 What's good YouTube? This is your boy Chiwara back to y'all again with another art tutorial. If you're new to the channel go ahead and hit that like button, comment, subscribe, make sure you click post notifications so you wouldn't be notified anytime you watch y'all some heat. In today's video, man, I will be giving you a full walkthrough of making a cartoon head. And another thing too, I want to show y'all like if you trying to, if you drawing some dope artwork and you wanted to fit perfectly inside of Instagram, you know what I'm saying? When you want to show your work, I'm going to show y'all like the size I like to use. So let's jump right into it. Come over to file, click new. Then I go to my custom setting. I like 18 by 18 inches. That's what I use. That that seems to work perfect for me when I'm drawing and I want to upload it straight to Instagram and keep, keep everything in frame. You know what I'm saying? So after I find my size I want to use, I find the art, the picture, now just drag it in. Drop it right into Adobe Illustrator. Stretch out the size a little bit. Hold and shift and all at the same time so you can keep keep the same like height and width at the same time. Then come right here, drop the opacity down, lock that layer, create a new one. Come over here, file brushes. And if you got a tablet, you can have this setting where you use pressure sensitivity. That's the brush I like to use the one. After you do this, just put three right here in both of these numbers and both of these spots right here and click OK. And it'll give you that brush you see me use all the time with the sharp points. And all it is is like pressure. Like I go light and I press down hard then I end light. So it's just like a technique that you can get. So it's good to have a digital tablet you should invest in one. So the first thing we do, I do is like I started at least with the nose or eyes. Click onto this brush so I can get some more control. If you move your smoothness up, meaning if you got the stabilizer too high, it'll correct your line too much. You know what I'm saying? And sometimes that's a good thing when you're really trying to make clean, clean lines. But then sometimes you don't want it that high because it affects when you're trying to make little curves and stuff. So I'm gonna bring that down for now. And all I did was to get to this option is double click my brush. So I'm gonna click OK. Let's see if it's just doing how I want it to do. OK. When you're working on your line work, don't be afraid to like erase. Like keep erasing it until you get it exactly how you want it. The cleaner your lines is, the better your cartoon here to come out. So make sure you're working on making some clean lines. I get a lot of my inspiration too, like from anime. Like I like how clean like they do their artwork. You know what I'm saying? So if you was wondering what art style I'm really into is like anime. So I just watch some random anime and just look at the detail that they put into those cartoons. Like they're really inspiring. See we taking our time and the line work coming out pretty clean. I ain't rushing it. Just going with the flow. Gonna make my brush a little smaller when it's so I can do these eyebrows. Get a little slowly but surely this side. Now we're gonna make, we're gonna make our brush a little smaller so we can do like the little fine hairs and we're gonna make the lines a little more closer together. So a little more fuller. These hairs. Not what you want to do for the hair. So you can cover a lot of ground at once. You just want to come like to a big size brush and then we're just gonna fill in a lot of space but we ain't gonna go too close to the edges. Going too close. That's what you do in the picture. It's someone with a lot of hair. You just want to fill all of it in. Okay now that we got all that, all you want to do you want to come to like a, we're gonna start out with the one and just come to the edges and you want to just do different swirls. Going left and right so they give it like a fake. Like it's a lot of hair. The more you do it, it'll just fill up. See? It gives that a fake like it's a lot of hair going on, you know what I'm saying? And it'll just buy you some time if you just fill in the inside and just worry about the edges. Keep that one. Now the same thing we did at the bottom we're gonna do at the top, you know what I'm saying? So we're gonna keep this same thing. This all around. And another thing you can do after you done went all around, you can go back around like one more time with a smaller, a smaller brush and do the same thing so it'll look like it's just just more realer, you know what I'm saying? Like just bring the fake out more. Do these edges. All we done did that, you want to do is, you want to come back like I said with a smaller brush, then you can just go around and complete it to the line work. It's time to start the process of coloring everything. Wait, wait, wait, we got one more thing to do. Let's see a little more. Make sure I got all the little details. All right, we got all the details in the line work. What you want to do? Want to highlight everything? Go to object, expand appearance. Then you want to go to your Pathfinder. Where's my Pathfinder? On your Pathfinder, you want to click merge. After you click merge, you can click off of it. Go to your line work, copy of your line work. And lock the top copy. Okay, now while you got the second copy selected, you want to choose a good color to start with for the skin tone. It's pretty good to start with. Go to your rectangle tool and drag the color over the line work. Then you want to right click the rectangle tool. I mean, right click the rectangle you made and go to arrange and send to back. You'll know if you did this step right. If you look over at your layers and you see your line work sitting on top of the color. That's if you know you did that part right. So now after you do that, you want to select all this together. And then you want to click merge on your Pathfinder. And what that's going to do is make your line work become one with the color. And after you click merge to make all that one, you want to right click this, then you want to click isolate, select the group. So after