Draw a Kawaii Portrait That Actually Looks Like You | Procreate

1. Introduction: Hello, everyone. I'm Uni, and in this class, we again to learn how to turn a real person into a kawaii style portrait. During this class, you'll get familiar with how to simplify face structure, choose the right features to keep and use a simple color system to make everything clean and balanced. By the end, you'll not only have your own kawaii portrait, but also a method you can reuse to turn any photo into a stylized character. And now let's spend some time drawing. 2. What You'll Learn: Before we start drawing anything, let's see what this class is about. This class is about turning a real person into a kawaii style portrait without losing what makes this person recognizable. It's less about coping steps and more about understanding what actually Kerri's identity. Right now, on the screen, you see two little sections. On the left, we have our portraits, the photographs, and on the right, we have illustrations made in a kawaii style based on the photographs we have on the left. They are a little bit adjusted to match the style. But overall, we can see that these pictures are actually made from this portrait. And this area that we have right between these two sections is where most of the struggle is. So how to go from this that we have on our left to this that we have on the right without losing the person and the personality. And that's exactly what this class is designed to fix the struggle between these two areas. So let's talk about who this class is really for. If you never drawn before, that class is for you. If you can draw circles and curves, you can do that. If you feel that maybe you can draw, maybe you don't have a talent. That's a little bit overlap right here. We can work with it too. I will prove your n that you can create the actual portrait in a kawaii style using all that we will learn today. Maybe you want to create the art that actually looks like you. Maybe you already tried to create portraits, but they might have a bit of the same face syndrome or they are not looking too similar to the pictures that you have as your reference pictures that we will deal with today too, and maybe you want to create some meaningful art that actually looks like you. Again, this class is for you too. Here's what you actually walk away with from this class. This class is not about memorizing a style, it's about learning how to see faces differently. The goal is not realism, it's recognizability in acute style. We are focusing here on understanding what makes a face feel like a specific person. And what you learn today is a simple formula for Kai portraits that work all the time. We are not using a random drawing. We won't have random results. The formula will work perfectly every time that you are going to be applying it. It's not the cute face, the random cute face or the very general cute face. It's actually the picture, the actual portrait in a kawaii style that will look like you. And we also will follow the simple shapes and stylization. As I mentioned before, if you are okay with drawing circles and curves, it will work perfectly for you. We are not going to be focusing too much on the anatomy. Again, we use our simple formula to help us with it, and it is very easy to anyone to create what we are going to be creating today. We also after we follow the simple formula and simple shapes, we will take a look at how to make the kawaii colors that actually look good. We will be applying some techniques that will help us to create the very clean and very bright kawaii colors. Also why we are learning and why we are not following along because we want not only to create one portrait that you will follow alone during the class and come up with. We want to learn because we want to apply what we learned today to the future illustrations and the future drawing that you are going to be creating. You can use them forever. To do all that, we will need to follow one simple structure. Let's go and see what we have for our simple framework behind everything that we have right here. 3. Head Shape: The formula that we are going to be using is a backbone of whole class. So let's break down what's inside it. So you can see our simple avatar formula consists from head shape, proportions, personality, and everything together create likeness. So for our head shape, this is your foundation. That's what we're going to be working with firstly, proportions, it's where our facial features are positioned on the face. Personality adds your uniqueness, and everything that we have right here is, again, making real you. So let's go one by one, and we will start with the foundation which is our head shape. Head shape alone changes how the face feels. Let's see a few heat shape families and by analyzing them, you can find out your own heat shape as well. So firstly, we have the round family right here. You can see we have a couple of examples here, and everything right here looks a little bit more compact, and we can test out whether the head is rounded by taking up our brush, for example, any brush we'll do right here, we can go and very easily create the shape on the top, and we can see that if we create a shape of the circle, that looks pretty good right here. So if we go one by one through all of these head shapes and create the circles, they will fit inside our shape that we are right now creating. So everything right here is bit soft, youthful, friendly. This is a round shape family. When we are done with the round shape, let's see what else we have for our faces. So here you can see that we have a bit of a difference from the previous slide. We have a more elongated face right here that again look balanced, look calm, elegant. And again, we can test it out by going along the shapes, and we can create the oval shape right here, and it will fit better than the shape that we used before. So you can see that overall shape is a little bit more elongated here. So let's go through all of this and make sure that everything that we have right here. Is in our oval face shape. The next head shape family is our square shape. You can see we have a little bit more angular parts right here over the bottom part, a little bit more toward the jaw. Again, it's very grounded. It's confident. We can go all over the elements that we have right here, our little shapes for our faces, and we can go and create the actual rectangular shapes. We can go with the square. We can go with more like a rectangle and you can see it fits nicely right here, everything that we have inside. We will go through all of these elements and we will create our rectangles. When we are creating the rectangles, it doesn't mean that we will go and create the actual shapes of rectangles for the face. Of course, we will soften it up everything that we have right here, and we will match it with the overall style that we are going to be creating. Everything will be solved, so don't worry we are not going to be using the exact shapes for the squares that we have right now for the actual faces. For the last head shape family that we will look for today, we will be using the triangular shape that we have right here. You can see we have a bit of the narrower element onto the bottom. Again, if we want to make sure that we are using the right template right here for our head shapes, we can go and test it out by creating the very simple shape of the triangle and match it with the shape. Again, we will go and try to create it on all of these pass that we have. Again, if we need to adjust something, we will go and do it. Again, we are not using the exact shape of the triangle right here. For the actual shapes of the head, we will see how can we adjust the basic shape that we have right here later on to create a nice element for our face. And when we are done figuring out our phase shapes, we will take a look at this slide that says to us that structure is what the brain uses to encode identity. Our brain reads structure before detail, so we will need to actually pay attention to how our shape of the head looks because this is our foundation. And when we have settled everything that we have for our phase ship, let's go and continue with our formula and we will go to our next element, and this is our proportions. 4. Proportions: Proportions is where our faces stop being generic. Let's go and see one by one what it's made of. When we are talking about proportions, we are mostly talking about feature spacing. Our facial spacing consists of a couple of elements. So we have our eyes distance. This is how our eyes are positioned on the face on the horizontal axis, and this is the most critical for our likeness. And when we have eye distance done, we also have eye height. This is how our eyes positions on the vertical axis, and that affects the overall expression. And also, we will need to pay attention to the nose and mouth ratio right here because this is the rhythm of your face. Again, this makes everything recognizable. So we are talking about likeness. Again, everything together combines, this is our uniqueness. When we are done with this little slide, when we know all these parts, we will go and one by one, take a look at what everything means. So firstly, we will take a look at our eyes distance. We have a couple of options right here. We have the white, the narrow, and the average eye distance, and how can we make sure that we are created a right distance between the eyes? You can see the photographs right here. Let's first go to the average one and see what we have right here. We have the size of the eye right here, and if we can fit one size of the eye right here between our eyes. This is our average eye distance. If the area right here is a little bit smaller than the size of the eye, we are talking about narrow eye distance. If we have a bit of the wider element right here, a bit of the wider space between the eyes, this is our white eye distance. Paying attention to eye distance could really add to an overall facial likeness. Now let's see how the eye height affects the face. For our eye height, let's see these two photographs and we can see we can position our eyes a little bit higher on the face and the overall shape of the face will be a little bit more elongated and we can position lower on the fees, and this will look a little bit more balanced. Again, it depends on your photograph. It depends on your fee structure, and this is another thing that we will need to pay attention to while we are creating the recognizable Kai portrait. When we are done with the eye height, let's see what we have for our nose and mouth ratio. This is our last ingredient for the proportions part and the pas specim. Let's go and see what we have right here. For our nose to mouth ratio, again, we can position our features higher or lower on the face and you can see how much difference it adds to our face. On the left, we have a higher position of the nose and a little bit more space between these two parts, and on the right, we have it a bit more close to each other. Let's see one more example on the nose to mouth ratio to finish up with the proportion ingredients. Again, onto our left and onto our right, we have a different placement for these elements, and these small spacing changes, they are really big recognition impact. Again, mention it one more time. We will need to pay a lot of attention to these little details. Now when we are done with taking a look at our little examples, let's see one more slide that will help us to understand why we need this while we are creating our little kawaii portraits. There is a few studies in phase perception and caricature research that show that humans recognize the faces mainly through proportions and distinctiveness and not surface