 What's good YouTube? This is your boy Chihuahua back to y'all again with another Adobe Illustrator tutorial If you're new to the China goal here to hit that like button, comment, subscribe Make sure you hit post notifications so you will be notified anytime boy drop the heat Without further ado, let's jump right into this video in today's video I will be turning a customer of mine into a boom dogs character We're gonna be doing it together step by step so you can follow along and see what your boy doing If you want to be creative and turn yourself into a character So let's let's get it to it. Let's go ahead and pick our size of paper that we joined on I like to draw on 18 by 18 or 8 by 8 really 18 by 18 because you get fit more detail in it But the reason I do even numbers because it fit perfectly when I'm posting it inside of Instagram and stuff like that It it fit in there perfectly. So let's do 18 by 18 inches First thing I do every time I'm starting on a new piece. I Pick a bright bright pinkish color Now drop the opacity down at least Somewhere in between So I can do like a rough sketch and make a blueprint of The artwork before I get started on the line work Now we're gonna set our brush and this only work if you have a Digital tablet, you know one of them art tablets like a Y come or damn boo. I'm using a UG Tablet I'm gonna let y'all see it if y'all wonder what I be joined on it be this little I'm drawing right here, you know Got my TV display right there I'm drawing on this So and they come with a little pen. So I draw right on the string You know saying Yeah Okay You got to have a pen if you want to be able to set up your precious sensitivity You gotta have one of these little tablet setups What you want to do is you want to come over here to a new brush You want to click? Okay You want to come down here to the bottom and go to pressure? Then we can make both of these numbers even So we're gonna do three on each side And then what that's gonna do is give you this This little effect with your brush But you can draw like the lighter you go the thinner your line of B the harder you press down The more thicker it'll be Let's delete all that so first thing we're gonna do we're gonna start out with the sketch I'm looking at a reference on my other stream and what I do is I get the original picture of the person I'm drawing and then I go find the cartoon character So I can know what style I'm going for but at the same time try to make it look similar to the actual person I'm drawing so What we're gonna do we're gonna work on this face first before we go to the body and One thing about this you can and when you start on the face You can Shrink it down to size So fit in the body so we can draw a big it don't matter what size we start with we're gonna start out Making it pretty big and if we got to shrink it down. We just Select everything and just break it down a scale Anytime you working on a picture you just want you want to start out with the sketch and make sure you just having fun With it don't be I know this one up when I see a lot of people sketching they do this It's like they commit and To lines like they move so slow But why you want to move that slow when you're not for sure you're gonna keep that's not your final Only time you want to take that much time is when you're working on your line work like the final draft But when you're working on a sketch You want to be as fluent as possible because you're not for sure you're gonna keep it You're not for sure you want to keep the lines or you're not so When I'm working on a sketch, I like to just I just like to go with the flow cuz I I want to hurry up and see what I'm going with it or what it's gonna look like or should I Keep going with it or should I just erase this? So make sure when you sketching be fluent, but Don't commit to something You can spend as long as you want until you're happy with your sketch before you move to your official line work, so On this part I can just have fun and I can just Really scope out the picture what I like to do Like I like that face. You're gonna got the detail of the face. Let's break it down some Make it a little thinner We're gonna fit the rest of the body here a little more Fit it all and if you want to scale it down But not like distort anything where it's going to thin or too wide if you want to keep the same size You got all you got to do is hold shift and off and grab the edges and pull it in and then to keep it same proportion So if you want to change just say not we don't want if you don't want to Change the size of the whole picture and you just want to grab a portion of it. All you got to do is bring That little box over Just as much That you want to change and we can alter that without missing with too much of Now that we got our sketch We got our sketch out the way It's time to go in now. This is the part you want to take your time on you want to take your time on the Line work now with this part. This is just our Blueprint, you know I'm saying like what we're gonna follow to make our clean lines, but What we're gonna do is we're gonna lock this layer Create a new layer right above it I'm gonna select the color black size of our brush down And Start Don't start with the eyes I'm gonna go past it back up and if you want to Change the smoothness of your brush Like if you wanted to help you make the lines, all you got to