I’d like to start a kind of monthly feature where we link up some of the best illustration tutorials out there on the web and include some of our own cutie tuties from days past as this site grows. I hope you will find these as useful as I have.

9 Digital Technique Tutorials

1. Painting Clouds – Learn how to paint realistic clouds from Steven Stahlberg.
2. “Jealousy” Step-by-step – Another great tutorial from Stahlberg concentrating on building forms and skin shading. 
3. Painting Hair – Paint realistic hair with Linda Bergkvist.
4. Donkeyskin Tutorial – Step-by-step painting with Chris Beatrice.
5. Making of Girl in the Iron Shoes – Another excellent step-by-step with Chris Beatrice.
6. Gunman – A brief glimpse into the workflow of master digital painter Craig Mullins.
7. Creature –  Concept design tutorial from Feng Zhu.
8. PSG Art Tutorial – General tutorial covering everything from composition to color from Niklas Jansson.
9. Artnatomy – Online Flash application designed to help artist understand the various structures of the face. 

5 Traditional Technique Tutorials

1. Illustrating a Children’s Story – Dani Jones’s six part production log of illustrating a short children’s story that can be used for promotion.
2. 50 Facial Expressions and How to Draw Them – More from Dani.
3. Figure Drawing For All It’s Worth – The amazing Andrew Loomis book on figure drawing, now available digitally.
4. Drawing Heads – Andrew Loomis’s wonderfully detailed book on drawing heads.
5. Foreshortening – The Manga Start crew unlocks the secrets to foreshortening.

6 Video Demonstrations

1. Bobby Chiu paints Stitch
2. Warbreak Cover Illustration with Dan Dos Santos
3. Master caricature artist Al Hirschfeld draws Paul Newman
4. Dave Kellett demonstrates the creation of Sheldon Comics
5. Hawk, of Applegeeks, inks with a big stonking Cintiq
6. Digital Painting 101 with Jamie Noguchi

If you’ve found some illustration tutorials around the webs that have helped you, please send them along.