The use of character illustration in web design is a great and easy way to increase the amount of visual appeal your website has. Not only does it brighten things up and make your site a bit more captivating, but it also, if pulled off well, helps your visitors remember your design. Although the content is extremely important, a beautiful and engaging design helps to bring everything together. To create your own illustration you can start out by following some Illustrator cartoon tutorials.
In today’s post, I will showcase beautiful and stunning websites that are using character inspiration.
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1. Meomi
2. Francesco Mugnai
3. Octwelve
4. VG Design
5. SketchBlog
6. Benilyn
7. Photoshop Lady
8. Tom Cash
9. Twisted Maestro
10. Piipeonline
11. Justin Bird
12. Blog What? Design
13. Veboo Labs
14. iwit
15. Old Loft
16. Nybble Tech
17. Gertis PC-Tipps
18. Lionite Internet Ventures
19. Haafe
20. Think Orange
21. Small White Bear
22. Carbonmade
23. i Avion
24. Agencia Mobi
25. CreamScoop
26. BlackMoon Design
27. MplusZ
28. FreelanceSwitch
29. Studio E-space
30. TestLab2
31. Storific
32. Smack a Gopher
33. The Great Bearded Reef
34. Portfolio de Guillaume
35. Moshi Monsters
36. Silverback
37. Toctoc
38. Matt Hamm
39. Formee
40. Stone Skipper
41. Late Night with Jimmy’s Intern
42. Cornerd
43. Lady In Green
44. Haunted Cathouse
45. McMillers Sweets
46. Barber Shop
47. Cheeky Monkey Media
48. HTML5 Lab
49. Inspiredology
50. sr28
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Undoubtedly, most of the samples shown on your blog are amazing. However, what happens when a person with a slow internet connection visits these sites? Are these sites navigable with images turned off in the browser?
This is a general concern and I have only seen it really enforced on government sites where availability for anyone is critical. Illustrations may however take up a lot less bandwidth than photos so I would say it is still a good option
Brilliant examples of Illustration! so much creative input!
I also released an article similar to this one a couple of months back.
http://www.photoshop-plus.co.uk/2011/01/06/inspiration-mascot-design-in-web-design/
Inspirational work, thanks
Great collection of websites, Veboo Labs and BlackMoon Design are my favourites!
Thanks for your opinion Ted!
awesome collection
my favourites : Piipeonline, Justin Bird and Veboo Labs, Inspiredology
Thanks for sharing
John
I wish I had the talent to create cool characters. I’m a decent artist, but the human figure, even abstract or exaggerated versions of it is just beyond me.
Nice! I just got myself a happy little character on VoodooPress. Soon it will be time to redesign, and I was looking for ideas on making him a little more front and centre so to speak. I’ll be looking at these examples when I set down to designing.
add some more http://www.mysweetcouple.com/home.php
Thanks for the tip Hendy
Nice list! Quite a few beautiful websites I haven’t seen before.
By the way, we’re using cute illustrations all over http://lingualift.com/ – for example at
http://japanese.lingualift.com/contact/ ^^
Nice use of characters in design
OMG really? This is good Web design? Really?
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