 What's good YouTube? This is what you were all back to y'all again with another art tutorial man. If you're new to this channel, go ahead and hit that like button, comment, subscribe, miss you, click, post notifications so you will be notified every time you budge out some heat. In today's video, I will be showing you guys how to make a cartoon head for beginners, the whole process. So if you wanna know what equipment to buy, how to set your art board up, we finna cover all that today. So without further ado, let's jump right into this video. Okay, the first time you load inside Adobe Illustrator, you should click new file. And what I like to do is come over here and change pixels to inches. So just make sure you change pixels to inches and make your art board 18 by 18 inches. The reason I do that, because that's a perfect fit inside of Instagram, make sure quality is on 300 resolution. You know what I'm saying? So you can get the best quality. Color, mode, I use CMYK, okay. Hit create, click create real quick. Okay, now for this process, you gonna have to make sure to get this option, you gotta have a digital art tablet. I'm using the YCOM, but I will have some recommendations in the link below. So you guys know what equipment you should buy, and I'll make sure I have it from lowest price point to your highest price point. So you can figure out what you wanna do. But you gotta have a digital art tablet to get this option right here. Hit this drop down menu, go to new brush, and then you hit okay. And then you click fixed at the bottom, and you should see this pressure where you able to select it. But if you ain't using a digital art tablet, you can't. So this should be grayed out if you're not using a digital art tablet. But I'm using the YCOM, so click pressure and hit three, and change that number to three. So if you was ever wondering what brush I use for every video, that's all I do. I just change the pressure. Turn pressure options on. Now, when I start every picture to make a cartoon head, I go look for the picture I wanna use on my desktop. And all you do is you just drag it, and you drop it in there, you know what I'm saying? I grab the edges by holding shift, because if you don't hold shift and you grab the corners, it'll change the picture, it'll warp it, look, see. This may not hold in the corners. So it deforms your picture. So control Z to go back, see control Z. Now hold shift, and it'll keep everything in proportion, and just change the size. Okay, let's make that a little bigger. And while we still gotta select it, you come up here to opacity, and you wanna bring that down. Just good enough for your line work to sit on top. After you do that, you come over here to your layers, and you lock that layer so you don't make a mistake and draw on top of the layer, you know? So let's make it a little brighter real quick, so we can see it, and that's cool. Lock that layer, create a new layer right above it by clicking this plus, and then come over here to your brush. Here go my settings too, I'm finna double-click my brush, so you can see fidelity, I keep it in the middle, but if you want some more help from the computer to make cleaner lines, all you gotta do is move this up. So what this'll do, once you move this up, it'll just help you correct the jitter side of your lines. See that, it'll clean your lines up for you. So the perfect balance is just to keep it in the middle. So hit okay, and then control plus to zoom in, and control minus to zoom out. So I like to zoom in, and I start most of the time, I start with the nose, so. And I'm just using pressure, where I press down hard to get a thick line, and then I press light to get a smaller line, so it's just a method. So I'm pressing down light, pressing down hard, then I'm pressing light, close that off. Come over here. Another thing too, if you wanna stroll up and down, is the ball on your mouse. In the middle, you just stroll it, and if you wanna stroll left and right, if you wanna stroll vertical, you just stroll. If you wanna stroll left and right, you just hold control as you move that ball that's in the middle of the mouse. So that's how I get around. Those shortcut keys are very important, man. Let me see, bring this over like that, and bring this like this, come down to the lips. Every time I'm doing like the lips, I make sure I close the lines off, so we won't have no problems when we doing our color method. It's because it worked like the paint bucket tool. If you have any cracks open, it won't color the area you're trying to get to, so I make sure I close off every little opening. See? Boom. Make sure that's closed off. Come up to these eyes. Make sure you close the line. Make sure you're connecting all your lines. This over like this, this back. Do the same thing. Close this line, bring this up. Let's go to the birth size and make it a little bigger. We'll do like a three-point. Let's make it like a three-point. So we can do the outline of his face. Make it bold, you know what I'm saying? Look at all his ear, like this. Come to this side, the same