details. So when we are creating our portraits, we really need to pay attention to the fundamentals, the phase shape, and our proportions. That's where all the recognizability ls. And while we are paying attention to our fundamentals, we are doing 80% of the work that will lead to recognizability and likeness from the portrait that you have as a photograph to the portrait that you are creating in a wi style. And when we are already familiar with the proportions, let's see what we have for our personality. Let's edit on top. 5. Personality: In personality, we can go very quickly from generic to specific. So if you have some very distinctive features or some distinctive elements that you use day by day, this is what we are going to be talking right now. And personality shows up in a few key places. So let's go and take a look what we are going to be talking about. To add more personality to your foundation and turn it into a real life portrait, we will need to pay attention to dominant feature. This is probably the most sent out thing that you have onto your face and onto your portrait. Hair silhouette because hair is not one strand of the hair, another strand of the hair. We have the mass of the hair that is recognizable and that we need to translate to make the ability from the photograph to our kawaii portrait. When we are done with a hair silhouette, we will need to add accessories. Again, this is a very quick option to add right here to make sure that we have the likeness from the photo and this really increases recognizability. The overall vibe is the true. Even though we are not talking about the expressions into this class, we will take a look at some general vibe that can help us to translate personality. Again, let's take a look at this formula one by one. Let's start with our star of the face, and this is our dominant feature. Dominant feature is one thing that people notice about your face firstly. It could be the eyes, it could be the brows, cheeks, nose, mouth. It's not only on your face, so all these little details right here. It might be something like hair or maybe you have a little bit of the distinctive shape for your ears. That could be translated to your portrait too and that could add to likeness that we are aiming for. So for all of these elements, we will need to pay attention to what we have on the face, and we'll need to pick one or two dominant features that we will be exaggerating with purpose. So let's go and see what we have for the dominant features onto these portraits that we already had that we are familiar with one by one. So again, one by one, let's take a look at all of these three portraits and we will be paying attention to the first and the second thing that we are noticing while we are taking a look at these photos. So without thinking too much, we are taking a look at the first photo and we see the eyes, we see the mouth right here. It's not the signs right here. Maybe you see something different, maybe you see different features and maybe you would like to exaggerate some things different from what I see onto these pictures. That's okay. That's working. We will be looking at the next two. And again, if you see the same things, that's good. If you see some other things that you want to exaggerate, that's good, too. On the second photo, we first see the eyes. We have the shape for the hair. On the third photo, we have very prominent eyes that are very catchy and also we have this very nicely flowy hair here that again catches your attention. Again, if you see something else that are more prominent to you, that's okay. We can work with that too. When we are done with round, let's go and see what we have for the next facial features onto the next portraits. Gain right here, one by one, let's go to the left firstly. We have the very distinctive eyes. We have the very nicely shaped mouth. And when we are talking about kawaii style, we are not paying too much attention to the nose area because this is not a very kawaii feature that we want to translate onto our illustration. We can work with some nodes right here, but we are not paying too much attention right here on to these dominant features if we have them on the face. So if you see the nose, for example, maybe on the second photo right here, we can see that the nose is pretty prominent right here. But we can take a look at some other features that we can exaggerate. To create a nice and very kawaii style portrait. So for example, to the second one, as we mentioned before, we can go with the eyes right here. They again, very prominent. And in the whole kawaii style, we are paying a lot of attention to the eyes because they are the mirror to our soul and everything like that. And we can work with the eyes very nicely and translate a lot from the photo to the kawaii style portrait by creating the eyes. Again, getting back to the second portrait, we have the eyes, and we can work with the shape that we have our hair because this is a little bit fun and we can create something that will be recognizable right here. We can work with it. And on the right, we can go, for example, with mouth and eyes or we can go with eyes and hair. So again, this is where you want to make a conscious decision about what you want to exaggerate. When we are done with the oval shape, let's go and see what we have next. Again, one by one, going through our square shapes for the heat. On the left, we have a very bright hair. We have the pretty distinctive eyes right here. We can exaggerate it. We can work with it. As for the middle portrait, we have the eyes again, catching our attention. We have the mouth. We can go with a bit of the mustache right here. So again, we are taking a look at the photograph and the first thing that we see or maybe not the first thing, but the second thing that we see this is the area right here. The upper lip, we have the mustache here. We can work with it, we can translate it. We are trying to make sure that our eye is catching the right things right here. The thing that we can work with that will translate nicely to the kawaii. On the right, we have, again, a very peculiar shape for the here. We can work with it. We have the very nicely looking eyes, and again, we can work with it to exaggerate it, create something very, very nice. Again, we can add the recognizability by using these feature. When we're done with the square, let's take a look at the last elements that we have are triangle shapes. Let's go and see what we have for them. Again, for the triangle elements, for the triangle pace that we have right here, we have the very prominent eyes right here on the left. We can work with the shape of the hair right here or we can make the know that we will be exaggerating the lips. On the middle part, we have the very catchy eyes. We have the peculiar shape for the hair. On the right, we have, again, the eyes and lips. We are not paying too much attention to the nose. We can go and work with the hair here because it's very flowy teeth. And when we are done with finding out dominant features of all of these portraits, we can go and see other ingredients that we had for our personality. So let's go and take a look at the hair. When we are working with the hair, we will need to pay attention to a couple of things right here. We will need to make sure that we are creating big shapes and we are creating the shapes that are visible, the easy shapes right here, and we are not creating the hair strand by strand. We will need to have a clear silhouette. We will need to have like banks or no banks, if we have them on the photograph and if we want to maybe exaggerate our kawaii illustration, we can go and add the banks where we don't have the banks to create a nice looking illustration. So again, this is where your decision ls. And when we are done with deciding whether we want the banks or no banks for us, we need to pay attention to where the volume lays. So we will need to make sure that we are placing it right. So for example, if we have hair on the top, they are a little bit bushy. We will need to translate it to our portrait, or maybe we have the very flowy elements and we will need to pay more attention to the bottom part and add the placement of the volume more toward the bottom. And also, we will need to pay attention to the flow. If we take a look at the previous parts right here, we can see that we have very distinctive features right here. For example, we will take a look at this portrait. We can see that we have not strand hair like that. We have some floor right here and we will need to pay attention to it, too. So you can go and again, if you have a photograph that you are going to be working with, you can start right now to see where the flow of the hair is and what we are going to be creating later on. Also for the last element that we will need to pay attention to our hair is the texture. Again, we are taking a look at the flow, and we are taking a look at the texture. So whether it's a curvy, whether it's a very straight and very, very fly right now, we will need to translate it too. So this is the things that again, we will need to pay attention to. And when we took a look at our hair, what it contains from, we will go and take a look at what we have for our accessories. Accessories, again, mention it one more time. It's where personality becomes visible fast. For our accessories, we have all the things that we can wear. We have glasses, earrings, hats, hair clips, piercings, maybe some other elements, maybe you have some elements that are not mentioned right here. So we will again need to see what we are creating and we will need to translate it in the same way as we have it onto our photograph to add to our likeness. And for the accessories, we need to pay attention to not to overdo it. So we can have all these accessories and we can put everything onto one photograph onto one portrait that we are creating, and it will be a little bit messy. Or it will be a little bit overwhelming. So it's a good thing to select a couple of very distinctive things and to translate them into your portrait. So we will need to choose one or two meaningful signature accessories, and we will add only them to our illustration. When we are done with our hair and with our accessories, let's take a look at the vibe and smooth, the very last thing for this part. So for our vibe and mood, I want to mention one more time. We are not creating the expressions into this class, but we can create the mood and overall feeling that we want to translate with our illustration. So we can be soft, alert, serious, sleepy, playful, all of these things or none of these things, maybe something different. And we can translate it very nicely and very easily by making sure that we are positioning all the foundational parts correctly. For example, we can go maybe with a playful vibe or mood and we can go and translate our photograph into a playful way. For example, we can rise up one of the eyebrows or create some kind of smirk on the face. That's what we can do right here without changing the overall expression that we can create for our illustration. You can go and create it by changing the position of your facial features, changing not the overall position, but maybe adjusting it slightly to translate this mood. And when we got familiar with all the vibe accessories, our hair, dominant feature, we want to translate everything nicely and we want to exaggerate some things. And Kai rule of exaggeration is pushing what's already dominant. So this is not the random thing. Kai exaggeration is very selective, and we will take a look how we can do it on practice. So let's see what is our practical method. And our practical method to stylize everything in a kawaii style and keep the likeness is firstly to identify the