Designing a character with the pencil tool in Adobe Illustrator
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- เผยแพร่เมื่อ 27 ส.ค. 2023
- In this video I show you my process for designing a character in Adobe Illustrator using the pencil tool, pen tool, and shapes tool. I find this method effective when making adjustments to your design on the fly as opposed to creating an outline and coloring in the shapes.
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I dig your style a lot! Thanks for putting these step by steps out for free on TH-cam man. Really valuable to the community🙌
I appreciate that! Thanks for watching ✌🏽
As a beginner I was lost in 1min lol
I'm very lucky I picked up motion graphics and digital design this year, tutorials like yours should help me get to the top in no time! No better way to learn than to watch a pro break it down. Keep it up
I did it! thank so much for the step by step teacher!
Thank you!!!! This is one of the very few channels I’ve found that actually go step by step when it comes to this type of character design
Glad it was helpful!
finallllly ,, nice job and nice beginnings
Exactly what I was looking for especially with the round circular heads eyes and ears so I was super happy!!!
I was following you on Instagram and always wanted a breakdown tutorial of your illustrations.
Thank you so much for this tutorial it really helped alot ❤️
Glad it was helpful!
i've REALLY been sleeping on the pencil tool. Thank you!!
Cody! It's a student from twitter, always been inspired by your illustrations. Final getting to see a full tutorial of your process here on youtube is so awesome. Thank you man, I'll definitely tag you when I am done with this.
Thanks for following along on the journey. Excited to see what you come up with
This is so helpful! Thankyou sir!
Fire tutorial 🔥🔥
These tutorials are really improving my illustration skills. Thank you so much❤❤
That’s the goal! Keep at it ✌🏽
This the most perfect tutorial I ever seen !!! you're so perfect !
Thanks for the kind words!
i love your characters style!
Thanks a lot!
Love the tutorial. Learned a lot.
Thank you 😊
You’re welcome 😊
love it!
Thanks so much for your video bro. I’m a great artist on paper, and spray cans but I’m new to illustrator. This was very helpful and explained each step easy to follow. Keen for more videos bro🖤
Glad it was helpful!
Thanks mate..
can't wait ur other tutorial
Coming soon!
I found this as I was listening to a Chillhop vid and I LOVED your animation for the airplane mode mixes!!!
Huge shoutout to Chillhop!
U R simply awesome..very precise tut..hats off!!
Glad you liked it
Finally, thanks a lot dude, keep it up ❤
Much more to come!
Your videos are amazing keep making such amazing videos brother ❤
Thank you so much 😀
This is so clear and easy steps. Thank you so much and plz keep making such videos.
Love hearing that. More on the way!
@@codyabanks I would like to thank you because this video gave me my 1st ever job in MNC. Keep the tutorials coming I'm sure it's helping everyone else as well. Thank you so much again 🙌😊
This was easy and smooth to follow, thanks a lot!!
Glad it helped ✌🏽
continue this type of content i love it
Will do✌🏽
so cool, thanks! ☺️
Glad you like it!
Merci beaucoup, j adore votre chaine et votre pédagogie.
You just taught me how to draw with illustrator. Your tutorial was very revealing and loaded with tricks. I'm following you right away. Tanx.
Glad I could help ✌🏽
THANK YOU SM THAT WAS SOOOOOOO HELPFUL😊😊😊😊
Happy to hear! ✌🏽
thank you so much!
Thank you sooooooooooooo much. I tried this and I am really satisfied with the tut video!! Please make more tutorials like this one!! I need to learn to make 2d chacracters more!
Glad it helped! More on the way!
I liked it! It was helpful. Thank you bro!
Glad it helped!
THANANKU IM VERY HELPFUL . ILOVE THIS CHANNEL SO MUCH. U TELL ME VERY DETAIL. THANK YOU
Thanks for watching!
This is soo cool man 🔥🔥
Thanks✌🏽
Using this as my second ever tutorial while learning illustrator and it's been very helpful that you say what the shortcuts are for everything you're doing. Really helps makes drawing smoother and way less clicking around looking for what I want. Thank you!
Great to hear! Yes shortcuts are very important for workflow. I’ll be sure to keep mentioning those 👍🏽
make sure to click to add things as little as possible. When you want to find a tool, find it, look for the shortcut if there is any, and use the shortcut to bring up the tool. I found it builds the habit smoothly to significantly improve workflow.
Cody Rules!
I love it! Keep going
Muy bueno wacho!!!!
this is an awesome tutorial. great work, cody! 🔥
Glad you liked it!
Interesting !
amazing
Thanks!
i really love ❤ it thank you ,
No problem ✌🏽
thank you
Keep it up mate🔥
Always
Thank you for the tutorial! I'm completely new to Illustrator, so I just wanted to say that it would be cool if you could share the palette you used for this illustration, or at least the codes for the colors.
Hey man, that character is amazing! Also nice that you take your time explaining things. What is this kind of style called?
this is really nice!! could you pkease add a hex code cheat sheet or anything similar? it could help a lot!
Some stuff can be done using a Shape builder tool, try it out it is much faster than a pathfinder and can do a lot.
Learned some neat tricks here thanks! Just a quick question, do you outline strokes at the end for export?
