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1. Intro: Hey, guys, Welcome to my skill Chair Channel. As we all know, avatars has become a worldwide language now were used everywhere. We find them on social media websites and even in cartoons and guns. So in this class they will be showing you off on an easy technique that you can use in Adobe Illustrator To make your own customized avatar, we will come up with difference Facial Expressions Court so you can use it as your own avatar or even in cartoons and animation. Thank you for deciding to date this glass and let's head first, listen.
2. Drawing in Vector : So for the first listen in this class, we will be working on building over Avatar with basic shapes on through the Illustrator and let's start with a blank new file and then had to They're tangle toe and so that the rounded through tangled toe and build this shape. And with these anchor points, you just dragged him to make a little bit more rounded. Okay, like this. And to work symmetrically when you don't make and lying just in the center from this shape and right quick make guides. And as you can see, it just turned into ah guideline in the center of the rounded rectangle that we just built Just a build our face parts on the sides off this guide. So for the eyes, I will drag another round a corner as you see him. Just building my avatar was the basics keeps in a stranger, and we're just We're just giving the pencil like a break in this glass. So this is for the first I and we will copy that all to drag to the other side like that and for the nose, you'll just bring another rounded rectangle like that. Okay. And we will make a small beard. And you're like that with the mother. You know, rounded rectangle. Okay. And we will draw. Take this weird selected control C control F just to copy it in the same place and make a shape like that exactly for the beard can make a little bit bigger like that. That always load it up. Okay. Like that. And for the eyebrows. I just throw another rallied rectangle like this in copied All drag to the other side just like that, with another round of drip tangle. We'll build years, this one on you take it. Control square brackets to take it down under this layer and select that control C control after copied in place. Just like that. All right, things like these both to you airports and like like, transform, reflect, do the vertical one and hit. OK, does like that. Okay, so now we have the main boards on the face and for the mouth, you'll to spring another entangled around the drift angle and make it like that Now that we're done with the face, that's his head to the next lesson. True. The colors for the face
3. Color blocking: And now that we're done with our sketch or our vector version of the Avatar, you can see that I changed a little bit of the proportions and the sizes off the face sports. And that's the fun of it. Actually, it's a customized avatar. You can play around as you want, and you can make It's yours. You can just change. It's the face at a beard or not make it a woman. You can play around with the same technique that I'm using. So now in this listen, we will be coloring this phase that we made for the Avatar. And here is the palette that will be using I would be sharing this with you in this class and you're free to use whatever palette you would like to use and whatever colors that you're by to use. And now let's color for the face. I just hit I on the keyboard or truth, the eyedropper tool here to pick this one. But that and for the eyebrows I hit I on the keyboard and chose this one seemed for the beard here. Truth this, and for this one, actually seen in the face and the nose here I will be shoes in this color here and for the eyes. I will choose this one to pick the stroke here and for the years to I'll just pick same color as the face and the inner Bart will be like that. And now for the mouth. Okay. I will use increased this stroke line here like that. Maybe make it a little bit bigger. Take this a little bit over. Okay. Like that. And change the stroke color here too. Maybe this one don't know. Okay. And the inner part of it I can hit you can just change it like that to a darker color for the you know, the owner mouse part and for the eye for pupils. I just had draw inside. Here it's election I and draw inside and select circle like that. Just take this color I this color and for the circle controls he control of just to copy it in place a little bit smaller and take this color control C control f to make another circle. Let this smaller my dad and hit you know this color part with no struck. Let's just take this and that and that Circle Control. See to copy to the other. I I will just get out of this drone inside more to the Joe Normal. And then so let the other eye and draw inside control V paste the eyes from the other. The people's from the other. I like that right. Now that we're done with the face, let's head to the next listen to Ed pictures and some shading and lights to it.
