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This is what you were all back to y'all again with another art video man If you're new to the channel, go ahead hit that like button, comment, subscribe, make sure you click Post notifications so you'll be notified the time you both got something heat In today's video, I will be doing a beginner's tutorial on how to make a cartoon here You know I'm saying if This is for the people that got a digital art tablet though the next video I drop Tutorial, I'll make sure I do a beginner's for the people who use in a mouse But this is for the people who use in a digital art tablet So without further ado, let's jump right into this video Okay, first thing you want to do you want to find your picture Drag and drop it make sure you make it big as you can so you can have a good look On the lines because you know I'm saying on most pictures it'll be very pixelated So you need it as big as you can get it so you can kind of clean up And get a good little outline or everything Let's select this select the picture drop opacity now The way you can see it so your your line work can stand out You want to come over here you want to create your new layer right above it lock the picture layer Now we're going to come set our brush our pressure on our brush now This is what you see me using on every video you see me coming right here And I just set my pressure on my brush. I do not use a special brush I just set the pressure on it. So you want to come right here to new brush You want to hit okay? You want to go to pressure? Change this number to three change that number to three and now you will have a brush you see me use Every single video all it is is a pressure brush It's nothing special if you press hard it'll get it'll be a thick line But if you press light it'll be a thin line So that's the brush I use for all my tutorials and art videos After you make your brush Let's make out the size of it a little smaller Uh-oh the size of our brush just a little smaller Now what we're going to do we're going to zoom in as close as we can and we're going to try to improvise on these lines You see how pixelated it is I'm improvising you know what I'm saying And you're going to have to do that on a lot of people pictures because people will see new pictures That'll look good from a distance But soon as you start zooming in it'll be all kinds of messed up it'll be pixelated but that's where Your artist mode you got to jump in artist mode and you got to You got to kind of Fix you got to make it right So all I'm doing is I'm zooming in as close as I can Try to clean these lines up fix them See Make our brush a little smaller Now we got to come make the lips I always do a close-off you see how I just made this line on the end of the other lips I do that so it'll be easier to close them off and you'll see what I'm talking about So just make us a little close-off line That's all on the lip It ain't looking nice and clean Taking my time because it's very pixelated. So just like I said, I got to do a lot of improvising on this picture Step back see how we looking Okay, everything looking nice and clean It's come up here And most of the time when it's a picture like this, I just follow I follow the pixels as best as I can See I'm saying like you see Follow this part The more you start doing it to you'll be able to be like, okay, I see I see where the place of my lines is But that's all I'm doing Just following the pixels, but I'm improvising at the same time So right there Go ahead and close the face off I ain't coming together Go ahead and bring this line on up. We got to do my My famous drip On the neck we got the neck drawn Now what I like to do You see how I left it. I left the hair And I left the eyes and the eyelashes and the eyebrows. I left all that now what I like to do. I like to come to my pencil tool Just right click right here. Make sure your pencil tool selected Double click it It'll pencil tool make sure you're sitting. It's look like mine. It's okay Hit okay Move this color black to the top and make sure the bottom one is locked And now what we're going to do we're going to use the pencil tool as a field tool So watch this All you got to do Just trace the area you wanted to feel and then close it off just come And it's going to fill in that area So I do I do a lot of my coloring And shading with my pencil tool I do the line work with the brush And I do my coloring With my pencil tool So those are the two things that's going to come in handy So now I'm just gonna follow all this Step back see how I'm looking everything. See it's coming. It's coming together Slowly With shoulder Go ahead and do the eyelashes. They pretty See and I'm just following my pixels, but at the same time I'm improvising So just You're gonna have to get used to the picture not looking perfect. You know I'm saying not being a perfect trace for you improvising See I was licking everything coming together now. Let's go ahead and fill in this hair I'm gonna fill this in See it's pencil tool amazing And that's why I say you gotta make sure you do a good close off Because it's gonna fill in the inner area. You know what I'm saying? So What I do I do portions