 What's good YouTube? It's your boy Chihuahua back at y'all again with another art tutorial man If you're new to the channel go ahead and hit that like button come and subscribe Make sure you click post notifications so you will be notified every time you put y'all some heat in today's video I will be showing you guys a few of my tips. So without further ado, let's jump right into these Be all right first thing you want to do You want to set your artboard, you know the size so I'm gonna show y'all from start to finish the size I like to draw. So let's go ahead and click new And what I like to draw is 18 by 18 inches and that's the best size to me Or if you're trying to post inside a social media mainly Instagram, so I save my Artboard as 18 by 18 inches and I just hit create And that's I come in here First thing I do is set my pressure Sensitivity on my digital art tablet the digital art tablet I'm using is a UG drawing tablet where you draw right onto the string if you would like to Purchase one of these all you gotta do is go to Amazon.com. That's why I got moms it got moms from Amazon and also purchase You one of these little gloves man because it come in handy when you rubbing your hand and drawing on the string It'll help your hand slide smoothly Without you know I'm saying putting a rash on your hand because you sliding up on the string so much So get one of these they real comfortable. You know I'm saying little digital art glove and Make sure You have your digital art tablet because you cannot set pressure sensitivity with using your mouth So you would need a digital art tablet, but if you don't have a digital art tablet you always can check out my video on how to create a Brush with your mouse. I got that video on my channel as well. So go look for that So the first thing I do I set my brush Right here the pressure and I change this bottom number to three And I hit okay, hey bam Let my brush to three Now I got me a nice little pressure brush When I press light It'll go light when I press down real hard it'll give me a thicker line when I press light again it'll go back light and that's how You get that that feel you know I'm saying the brush you see me use on every video The first thing I think you should do when you're inside this program You need to learn what everything do and why would you need everything? You know I'm saying figure out. What would you use everything for that's the main thing You should do when you're starting on a new program. You got to figure out what what is what what will work for what? So the only thing I use though is my brush and The I move this knob up and what this do is help me make cleaner lines Then if you move it down It'll be more Like kind of it'll be kind of harder to make a straight line, you know I'm saying But then when you move your smoothness up it'll help you correct your lines and help you make more Cleaner lines, you know I'm saying so you're gonna want to play with that a lot smoothness and Your two favorite things in this program should be your brush tool and your pencil tool I Use my pencil tool to do all my coloring and all my shading now You need to know about your pencil tool is if you move The color to the top and make sure the bottom one is locked double-click it Make sure your your settings on your pencil to look just like this. It's okay And the pencil to work as a field tool so Mainly all you have to do is draw out what you want it to feel in Then I'm drawing it out at first And then I make my way back to get closer to close it off so to know See it'll fill in so that'll save you a whole lot of time when your color You know I'm saying so keep that in mind pencil tool coming handy For all your coloring and it'll help you Help you buy so much time. You know I'm saying This is hard trying to color manually make sure You don't sleep on the pencil to what he's the only two tools. I really use is my pencil tool and my brush tool and My eyedropper tool when I'm trying to you know to let the same color I'm gonna draw something real quick draw something super duper fast So I can keep y'all into my class Just something fast for y'all man This is how you change the size of your brush See and sometimes You don't want your smoothness all the way up because it'll correct your lines too much So I'm a double-click it and I'm gonna put it right in the center. That's the sweet spot And to get better if you just starting out doing digital art to get better at it You just got to draw as much as you can Now first start doing digital art. I just I Just drew every second of the day almost bro. Like I just Was having so much fun even though I wasn't that good at it at first I just loved it. I was like man. This is so much Moves it ain't gotta worry about messing up no paper Now I can practice all day We got to do just get it practice work with it No the time you're just You create your own little method, you know, I'm saying Making it easy for you drawing something I'm just going Going with the flow. I ain't even thinking of anything in particular We just drawn to be drawing you feel Boom boom boom Make his face a little smaller one thing you want to do look I'm gonna show you the two ways the wrong way and I'm gonna show you the right way First thing we're gonna do. I'm trying to make it smaller so I can fit it on the page Let's see if you just grab it like this And you hold shift You make it smaller. You see how the lines just got bigger where you can't really see the detail So we're gonna hold controls in go back how you would want to make it smaller What you got to do first wise also let me you got to go to object Expand appearance and then you got a hit merge on your path finder And watch this now we from the whole shift And make it smaller by grabbing the corner and you see how it still kept my line sharp Yeah Don't keep that in mind man. You got to make sure You you merge all your lines before you change the size so it won't change the shape of your lines And it's drawing not this little phase I was gonna make them We're gonna make them like a Like a fat-abrid character But with a spin we just gonna do that type of and you notice Another thing too when you're drawing you got to make sure you closing your lines off So you won't have no problems when it's time to do the coloring method. I'm gonna make this a basic tutorial I ain't gonna go too far Into it look now What is down a cool See going to my pencil tool because I want to add some hair effects Let's go to our pencil to move the color black to the top Make sure the bottom one is locked Let's draw out sideburn like that Also, what we're gonna do I