 What's good, YouTube? This is what you were all back at y'all again with another art video man. If you're new to this channel, hit that like button, comment, subscribe, make you click, post notifications so you will be notified anytime you budge out some heat. In today's video, man, I will show you the process of drawing how to start your pictures out with a sketch. So when it's time to do your line work, it'll be smooth sailing. So without further ado, let's jump right into this thing. First thing you want to do is make sure your artboard is 18 by 18 inches. That's the size I like to draw. Now what we're going to do, I'm using a Y-combe tablet. So the first thing I do, I set my brush. So I come up here, I hit okay, I go to pressure, change these two bottom numbers to three. And after I do that, I end up with the brush you see me in on every video. All it is is when you press down light, you get like a thin line. Then when you press hard, the line get more thicker. So that's why it's real good to have that pressure option. So you need to invest in your art tablet, you know what I'm saying? Okay, first thing you want to do, drop the opacity down, change your color to like a bright color. It can be any color, just make sure it's bright. So we're going to use this as the blueprint, you know what I'm saying? So I'm going to start out with this color. I dropped the opacity down so it would give me that sketch feel, you know what I'm saying? And all you want to do, whatever you think of, just sketch it out and sketch you out a little. And this will make it, once you start doing sketches before you start actually drawing, it'll make it where you make less mistakes, you know what I'm saying? Because you planned it out first. So that's why it's important to start a drawing off with a sketch. And so it's like D, you're feeling, let's see how it works, man. I'm just trying to figure out how I want to do this thing with the little sketch first. Okay, after we got our little sketch, we got us a little sketch together. Now what we're going to do, we're going to lock that layer, create a new layer right above it. We're going to make our color black, make sure your opacity is back up to 100%. And now we're going to start making some clean lines. But we're going to use that little sketch we made as a blueprint. So it kind of gives me a better direction of where should I go. So just getting to practice, planning things out, that's what sketching is. It's planning it out before you start. As long as you practice on sketching, your pictures will come out 100 times better. So always plan before you start doing like your final line work. Make everything look smooth. It's like that. Okay, okay. All right, I need to make that little neck like this a little more. A little flow in the direction and make this go like that. Make this here go like that. It's over like that. Okay. The boy look like Candy Man. I'm going to give him a little butt chin. Okay, okay. Bring this ear up like this. It's over what I like to do. Let's go to our pencil tool. Make sure your settings inside of your pencil tool look exactly like mine do. Hit okay. Move this color black to the top and now it's our filling tool. So what we're going to do is just going to create a path for it and let it fill it stuff in just like that. Create another path. Let it fill it stuff in like that. Fill these eyes in. We're going to give him like some waves. You just ain't going to be able to see the waves. He's just going to have that style of haircut like that. You feel him? Man, make his nostrils dark. Little hair, but a little like that. Like do do do. Bring it down like that. Let's list some Sam. Just list Sam Sam. All right. Now that we got our carrots created, let's go ahead. Look, I don't have to give it some color, man. So what I'm going to do, create a new layer, put it under the line work layer. Let's start with a basic skin tone. Let's start with the skin tone. All right, make them brown. Now, we're just going to fill all this in with the pencil tool. It's like that, like boom. So we're just going to trace it and create a path. So let's stay filling it in like that. Try to stay in the line as best as I can. Now what we're going to do is create a layer right above that for the eye layer. So when we start doing the shadows and the tones, it'll fall right behind the eyes. So I kind of put them on top, you know what I'm saying? So it'll be easier to work around it. Let's go ahead and get some eyes real quick like this. And we're going to make this simple. I ain't going to go too in-depth with this video. This tutorial is going to be like a basic tutorial. And then I start, and then I start getting more in detail and in-depth with the videos. I'm trying to slowly walk you into it. I don't want to get too far ahead where you like, dang, I can't keep up. So we're going to make this video simple as possible and easy. The goal is to make things easy as possible as well. And then start progressing on down the line, making things a little harder, but we're going to start out real easy. So you see how I put the eyes and the lips on the same layer. Because these are the two things that's going to sit on top of the skin tone. So when I do the shadow layer, it'll fall right behind it. Okay. Now, when I create this shadow layer, it'll be behind right underneath the eye and the lip layer. So let me go ahead and create a shadow. And we're just going to do one shadow, one transition shadow. And then just like I said in the more I make some tutorials, I started going higher with adding tones and more in depth, but we trying to make it easy. So look, this is why I put the eye and the lip layer above. So when I'm doing my shadows, I can just draw right through it and it'll fall right behind it. You know what I'm saying? So I don't have to try to be so on point of trying to work it like working around it. You know what I'm saying? If I can explain that, I can just work through it. Help you move faster too. Now with shadows, it just depends on do you want the shadow to come from this side of the face? You want the shadow to come from this side of the face and the light to be hitting from this side? Or do you want the shadow to come from this side of the face? Or do you want it to come from underneath and go straight up? Like you know what I'm saying? It just depends on what you're trying to do and how you're trying to make your picture look. You know what I'm saying? So the best advice I can give y'all to people who want to learn how to do shadows and get better at it, just look at photos, you know what I'm saying? At photography's take or look at pictures of models so you can just see how they place their different shadows and then you just draw different pictures of different models. I said models, models. You know what I'm saying? Just so you can get better at it and then eventually every time you draw it you have been uncreated like a muscle memory of what to do for any situation you're trying to create. See I want the shadow to come from this side of the face. And I done seen so many pictures of shadows coming from one side of the face where I just remember where it go. You know what I'm saying? If that make any sense? The more you do something the easier it becomes. So I done did it so much and I done seen so many photos that I know like okay this what it'll look like if the shadow was coming from this side of the face. You get what I'm saying? So just practice. Find you a lot of pictures, a lot of pictures that photography took of other people on Google and just take that use that as a reference and practice. That's all you gotta do man because practice makes practice make perfect. Okay we're gonna add a little shadow right here and this little cut. It ain't gonna go too far with it. Just like that boom simple. Then you know under this little cheek bone you probably got a little shadow coming down like that. Like that boom. I know I ain't gonna put no shadow right there because it make that cheek bone too deep. Yeah I'm pretty much like that man that you have man. Little simple how to do a little shadow and how to sketch the proper way of sketching. I always start your picture out with a sketch so you don't make as many mistakes on your line work and have that at me. Thank you guys for watching. Make sure you stay tuned because more heat coming soon. Hit that like button comment in the comment section. Let me know what you think. Let me know what you want to see next. Make sure y'all run them lights up. We're gonna try to hit let's say 300 lights on this video man. We're gonna drop another one. Thank y'all guys for the love and support. Make sure you stay tuned. More heat coming soon. And I'm out this thing.