deke.com posts about characters

Deke's Techniques 326: Masking a Caricature against a New Background

Deke shows you how to quickly mask a caricature (or anyone, really) against a new background in Photoshop

Deke's Techniques 172: Creating 3D Punched Letters in Illustrator

Today I show you how to create punched-out 3D letters in Adobe Illustrator, turning the plain old word 'good' into something even better.