 What's good YouTube? This is your boy Chihuahua back at y'all again with another art video Today I will be teaching you guys my full process of making a cartoon head Inside of adobe illustrator. If you're new to the China go ahead and hit that like button come in Subscribe make sure you hit post notifications, so you will be notified every time I drop some heat Without further ado, let's jump right into the video. Okay The first thing I do Is go ahead and set the size of the paper. I will be drawing on you just come up here click new And my favorite size to draw on this 18 by 18 inches So after I do that Click create Then I go to my desktop And I find a picture that I want to use And I'll just drag and drop it So I do that I zoom them out Then I scale it down to size by holding shift and out Once I get it to the right size. I like I drop the opacity on an image Then I lock that layer And create a new layer above it And I come over here This option often to do right here will only work if you have a digital tablet with the stylus You see you got to have a digital tablet for this to be able to work if you're using your mouse You cannot set your pressure sensitivity on your mouse So you got to get your digital art pad Like a Y come or something like that So look this what I do Set my pressure sensitivity. I'll just click this Click okay Come right here to pressure And I set it to three and I'm not using any like Bought brushes and none of that. That's all I do. I just set my pressure sensitivity and it'll automatically give me this Style of brush you see me using on all of my videos See it's just Where you press hard it'll give you like a thick line then when you press light it'll go smaller Yeah Okay, after you set your pressure sensitivity What I do is I Proceed to do the line work off in a copy and paste Some of the hairs on this face and then we're gonna do some fillings. All I did was I went over here to my selection tool. I Grabbed a good portion of it And then you want to click a piece of the hair and click alt hold alt And just drag it over and it's about this technique right here by you some time I'll come around Fill in Right here. I'm making my brush size bigger so I can cover a lot of ground when I'm filling in color Okay, now that we finished with the line work. We got everything looking looking nice What we're gonna do is We're gonna merge all these lines. So what you want to do it's a selection tool Highlight everything you want to come over here to object Expand appearance You want to go to your path finder and click merge See all our lines became one I'm gonna grab your line work layer and drag it to this blank sheet of paper to make a copy of it And even a lot the top layer Now we finna pick a good skin tone. You want to come over here to your red tangle tool After you pick your color You want to drag that color over your line work. Okay. Now you want to right click the color And go to arrange and send to back so we can send the color behind the line work now we want to Click select everything together one more time Then you want to click merge on your path finder so we can make the color one without line work Now you can right click on to it or isolate select group Start coloring everything another thing I like to do is Lock all my black line work So every every color that I'm trying to color that's around the black won't get Accidentally get selected. So what we finna do we finna lock all our black line work. So You want to come over here to your layers? And you want to click this little drop down menu click it again stroll Just keep strolling down until you see the last Black line roll up so I'm not strolling too far the last black line So what you want to do you want to lock all these layers you can just hold The left the left button on your mouse you can hold that and stroll all the way up What it's gonna do is gonna lock all the black layers. You're strolling up But don't lock these two don't and after you do that you want to close it and Now we can click this direct selection Don't accidentally click our black line work. I think we got a good base color We finna go in and do our shadows So what you want to do you want to lock this layer Create a new layer in between Get your selection tool and click the skin You just want to find a good Shadow on this part right here. I am merging the beard so I can drop the opacity down on his beard