like I do this area Then I make a little close off Say right there Then I just keep going up Let's cover some more ground Let's make a stopping point right here Keep going up the eyebrows Now let's get back out of our brush And make our lines the smallest we can get it I'm gonna We're gonna have it out To make it look like it's fading So it's all about a technique as soon as you make up a technique For doing faces It'll just become very easy to you Just learn the technique And a lot of times when your picture is so pixelated Where you can't really see the detail of what you're drawing You can you can get another reference just go To google you know i'm saying google images and type in ears You know i'm saying or whatever you're trying to get a reference picture of to help you out a little bit I'm gonna see what i'm gonna do I'm gonna step by it To my Pencil tool move my black to the top make sure the bottom on this lock and I'm gonna add my little 3d effect behind the drip got this thing Dang they're completed man. We got all the line work a little challenging But we manage To make it through Now what we about to do We got to add some color to this picture Doing some little minor touches up Some minor touches Now we got to add color to it. So let's go ahead and set it up get it all prepped So we can be able to add some color to this picture. So what you want to do you want to highlight everything You want to come up here the object Expand the pen And then you want to hit Merge on your pathfinder. What's that's gonna do This is gonna make all our lines Become one See now this picture is just one big old black one one line. You know what I'm saying? instead of being Millions of other lines to make one. You know what I'm saying? I know I just went over your head, but I hope I didn't now You make this one what you want to do I want to drag the line work copy to this blank sheet of paper to make a copy Lock the top copy Highlight the the second copy And let's find us a nice little base tone start out with and then We're gonna tweak it a little bit. So don't worry about not getting it accurate So after you find the color you want I like that tone you want to come to your rectangle tool You want to dry that color over the entire picture After you do that, you want to right click the color go to arrange Send to back So the color can go behind the line work You'll know if you did it step right if you look over here to your layers and you'll see your line where it's sitting on top of the color Okay, now what you want to do you want to highlight everything once again? And then you want to click merge on your pathfinder. So the color can become one with your line work After that you want to right click the color go to isolate select the group And what that's going to do is every area that's closed off is only going Choose that as a group, you know saying like this outer area It's only going to choose this since I isolated it from everything else Now I can delete it since I don't want that outer color And then we also can switch other colors as well. So I want to change this eye color to white I'm gonna select it hold shift and select the other eye and make that white We're going to select these lips. That's why you got to make sure when you're drawing things You got to make sure it's closed off so I'm going to select these lips Or what I'm going to do is We're going to add some color to it Let's see All colors of lips pretty much little creases inside her eyes Hold shift make this pink another thing too. You know what I don't like I'm gonna go to my My line work layer at the top Select the color black Let's go ahead and help out this little scalp part right here Okay, let me go back to my color layer. What I'm going to do is We're going to delete these colors out these hairs right here So I'm going to select it with my white tool my white selection tool and hit delete since it ain't tedious I'm going to delete that What I want to do I want to Make a skin tone A little more redder so Let's go to our black selection tool right here Let's highlight Let's highlight everything Go to edit edit colors adjust color balance Go to preview And I like to tweak these knobs a little bit so I get it like I want And there they go pretty Pretty much I think that'll do Okay And now What you boy about to do I'm about to make a copy of my color layer You got to follow me right here make a copy of the color layer Put a lock on the bottom color layer Take the eye off so we can only focus on The color layer we got in between Come to your white selection tool and what we're going to do is we're going to delete Only the skin tone of this layer And this is important for the shading process So You want to select only the skin tone and hit delete make sure it's only deleting the skin tone Okay, now we're gonna we're gonna have to get the colors So we don't make a mistake and delete our black lines what I like to do I like to hit this drop down menu and I like to Lock only my black lines And keep the top two on lock Close it back We can delete the colors That's trapped inside The black lines without deleting the black lines So that'll make your job way more easier other than have to Go