Only if I’m sending to a client
would the option key , be the control key in windows
😍😍😍
Incredible! Have you tried the 'draw inside' tool for shading? Thank you for your videos!
I just learned about it recently! I think there are certain instances where it is helpful and others where the technique I show here is better.
really cool video and technique! How do you change your default stroke settings (width, corner, etc.)?
the stroke settings are essentially saved with my color palette. When I select a color from the palette with the eyedropper tool it will automatically have those settings
thanks…love how you work with pencil and pen easily. i find myself using just pen and shapes. Need to learn shortcuts for move to back/behind. Find myself with billions of layers. My motto is if u use something more than 5 times..then learn the d#$m SHORTCUT.
you forgot to add shadow to the mustach, great tut man
Awesome easy and fast like this style more than this with clear hands keep up after that can we use to animate?
Animation process video coming next week
thanks @@codyabanks
Needed this!! 🙌🫡 thank you!!
You're welcome!
what are ur pencil tool settings
Why do you have 5k subs man. You're a pro
Only been doing full tutorials for a little bit. We’re growing though!
do u have any tips on using the pencil tool, Cause i keep making weird curves that dont look smooth at all. and very good video
Yep check out my pencil tool tutorial 👍🏽
How long does it take?
Excellent, although it's tedious restating the shortcuts a lot is super helpful on a follow along
I try to mention the shortcuts as much as I can👍🏽
21:00 how did u shift up the shape?? (this is v wicked sick)
Hi, I'm only starting with illustrating characters. I found this video very helpful, but I can't seem to get the stroke weight the same when working on different sizes of shapes. Can you please give a tip on how to solve this?
I’d suggest watching my color palette tutorial. When you have a consistent color palette you can easily make all your strokes the same width
How do you decide where to use shadows and where not to. For example, the face has several shadows, ears, mustache.. but there's no shadows in the clothing or pony tail.
When you are working with cartoons I dont think theres really a science to it. I also didn't want to make the tutorial too long otherwise I likely would have added a few more shadows/details.
Broo i really need all the colors how can i get the colors??
How do I get this kinda retro effect on my illustrations?👏😭😭
Hey can you explain why at 13:46 when you erase it creates a clear mark where you cut? when i make that first eraser curve line it creates these invisible points like where the eraser line ended, kind of inside of the earring. Does that make sense? Im using an ipad but honest;y theres nothing underneath it, ive done it with the earring as an individual layer and it still happens. its soooo frustrating, sometimes it even creates these smudges.
What do you mean by invisible points? It’s possible something different is happening because you’re on iPad
@@codyabanks i could screenshot it and send it to you on like your IG page, I went on Reddit and someone explained it but when I did what they did it didn’t work
how do you make a color pallete like that on the side?
Will do a quick video on this soon!
how do you make animation pls. i want to learn from you. thank you ;3
coming soon!
thank you so much !!! ;)@@codyabanks
When do u decide to use the pencil tool instead of pen and vise versa?
Pencil tool for more complex shapes. Pen tool if it’s a simple shape.
Do you have any specific settings for your pencil tool in illustrator?
I usually keep it on the second highest smooth setting
7:27 Yo! I think if you dont like ur shape, you dont need to use the direct selection tool, just use the pencil again on that shape, where you want to adjust, and voilá ✌🏼
Yep I do that sometimes! Thanks for the feedback
How do we get the palettes bro...i really want to recreate this 💔
Check out my color palette video 👍🏽
well done sir!
Thank you ✌🏽
can i ask about the color pallete that you using on your illustrations? , is it your own color pallete or something?
Will be doing a video on this soon
@@codyabanks OH MY GOSH THANK YOU FOR NOTICING ME AND MAKING A CONTENT ABOUT IT YOU INSPIRED ME FOR MAKING ILLUSTRATIONS LIKE THESE I LOVE YOU DUDE !! KEEP UP THE BEST CONTENTS AS ALWAYS !!
That was great
But please say the color cods
Do you use drawing tab? or mouse ?
mouse
What program do you use to screen record 🤔
I use just use screen record on iMac - cmd + shift + 5
Do you draw it out first or just start working out of illustrator
Just illustrator 👍🏽
Hello superb ❤
Hey, thanks ✌🏽
DO YOU TEACH DRAWING VANS TENNIS?
Vans as in the shoes??
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Vicky kausal?
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Pro you dont explain how you get colors
The buttons were not aligned 😖
to this day I don't know what da hell I'm ment to do
Instead of going to "object, transform, reflect" save yourself SO MUCH TIME.
1. Select the object normally (select or direct select are fine as long as you have all pen points selected)
2. Copy/Paste as you would normally
3.Hit "o"
4. Click and drag on the object to spin it. If you hold "Shift" it will lock in place and flip horizontally or vertically. I almost always hold shift.
5. Weep that you've wasted so many hours doing this manually, and curse illustrator for hiding this hotkey from you
Just tried this out and I’m definitely using this method moving forward ✌🏽
Spread the word, so few know of this GREAT shortcut :) @@codyabanks
a lot of trouble with the shoe...
This is why i stick to traditional, I cannot figure out how to use these programs.
That’s what tutorials are for!
Is it normal that it took me 2h to do it? 🥹🤯
Totally normal