top two of dominant features. We mentioned it before, it may be eyes, it might be mouth, maybe hair, something that is the thing that you see firstly and secondly, two things. We want to push them. We want to push scale, and we want to create, for example, the eyes, and we want to make them a litle bit bigger. We are not adding the details. We are not adding maybe some beauty marks or some small things. They are not very relevant. We want to push the scale so not detail. We are pushing our mouth, we are pushing our eyes. We are maybe adding more flow to the hair, maybe adjusting the shape, adding more volume, and the very last step is to choose what to let go of. This is maybe the nose, maybe, again, beauty marks, maybe some not relevant things that are not adding to our style, the kawaii one that we are going to be working with. And they are not what we need to pay too much attention to. So our main goal is to keep it simple and bold. And now when we know all the foundations, we can go and draw a little bit. 6. Kawaii Proportions & Jaw Shapes: Before starting to draw, let's get familiar with our foundations, as we mentioned them before, but drawn in a kawaii style. So first of all, we'll take a look at our proportions, drawn in a Kai style in a very simple scheme, and then we also will need to get familiar with different shapes for the jewels. You can remember that we got familiar with them when we were taking a look at our photographs, our different shapes, oval, rectangle, triangle, square, everything like that. We took a look at the photographs, but now it's time to take a look at what we have it in a Kai style. So firstly, let's go and take a look at the kawaii proportions. You can see, we have a very simple scheme right here. We are using very simple shapes to create everything that we have right here, very simple shape of the circle for the overall shape of the head. As for this example, I took a shape of the oval for our little jaw. We will get a look at everything else on the next slide. For now, let's see what we have right here. We have a couple of lines right here. They are guiding lines that will help us to build up our facial features. And on the right, you can see that we have, again, a little bit of a weird scheme right here. And this little ear that we have right here contains the areas that we have for our eye, for our nose, and for our mouth. You can see right here on our scheme, we have the big ear right here and everything that I mentioned before, eye, nose and mouth is positioned right here onto this area where we have our e. So this is our orangieT area that is painted in pink, this is the safe area for our eyes. So depending on your photograph and the position of your facial features, you can very easily go and position the eyes higher or lower but not going too far beyond the painted area. Now when we are quite familiar with what we have right here for our kawaii proportions, when we know where we need to position our shapes, we can take a look at different shapes for the jewel. So if you remember what we used to take a look before, our photographs that we had for our different head shapes, round oval, square triangle, this is our shapes that we are going to be using for our kawaii illustration. You can see very different shapes for our jaws and let's see what we have right here. For the round, we have a very soft curve for our jaw a little bit closer to the overall shape of this head that we have in this orange color, the main shape that we are going to be using for the head. We have a bit of the difference right here. The oval shape is going a little bit lower than the shape that we have around it. Not too big of a difference, but again, very simple, very small difference. Make a little bit of the bigger result right here. So we are creating the oval shape slide curve at the jaw. As for the square shape, you can see we have a bit of the angles right here onto the side, very defined edges. And as for the triangle, we are not creating a very straight triangle here. We are softening up everything. We are eating a bit of the tip right here onto the bottom for our chin, so a little bit of a pointed shape and a very softly looking triangular shape like that. You can see how different our little schemes look. So that's what we're going to be doing. And when we are familiar with our dual shapes and with our Kai proportions, let's finally go and take a little bit of a practice right here and start to create our illustration. 7. Practice: Sketch: What we will need for our practice, we will need a photograph. I'm going to be creating this pink haired lady. If you want to use any other photograph, maybe your own photograph, you are welcome to do it. So we also need to make sure that we are remembering everything that we learned today. We will need to pay attention on the shape of the hat, on the proportions, on the dominant features, on everything that we learned before. And we will start by creating a little scheme. You want to start not from the blink page, you can go to the Project resto Stop and you can download this little scheme that was on the previous slide with different shapes for our chin and with the overall shape for our scheme for our little kawaii proportions and everything and you can use it and create your own illustration based on it. But if you want to start from scratch, let's go and start from scratch. Firstly, what we need to create is a shape for our head. You can go to the sketching folder into your brush and you can go and select any brush that you want for your sketching part, the first thing that we are going to be creating is the shape for the head. Let's go and create a shape of the circle, going with one line like that and creating the shape that big. To create a shape of the perfectly rounded circle, we are not lifting up our Apple pencil. We are holding one of our fingers on the screen. Go and adjust the side by moving your Apple pencil while you are holding everything that you are holding. So let's go with pretty big shape like that, and when we have it, we will need to position it on the center of our practice area right here. If you are working on the blink space, we will need to go and position it in the center of this blink space too, the blank canvas. So what we need to do to do this is go into our area key on the top plat, and we will need to go and find the center of this area. To make sure that we are doing everything right and it's easier for us, we can go under snapping right here on the bottom, and we can turn on snapping right here into the settings. And then we will hold our Apple pencil and we will try to find the center of this area. You can go and try to position it in accordance with these guiding lines that you have. For example, let's position it somewhere here and when we have it, we will tap onto our yoke to get away from this mode. Now, when we have the first shape for our head, we will also need to create other details, and we want to do it in a symmetrical way. We want to use all that Procreate can help us with, so we can go and use some tools of it. Let's go to our range icon over the top left. We'll go the Canvas and we will toggle drawing guide right here. We also will need to go under 80 drawing guide, and with this 80 drawing guide, we will need to find the symmetry too. So on the bottom, select symmetry and we will need to go and position this line in the center of our practice area. You can see I already have it in the center, and you can see that I missed a little bit of the center with the shape of the circle. So I will go and very easily fix. If you need to move this line, go to this blue node in the middle and drag it toward the area that you need to position it too. So if you are working onto the blink canvas and if you turned on symmetry, your line will be exactly in the center and you don't need to change anything right here. So find the center of your practice area, and when you are done, let's tap on R. Let's check mark on the top to accept the changes. Now I will quickly go and fix the position of the ellipse right here. For example, let's go with something like that, and when we have it, we will go and create other details. Firstly, let's go and create a couple of lines that will help us to position our ships. Firstly, let's go and create the horizontal line that will go through the center of our little ellipse right here. Again creating the line very boldly like that, holding it at the end with our Apple pencil, holding one of our fingers on the screen. And if we need to move it, go into the popped up option line on the top and dragon it to the center of the sheet. When you have it somewhere in the center, tap on the screen to accept the changes and then let's go and create a couple of more lines that we saw on this slide. We will need to create a couple of lines that will help us to find the position of our proportions right here. Let's get back right here and I will take a different color to create these lines. Firstly, we will go a little bit higher than the shape that we have right here in the center, we will go a little bit higher than the middle line and we will create another line right here. Again, let's go like that, holding it at the end, holding one of our fingers on the screen. If we need to move it, I will probably go and move it slightly higher. And when we have it, we will need to do the same underneath this line. Let's go and create the similar line going underneath the central line. And again, we will need to have the same distance from the center that we have on the top. So if we need to move it, we will go and do it in that way. When we have it, we will go and create a couple of lines right here on the bottom. So firstly, let's go slightly from the bottom and create another line that will go like that. We will need to have a bit of the tip right here on the bottom, again, creating a straight line, so holding everything that we need to hold. And again, if we need to move it, we will move it slightly higher. We'll have a bit of the empty area right here on the bottom, and when we have it, we will need to create one more little line with a distance like that that we have on the top. Again, let's go above this line that we have just created and create another straight line on the bottom. If we need to move it, go and moving it up and when we have the result like that, let's go and name this line so we are not confused later on. For this line that we have on the top, we will go and write down eyebrow. For this line that we have on the bottom, the blue one, we will go and write down I. This line that we have on the bottom, underneath this line, this is our bottom line that we have for our e, so we can go and create the line like that that will connect these Rs and we will use this area for creating I. This line on the bottom is our line for the mouth. Let's go and try down mouth. And as we saw right here, our little ear is right here where we have our eye, mouth and nose. Let's go and create the ear right here. We will need to connect the little lines right here and create the shape for the ear. When we have this scheme, let's go and add a little bit of our jaw. For the jaw that we are going to be using right here for this photograph, it's going to be the shape of the square. So we will need to go and create the rectangular shape right here onto the bottom. We can do it on the same layer or we can create a new layer and use our symmetry tool to create the jaw. Do that, we can go back to our last and create one more layer right here on the top, and we need to make sure that this layer is assisted so we can use the line that we have for our symmetry. So we'll need to tap onto this layer and use the option drawing assist. Now when we have it, we will go firstly