do it one by one Zoom in make sure We delete all that skin tone I'm gonna show you why we do this why we delete the skin tone And that's it. So after you do that you want to lock that layer And turn the eye back on on the color layer that's on the bottom Now you want to create a layer in between Those two layers right there And this is going to be our shadow layer And the reason I do that so when I make my shadows I'm gonna show you Go to my pencil tool make sure my color is at the top and the bottom is locked So when I make my shadows, it is just fall behind The lips and the eyes and then make your job more easier other than happen to try to work around the eyes You know what I'm saying? You can just draw right through it Knowing it's going to fall right behind it So that's why I always do that when I'm going to do my shading and my shadows Now what we got to do we got to find a nice shadow color a nice shadow tone So what you want to do you want to sample the skin tone and you want to kind of Find something That'll be a nice shadow So Put them up pencil tool Zoom in And this I do all my shading and my shadows with the pencil tool. So I just draw my shadows I draw them out You see how I'm drawing it? Then I just go back And close it off And it's a It makes me a nice little shadow So you're gonna draw out all of the shadows And it takes some practice to get good at doing shadows, you know what I'm saying? But the more you do it the better and the easier it'll it'll become all I do is I look at my original picture And I just follow where I see The shadows on the picture You know what I'm saying? So I notice on this picture she don't got is it don't have much value as far as too many Shadows to focus on so I don't I don't have to overdo it. Sometimes you can overdo it When you're doing like female characters and it'll kind of make their face look Older than what they actually are so You don't want that you just You just want to do just enough to make it look 3d I give it a nice little Nice little depth of field Put a shadow Under her neck Going down this way Very cool. And what I'm gonna do Let's tweak You can tweak our shadows just a little bit. I think they can be I think they can be a little darker That's a little darker, so make our shadows Just a little more darker money So what I do is I highlight All the shadows I made Object expand Click merge So all my lines can become one on the shadow layer Then I go back to edit Edit colors adjust color balance go to preview And I tweak it till I get it like a nice little tone or like I think that's pretty I think that's pretty dope right there So learning how to tweak colors And adjust them just right to your liking it take a little practice, but Trust me You put some time into it You become a beast at it like I'm not I wouldn't say I'm a month But I'm working for you know what I'm saying now we finna create us another layer Right under our dark shadows That we just made and what I like to do I like to start with my dark shadows and I like to get lighter Every layer I make I get lighter with my tones, you know what I'm saying so Now What we're gonna do we're gonna sample and I think this is we only gonna do two shadows We're gonna do this dark shadow layer a light shadow layer And we're gonna do the highlights, but I don't count that as the shadow layer So we're just gonna do two shadow layers in the highlight So now let's sample the skin tone Let's find a color that's A nice in between and just like I said if you don't get it perfect We're always gonna tweak it. You know what I'm saying because we got to make The colors We got to make it flow with each other So now I'm finna I'm looking close at my my picture I'm gonna create these light lighter tones All you got to do is just focus Focus as much as you can on your subject. You know what I'm saying just Look closely at the picture you're drawing and just focus. That's all I do. I just Whenever I'm drawing I just focus on my reference I want to make them make this dark right there And we're gonna tweak that color because it don't it don't it's not flowing good right now. I'm just placing Placing my shadows where they need to go And anytime you place a shadow down and you don't like it man. Just erase it And just like I said improvise Because a lot of times I do what I think a look good as well like when my picture is not helping me out as much I improvise as an artist I was like, okay, what'll make this look better? And that's what we do we improvise I just like I told y'all what we finna do We finna tweak that layer So what I like to do just like the layer before Highlight everything on that layer go to object expand Then click merge so those Lines we just created can become one go to edit edit colors adjust color balance preview And let's tweak it so it can It can flow better finna do Let's go back to our dark shadow layer Oh, I'm gonna put a little more Color It's all about making these colors flow together man So once you master that a little more more tint Okay, see how that look that's a little too much Of the wrong color I can see here all day and tweak this Let me see maybe that's it. Okay. I think that's it Yeah Pretty much it you guys now Just