Adobe Illustrator character creation tutorial- part 1a (sketching/inking)

[judemelling]

I love watching you work. I'd like to emulate your methods. Sadly I have no idea what you are doing to get these results.

[liltunechi40]

how's this a tutorial if we cant see what youre doing

[SpiritLine]

excelente musica ^^



[tempster]

You should change the title of your video.

This is a demonstration, not a tutorial.

[NIP28]

sick and tired of people putting things up and they dont explain how they do it... forget the music in the backround.. just let me know how u ink... and how to select what i wana ink.. i cant fill in my drawings dont know how 2

[jawwadsaeed1234]

Just Awesome man. hats off to you :)

[sabropizza]

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We are a small pizzeria in Denmark and seeking a new logo

we are willing to pay for it help us...

[ManiactheLunatic]

What tool are you using to change the line weight/thickness?

[viollus]

@ManiactheLunatic

I simply change them to shapes (expand) and edit them as shape (in CS5 ther is a new tool called "line weight variation tool" that allows you to do this without expanding to shapes)

[trunks7o2]

what is it called when you make your screen clear, and all the lines are small (looks like one size stroke and then you fix it a little bit then it goes back to regular size strokes)

[viollus]

@trunks7o2

It is "outline" view. Ctrl+Y, or cmd+Y on Mac

[antdification]

nice work...,but too fast..

[illiria2000]

what program are you using to record this video.

[viollus]

@illiria2000

CamStudio

[MrLecoStronda]

omfg, It have 4 dicks :X

[fremy123]

how do you get the brush like stroke???

[viollus]

@fremy123

You mean width variation? I simply changed strokes into shapes via extend and edited them as shapes.

[fremy123]

@viollus do you use like tablet or just mouse? as you draw as if youre using a real life pen with those strokes....

[viollus]

@fremy123

It was done on Wacom tablet.

[j2cool2]

This cool! I have 2 Q's. How did u switch bk n forth when kinda hid the drawing to tweak the paths (add 2 the oblong shapes 2 make the hand. Question 2, How did u set up ur tablet to draw freehand lines style?

[Ferrari465]

did you a tablet?

[viollus]

@Ferrari465

I did. I use tablet and mouse. Point is, use whotever tool you need as long as you feel comfortable with it.

[fullboxxskater]

your crazy

[Mikey2490]

Dude...teach me

[beepandbop]

Are you using the pen tool or the brush tool at 3:39 ?

[Hollywood4Fun]

How many hours are spent creating this?

[viollus]

@Hollywood4Fun

About 10 to 12h total. I didn't made it all at one. Every video is one session about 3h long

[phoenixdie1]

oh !!!! awesome .... a cow with special weapon !

[JackSw1ss]

hey viollus...

I have another question...

In this vid as also in the next part I see that all your draw is basically made of 2 or more lines (when you do ctrl+y i can see it) but I saw that when for example you draw the hands you just used your brush then pen and I think I've missed the step where you kinda, maybe, "duplicate" the lines and finally have more lines...I don't know if I explained myself well...

Is there a command for doing that thing?

cheers and thanks

[JackSw1ss]

@JackSw1ss PS: the thing you use is expand?so that lines becomes like "filled" and then you have 2 lines for an old 1 line?

[JackSw1ss]

@JackSw1ss PS: the thing you use is expand?so that lines becomes like "filled" and then you have 2 lines for an old 1 line? or you make outline stroke command when you select everything?

[viollus]

@JackSw1ss

Hello again :) I am converting lines into shapes using "expand". First, I draw lines with paintbrush tool, then, when I'm happy with my drawing, I expand the lines and adjust thickness.

[TheGadgetReviewer10]

@viollus hi, i have a wacom tablet, and adobe illustrator cs5, i want to sketck but my pencil tool it pretty mashed up, its kinda like the pen tool, it always joins up all the lines i make, how can i change this?

[The1armscissor]

@TheGadgetReviewer10 i have a wacom tablet which also does this (i draw a line and then if i draw the next line to close, it joins them)....not sure how to fix this either...

[tauttvisz]

Dude, this is awesome. where did u learned to work with Illustrator? I'm working with PS and now Wanna learn work with vectors, but illustrator looks very difficult to me.

[viollus]

@tauttvisz

Hi there! Well, my background is traditional drawing and PS, but i never took any art class or anything like this. All I know, I learned by myself. Same was with Illustrator, I needed to know it for my work, I knew basics idea of vector drawing (at that time i hated vectors, I thought all good digital art comes from bitmap based software like PS - how wrong I was) I started with tracing all kinds of scanned logos and simple drawings. Just don't be scared, it's not that hard at all.

[tauttvisz]

@viollus I was learning illustrator yesterday all day long, now it doesn't look so complicated :) Same with me. I need to learn work with vectors because I'm working with graphic design, web design etc.. Again, nice job, keep going :)