 What's good, YouTube? This your boy Chihuahua, back to y'all again with another art tutorial, man. If you're new to the channel, go ahead and hit that like button, comment, subscribe, make sure you click post notification so you'll be notified every time you watch y'all some heat. In today's video, I will be showing you guys how to shade in Adobe Illustrator, so without further ado, let's jump right into this video. Okay, you guys, one of the most important things about art and getting your art to the next level is shading and learning how to find the shadows inside of your picture. So what we're going to do, let's go ahead and make a quick rough sketch of his face. I'm not going to spend too much time on the face, you know what I'm saying? We're just going to basically do a nice little layout where you see where everything is. Okay, you got his nose, you got his lips. And remember, you guys, this ain't a drawing video. It's a shading video. So this, my picture of this face ain't going to be too perfect. So now let's go ahead and get to the shading part. We're going to make, we're going to make four different tones of shading so we can keep everything simple. Let's just use the color gray with a whole tutorial. Now that we got all our boxes laid out, man, let's go ahead and pretty much, I do all my shading with my pencil tool. So let's go ahead and go to the pencil tool, make sure this bottom color is locked, make sure the top one is above the bottom one. And I'm going to sample that top gray because that's going to be our base color. Let's go ahead and make our, make his whole face that great color. Now every time I do shadows, I put every shadow on the layer of his own. So that was our base color. Now I just created a new layer because I'm going to start with a shadow. So I like starting with my dark shadows and then I like to gradually get lighter. So I got my dark shadow selected. Make sure this bottom color is locked to my pencil tool. And what you want to do, you want to steady your picture and you want to find out where are all the darker tones. So we can come over here and look at this picture. You can tell it's dark and it's crease. All you do is really just like you're drawing a picture, you just treat your shadows the exact same way you just draw the shadows. You just focus on where all your dark tones at and then you put them in place. So right now, so it takes some practice to be able to find them. Right now I'm just looking at my picture and I'm placing all the dark shadows exactly where I see them. Got a dark shadow right there. And then once I'm finished finding all of my dark shadows, I go to the next lighter shadow and I look for that tone on the picture. So you got a dark shadow right here that comes up. Notice you got a dark area right here. A dark piece right there. Also, pretty dark on this side of his face. So let's go ahead and make a little line. Okay now, so you got a little dark spot in this crease, a little dark spot right there. Another one also inside of his ear. So you just really focus, focus in on the picture you're drawing. Okay, now I'm finished, I'm about finished finding all of my darks. So let's lock that layer, create a new layer under it. I start with my dark shadows and every layer I create, I tuck it under and I go lighter. So the dark shadows sit on top of the lighter shadows. So now let's go up a block, sample that, and now we're gonna find our tones that's a little bit lighter, you know what I'm saying? So but still in the dark, the dark realm. I'm just looking at my picture as you can see, focus in on my picture. Okay, notice you got dark spot right here. Then this crease, come up like this. It's all about focusing. I don't know what they can just draw exactly, draw exactly what you see, place the shadows exactly where you see them at on the picture. Okay, I'll see a shadow right there, dark shadow right here, and this whole ear right here. Let's go ahead and make this whole thing dark. Maybe hopefully y'all get in the method of what I do every time I'm trying to draw shadows and not overthinking it. I'm just following my picture, doing exactly what my picture tells me to do. You got a shadow it's right here, come back, I forgot to connect this right there. Now we're gonna go lock that layer and create a new layer under that shadow. It's just the same process, the lighter you get, like once I finish finding those tones of shadows, I go even lighter. Now I'm on to looking for these lighter shadows that's lighter than the first two I was looking at. We'll go ahead and sample that. Now I'm focusing on this, you see it. Because shadows are just different tones, being able to find the different tones in the face. And if you look at it as you just drawing a picture, it'll be easier to find. Don't treat it no different from actually drawing your picture. Just following exactly what I see over a little bit. Just following my picture. Last but not least is the highlights. So what I like to do, I like to make like a just a brighter tone. You see where the light hit on his face? That's gonna make the picture pop out more. I don't do nothing special, but just draw exactly where I see the original shadows are placed. Don't overthink it, just draw exactly where you see it at on the picture. We got a light source right there. Got a light source right here, right there. Let's look on this little right there. Also this crease. The light source above is down. What I'll do is I'm gonna make that not so, not so bright. So we're gonna put it down and just tap. Now I'm just gonna be extra. Let's go ahead and go to the top and make his eyes and his teeth white. There you have it you guys. How to shade. I will drop a shading video tomorrow for beginners, you know what I'm saying? Just in case if this was just a little too, a little too fast pace for you guys, I will drop a more simpler video, you know what I'm saying? Where it's not that much value going on in the face. Where we can be dealing with like one shadow and then we can gradually, you know what I'm saying? The picture can get more advanced over time. So y'all just let me know if y'all want more videos like this in the comments. Make sure you stay tuned. Mohi coming soon and I'm out.