 What's good YouTube? This is your boy Chiwara Bakutal again with another art tutorial man. Today I will be showing you guys how to create the tattoo effect. If you're new to this channel go ahead hit that like button, comment, subscribe, make sure you click post notification so you will be notified every time you budge off some heat. Without further ado, let's jump right into this video. Okay the first thing you want to do before you even start doing the technical things you want to first draw the tattoo so I'm going to just draw a quick a quick basic tattoo. Let me see let me set my brush and make sure when you join tattoos for your artwork to put on your character make sure you put it on its own layer so just create a new layer and you should title it tattoos you know what I'm saying but never put it on the same layer as the artwork so just in case you want to change the color of the tattoos or whatever you you want to do later you'll still have that flexibility yeah feel me okay we're gonna draw him a little a little tattoo real quick I'm looking at a reference right now uh like daffy duck gonna be perfect as long as y'all get the drip okay I just say we're gonna add a little flames flames off enough and another thing you can do we can um throw some money bags off in there I'm gonna make it look like an actual little tattoo before we start it'll be too lazy also when you're making tattoos uh placement is everything so make sure you place in it in a dope spot like right now I can tell like this ain't really I'm from the center of it a little bit so it'll look more believable move this over you know some people begin their birthday I mean they date a birth tattoo we're just gonna say uh you know what I'm saying we'll flame y'all gonna make sense at the end that's all also you can add tics you know what I'm saying so we're gonna write like we're gonna use the tics we're gonna write like money across his chest another thing to do too is uh try to find some dope fonts go to google and type in some fonts so you can um try to find like a dope cursive tattoo font you know what I'm saying you don't have to draw the the letters you can already find some that fit your picture so I'm pretty sure I downloaded some some dope fonts let me see that fit the vibe and a lot of times they be having like free downloads for fonts like a tattoo okay cool why you still gotta select it I come up here put that little curve to it I want to fill it up make it look full as possible you know what I'm saying probably can add some little cloud bubbles make sure I got the color black now what you want to do you want to select your tattoos everything you want to highlight everything at one time and since we use the uh tics it's not tics it's not seen as uh the line work it's seen as a symbol so we got to do a little extra step to make it all become one so go to object then you want to go to expand appearance and then you want to go back to object since we got a symbol and go back to expand and then you want to hit okay and that's how you turn your your symbol create your symbol and make your symbol become one with your line work now go to windows go to pathfinder and go to uh merge on your pathfinder so you can make your line work all become one now this is just the first part like we already created the tattoos now we finna do the effect so what you want to do is you want to look inside your uh your swatches for the gradient let me see go down to gradient and I like to start at the top and what you're looking for is the black gradient that go into the transparent gradient you know what I'm saying and after you do that you just gotta come over here you play with these play with these little levels pull this one down a little bit you know what I'm saying and then you want to come up here you want to rotate what a gradient is coming from get it best to your liking tweak just a little more let's let's try to put let's try to put the uh uh oh right there let's bring that up a little bit so it all the way washed up if you want to have a look bring this opacity up a little more and now I gotta go through with my white selection tool and delete the inner color fill it in but it's all good I just go through manually and pick out the colors through here try and get y'all a little idea of how I do it you know what I could have did I could have just isolated selected group no I ain't go back to isolated group for my regular selection tool but you get it that's how you do it man you gotta keep playing with the gradient though till you get it exactly how you want it to flow where it's kind of a little washed out where it's like so imperfections and that's how you make it look like it's really like onto the skin you know I'm saying I'll just go through take your time and just do you man create your tattoos that's how you do the tattoo effect please leave in the comment section of a tutorial you guys would like to see next so I can touch on it for you guys and see y'all next video