 What's good, YouTube? This your boy T-World back to y'all again with another art tutorial, man. If you new to the channel, go ahead and hit that like button, comment, subscribe, make sure you click post notifications so you will be notified every time you budge out to the heat. In today's video, I will be giving you guys a full walkthrough on how to make the cartoon head. Start to finish. So without further ado, let's jump right into it. OK, the first thing you want to make sure, you want to make sure the size of your layout is 18 by 18 inches. Before you start your project, go to File, go to New, and then just make sure you got this size. This is a good size for Instagram and stuff like that. That's the size I use. Since I already got it saved, I ain't got to do it. Now what you want to do, you want to drag and drop the picture you want to use, drop the opacity down, lock that layer, create your new layer, and then you come up right here. If y'all are always wondering how I get those lines, I use a digital tablet. It's called UG, where I draw right onto the monitor. But all I do is come right here, and I go to New Brush, then I hit OK, and then I click Pressure. Then I hit 3, and I put 3 right there. And now make sure I got my extreme. And all it is, it's not a certain style of line. It's just that I start out light. It's just me using a pressure technique. So I start out light, and then I press down hard in the center, and then I end my lines with light pressure. So it'll give me that effect, like it's a calligraphy pen or something. But yeah, that's how I get that effect. I know a lot of people be asking me, what kind of brush you use, and I wish I had your brush, and I'm not even using a brush. Now this is the setting for my tablet. So I put my tablet on high pressure. That mean I got to press down firm for it to respond. So with that, it didn't even help me press down even lighter since it's harder to pick up. So when I end my lines, it'll be a little more sharper. But yeah, all you got to do is set your pressure sensitivity if you're using a tablet, and you'll be able to get those exact lines you see me using. Now the first thing you want to do when you're dealing with making your cartoon heads is paying attention to detail with your line work. So what I like to start out with is the nose and the eyes. So what we want to do is we'll do all the line work, make sure our lines are clean. Clean lines play a big part in this piece. Just the more you do it, the better you'll get at it. So if you ain't that good, just stick to it. Mute this picture so I can make sure my lines are looking clean. I'll just clean and set it every now and then. And another thing too, while you're doing your line work, you got to make sure you're closing off your lines. Make sure you don't leave no openings. So when it's time to do the coloring technique, you won't have no problem. Because it's a lot of people telling me, like, man, every time I try to do the coloring technique, you're showing your videos that are always not colored certain areas and stuff like that. It's because the reason it's not. Because just say if I wanted the color to be a different color with the technique, I'm going to show you all later in the video. If I got a little opening like this, it won't be able to recognize this as an area. It'll just go ahead and color everything outside of this as well. So just keep that in mind. As you're doing your line work, make sure you're closing off areas that you know you're going to want to be a different color later. I'll just shape up this head. I brush back small, 25, trying to make some clean cartoons. You really got to utilize your pressure. You got to learn a certain technique yourself to invest in you a tablet so you can have that option. You get more control when you get to really draw yourself other than using your inner hair. We're going to fill in the hair, and we're going to fill in the facial hair as well. So what you want to do, you want to right-click onto your brush and select Pencil Tools. Make sure you have these settings for your pencil tool. Anyone hit OK. All right here, pull that color to the top, move black to the top, and make sure your bottom color is locked. Now we're going to come back with a pencil tool and we're going to fill in this hair. When I'm filling it in, I go ahead and try to add a little detail. And you'll see what I'm talking about. Got a hairline, I'm finally going to close it off. I want to go ahead and try to give it like a hairy effect. It's just like the base layer for the hair. It is not like what we're going to do. I finally get to what I was doing. If it went ahead and filled in the area after I close that area, do all that with the hair. I like to fill in my eyes as well with that same technique. And this technique right here helps you cover a lot of ground as much as I can with it. It's good to use for like a base. And then you go on top of it with your fine detail. In the detail, so you use that effect for the base. That'll cover a lot of ground for you. I was going to go back to our brush tool. Other thing I like to do too, I like to copy some of these little pieces of hairs I made. I'll select it. I just drag over with my mouse. I still recommend you still go in there yourself just to make it look more, you do that on certain areas, but you also blend it in manually. Another thing too, doing all these hairs will eventually, if you don't have a strong computer, it'll start to slow down on your computer. So what I do is like once I got to a good point, I go ahead and I copy my line work. Go to your selection tool right here. You want to drag to copy your line work. Once you got it all selected like this, you want to go to object, expand the pinch, and then you want to click merge on your path finder. If you can't find your path finder, just go to window and then select your path finder, where it's in right there and drag it out here. See what I just did, I made all my lines one. So it saved me some space on my computer if it's not