and create the ear. You can go with the same color that you are using right now for these blue lines or you can go back to the pinkish color if you want. Let's go toward this line that we have for the eye. We have this little connected era right here, and from this line, we will go down and create a shape of the ear like that. So you can go bigger with the shape, smaller with the shape, a little bit rounder on the top, a little bit less rounder, use the brush, use the eraser. Remember that now we are creating the scheme, so it's okay if it's a little bit crooked or a little bit not looking to go. When we have the shape for the ear, we are getting back to our brush, and we will go from the same line that we have for the top part of our eye, and we will go down and start to create the so let's go with a little bit of the reducing line going like that. And when we have it, we will go toward the bottom and we will need to firstly mark down where we are going to be finishing our shape for the jaw. So let's go slightly down from this line, and we will go and start to create the line that's going in that way. So going to the side, starting to create something like that. And when we have the overall shape, we will need to go to the sides, and we will need to connect it with the slightly rounder shape that we have for our jaw, the slightly rounder shape that we would want to create for the rectangular shape. So when we have something like that, we can work a little bit on it. So you can go and maybe reduce the shapes right here onto the sides, maybe create slightly different shape. You can always take a look at the photograph to see how it's going right here. So if you want to adjust something, go and do that. Overall, what we need to create is something going in that way. Again, remember that it's not the final result. We can fix everything later on if you don't like something and maybe you want to adjust something. Work with your brush, work with your eraser, to create the scheme that you could use to create your future illustration. So for example, we can lift this little shape a little bit higher to create not a very elongated shape for the overall shape of the hat. You can work a little bit with your brush and with your eraser to adjust the overall look of everything that you are creating. When we have the shape for our jaw, you can again take a look at what you have right here if you want to maybe fix the ears a little bit or create something else, maybe adjust the overall shape of our little jaw or anything else, you are welcome to go and do that. Again, remember that it doesn't need to be super perfect. It's okay if it's a little bit messy, that's the scheme, that's the sketche, that's the process. When we have it, we also can go inside the shape of the ears and create the shapes like that to create the inner part of the ear. When we have it, let's go and work a little bit inside the eye area. So for the eye area, again, we need to remember that we accurate KAY illustration. We need to remember our rule of exaggeration. We will need to remember what we wanted to exaggerate onto this portrait that we mentioned before. So for this, we can get back to what we have onto this onto the dominant feature, and we can take a look that right here we wanted to exaggerate our eyes and our and again, as we are here, we can see we had our little lines for the flow that we also need to remember, but that we will mention a little bit later. So for now, let's focus on our eyes and onto here, and we will get back to our practice area. So when we have it, let's go and start to create the eyes. So what we need to do firstly is to find the area that we are going to be using for the shape of the eye. To make sure that we are creating everything in proportion and everything is looking nice, we can start not with the eyes, but we can start with the neck. So for the neck, let's go right here and create the lines that will go in that way. You can go a little bit thicker or a little bit thinner. Again, you can take a look at your reference photo right here and adjust it in accordance with it. For example, let's go with something like that, and when we have it, we can use these lines to create our eyes. Again, if you remember, we also will need to pay attention to the distance that we have between our eyes. So to translate our resemblance, we will need to position the eyes a little bit closer to one another if we are using this reference photo because we have a little bit of the narrow position of the eyes right here. Let's first go to where these lines that we used for the neck and we will go and mentally create the line going up in that way. When we met a little markdown over the top, we can go and start to create the shape of the eye. For the eye shape, let's go and create the shape of the ellipse like that. You can go lt bit bigger, as I mentioned before, for the shape. Create it like that. Hold your line at the end. If you need to adjust, go to the editing tool, go to the nodes and adjust the overall shape if you need to.G and create it altebt in a rounder way or alte bit more elongated. It's up to when we have the basic shape, again, when we are at the editing tool, we can go and move the shape a little bit closer to one another or a little bit far away from one another. Take a look at your reference photo, make sure that you are creating the resemblance by using the white or narrow or average position of the eyes right here, the distance between them. If you need to move it when you are at the editing tool, hold your Apple pencil and move your shape more toward the side that you need it to be. For example, let's go and create it in that way. When we have it tap on the screen, and let's go and add the top eyelid right here. So to do that, we will go and start to kind of wrap around what we have right here for the shape of the iris. So we can go like that and start to go a little bit outside the ship and create the basic shape of the eyelids and the shape of the eyelashes go in that way. So let's go at a bit lower and create some kind of the hugging shape like that. Again, it doesn't need to be perfect right now. When we have it, we can go toward the middle part and create the actual iris. So what we need to do is to first go toward the middle part and create a shape of the ellipse like that. We will need to position it in the center, so go into the 18 mode if we need to move it. Let's position it in that way. Again, if you want to make it a little bit bigger or a little bit smaller, it's up to you. Just try to position it in the center, and when we have it tap on the screen, and then we will go toward the bottom and create the shape like that, that will go through the bottom part. So again, we are trying to make it nice and we will try to make it position horizontally. So one side of it is on the same level that the other one. And when we have it, we will go and map out where we are going to be putting the darkish color later on, so we can go and shade this little part like that. When we have it, let's continue to work onto the overall shape of the eye. Let's go toward this little part, and let's go a little bit lower to create this little shape for our eye lashes. Again, we are exaggerating, so we have a bit of the makeup right here onto our reference photo and overall, we are exaggerating the shape of our eyes so we can go and create the very peculiar lashes right here. For the lashes, let's go slightly higher than we have the bottom part of our lashes. Again, if you need to work with your eraser and the brush to adjust the shape, you are welcome to go and do that. Let's go slightly higher than the tip that we have right here and we will go and create the little line done in that way. Then we'll go slightly higher and create another little line that is wrapping around the overall shape of the eye. Now when we have it, let's go and turn it into the actual lashes, and we will be creating the shapes like that. So very rounded triangular shapes going up. Again, straight away, we can go and shed it and do the same onto the top by creating slightly smaller version of the same element that we have right here onto the bottom. Again, we will need to make everything looking nice and we will need to make everything in a way that it belongs together. So we will need to go and create the smoothness. So going along the top, trying to add the smoothness toward the sp and trying to work with our brush and with our erasa. If you feel that you over did it a little bit or you want to play around with the position of your eyes or with something else, we can go and do it very easily by using again, one tool that Procreate has. Let's go under the magic one tool right here onto the top and we will use the option liquefy. On the bottom, we will use the push option and we have the size latter, so we can go and adjust the size of our brush by making it a little bit bigger, for example, and we can go and tweak what we have right here. For example, we can make the ice a little bit rounder. Go and maybe position them differently. So for now, we can play around with the overall shape that we have for our eyes and create something that will look peculiar and will keep the resemblance with the photo that we are using. So spend some time here. If you want to adjust something, remember that for now we are creating a scheme and a sketch and it doesn't need to be perfect. You can go and adjust it in a way that you want. So spend some time here and adjust the shape to your like. So I decided to go slightly lower with the oral shape and make it a little bit rounder. And when you are satisfied with everything, you can tap on your magic one to one more time or twice to get away from this mode. And if you need to adjust something manually, maybe make the thicker outline for the eye lashes right here, you are welcome to go and do that. So spend some time here to adjust the parts manual if you need to. And then we also can go toward the bottom to again, make sure that we are creating this makeup effect right here, and we can go and finish up creating the eye by going toward the bottom part and create some kind of the lashes here too. We need to pay attention right here is to go toward this tip that we have right here for our eye, and we will need to create the bottom part following the overall direction that we have right here. So, for example, let's go like that, and let's create the eyelashes in a smaller way. Again, if you want to maybe spend more time over the top part and adjust it in any way, go and do what you need to do with the help of your brush and of your erasa and adjust the parts that you need. Overall, when you are satisfied with everything, let's go and add the eyebrow. So for the eyebrow, we have line on the top, and we will go and create the eyebrow over it too. Again, taking a look at what we have right here on our reference photo and creating the similar curve that we have right here. Let's go with slightly smaller shape and create something going like that. You can go firstly with one line like that and then add the thickness toward the bottom and towards the overall shape like that. Again, let's create the thickness and let's create the shading part. When we have it, let's go and create a little mouth. For the mouth, we have our little line. We will go toward the middle part, we will go to this line and we will start to create our mouth from this line. So go like that and creating the line going in that way. Again, if you want to take a look at your photograph, make sure that the size of the mouth is something similar to what you are creating right here. If you want to create a bit of the more open mouth right here, more of the smiley mouth go with a bigger curve. Again, it's up to use your brush, use