thing. Bring this, trace this hat real quick. Close off my little line for the hat. Zoom in up here. Holds in the snap part of the hat. Snap back, let me see what we looking like. Okay, cool. Looking clean so far. Right-click your brush tool and then you want to come to this pencil tool. Double-click it and make your settings inside of your pencil tool look exactly like what you see right here. That's what you need to make them look like. Either you do that, you want to click okay. And then come down here to this little color menu and hit this little switch. The brain of color black to the top and make sure your bottom one is locked. Now what we finna do, all these black areas around the picture, we finna use that pencil tool as a field tool. So we gonna go through and then we gonna fill out at the end. So all you do is draw out the area you want the color black to fill in. So I'm drawing out the area. Once I finish and close my line, it's gonna fill it in. So that's what we gonna do. Go through, draw out our area and then come back, close it off and it fills it in. Come up here to this eyebrows, come through and it fills it in. On this side do the same thing, draw this eyebrow fill in, boom. This brim of this hat, get it in. Go to this side and do the same. That brim and fill it in. Come over here to his nose. So the pounce and the brush tool, they go hand to hand, man. Like Batman and Robin, when they kinda making these cartoons. Let me see it bring this over. We gonna fill all this in. Make sure we close that little piece off All this in, like that. Come to this side, do the same thing. This in, we almost finished with the line work. Remember what I said, make sure you close in these lines. Close in the mouth. We looking like so far. Okay, it's coming together, y'all. Now what I'm finna do, finna draw out his sideburns and his edges. I mean his edges, I'm talking about some sideburns. On this side, do the same thing. Keep that same flow going. Okay, cool, it's good. Come right here, but it's part, do another one. Close this all, now we pretty much got our line work. Oh well, I'm gonna delete this. All right, we don't need that. Okay, that's pretty good right here. Okay, what you wanna do, you wanna highlight everything. Then you wanna come to object, expand appearance. Then you wanna come to the window and go to your path finder. And on your path finder, click merge. What that's gonna do, is gonna make all your lines become one. You know what I'm saying? Then you wanna come over here to your layers, drag your line work layer to this blank sheet of paper to make a copy. Lock the top copy. Select the bottom copy right here. Then we're gonna look for like a color brown to start out with. Or if you don't wanna look for no colors. If you would like to purchase the T-World skin tones, the link will be in the description below. Okay, so let me come over here to the swatches. You wanna go to, this how you install them too. I don't feel no, I got them saved on my desktop. So I'm gonna click this, go to other library. Go find wherever it is that on your computer. Let me see your minds. All right. And this folder right here, T-World skin tones. And then they gonna pull it right up. Okay, back. Let me select the color I wanna use. How do you select that color? You wanna come over here to your red tangle tool and make sure your color is at the top and the bottom one is locked. Drag the color over the entire picture. And let me turn the eye off right here so y'all can see what I'm doing. I'm on the second layer we made of the line work and I just dragged the color on top of that picture. So now I'm finna right click the color and go to arrange and send to back. So now it's gonna be behind the line work. After I do that, I highlight everything and I click merge. So the color can become one with the line work. Now after I do that, you wanna right click the color and go to isolate, select the group. So any area that's closed off like these lips, it's gonna be its own group. So we can change those colors individually. So select this outer color and hit delete. But we don't need that. So let these lip colors. And we got some on our skin tone layer palette that we can use. So we ain't gotta take the time out looking for some lip colors. Let's change this whole shift to color more than one thing at a time. Let's change the eye color and let's change this hat color like this. I'm holding shift. We gonna make that hat color just like that. Okay, cool. Now that we got our cartoon head color, we gonna drag that color layer to this blank sheet of paper and make a copy of the color layer. Lock the bottom color and turn the eye off right now on the bottom color. Go to this color layer that's in the middle, click this drop down menu twice. And we gonna stroll down till we see the last black line work right here. And we're only locking the black line work. So we just locking all the black line work and we gonna key these top two unlock and we gonna close it. And we only gonna delete the skin color out of this layer. So right click it, go to isolate