 What's good, YouTube? This is your boy Chihua, back to y'all again with another video. If you're new to the channel, go ahead and hit that like button. Come and subscribe as you click. Post notifications so you'll be notified any time your boy drops on the heat. In today's video, I will be teaching you guys how to sketch in Adobe Illustrator. So without further ado, let's jump right into this video. First thing you want to do, you want to go ahead and set your pen pressure. You got to use a digital art tablet to get this option right here. So you want to come right here to a new brush. I'm going to do it over so y'all can see. You want to hit new brush. Do you want to hit OK? Do you want to come down here to pressure? That's why it's good to have a digital art tablet. Set this bottom number to three. Set that number to three. And now you should have the pressure brush you see me use in every video. And all it is is when I press down light, it'll do a light line. Then when I press hard, it'll make a thick line. So, you know what I'm saying? That's the technique. Okay. Now that you set your brush, what you want to do, you want to get you like a nice neon color. I like to use like a purpleish pink, you know what I'm saying? But something really, I always start with this color. That's what I do my sketches with. Now, come over here to opacity. You want to drop your opacity down on your brush. So, you can get that sketch feel, you know what I'm saying? The main goal of sketching is to make a blueprint of whatever you're drawing. You know what I'm saying? So, once you start doing the line work, you can do it so perfect because you already done laid out the foundation of everything. Always get in the habit of sketching before you start actually drawing what you're drawing. You know what I'm saying? So, like right now, I'm about to draw the Monopoly Man and instead of just going right into it, I'm going to sketch it out. Make me a nice little blueprint for it. You know what I'm saying? If you're trying to become a better artist, my advice to you is make sure you sketch, you know what I'm saying? And get the sketch perfect before you even consider starting on making a official line work. I shape everything out. Sketching is really the secret to just becoming a great artist. You know what I'm saying? Because sometimes I work so long on a sketch before I even get into making a picture. I take all the time in the world getting a sketch right. You just, I'm all sketched up. And then it make your job easier as well. Because when it's time to do the line work, you'll be able to go through it so smooth because you already done mapped everything out. You just got the size of how everything's supposed to be. You make this ear a little smaller. We're going to do that by deleting this. Okay, just make this ear right here, right there. Highlight also. I need to move this, that thing right. See? Now that's the sketch. After I sketch out the picture, what I do, I highlight everything once again. And I drop my opacity even lower. So, a lot of that layer, create a layer right above it. And now you get to do the line work. Now see if I would have just tried to draw this straight out without doing the sketch first. It would have took so long to get it perfect, you know what I'm saying? It would have, you know what I'm saying? Trying to, but watch this. Now that I got a nice little blueprint to go off of, all I got to do is just follow it and clean my lines up at the same time. Get this hat. Cleanin' some lines up. Pencil tool, move this black to the top, make sure the bottom is locked. And now we're going to fill in all the black. Both, both, both, both, both, both, both, both, both. Gonna make it line, make these lines a little, make the sides up. Monopoly, man, look like the dude off the Pringles can. Let me, I'm not trippin'. Let me just draw this with the paint brush. Let me just draw this. This should have been made that way. Bold. There we go. There we go. And there you have it, you guys. How to sketch, you know what I'm saying? How to start your picture out with a sketch in the side of Adobe Illustrator. Make sure you stay tuned while he comin' soon. And I'm out this thing.