your eraser, created a couple of times to make sure that you're creating what you want. When we have the results like that, let's finish up creating the bottom part by creating this little sweater. Again, we will use our symmetry tool and we will create a sweater going in that way. Let's first go towards the middle part right here and we will create some element going in that way. So a very soft V shape going bigger in a shape like that, going toward the bottom finishing up, creating R shape, going more toward the inside part. So when we have it going toward the side, creating the turtleneck part. When we have it going toward the bottom and creating something similar to what we have right here on the top. You can go and exaggerate it slightly by creating the line going up in that way. Gain doesn't need to be perfect. We can adjust it if we need to. When we have it, let's go toward the bottom and create the finishing part right here by creating the shoulders. We will start by going toward our little turtle neck right here and from it, we will go to the side and create the shape going in that way. Very softly looking element going like that. You can go and work a little bit on the overall shape, overall size. For example, let's go with something like that, and we will go toward this area where we have our shoulders and we will create the little line going like that. Go and finish up creating our sketch by creating a little bottom part like that. Again, if you need to adjust something, you can go to the liquefied tool push option and straightaway from here, adjust the oval shape if you need to adjust it. I decided to go and make this overall shape for a sweater a little bit smaller and position it inside this practice area. Again, using liquefied tool, we can push it a little bit higher. We can adjust some other things. For example, maybe the browse or maybe the ears. If you want to adjust anything else, you are welcome to go and do that too. When we have the best like that, we can get back to our screen and we can go and add our little here. So for the hair, we will go and create one more layer and we will go to our list and create it from here. We're not going to be using our symmetry tool right here. So let's go grab a brush and we will start to create our little hair. Firstly, let's go and decide where we want to finish creating our hair over the top part. So let's go and create that first line going like that. We can take a look to our reference picture one more time, and we are looking at this little part where we have the connection between the hair and the forehead. We can go and very easily create the line that will show us where this line is. So go and create something going like that. And maybe a little bit lower, actually. So G on like that, again, try it out a couple of times and create the line that will look like that. Let's start creating our hair from the mass, so we are not creating the singular strength of hair. We are starting with the general shape. Again, as we mentioned before. Let's first go over the top. We will step a bit from the top of the head and we will start to wrap our hair around. So go like that, you can rotate your canvas for convenience, and we can go and start to create a rounder shape over the top firstly. So let's go like that, create a couple of lines. Again, if you need to create a couple of times, you're welcome to go and do that. When we have it, let's go toward the ears, and we again, will want to create our hair behind the ears. So we will need to have some space for our hair right here too. So let's go to the ears. We will go a little bit to the side from them and we will make a little markdown right here on one side and onto the other side to make sure that we are going to be going through these lines to create our future hair. And with these little marks down, let's go higher, and let's connect them with the shape that we've created onto the let's go and create a very slopy element right here, very soft curve, and we will do the same onto the opposite side too. Try to make it pretty similar on both sides and when we have it, let's go toward the bottom and let's find out where we want to finish creating our here. We want to create a length of the here, finishing up onto our shoulders or a little bit lower than the shoulders. So let's go and create the line that we will use to that. Let's go toward this part, and let's create the line that will go in that. Again, we are working with the curves. We are working with various soft elements, creating the line like that, and that way, we will know where we want to finish up, create here. And again, if you remember, we had some lines onto our here. So this is our flow lines. Let's take a look at them. We will need to go and create this flow affect into our here by creating it onto our illustration. So let's get back and let's start to create it here. What we need to do firstly is to finish up creating the overall shape of the here so let's go and start to create it going in that way. So we will go and create it in a rounder way like that, and then we will do the same onto the opposite side. So now when we have the general mass of hair, let's go and start to create some peculiar details right here to create the nicer hair than we have right now. So for example, let's go firstly from the top and let's start by creating a little strand of hair that will go right here onto the side. Again, we don't need to recreate the oral shape the same way as we have a right here onto our reference picture. We can go and create more kawaii look right here by adding a bit of the fringe right here. So we kind of the fringe somewhere here, but we can go and exaggerate it again and create it in a more visible. First let's go toward the middle part right here, we will create a bit of the parting and we will start by creating a little loop going in that way. From this loop, we will go down and we will start to create the line going down in that way. We want to hide a bit of the irate here and we will create the line that will go in that way. I will actually take a different color so it will be seen more clearly onset this sketch. So let's go and one more time, try it out right here. Go on with this blue color going down like that and starting to create some kind of the wrapping around and creating a very nicely looking strength or hair going down. When we have it, you can go a little bit lower or a little bit higher with the shape. Try to create a very softly looking curve. And when we have this first curve, let's go slightly to the side and we will add a bit of the thickness to it. Generally going and creating the pretty parallel line to what we have right here, and we will need to finish it up by creating the very softly triangular look on the bottom. So going like that and creating something going in that way. Going thicker, going thinner, it's up to you. Again, if you want, you can go and work with your brush and with your eraser to adjust the overlook of the strength of hair. Now when we have it, let's go toward the middle part right here toward the side and we will start to create the flow right here. We will go toward this area in the middle and we want to create some kind of the line that is going like that. We will have a bit of the dent right here between the parts. Let's go to the area where we have the ear. We will go closer to it and we will create a differently looking shape going in that way. We are creating the curve that will be opposite to what we have right here, not too much, but some kind of visible right here, and we will need to connect it with the shape that we have on the top. Let's go like that and we will create something going in that way. When we have it, going toward the bottom and we will need to create, again, the opposition right here to what we have for our dent, going like that and starting to create the curve going down in that way. Again, we are creating this very peculiar little shape that we have for our flow. Let's go like that, and let's connect these parts with a couple of strands of hair onto the bottom. We can go and start by going toward this first strand of hair. We can create the second one right here to go in and creating the next element by creating a couple of lines going up in that way. Again, we are working with the curves. We are creating very softly looking here. Doesn't need to be perfect right now, go and creating something in that way. To add a bit more of the movement right here, we can go and create some strength of hair that will be separate from one another. Again, if we have created something going in that way, we can again go and exaggerate it a little bit and create the free strength of hair right here. Again, connect it with the overall mass, but we will have a bit more distance between these parts that are in together and with this part that is a little bit separated. When we have it, let's go toward the opposite side and starting to create something similar here. You can go and create it in the symmetrical way, so you can go and create the similar strength of hair right here, or maybe we want to make it a little bit more peculiar and create a differently looking element right here. As I mentioned before, we want to add a bit of the fringe right here. So let's go and work with it and create the strength of here that will go right here, and we will go and make it a little bit less positioned like that. We will go a little bit higher with it. So let's go and create the strength of hair that will go in that way. When we have it, let's go toward the top and we will create this fringe that we mentioned before. We are going to this loop that we had on the very first movement that we created for our hair, and from this, we will go and firstly create a couple of lines that will show the direction of what we want for our fringe. Again, we are working with our curves. We are going along the whole shape that we have for our head, and we are creating a couple of lines going like that. You can go and create it in a more rounder way or a little bit more in the triangular way. Try to create it in a cute way. And you can go and hide one of the eyebrows right here and connect everything nicely with this curve that we have right here onto this side. And as for the soap, let's go and create the strand of hair that will go up like that and connect everything going to the bottom part. And now when we have it, we will need to repeat something similar to what we have right here. So again, going toward the ear firstly and creating the dent. So going like that, creating something going in that way, connecting it nicely with the shade that we have on the top, creating a very nicely looking dent and the overall flow of hair, and then going toward the bottom creating the similar things that we have right here. So, for example, let's start from the middle part right here, as we don't have this line going toward the bottom, we will need to create something that will finish up the overall shape of here right here onto the bottom. Again, we are using this line that we've created on the bottom to make sure that we are positioning everything on one line and it's not too random and then going toward the sides and starting to create the lines right here. Again, if it's easier, you can start by creating a couple of lines that will show you the direction that you need to follow and create the thickness later on. Create some strengths that are together and some strengths that are not together and create some flow and movement in the hair like that. Again, if you need to go and adjust some parts, you are welcome to use the liquefied tool and adjust it with it. I lifted up the bottom part a little bit, so it is similar to what we have right here on the reference photo and