want to clean these eyebrows up some make More fuller End it with a point and it ended with a point do it like that Let's go ahead And give him Give him a mustache Give him a little hair little facial hair down here See the pencil tool it go hand in hand with your brush to you. You know I'm saying So I use my brush to do my line work and then I use my Pencil tool to do all my feelings It feel me. Okay. Now that we got Now that we got our character Okay Now that we got our character finished up and draw it up what you want to do It's the whole process. I'm gonna do it slow so you can keep up with me. You want to select everything Just like I said, we're gonna go to object Expand appearance and then you're gonna click merge on your path finder If you can't find your path finder what you would want to do is just come to a window And then you want to go to path finder and put a check mark beside it So it'll pull it out and put it on your artboard so After we done merged all the lines what we're gonna do is We gonna make a copy of the line work Make a copy. Let me do that. Oh Make a copy what you want to do you want to drag Your line work to this blank sheet of paper lock the top copy And the reason I lock the top copy because I'm gonna add the color to the bottom copy and I always you always want to keep A copy of your line work plain. You know I'm saying just in case You need to redo the coloring or you want to do anything As far as shading, it's best to keep your line work sitting on the top so you can make a shading layer right under so Let's select the layer. That's underneath Fine, that's a nice little base tone to start with Okay I'm gonna go to our red toggle tool And drag the color over the entire picture After you do that, you want to right-click the color go to arrange center back You'll know if you did it step right if you look over at your layers and you see the color sitting on top of the line work You want to highlight everything once again and click merge so the color can become one With your line work. Now we're gonna right-click The color and go to isolate select group. Now what I like to do After I do all that I Like to hit this drop down menu and lock all my black lines And keep the top to unlock And close it back. I Do that so I won't make a mistake and delete My line work and it'll be easier to work around it You know I'm saying so Let's go ahead and color The face Right-click it here isolate select group So every group that's closed off We can color it separately. I'm holding shift so I can select more than one area at a time a little white hold shift We're gonna hit fine There you have it so after you color The base layer what I like to do is create a layer in between the line work and the color layer and this is the layer We put the shadows on. Oh wait, wait, wait. We got one more step go back. I Make a copy of my color layer Then I go to the layer in between Make sure I select it And all you would like to do is It is white arrow and delete You would like to delete the skin skin tone Only the skin tone and the reason I do that so when I'm doing the shadows on the skin tone The lip color and the eye color and the hat color sit on top so now Bring my base color layer back Now I got this little color layer of the eyes and the mouth and the hat We're gonna create a layer in between those two right here find us a nice shadow And that brown Practice on bit blending your colors as well go to my pencil tool and Let's create some shadows To get good at making shadows. It's gonna take a lot of practice Don't take a lot of practice. You gotta be willing to put in the work All my shading with my pencil tool But just like I told you man The main tools you will be using in Adobe Illustrator are your pencil tool and your brush to Drawing out my shadows You see how easy it is to work now that I put that layer of the eye color in the mouth color at the top So I can I don't have to worry about drawing on it because it's gonna drop right behind it See what I'm saying? So Just got to set yourself up to make your job more easier For some shadows and ears shadows in the ears Almost And now Now that we put the shadows on the skin layer What I do is I create me another layer and I put it right Underneath the top line work So I can add the shadows on that on the mouth and the eyes now Let's go ahead and create a shadow for this thing Shadows in this mouth Pacing out what I want my shadows to be is good. It's not my shadows All right Got them in the mouth I'm gonna put some shadows in this gun Put a shadow right here. It's good The shadow inside the eyes Have a shadow on this dude Do that last but not least I Like to do the little glares in the eyes So I create me a layer right above my line work at the very top Let my color white Sometimes if I wanted to really stand up bright spot And there you have it man how to draw Little basic tutorial man how to work Adobe Illustrator. I'm gonna show you how I always save my files as well So when you finish with your artwork and you want to get ready to load that thing up on Instagram What you would like to do you would like to go to export export ass Save it as whatever you want to call it. We're just gonna call it pop Make sure this is use artboard you want to select that and what that is is telling your computer You only want to say what's inside your box. What's inside this little white box You only want to say what's inside the white box if you don't click this it's gonna save everything on the outside as well So we just want to say what's inside our border. We made our 18 by 18 inches We're gonna hit export And there you go Don't me say now I save all my files as PNG so saving them as PNG are going to make your background transparent unless you put your own background, you know I'm saying so That's one thing I forgot to do is put a background for it to sit on so let's go to our rectangle tool I selected the color We're gonna put a background right behind boom and Now let me go back export export as a PNG Don't call it pop to Now we got one copy. That's transparent. We got one copy with the color background You want to put your quality of your resolution on 300? Hit okay, and now This is how that thing looks Put it up This is how your finished copy will look After you save it to your computer you finish drawing the picture and you want to get it to Instagram what I do I Open up Facebook on my computer and I send it to myself as a message on Facebook Then I say that picture to my phone and I load it up on Instagram You feel I thank you guys for watching make sure you stay tuned more heat coming soon And I'll add you