select group and let's delete the skin color. I'm gonna delete this. And now we can turn this eye back on on the bottom layer. We can lock this layer as well and we can turn this eye on at the top layer too. Create us a blank layer, create new layer and put it in between right here. Now, if I can teach you guys how to do your shadows, I went ahead and made a little sheet for you guys to see how I'm doing things. Let me pull it up on the string. Okay, here go our original photo right here, ASAP. We gonna focus on two tones. We gonna focus on the dark tones right here that's on the left side of his face. And we gonna focus on the right side which is the lighter tones. I'm not gonna get too far into detail with this tutorial because just like I said, it's for beginners and I don't wanna lose you guys. I want you to be able to keep up and see what I see. So eventually you won't need me when you're trying to figure out how to find shadows in different tones for yourself. I went ahead and made a little shadow chart sheet. So as you notice, when I was looking at this picture, I noticed it was a dark tone right here. So that's what we put our dark tones at right here. It's a dark tone inside of this ear on this side. So I put one right there. It's a dark shadow right here on that top lip at the bottom. So that's what we put our dark tones. And so far, so what we finna do is we finna copy this same little sheet right here that I created and we gonna follow along. And for this video, I make sure I drop this picture and I drop this little shadow sheet I made for you guys in the description below as well. So you'll be able to use it as like training wheels, kind of like. So I just wanted to show you guys what I'm looking at so you can get a clear image of what I see with my eyes. So just like I said, it's the dark tones on this side. It's a little dark tone on the right side of the eye area right here and that inner ear. So all right, let's go to our dark tone real quick. Let's go to the pencil tool. Make sure your color's at the top and the bottom on this lock. I do all my arm shading and shadows using my pencil tool. So this is where the pencil tool come in handy. Remember that one dark tone I was saying that was on this side of his face? Let's go ahead and knock that out. Just like this, bring this up like that and boom. Now we're gonna come to this side and we're gonna bring these tones on over like this and it's gonna come up like that. And take your time guys, don't try to rush cause you see me going through pretty fast. Just keep in mind I've been doing it for a long time so don't let my speed intimidate you. You know what I'm saying? You gonna get there, just stay practicing. Bring these shadows over like this and boom. Bring this tone up like that. Gonna bring this down. And just like I said, I'm looking at my little reference I created and I'm looking at the photo, you know what I'm saying? Bring this over like that, bring this tone on. Wait, comes up, bring this up and looking smooth. You got a little light sprouting this ear. So it go like this, this over, and this up like that. And on this side, remember that dark tone I was telling you about inside of this ear? Gonna add that right there. There's one more dark tone right here. Now, we created all the dark tones. That's on our picture. Make this a little more smooth right there. So now we finna go a little lighter with our tone. So let's create a new layer and make sure every time you come lighter with a tone, you put it underneath the tone that's darker than it. So since that's a darker tone and we finna go lighter, we're gonna make sure this layer falls under that darker tone. And let's go lighter our tone. And the reason we tuck them from dark to light so it'll fall right behind the layer. You know what I'm saying? It'll make your job easier by just knowing how to place it in your layers. Now we finna focus on these lighter tones on this right side of the face. Paint this over like this. It's a lighter tone right here. Go like this, and this up like that. There you have it, man. One thing we finna do, let's create us a new layer right underneath the top line work. We're gonna create a shadow inside of the eyes right here. Remember I said it was a dark shadow on this top lip. So it's on the darks, this one right here. And let's create that shadow. We're just gonna come up like this, and boom. All right, last but not least, to give it some flair. Create a new layer right above everything, right above your line work and all that. So what we gonna do, let's create this little dark tone. And we gonna create like a little glare in the eyes. Like this, let's let the color white. And there you have it, you guys. How to make a cartoon head for beginners. I will be having some more videos that'll get deeper and to depth with detail and all that. But just like I said, we gonna start out slow. So all you new beginners out there can, you know what I'm saying? Keep up, you know what I'm saying? Appreciate you guys for watching. 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