also work on the oral shape of the hair so it's not a little bit too fluffy and going more toward the side. So if you need to adjust something else, you are welcome to go and do that. Spend some time here, use your liquefied tool to adjust it. So spend some time adjusting your details. Go with your brush and with your eraser to adjust the parts that you want to adjust. When you are done, we will need to make sure that we've translated our resemblance with reference photo by checking out some fundamentals. We will need to make sure that we've translated our head shape. Is it correct? Take a look at your reference photo, make sure that the shape is right, the jaw line to be precise, and when you are done with it, let's see whether proportions are right. Yes, we are creating the Kai illustration and everything should be a little bit more rounded than it is onto our reference photo, but our proportions are pretty right, so we have a little bit less distance between our eyes than we had before. So we will need to pay attention to it right here. We are not paying too much attention to the nose. Again, as I mentioned before, that's not the point of the kawaii style. The mouth, the distance of the mouth, the size of the mouth, if you want to adjust it, you are welcome to go and do that. For example, we can go with slightly bigger smile right here. You can adjust anything that you want to adjust. Make sure that the hair flow is right too, so it's not too stiff. You have some difference when you are creating it right here onto the sides and everything. It's not too symmetrical. Of course, if you want to create symmetrical, you can do that. Make sure that the shape of the eyes are similar to what you have, and the dominance feature that you want to exaggerate is seen right here. So we tried to create the shape for the eyes that will be exaggerated, so we did it. And to make sure that everything is connected together and everything is looking right, you can go and zoom out your canvas and see whether from the distance, you can see the resemblance right here. If it looks right, we can start to create the clean lines. 8. Practice: Clean Lines: Start working on our clean lines, firstly by going and doing some preparations. So we will need to change the brush to something very sleek. So for example, we can go to the inking folder, and for example, select technical pen brush. Or if you have any brush that you prefer for this part, you are welcome to select. And one more thing that we will need to do for this brush is to adjust it. So we want all of our lines to be super smooth and easy to work with. So let's tap on brush, and will go inside the brush studio. On the left, we'll go under stabilization, and we can play with amount of streamline and amount of stabilization. So you can first go to the drone pad out, right here, how it feels. And if we want to create very smooth lines, we will need to go and work on side the amount. Streamline and amount of stabilization. You can set it the same way as you see it right now onto your screen. You can go and tweak it. You can always get back to this option later on if you maybe want to check it out or maybe want to adjust it after you tried it out onto your canvas. Remember that you can always get back to it. And when you are satisfied, what you set right here, let's tap on archeckmrk on the top to accept the changes. Also, for our little lines that we are going to be creating, we will need to select a different color. So for example, let's go and select something darkish, doesn't matter for now. Let's go with something like that. And also, we will need to go and create a couple of more layers so we will be able to create our clean lights. Firstly, we can go to our layers and we can either go and merge all of these layers that we have for our sketch together, or one by one, we will go to the icon, and we will be adjusting the opacity. So let's go and set it to something around maybe 40% or so. We still need to see what we have onto our canvas, but it doesn't need to be too bothering so you can go and one by one, again, adjust everything that we have right here. And then we will need to go on the top and create one more layer for our first little lines that we are going to be creating. So first, let's go and recreate the lines that we have symmetrical. So we will need to again use our symmetry too. When we have a new layer, let's tap on it and we will use the option drawing assist. Onto this layer, we will be able to go and recreate all the options that we have, all the things that we have right here in a symmetrical way. Let's adjust the size of the brush so you can go and try it out right here, make it a little bit bigger, a little bit smaller. It's up to use the size that works for you, and let's go and start by recreating the shape that we have for our jaw. Again, when we are recreating our lines, it doesn't need to be the same way as we have it onto our sketch. If you feel that maybe you want to go and adjust something, maybe make it a little bit different from what you have onto your skeue, you are welcome to go and do that. So firstly, as I mentioned before, let's go to our jaw and let's go and start to recreate. With the clean lines that we are creating, we will need to make sure that the lines that we are creating are closed. That means that we won't have any gaps into them and we also will need to pay attention to the smoothness of the lines. We will need to go and create the lines with the connections that will look like we are creating the seamless lines. We don't need to go and create everything with one line to achieve the smoothness, but we will need to pay attention to the connections. You can see right now it's not looking too good, so we will go a little bit above it and we will fix it by creating a very smooth line. Also need to pay attention to the overall shape that we have for our line, size of the line, overall thickness, it should be pretty seamless and pretty thick everywhere where we are creating it. If you need to go over some lines and maybe adjust it slightly, you are welcome to go and do that. Again, if you don't like how it turned out, you can try it out one more time. You are welcome to repeat it as many times as you need. Maybe again, if you want to adjust something, you are welcome to create something different. For example, we can go and maybe try to position the shape for the jaw a little bit lower. This time, we can try it out. Why not? We can go and again, take a look at what we have right here for our reference photo, repeat what we have right here and create our lines in accordance with that. Let's try it out one more time. Let's create this prominent shape for our jaw and create something given like that. Use your brush and use your eraser to achieve the smooth look, again, pay attention to the connections and create something that will look nice for the jaw. When we have it straightaway, we can go toward our neck and create these elements here too. Again, pay attention to the connections that you are creating for the elements. For example, right now, we are using a pressure brush, and if you create something like that, the connection won't be too nice right here, and we will need to add more color right here when we have the connection between the parts. Straightaway, we can go and recreate what we have for our sweater. So again, doing the same thing as we did with the shape for the head, going like that and trying to create a nice connection right here in the middle. Go and recreating what we have at the back and creating the lines that we have right here on the bottom too. So overall, going along the whole shape and recreating it either the same way as we have it onto our skeue or adjusting it slightly if we want to. If we see that we have something going like that, for example, we can go and grab our eraser and very easily go and make very smooth connections with our eraser. When you are done, we also can go toward the bottom and create this little part right here. Let's go and create it, creating again, nice connection between the parts. If we have very strong corners right here, we again can go alone the shapes that we are creating and with the help of our brush and eraser, adjust the parts right here. Also, we can go and straightaway, maybe add some details. For example, let's go and create some kind a pattern right here for our sweater. Try out a couple of times to create a nice and believable pattern for this element. And when we have it, let's go and recreate this part that we have for our little shoulders. Again, either with one line or with a couple of lines, let's go and create the shoulders, making sure that the connection is nice and going toward the bottom to recreate this little part right here. With the lines that you create, you can hold them at the end and you can go toward the editing tool to adjust the curvature and everything that we want to adjust right here. For example, we can go and adjust it straight away from this mode and then by using the eraser, we can go and adjust this little part that we have in the middle. Pay attention to the overall thickness and go to the corners to soften them up. Let's recreate this little detail. You can adjust it in any way that you want. So for example, you can go and create something going in that way. And also, we can go and move on to the parts that we have onto our top. If you feel that maybe you want to go over the lines that you have for the shape of the hat for the jaw, so every line that we are creating is similar in thickness. You are welcome to go and do that. So let's go and one more time, go along these lines that we have and recreate them by adding a bit of the thickness to that. First, if you don't want to use the pressure brush, you can go to the different folder and select the different brush you can use, for example, monoline brush to create same thickness everywhere. When we have this shape for the jaw, let's go and recreate the ear. Again, either with one line or with a couple of lines, go and create the shape right here. You don't need to recreate it with 100% of similarity to what you have onto the sage one more time, if you want to adjust it, go and adjust it. If you want to go with a bigger size of the ears or smaller size of the ears, again, you are welcome to go and do that. When you have the shape, make sure that the connections looking nice. For example, going right here and making a nice connection. When we have it, let's go toward this part and let's recreate it either with one line or with a couple of lines, and when we have it, let's move on to the fis. For example, let's start with the ice. We can go and recreate them firstly, go on with the first shape, holding our line at the end, creating the shape that we like. For example, let's go with something like that. If we need to adjust it, go on toward our editing to and adjusting it from here. Again, if you want to create something different from what you have onto your schedule, are welcome to do it. When you are creating something and when you are at the editing tool, it's always good to take a look at everything from the distance so you are sure that you are creating everything in a way that you want to create it. For example, if you are satisfied with everything here, get back to zoom into what you are creating right here and tap on the screen to accept the changes. Make sure that you don't have something going like that. We have it right here, we can go and create our shape for the eyelashes. But for example, if you had something like that going on the bottom, for example, you connected these parts. We'll need to go and make sure that the line looks seamless and we will need to go and add a little bit of the thickness right here toward this part to create