like I told you the last but not least on the skin Is the highlight layer so what I do I sample the skin tone and I just make like a bright Color so we can add all the little highlights. I want to make another dark shadow layer so I'm gonna bring This layer I'm creating a new layer bring it above my dark shadow layer that I already have And I just want to make That's the little that's the little darker man for the transitions Make sure I'm saving this Because you can't trust These programs all the time so make sure you say you work Remind yourself to stop And save every once in a while because I don't love so much work Trust in these programs Okay, now what we're gonna do you already know I'm gonna highlight them shadows we just made go to object expand appearance click Merge Go to edit edit colors adjust color balance preview And let's just give it a little tone and I think there you go Right there That's it That's it Now what we're about to do Create a layer right above the top Line work You know I'm saying because now what we want to do we want to add some values and some shades Inside of the eyes remember how we set the eyes and the lips on top of Everything else now we got to go on top of that so we can color inside the eyes and stuff So make sure you create you a line work. I mean create you a new Create you a new layer right above the top line work. I mean right under the top line work Now what we're about to do I'm about to come add some Value inside those things. Let's go ahead. I'm telling y'all the more More you practice the better your cartoons look you ain't gonna you might not start out looking Like what I'm doing your work might not start out like this, but if you stick with it Trust me because I didn't start out This good doing digital. I always was a great artist on paper but then when I started doing digital art it was like Learning how to ride a bicycle like you know what I'm saying for the first time like when you when you Ain't used to a certain style of art. You got to relearn it. You know I'm saying so You might not start out perfect at first doing digital art But if you stick with it and you put the time into it You can master it man practice makes close to perfect Because can't nobody ever get perfect and then you can never get perfect. I mean you can always improve You know I'm saying so That's how I feel about it Your goal the goal of being an artist is to always improve on your skills and just love the process So just make sure you practice man and over time you'll be it will come easy to you Like it is to me you feel me so I'm gonna add a little I'm just add a little highlight on this same layer. I ain't got to Let's go ahead and sample that Make it brighter Need to do We're gonna create a layer right above Everything now because what I want to do is I want to put a glare inside her eyes and I want to Do a nice little hair of fate. So let's create us a new layer Put it above everything Let's go ahead Start with these eyes Okay Now you want to go back to your brush tool and we finna create the hair texture. So what I do is I go to my swatches And then I find this little gradient color You know, I select it pull out my gradient chart make sure I got three gradient knobs And I make both of the edges black But I also make it fade into like a A grayish Blueish whatever, you know what I'm saying? I just make it fade But I don't make it fade straight to To black, you know what I'm saying? I kind of give it a little color tint And I can't explain it good. So you can just I'm glad y'all can see what I'm doing So my actions can explain Look What I do I see how I make it fade And then the color in the center what you want to do You want to make that it's a little brighter and now Now we just created our hairbrush. That's the hairbrush right there. So I go back to my brush And I'm finna draw these hairs See what I'm saying And the reason you make both of the edges black so it'll fade into the natural black you already got on your your line work Yeah, I know I'm a genius Look How you guys do just draw a nice little line to get that texture going Make it look real you feel me you don't want to overdo it, but you don't want to not overdo it So you want a nice in between of doing the most Okay, come on this side here Just to make it Make the highlights We're gonna come right here I'm gonna do the same thing Just make it flow See how we got it going in the same direction And some on some of the lines that start looking thought off I delete them And you notice these lines right here Are messed up. So what you want to do you want to highlight the lines that's messed up click it right here Go back to your gradient chart and you want to change this number Until it get right until you get your Get your your Your highlights in the center Okay, there we go Now we back And there you have it you guys how to make A cartoon head for beginners even though it look advanced But the more you do it the more your cartoon has a look at vans as well Got more videos coming more tutorials more me just flat out just being an artist Videos where you know I'm saying you can see my skill level Make sure you stay tuned for that more heat coming soon and I'm out