 What's good YouTube? This is your boy Chiwara back at y'all again with another art tutorial 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 some heat In today's video, I will be showing you guys how to make James Harden style of hair So without further ado, let's jump right into this video. First thing we're gonna do is drop the opacity down on our picture Say about a good 70 We're gonna lock that layer at a new layer Come over here to set our brush. We want to click new brush your pressure And change this to three you just type it in Three on this side And this is the only brush I ever When you on all my videos, it's the only brush you see me using and all I do is it's like I Press light then I go hard up in the center Then I come off of it It's just like a technique That's the only brush I ever use. I just changed the sizes of it, but All you got to do to get that brush is set your pen pressure sensitivity So let's go ahead and start we're gonna just Just gonna hurry up and get to the hair First time you want to do you want to go ahead and make I make your brush bigger Go down to five and we just gonna fill it in big Before we add the detail you just want to go ahead and color in the inside But you want to leave a little room Around the edges. We're gonna do the same time. We're gonna leave some On the edges Now it's time for the technique. So what you want to do? You want to bring your brush size down? And all you want to do is make like a swirl effect and you want to do the swirl left and right But when you do the swirl you don't want to make a complete circle. You want to kind of like Stop it like you're trying to make a upside down. See I just want to keep doing that and then the more you do it consistently to start looking like Little hairs So all you want to do is you want to keep that same Consistency going you want to make it a little bigger a little smaller and just left and right you want to keep doing it Make our brush a little bigger We can cover more ground You see how you can you can kind of still see like the smooth line All you have to do is just come a little closer And you can just on the field Don't make it perfect just you can make smaller Hair effects till we finish the process got the beard complete. So now we're gonna go up and do the top of the hair Finish the Mohawk So we're gonna use the same method for the top of the hair. Just want to keep making your swirls left and right Okay, now we finna get to the more tedious part and that's kind of like the fade to the hair to the Mohawk So what you want to do is You want to come in Let's make our brush like zero point seventy five We just gonna do this But you don't want to go past you want to make like an invisible line like right here Little thick and the lower we get to the closer we get to the ear We're gonna make our brush even smaller so it can have a nice fade to it so So the closer you get to the Mohawk you want to try to make it darker and you want to try to hide this line Sort of look natural Kind of like what I'm doing as you see the clothes. I'm getting to the line. I'm like I'm getting rid of it Try not to make it too perfect so it can have a more natural look to it Okay, we're gonna do that same step, but we're gonna make our brush smaller so you can come up to this 0.5 And just make it a little lighter and you can space it out more too cuz like When you give it space in it to give it a more lighter effect like you You didn't put too much emphasis on it. So And we're gonna put a gradient effect on the edge But we're just doing this so when it's when this Line works it on top of it. It'll have a it'll give it it'll give it more of a fake Where to pop now that we got the hair finished What you want to do is we're gonna make sure everything is closed off so we can That are filling in colors Now what you want to do after you don't finish your line work. You want to go ahead and click your selection tool Wanna highlight everything Go to object Expand the pants and then you want to go to your Pathfinder and you want to click merge so we can make All our lines one Right after you do that, you want to make a copy of your line work by dragging it down to this blank sheet of paper You want to lock the top layer Then we're gonna find a nice skin tone Yes, um, we like you want to go to your rectangle tool and you want to drag it over all the artwork All the line work You want to right click the rectangle tool. I mean right click the rectangle we just made Do you want to go to arrange sin? Backward, I mean sin to back And you'll know if you did that step right if you look over here at your layers And you see your line work sitting on top of the color right after you do that You want to highlight everything together? And then we're gonna merge this To make it one And now you can right click on it Isolate select group And then we can we can delete The unwanted color and to get the The skin tone out of the hair what you want to do is You want to come right here to your layer? Click this drop down menu And stroll down until you see Until the end of the black line work and I'm gonna tell you why we're doing this You want to stroll down Until you get to okay Here's the end of our black line work and what you want to do you want to you want to hold You want to hold down on your mouse? and you want to Stroll up while you still got your mouth selected you want to stroll up and lock all the black layers And once you do that you want to unlock the top two And then you want to close it So we do that so Instead of trying to delete These one by one And making and making a mistake and deleting our line work We don't lock all the black layers. So it won't let us delete that So you can click this arrow right here And then you can highlight it drop down just lay it right there and close it again And now we can highlight Filling side out here all you got to do just like I said lock all the black line work inside the layer But don't lock the top two Don't lock these top two just lock all the line work inside of it and then you can close it And that should let you just go through and sometimes When it's not letting you select it You just got to open it up and make sure that that layer didn't lock on you Finish coloring The rest of the picture. So you want to click this arrow right here The selection tool Click on to it You want to right regular click it first you want to then you want to right click Isolate group and now we can change colors Individually now what you want to do To add a cool effect before We do the gradient fade On the hair what you want to do is you want to add a blank layer above The line work above everything And then you want to come down here To your colors and all you can click any gradient Just make sure you have a gradient selected because we finna change the colors to it You can come to windows and then you can click gradient What we're going to do all we need is three. So we're gonna We're gonna delete We're gonna delete the extra ones So what you want to do you want to come to the sides and you want to make that black and kind of Let's see what color we're gonna make it fade over for a dark color, but Let's try to make it fade a little bluish Okay out of color in the center We're gonna make it bluish gray So we're gonna have a nice fade to it And you can just look at my settings if you want to pause it So that's the center the sides We're gonna make this a little more purplish Come to this side and do the same Just this little more you'll see what i'm doing at the end. Okay. I kind of like that. So i'm finna let y'all Look at my settings That's the first one It's the one in the middle and there's the one on the far end. So Now what you want to do You want to come click your your paintbrush tool? And you want to add the same swirls We did We did on the outside But you can be more more random Inside the beard you don't have to have a Order but I like to make it flow Like to make it make sense sense. I'm going this way. I want to make it flow around like this As you can see if you can see I want to make it flow around like Make it go this way So now we're going to go home to the top of the hair Another different effect like a more of a straight line than a curve But not too straight though. We want to keep it Keep the flow going Like it's natural hair So don't don't try to make it too neat But you want to keep some kind of consistent flow going We're going to add one layer Under the top line work in between And you want to get your Find this gradient tool You can just click any gradient tool and I'm going to show you what you do We're going to pull out our gradient And on this one what you're going to do you want to select this side And you want to drop the opacity down to zero On this side You want to make that fade until like a A brownish sort of flow good with this skin tone But you want to keep this You want to keep the bottom one at 100 or let's try to get a brownish color. Okay, that's pretty close So now what you want to do Now that we got our gradient tool selected We only want to have that out. So we're going to lock this Then we're going to come to our pen tool Now we finna Place it right behind our if you don't know how to use the uh The pen tool I have a video on that that'll show you how to use it. Nice Now what you want to do That we still got that selected we're going to Bring out our gradient and we're going to come right here And we're going to have a fade coming from the top Y'all much we want it to come down. So pull this level right here It's more perfect, but I'm just trying to show you guys so you can Take the time and really get it get a nice little Nice little edge going because it looked like I got to mess them up a little bit But it's all good