we grouped everything together, it made it all one. Now we're isolating selected groups. So what that's going to do is it's going to make every area as by itself, like these little corners right here, like inside it, it's going to make it separate if you click on to everything that's closed off, like even in this area. So that's why when you're doing your line work, another thing you want to make sure you're closing off, you want to make sure you don't have no openings in the eyes, the mouth, the lips, everything that you're going to know, you're going to want to make a different color. So go to isolate, select the group. And now we can click colors individually. That's closed off in color. See, it's showing me. So we'll color this and color that we'll color this because everything is closed off. Another thing I like to do is go ahead and delete the outer and you notice we got a lot of hair. We got a lot of color stuck in our hair and it'll be like it'll take forever just trying to go through like this and manually delete everything. So I got a little trick for that. What you want to do, you want to come over here to your layers tool and you want to open this tab right here and then you want to open this one again and you want to stroll and right where you see the last line work, you want to start locking all these layers coming up, but leave all the color layers open. Just stroll up locking out of the layers of the line work and leave these first two unlocked. After you do that, you want to close this back. Now we're going to be able to come right here and delete all the color and because we locked the black line work, it's not going to touch that. It's only going to touch. Remember we didn't lock our colors. So now we can just select everything and we don't have to worry about making a mistake and clicking delete in our black lines. Go through and clean up the colors out the hairs and I will be dropping a couple tutorials like this. So eventually if you don't get it, if you can't understand it this time eventually you will if I just keep doing this so much you'll start catching the hang of what I'm doing. We're going to delete all these little colors and clean them. I like to zoom in and go through checking. Make sure everything is done. It looks pretty good to me. So now what we're going to do is finish coloring everything. Isolate the group so we can color only certain areas. Hold shift if you want to color two things at once or multiple things at once. And this is what I do every time I'm doing like a cartoon head. I just put all the base the base colors down before I start like doing the shadows and shading and stuff. All that's looking good. So now we finish we finish what our line work and we finish with our color layer. So now what I do is put a layer in between so we can do like the shadows the different shadows and stuff. And we're going to make one more layer too so we can do like the detail in the hair. So we're going to go ahead and we're going to go ahead and get that out the way. So to do the little the little detail inside the hair what you want to do is you want to come over here to your little gradient thing. Wait wait I know a whole another way what we're going to do is we're going to come up here to our windows and we're going to click swatches. And after you pull out your swatches you just can go through your little books until you find gradient. Okay as you find gradient you can just click one it can be either one okay you got your gradient pulled up and now you can pull out this so you can tweak it. I just did that so you will know how to find a gradient option because I could have easily did it how I had it you know set up already waiting to to use. So what I do is I just bring these two edges to a darker color and I make the center like the color I wanted the hair to be okay so I want this hair to be like a brownish so what you want to do you want to make these two dark edges blend into a brownish color so we're just gonna find something that we're just gonna keep mixing because maybe I don't know what color hair you will probably want but you can do like anything I'm just showing you. Any color you put in the center you want the two edges to blend into it so it'll have a nice even fade and it'll give it a better effect on the light there okay I like that so what we're gonna do now we're gonna get our brush and it's gonna give us that it's gonna give us that effect that we're looking for and you put this layer on top of everything you know what I'm saying you put it on top of your line work sort of so you'll be able to see it right now we did that did that we want to add the opacity down a little bit on it we're just gonna add some glares in the eyes and then we can we can start our shading process we'll go back to these layers we can lock that layer and we can go to the layer in between I think I want to I want to switch that skin tone but we'll do that at the end we'll switch it up a little bit I think I wanted a little more redder so what we're gonna do for the shadows we're gonna in the shading we're gonna sample the skin tone on natural color and then we're gonna find a good what'll be a good light color for the shading I think that'll be pretty good see a little lighter we're gonna start shading first of all we're gonna we're gonna select our shadows expand the pinch then we're gonna click merge on our path find it so we can make it one but now I really want to change the color of the face with the shadows all together so we're gonna unlock the bottom layer and the shadow layer and we're gonna select it all together we're gonna go to object I was gonna go to edit right here right here you can go to these colors we want to change and tweak them that shadow that's a little better right there so what we're gonna do we're gonna add another layer under under them shadows well there you have it you guys how to make a cartoon head I know this a boring video but I decided to make one like this so you can keep up and really try to you know I'm saying figure out the way I'm doing things if you're new to the channel go ahead hit that like button comment like I said at the front of this video subscribe hit post notification more heat coming soon and I'm out of this thing