this effect. When we have it, let's go and create the iris part. Again, going with the shape like that, holding it, going toward our editing tool to make sure that we are right at the center. Going like that, if we need to adjust it, go into our nodes that we have, trying to position it at the center. It's easier to take a look at this eye that doesn't have this little note right here to adjust it and to see clearly what we are doing. So for example, right now, we will need to go and maybe move it slightly like that. So adjust it to your liking, size wise and position wise. When we have it, tap on the screen, and straightaway, let's go and recreate this little part onto the bottom. Again, with one line, you can hold it at the end to make it smooth. Go into the editing tool to adjust it if we need to when we have it, tap on the screen, and straightaway, let's go and add the color inside. So we are going to this icon on the top. We are dragging it toward this area on the top and toward these two parts that we have for our bottom part. If you want, you can go toward these little corners and soften them up too. If it's okay to you to have it in that way, you are welcome to keep it as it is. And when we have it, let's go towards the top and let's recreate the shape that we have for our little eyelashes. Again, we are not going too far from the shape that we have right here for the top part of the eye. We are going and starting from it and creating shape, wrapping around along the whole shape that we have for our iris. Let's go like that with a couple of lines, trying to create it in a very smooth way like that, creating the corners, very smooth and very nice ones and creating something going like that. As for the bottom part, let's create a bit of the tip right here and then going up and creating the eyelash that we have right here on the and either go manually and add the color inside or again, use your eye dropper tool right here by adding the color by dragging the color toward this middle part. If you zoom in and if you see that you have little miscolord places, go over them with your brush and add this color manually to this part. Take a look at everything again from the distance to decide whether you need to work onto the smoothness of the lines or the overall look of them. Go along the parts that you need to adjust and go and adjust them. Work with your brush and with your eraser. When you have it, let's get back to our brush, and let's go and create this little shape that we have for the bottom part of our eye. So very thinly going with our brush and creating a little line going like that. You can try it out a couple of times to create a smoothly looking element and then going toward the bottom and creating these little eye lashes in a very soft triangular shapes. Let's go with very small details like that and create something going like that. Again, work with your brush and with your eraser to create these very nice looking tips. So create the pointy elements on the bottom and a bit of the thicker look on the top. Again, you can go toward the bottom part right here toward the side that we have onto our right and make it a little bit thicker right here onto this little part. So we will have some kind of the recedent look of this line going toward the inner corner of the when we have it, we will get back to a brush. We can go and add a bit of the eyed right here on the top. So again, either with a very soft line like that, go and create the similar looking line that we have for our top part of the eyelashes. When we have it, let's go and create other details that we can create with our symmetry tool. So again, going towards the little eyebrow that we have and either repeating the shade that we have right here or creating something different. Again, we will need to create some kind of the bulkier look right here that we have on the inside part. Then we have onto the outside part and creating something going like that. Make sure that lines look good, adjust them if you need to, and add the color straightaway by dragging and dropping the color inside. Again, zoom it in, and if you see that you have some miscolord places, go manually and add the color inside. Now, when we have the eyebrows, let's go and create our little mouth. Again, either create something similar to what you have on the year sketch or create something different if you prefer so. Hold your line in the end if you want to adjust it and go to the editing tool to adjust it from here. If you have something weird that is happening right now onto the screen, don't worry, if you zoom out, you will have a clean look of what you are creating. Sometimes it glitches, it's okay. When we have the smile, take a look at it from the distance one more time to decide whether you want to adjust it in any way or maybe try it out one more time. When you are satisfied, tap on the screen. Let's take a look at our little reference photo and whether we want to adjust our mouth or not. For example, we can go and maybe pay a little bit more attention toward the corners right here. You can go and thicken them up slightly. And then by selecting our eraser, we can go a little bit toward the middle part and create slightly thinner element right here. Again, it's up to you if you don't want to do that, you are welcome to keep everything as it was before. But if you want to try it out, you are welcome to go and do that. Now, let's make sure that we re created everything that should be created with our symmetry tool. If it is everything that we needed to create with these tool, let's go and create one more layer to recreate other elements that we don't need our symmetry tool for. One more time we are going to our layers, we can create one more layer above. Again, by using the same brush and the same color, we will go and recreate the elements that we have right here on the top. If it's a little bit too bright, the lines that we have right here that we already created, we can get back to our layers, go to this layer that we have for our features that we already put onto our screen. Go to the N icon and adjust the apacit slightly so you see what you are going to be creating with the layer that we have on top. Get back to this new layer and let's go and recreate these details that we have for our hair. Again, let's go toward the top. Firstly, we will recreate this little line, firstly, select the brush, go toward this little part, and let's start from it. When we have it, going towards the strength of hair that we have, and again, either with one line or with a couple of lines, let's go and create what we need to create for our hair. Try to create very smooth lines, hold your line in the end, create it in that way. Go and add the thickness again, either with one line or with a couple of lines to create it like that. Adjust the thickness, adjust the curvature. If you need to hold your line at the end, go to the 18 to, adjust the overall look by adjusting the nodes right here. If you want to make sure that you are following this flow that we mentioned before, so everything looks quite parallel to one another, and we have the volume positioned nicely onto our hair. If you want to try it out a couple of more times, you are welcome to go and do that. You also can pay attention toward the bottom parts because we have the thing that is called gravity and we need to pay attention to it too because the hair when we are creating them and all the details that we are creating them, we will need to add a bit more volume toward the bottom part because again, gravity. If you want to try it out one more time, go and do that, create it in a better way, create something that will look nice. So for example, let's go with something like that. Let's connect it nicely over the bottom and we will erase the parts that we don't need with the help of our eraser. Again, trying to make all the lines very smooth and very nicely looking and believable. And as we have it on the top, we can go and adjust it here too by adding a bit of volume right here. I will go and erase this little part and create the line in a different way. We are following the direction that we have for the head right here and we will need to create our elements in accordance with it. Now, when we have this first strand, let's go toward the bottom and let's create a couple of lines right here that we have them. For example, let's go from the ear. Let's start to create very rounded element going toward the first strand of here. Again paying attention to the connection right here. If we need to maybe adjust it slightly to create a better connection, we will go and do that. Go and adjust the curvature if you need to create something going like that and maybe elongate this line. When you are at 18 mode, it will be quite easy for for example, let's go with something going in that way and then we will connect it nicely with this first curve that we've created. Let's create a bit of the little done right here, a little bit of the empty space and we will create something going like that. Again, use your brush, use your eraser and adjust the parts that you don't need. Now when we have the second strand, let's go and create the next one. You can go and again, repeat it the same way as we have it onto our sketch or adjust it slightly. For example, let's go and create it a little bit different from what we have onto our sketch. Hold your line in the end, adjust it from the editing tool. Let's go a little bit higher with this little part that we have on the top. I always take a look at it from the distance to adjust it if you need to when you are satisfied, tap on the screen, and let's recreate this little line that we have onto this side. Again, pay attention to the connections, and let's go over and recreate this line that we have on the top. When we have it the same way, let's go and recreate what we have onto the opposite side. For now, let's go for the back here, and then when we are done with it, we will go to the fringe. Using all the tools that we used before, let's go and t create the same way as we have it onto the opposite side. Work onto the connections between the strengths, make them pointy and very nicely looking, and go over all of these connections on the bottom and on the top and create them in a nice way. Now when we have the result like that, let's go toward the top and let's recreate the fringe. We are doing the same thing here, going the same way and creating our elements. Firstly, let's go toward this little part. We will make it a little bit smaller and we will go and create this hook right here that we had before onto our sketch. We will have a bit of the part that is going on the top. When we have it, let's go a little bit from these elements and going down and starting to create our little fringe. Again, doing the same things, holding our lines and the ends, going to the hen tool to adjust them, go and starting to create nice connections between the parts. If it's easier to you, you are welcome to go and firstly create one of the lines that you have right here, so you will have the direction that you are aiming for. Try not to go too close to the eye. For example, let's go a little bit higher like that, and then we can create a couple of more lines that will finish up this overall look that we have for our fringe. For example, let's go toward this part and we will connect it nicely to go on like that, creating a little line in that way, trying out a couple of times to create a nice result, either straightaway or after you've created the elements, go toward the corners and make sure that they look nice. When you are done with this task, let's go and continue creating the last elements that we have for our fringe. So let's go and create one more strength of here right here. So