4. Shading and Lighting : And now that you're done coloring over Avatar, it's now the time to learn and you technique to add more texture to it. And some shading and lighting toe add more depth to waiting to bring it to life. So let's start with the phase. Just select the face here and we just to control C control F two copied in place and just remove this stroke. And for the field here we will choose to make a radiant with the great Intell, right? That Okay. And it opens here this bar that we can change the color over there shadows that you won't just double click on any of these anchors to choose the colors the people I would like to make I mean, like this. Okay, and here's the radiant one. But I want this part to be zero opacity. So I just choose the other anchor and hit zero instead of 100 here in the city barred. So it will be like that would be transparent like this. Okay, To add texture to this one, just open this appearance panel here for this layer and select the effects here texture green. There's one of the cool textures that we have here in Illustrator that makes you know this grainy effect for any layer we choose. Just leave it with the same with the same default options Here you can just play with the intensity The contrast for even the shape off the off these grains. Maybe you can make a contra c making clump Sprinkles. I just go with the Sprinkles and hit OK, and now that we see that we have a nice texture here but toe ed to make it more, you know, make good just go to the capacity here and change blending mode to multiply. Maybe the capacity a little bit down like that. And now I have the first shaded layer here in this sing. All right, you add another shape here under the bro's like this Control C control f that and just hit I to select this great aunt you've just done. Now we will change the direction between the direction for it had G and you'll see this bar . We'll just take it like this. Oh, great. Okay. And take the eyebrow. Right click Arrange. Bring to front to make it up. This Okay, now we have this one to add picture I could did. Okay, we'll just go to the appearance effects. And so But we have a small shortcut here with a keyboard to make it easier and to make it faster for you. Control shift E. And as you see, it will just make the same effect of the first day. We just done control shift E on the keyboard and will just drag this old drag under this my brow like that. Okay, okay. And just take the nose range, bring to front, like sad, maybe tickle effort down and the eyebrows a little bit up Could just keep anything as you're going to make it more customized and fun. Okay, you may be Ah, here under the mouth. We will make another one Control C control if and make it love bigger like that and hit no stroke. Take it under the mouse. Here legally, it's like that And like this one, Okay, Just hit I to pick this effect, g so that the fuel first g and change the direction off the radiant that we're having like this one. And but it's above it all like that and controlled trust e just to make the effect of the grains all over again. Like this one. And you can see it cooks. Nice already. Okay, now under the eyes And make another thing here with a circle. Okay. And then we have a circle This circle look like that. You can just hit I to select ingredients we just done for good like this one, and take it control of square practice to take it under the eye. Okay. Like this Head G. To edit the direction off the great into for having okay and control drift e just to a mimic the grainy effect that we did. Okay, if I want to select this circle when I just can't, Because whenever I select I picked this one, I can lock it object, look, selection or control or command, too. And then it cancel that this circle all to drag to drag like this and maybe changed the directional. The Grady in that we have okay now that he added some shaded effects. Still, we have your the these ones, the years you'll just make control C control for this one. Make love but bigger like that and hit I to select the the radiant and controlled shift E. We could like that. Take it a little bit higher and maybe like this one. Okay, that's nice. Full drag to take it to the other part. Control square brackets, left square brackets to take it up. And we have this effect here. Oh, right. And now we can end the highlights layer here. Okay. So that the face again control C control after Esther Dragon in place, and you make get smaller like that and hit the great inter game. But this time we will make it lighter. G. They did this color. You'll make something like has righted this one. Maybe maybe Brighton. This one. Okay, for this one, you just keep playing. Did you find something that you really like? Or maybe this one Okay. And we will go to be here to the blending modes and said a multiplier. You can make it overly and take the Pacific a little bit down like that and also control drift E to make the same grain effect we have here. Okay. Looks nice already. Make another one of the beard. Control C control f like that and just make a little bit smaller, this one And had I do so like this crazy in this time it looks darker, can make it lighter, Maybe by taken that's toe overlay and g change it to this color. Okay, Can just change the directional. They think this this one a and just pick 11 down can add the same effect to go eyebrows control C control f it I this effect like that the other one Cruise control f and make it smaller in that I with the same effect like that. And here you go. We added some depth to our factor here, Maybe make this love the darker like that. I think it looks nice already and and just take this on top of the eyes. It would be nice her, I said. And I think we're done with the shading inviting for this character and that let's just hit to the next session and to add more facial expressions to this avatar to make it come to life.
5. Facial Expressions : So I've been playing a little bit with the over day, Grady. Entire light layer that we just done in the last lesson. And I just changed it from this from the color that you were doing to this color a little bit purposely color and made the blending moments too hard light instead of overnight You just sleep a little cool color effect on the face that I just liked. As I told you, you're free to make whatever you want to do. And your avatar just customize it to make it yours the way you want. Okay, so in the last lesson in this class, we will just try to take this avatar to the next level by making facial simple facial expressions with, ah, with this avatar. So let's get started. But first we need to group some of the layers like here in the eyebrows. I just select this this and this control G or right click group to make it his one group seem for this control G to make it as a group, that's okay. So for the first shape four first expression, we can make the whole face as a group to so This is the neutral, As you see here, the great interview just locked. He had object on look old to unlock it so I can just move it around, Okay, in just take like that. I'm put here as the usual avatar face and the nail copied, like, two times more. And so this is a new drill on this one. You make a little bit angry like that by taking the eyebrows down. Can make it, like, feel weird like that. Okay. And you just can't keep playing around by copying these two to make more expressions. Maybe this one here, we can add some accessories, like we can make, you know, glasses like that and picked this color and swap this to make it as a stroke. A sort of a fuel. Make it a little bit bigger like that. And old drag working. Don't drag to just take it here. Issue. See, we made we just made a glasses for this avatar. Or you can take this surrounded rectangle to make this port the glasses. And you can also group this glasses control G. What else can we make? We can make it like, really surprised by taking thes my eyebrows up like that and maybe making the I people, you know, really surprised, like, but smaller, like this one and the other one to that. Okay. And make hiss mouth more off like that. Take these corners like that to make it more like a circle, okay? And also protect the shadow layer like that under it. He said this is a surprised one. And you you just got the point. You can make whatever you want to do. Also, this structure of of avatars is really easy toe be to be wrecked and animated as its old separate layers. And you can just play around with it the way you want. It looks nice, and you can play around the way you want and make us much faces as you can. And now we're done. So I'm so excited to see your avatars that you will come up with guys in the project sections. Feel free to ask anything, be there for you to answer any questions. I hope this glass would help you. And I hope that you found it interesting. You can check my profile for the other classes that I, uh, have done before and can't wait to see your feedback about this class. Thanks a lot for taking this question, and it was on the body with you and thank you.