fast enough. You know what I'm saying? If you don't got a fast computer, you want to stay doing that because doing these little tedious pieces of hair, it'll start to slowly slow down your computer because it's too much going on. So that's one tip you need to know. Just like I told you, every now and then we're going to make sure that the object expands a tedious work. Same thing, but we're going to ease our way down. We're going to make also, we're going to place some under our previous lines. It's just how far you want to go into depth. You ain't got to go this deep into it, me personally. And really when you create an art, don't worry about finishing fast. Just take your time because it's all about the finished piece. It ain't really about how fast can you do or how fast can you draw something. Just really take your time and you'll get faster with time. You know what I'm saying? But the more you do something, the better you'll get at it. And then just focus on perfecting your craft. Don't worry about speed. You know what I'm saying? Just see this fade from this side. I'm small as we can give it. Good thing about Adobe Illustrator, you get to zoom and expand the pen. A little minute because I ought to let extra hair. But yeah, there you go. Find you a good base color to start out with. It ain't got to be too perfect because I always, I'm going to show you what I do. I'm going to find my colors, click OK. Right click, your shape. Go to your rectangle tool. And you want to drag that color over the entire picture. Now this is why I say it's important to make sure your lines are closed off because this is going to let us know if our lines are closed off or not. So after you drag your color over your picture, you want to right click the color. Go to arrange and send to back. And you will know if you did this step right. If you look over here at your color layer and you see your line work on top of your color. So after you do that, you want to highlight everything. Then you want to go to merge on your power finder. Still loading, wait up. OK, then you want to right click onto your color, click isolate, select group. Now on this outer color right here, and press delete. My lines are closed off because it didn't delete inside my cartoon. Another thing I like to do to get these, get the color out of the hair, what you want to do. Double click onto just any area right here. Come over here, click the drop down menu. Click it again. And you want to stroll down until you see the last black line work. Leave all this open. Leave the colors open. Just lock all the black layers. So what I do is hold the left trigger on the mouse. And I stroll up to lock everything that's black. So I go down to the bottom to my last black line work. And I stroll up, holding my. And we finally made it to the top. What you want to do, you want to unlock these top two right here. We showed up, and we locked all our black line work. And you want to make sure these two are unlocked. OK, now you want to come over here to your white selection tool, click the hair. You see how I got it selected, but it don't got our black line selected because we locked out the line time. That's how you got to hit delete twice. This here, this part, isolate selected. We only get to select that area. Hold shift or any deeper into coloring the base color. I want to edit, edit color, adjust color balance. I just choose whatever I think look good to me. I don't really. The base color laid out. It's time to do the shading. So what you want to do, you want to create your layer in between your line work and your color layer. And when I'm doing my set, my shading on all my cartoon heads, I start with the darkest tones. So we're going to start with a dark shadow. And then I use my I use my pencil tool to do my all my shadows. So we're going to start with the eyes sample the skin tone. Always put your shadows on different layers. Like I put all my dark shadows on one layer and then I put all my light shadows in the lighter I go. I put it on a separate layer just in case I want to go in the just colors at the end when you're doing shadows, you ain't going to find at first. So you want to already have it on a different layer so you can go back and change the color if needed real good at shading. It's going to take a lot of trial and illustration. It's kind of like you got to translate shading because you really can't go in there and use like a like an airbrush. So you got to kind of see how it's shading look using these clean lines. So it takes some time to get because it's a different style. Because you got to draw out like on a if you were drawing on like Photoshop, something you can use like an average tool. But illustrator, you got to really draw out the shadows. It's a different style. You start make creating your see how we got it on our own layer. We're going to highlight make sure you put this to all under our dark shadow. So every shadow layer we add is going to fall. We're going to make sure we put it under the next shadow. OK, now we're just going to go a little lighter. This is our in between tone shadow. We made above the shadow, the dark shadow because it's going to fall right under it. Anyway, it's good to go ahead and put it on separate layers. And we're going to have to change this color layer, but you already know the color. It's going to be perfect right now. Now we're going to add the details inside the hair. So what you want to do, create your layer above everything. So let your gradient right here to your gradient. You want both of your edges to be black. You want the center to be a bright color. Be straight black. You want it to be kind of faded into like a brownish, blueish color. Do a fade for some hair texture. Now you want to know how do I export my artwork when I'm finished? I go to file, export, export as, export as. Make sure you close your art board, export. 300 pixels. And this I say that as a PNG file. Okay. And there you have it, man. Make sure you stay tuned, more heat coming soon. And I'm out this thing.