 What's good, YouTube? This is your boy Chihuahua, back with y'all again with another art tutorial, man. If you're new to the channel, go ahead and hit that like button, come in, subscribe, make sure you click post notifications so you will be notified every time your boy drops on heat. In today's video, I will be teaching you guys how to shade inside of a Dolby Illustrator. So if you're new to the channel, you already know what to do, I just told you. So the first thing you want to do before you get to the shading process, you want to make sure you got some very clean line work. You know what I'm saying? Make sure you was making your line work. You was doing everything clean as you can and make sure you was closing off lines. After you finish your line work, what you want to do, you want to highlight everything. Then you want to go to object, expand appearance, and then you want to click merge on your Pathfinder. After you hit merge on your Pathfinder, you want to drag your line work layer to this blank sheet of paper to make a copy. Lock the top copy. After you do that, you want to grab you a color to start with. And I like to start with the skin tone, a good base color. This red tangle tool. I'm going to drag it over and send it back. After you do that, everything together, I click on to it, isolate select group. Now we can click this area and delete it. Hold shift just wait. Let me show you a method I like to do too. It just became my habit. I open, I got the color added to it, and then I lock all my black layers. And the reason I do that, so when I'm trying to work with colors that's too close to my line work, so I won't make a mistake and select the line work, it's locked so it won't even be an option for me to choose it. So that's why I like to stroll down inside my line work layer until I get to the last color of black, only the black color. Instead of having to zoom in to make sure I don't get my line work selected. Now that we finished with the base color, it's time to focus on shading. So a lot of times the picture that you draw, it'll really have the blueprint of the shading laid out for you. So all you want to do is mute the color layer, and then you want, as you can see, it kind of give you a blueprint of where your dark shadows sample the skin tone, create you a new layer. I mean, you can give it a name so you'll know what layer is what. Me on the other hand, I don't do it, you know what I'm saying. What kind of slap it we did, but it's all good. But yeah, it'd be best to label it. Label all your layers so you're going to create a shadows on this layer. So we're going to follow it, but at the same time, we're going to try to clean it up and create our own using it. But still got to look nice. Don't just follow it too much, still kind of tweak it a little bit. It kind of give you a good idea of where your shadows and shading should go. The more you do it, the better you'll get at it and then follow the picture. You'll be able to look at a picture and just know that it should go. Now that we got our first shadow layer down, one thing I want to do, I want to make it darker. So one thing I want to do, I want to make this my dark shadow layer. So I'm switching the colors, that shadow layer up. So what I'm going to do with all the shadows, what you want to do is you want to come up to your edit, edit color. You want to come right here. And that's really what you want to do. If you're not used to doing shades for your artwork, you want to just follow along with your piss on out. Make sure you hit that like button, come in, subscribe. Mohi coming soon. And I'm out this thing.