do is Double-click the brush And it'll pull up this chart and then the farther you move it up the more it'll help you make Corrections of the lines and the more you move it down is the more control you will have over your lines So I normally move it between these two You know I'm saying so I can still have some control but really get a lot of help making them Perfect clean lines, you know I'm saying to start with the eyes Now that we got our eye what you want to do Say And we're gonna hold alt on your keyboard do you want to select this and drag it over And let it go so we can make a copy Why I still select it you want to right-click on your mouse go to Transform and then you want to go to reflect that same eyes Okay, now that we got the line work finished it's time to do the coloring process So I'm gonna do this slow and step by step and I hope I don't lose you and maybe you will get the hang of it because when I first Tried this technique it took me a few times to get it because I couldn't get it right at first But I kept on trying it until I got it So I'm pretty sure if you do the same thing you'll find it figured out me like oh Dang, that was simple, but let's go ahead and get it started So the first thing you want to do before you start the process you want to check and make sure All your lines is closed off because the process work like the paint bucket You know I'm saying so you got to make sure your lines closed off so Your colors won't be spilling out. You feel me Let's see. I'm going through making sure I got my lines closed off What you want to do is you want to come right here To your selection tool You want to highlight everything Once you got everything selected you want to go to object expand appearance And then you want to go to your pathfinder and click merge So now what we just did we made all our lines one Big one big line one single line. So when you when you go on to it, you see it's like Everything is together now So after you do that you want to drag your line work down to this blank sheet of paper And drop it to make a copy of it Lock the top layer Come to the second layer right here And then you want to pick a Pick a color to start with Let's see. I'm gonna go ahead and I like to go ahead and pick the skin tone that I'm gonna use Okay, I think that's a good one click. Okay Come to your rectangle tool You want to drag it over the whole picture? Okay Now what we're gonna do right now if in the Right click this color Then we're gonna go to arrange and send to back And you will know if you did that step correctly if you come over here and look at your layers You'll see that your line work is on top of the color now So after you do that step what you want to do You want to come to your selection tool and you want to highlight everything once again The color and the line work together You want to highlight it all and now we finna merge this together and we finna make this one So click merge After you do that you want to Left click like click off of it real quick so we can deselect it then you want to You want to uh left click onto it? And then right click and go to isolate select group So now we can click the areas that's closed off individually And change the color or delete So what we're gonna do we're gonna go ahead and delete all this on the outside what we don't want So just click it click an area and hit delete on your keyboard. Okay Go ahead and color his shoes a nice color for his pants his shirt I'm just get the dropper tool and select the color I use for the shoes to make his tank top Okay, call his hair I'll make it a dark brown Tool and select this color Or just us just watch I'm gonna do I'm just select these little areas by holding shift after I click it I want to hold shift and you just want to keep selecting So we can color all this at the same time get my dropper tool and Use that color for the watch Gonna make the face I'm happy with the With the base color now it's time to go in With our shadow layer. So what I'm gonna do I'm gonna lock this layer Come down here to this blank sheet of paper create new layer in between And the reason we put our line we save a copy of our line work and put it on top So whenever we're coloring This just say It was coloring It'll fall right under the line work For when we're doing shading So we we ain't got to worry about trying to be so perfect where You're trying to stay along the edges and it's going over the top of your line work So that's what I like to do. I like to always make a copy of your line work and stick at The top and lock it So let's go ahead and start on the start on the shadows of the skin Get our dropper tool Select the skin and now we're gonna pick just uh, we're gonna find a good shade Okay, I think that's that's good to start out with Okay, what we're gonna do Notice when these boondocks carrots is they got these little Shadows under the nose the chin. I mean under the lip Under the bottom One thing we're gonna do we're gonna create a layer on the top Just to do the little glare now All you gotta do is come put a little Put a little white dot right down We can lock that layer we're doing so we're gonna come back in the in between layer Make sure we finished up all our Shading and there you have it you guys how to turn yourself into a boondocks character You know I'm saying Make sure you stay prayed up More heat coming soon And I'm out this time