 what's good youtube this is boy chi world back at you guys again with another step by step how to cartoon yourself tutorial if you're new to the channel go ahead and hit that like button comment subscribe make sure you click post notification so you wouldn't be notified every time your boy Johnson hit and without further ado let's jump right into this video first thing you want to do you want to go find you a picture with a lot of shadows and that stands and I already got my picture say just say that we're gonna do this we're gonna do this 21 savage picture and as you can see a good thing to do if you ain't good at making like your shadows and stuff find pictures that got a nice shadow that you can follow along with you know I'm saying because as you can see on this picture like that shadow is easy to follow along and then the more advanced you get you can go to pictures that where you got to really know how to just improvise yourself you know I'm saying so we finna use this 21 21 savage picture what I'm gonna do is I'm gonna draw the opacity and the size of my my art template I like to draw on is 18 by 18 inches that's a great size for like you know I'm saying instagram and stuff like that what you want to do you want to drop the opacity down on your picture after you do that you want to lock that layer create your new layer then I set my brush I get a lot of questions asking what type of brushes I use I just use one brush and it's the brush that adobe illustrated give me after I set the uh pen pressure sensitivity and what I'm drawing on is a ug tablet and go a little stylish pen to it you know I'm saying I'm drawing right on to the to the stream if you want to know everything I use I will have the links under this video well yeah let me go ahead and set my pen pressure and the only way you can get this option right here if you have a digital tablet you know I'm saying you can't you can't get this option with just your mouse so I go to my pressure and I set both of these bottom numbers to three and click okay and then right after I do that after you set your pen after you get that little that little style of brush you see me using and it's really I just I just start light then I press hard in the center and you'll just start making your own technique with making your lines look good but it's just the pressure sensitivity that's the only thing I do now main thing you want to focus when you're doing these cartoon heads is make sure you're doing very clean line work the better your line work is the better your cartoon heads will turn out I'll just come in make sure I'm doing some very clean lines and a little filling technique you want to come to your pencil pencil tool you got my settings for my pencil tool okay keep this layer locked and swap the black move the black to the top right here and now what you want to do you want to trace in the inside and to fill it in for you you feel okay we already did the nose and then I just keep going back and forth with my pencil and my brush for fillings to keep making our line work clean with these eyes a pencil tool to the top to do the filling and make sure the bottom layer is locked we might just go ahead and use our pencil tool um you spin on your line work don't worry about being too fast just worry about getting it right you know I'm saying you can clean you feel me we taking our time and a good thing about Adobe Illustrator man you get to zoom in as close as you want to so if you're trying to get your drawing real clean and nice go ahead and zoom as close as you can so you can get like the fine see the finer details love this well favorite thing I like to do we're back to your pencil and the inside and then go do the finer details at the end with the brush what we're gonna do we're gonna do the get the pencil tool again to the top and we're gonna do the filling for all the dreads and after we fill them in we're gonna come back and add detail it can clean what you're gonna do is like everything object expand the pen merge on your path finder so all your lines can become just become one big so now what you want to do I'm gonna drag your line work to this blank sheet of paper to make a copy lock the top copy and now we can delete picture photo the base color to start out with you want to go to your red tangle tool and you want to drag that color over your line work now you want to right click the color go to arrange and send to back and now if you look over here at your layers you'll see your line work sitting on top of the color now what we're gonna do is we're gonna select all of it together and click merge on our path finder to make it one with the color after you do that you want to right click it go to isolate select group and now we can make changes I'm going to leave this out of brown because it's isolated because we made sure our lines was closed off do you see you see colors it's trapped in the hair now it'll take all day to try to just go through manually and get the color out so what we're gonna do we're gonna click the drop down menu on our layer that we just added color to then we're gonna stroll down till we see our last black line to the last black line I was just at it right here we're gonna lock all the black lines so just hold the lock button and stroll up but leave these top two unlocked and now you can close it so now we can go to this white arrow and select it and delete it and it won't select our black because we just locked it so we're just strolling through to leave that color out of the hairs colors out of the hair come back to this arrow right here right click isolate select the group and now we finna put our base colors down hold shift to color more than one thing at a time base color down what you can do is you can lock that layer create a new layer in between and we're gonna start with our darkest shadow first so sample the skin tone and let's find a nice little blend between that got always tweak tweak colors so so after you do that you want to come to your pencil tool make sure your color is at the top and this is why I said find a picture where the shadows really stand out so we can you know what I'm saying so it'll be easier for you until you create your own method of learning how to find the the shadows I'm just looking at the original picture however I see the darker tones at my place in my shadows I can feel it in that area now we got the first layer of our shadow with our dark shadow you know what we're gonna do I'm select our shadow color and we're gonna make this color a little lighter so this is our in-between color our in-between shadow so we're gonna sample the skin again nice in-between color like your shadows don't you can just throw them anywhere if you really get them as close as you can it'll make a big difference with your artwork our highlights every time we do it we go from dark to light and every time we do it we're gonna keep adding the layer under the next shadow just like this the reason I do that I'm gonna show you on my shadows it'll fall right behind that's why it's good to put your shadows on different layers so you can always go in and tweak that's but not least we're gonna put a layer at the very top make sure you got out your gradient chart right here we're gonna select the gradient you see this black on this side this side it don't have to be perfect there you have it you guys how to make a dope cartoon head man make sure you hit that like button and leave a comment Mohi coming soon and I'm out this thing