge all your layers and then minimize it using FREE Transform. This gives it a lot more anti-alias, even if it's just a little bit. I always do this to give a finishing touch to my signatures.

Now you know how to do it. Practice making your shapes and shading just right. I only vaguely touch this. There is a lot more to this that you can find out yourself.

Good luck with your cartoon sigs!

if this also belongs in the Runescape forum, but I'm making cartoon Runescape sigs for FREE. Just tell me all the info about the character, background, misc, size, etc. And I'll make one. Just post here and I'll PM you it.

Sample:

Tutorial?
Oh and does anybody have tutorials on pixel too?

Tutorial?
Oh and does anybody have tutorials on pixel too?