we will create the element going like that, and then we will create the element that we have onto this part. So let's go a little bit from the top and we will go above this shape that we have for our eyelashes, so we are trying not to go to this part. And we will create the element going in that way. So again, if you need to try it out a couple of times to create it in a nice way, go and try out as many times as you need. Create a couple of lines. After that, you can go and find the lines that are working and the lines that are not working, fix it. When you are satisfied with the overall shape, let's take a look at our corners and let's adjust them again straightaway or after we've created the lines. When we have it, let's finish up by creating this little part and connect it nicely with the shape that we have on at the bottom. Again, hold your line, go to the editing tool, adjust the thickness of it, maybe adjust the overall shape of it if you want to. Let's go with something going in that way, for example, and create the shape that will look like that. And now we also can add one more line right here on the top to create some kind of the effect of the volume. Let's go toward this little line that we have for the shape of the heads, and we will create the line that will go a little bit above it and a little bit going like that. You can again try it out a couple of times. You can go and create a differently looking line. You can go and connect it some kind of connect it with this shape that we have on the for example, for now, we can go and try it out one more time, going a little bit lower to this little part that we have right here. So kind the parton we have the parting that we have right here, Osa our reference photo we will have right here too. So for example, let's go like that. Try it out one more time. When we have it, we can work on this little part right here. For example, let's go and elongate this shape, make sure that everything look nice, then we can go and continue creating this little part that we already created and make sure that it is kind of the continuation of this shape that we have on the top. If you have some extra lines that you need to take care of, go with your eraser and erase everything that you don't need. Now, when we have the results like that, we also can go and maybe add some beautification. If we take a look at our reference photo, we will see that we have some beauty marks right here. We can go and add them to our illustration too. So we can think of them as the accessories, for example. So for example, let's go to these places where we have our beauty marks on the photograph, and let's go and recreate them to add the resemblance of the photo to our kawaii. If you want to go and add some accessories, maybe earrings or maybe some of the clips onto the here, it's time where you are doing it. Firstly, let's go and clean up everything to see what we have created with our clean lines. We can do it very easily, firstly by going to our layers and we will hide these layers that we have for our sketch. Go one by one to these checkmarks and hide and then don't forget that we need to get back to this layer where we have our lines for the features, and we will need to go to the N icon and get back to our full opacity. Now, let's also tap onto this layer and we will go and turn off our drone assist because we will need to go to all of the places that are overlapping and we will need to get rid of them. So onto this layer, we will need to grab our erasa and we will go to these areas that we have overlapped. So for example, the ears right here, the eyebrow right here, the parts that we have right here onto the bottom, we will need to go and very easily erase them so everything looks nice. Let's go and do that. If you have the eyelashes that are going to the shape of the hair, you can decide whether you want to keep it as it is, or whether you want to go and erase these parts that are going toward the hair. So it's up to you. When you have it, let's go toward the opposite side and erase the parts that we don't need from here. If you did it, get back to your brush and restore the lines that you accidentally erased, for example. When we have the result like that, when all the lines are cleaned, we can go and merge everything together. Let's get back to our layers, and we will need to go to this layer where we have our hair on, tap on it, and use the option merge down. Now, everything that we have for our lines is on one layer. And we can go and add our beautification if we want to. So for example, we will go and create one more le on top, and maybe we will go and add some kind of a hair clip right here on the top. So, for example, let's go and maybe create some kind of a heart right here or something else. If you want to create something different, you are welcome to do it. If you don't want to create any details, in that way, you are welcome to keep everything as it was before. But for the accessories, you are welcome to go and create something that you want. If you want to add more details, you are welcome to go and do that. So for example, I will probably go and create some kind of a matching heart right here onto the sweater. We are not adding too many of the details right here. We are adding some accents, as again, we mentioned before. And for example, I'll probably try to create it one more time to create it in a nicer way. When we have the details done, if you want, you can go and add a little nose right here toward the top. We had the lines for the nose. This is the line that we have for the bottom part of the ice. If you need to get back to your lays and unhide the layer where we had these proportions and everything to put your nose right here onto this line, you are welcome to go and do that. You can very easily by aiding the nose in shape of the dot, you can again try out to create it a couple of times. If you don't like how it looks, you are welcome to go and erase it. If you see that some parts are overlapping or you need to take care of some of the lines, you are welcome to get back to Dia with your lines and erase the overlapping parts or work on some connections, something like that. For now, go and erase everything that you need to erase, adjust the lines, make sure that all of the lines are closed, and that means that all the lines that we have outside are closed. For example, this part we can keep as not closed because overall shape is closed. Again, spend some time right now once your clean lines and adjust everything to your liking. When you have the result like that, when you are satisfied with the clean lines, we are done with our clean lines and we can move on to the coloring part. 9. Coloring Rules: Before we start coloring our illustration, we will need to learn about fundamentals of coloring just a little bit. So firstly, we will need to understand that our kawaii colors are a little bit different from real colors. They are a bit cleaner, they are brighter, and we will need to know how to do it, how to create these colors. So firstly, let's go and take a look at the very simple kawaii color formula. So the basic process of picking the colors for kawaii illustration is firstly to pick the first color, so for example, you have the photograph and you will need to pick the color from it, but we won't use it exactly as it is onto our photograph. We will need to adjust it. So firstly, we are picking the color, for example, the color of the skin or the color of the hair from our photograph, and we will need to lighten it up to make it a little bit more up in value. Then we will need to brighten it to increase saturation. And that way, we will have our kawaii very clean and very bright color. And we know about the kawaii color formula, just a little bit that we're going to be using later on, we will need to learn a little bit about the balance and the temperature. Let's go and firstly take a look at the balance. Again, as I mentioned before, for kawaii, we will need to go with pretty pure, pretty vibrant tones, and we will need to not overwhelm everything. So that we will use our color distribution form. We have a 60, 30, ten balance rule right here where 60% goes to the main color. And for example, it could be the color of the skin. This is the dominant area that you have onto your illustration. And this area that you have, the color that you are using for the main dominant area, the 60% of the color, it sets the temperature, and that's what we need to focus right here. So when we know the main colors, for example, our skin tone, we will need to use the support color. The support color could go with the hair or clothes if we took the color of the skin as the main color. And this color is working very great with our main color. And together, they are creating the harmony. When we know the main color and the support color, we can add a couple of colors for the axon. These colors could be very bold, very bright. They are adding this poop effect and you can use it for, for example, eyes accessories or little detas. Again, a little quick tips for our kawaii balance right here is not to use too many colors because it will be overwhelming. We are not using more than five colors for everything, so that includes our main color, support color, and axin colors. Nothing more than five colors will work here. We are using the colors that we are picking from our photograph, but we are adjusting them in accordance with our previous Kai formula and our little process, and we are trying to avoid very muddy colors because we want again to create vibrant, pure, simple tones to create the Kai illustration. When we know about the balance, let's see what we have for the temperature because we mentioned it right here and it might be a little bit confusing. Let's go and see how we can add the temperature and how we can create the harmony with our temperature and the colors that we are going to be picking for our Kai illustration. Generally, we have warm colors, cool colors, and neutral colors, and we will need to identify the color that will help us to build up our color palette. For example, if we are talking about warm colors, we can go with some yellow, orange, red colors, something golden, coral, something like that. When we are talking about cool colors, we are going opposite, we are using blue, purple, green, lavender colors, and as for the neutral, we are some balancing up the warm and cool tones, and we are talking about beige, cream colors, something that's not too bright. When we know the general temperature. For example, we pick the color of the skin and we think that it is warm, we will need to test our color whether we are correct with this notion or whether we want to adjust it. For example, how can we test our colors? First approach is to go and take a look at our color. Physically, where you handle is on the color wheel. If we are at the top, where we have the very bright and very warm colors, the yellow, the orange, the red, we know that we are at the warm area. If we are at the opposite side, we are at the cool colors and we know that we are at the cool colors. Also, we can compare our color that we picked with the pure white. And with this comparison, again, we can take a look whether we are at the warm range of colors or on the cool. And also we can take a look at the undertone. Again, whether we are more at the pinkish area or more on the orange area. So for example, we pick the color of the skin and we see that it is the warm color. And we also might have picked the color for the hair, and we are not sure whether we are at the warm palette or cool palate. So firstly, we adjusting the color, and we also can adjust it. So for example, you decided that you want to go a little bit warmer with the color. How can you do? We will add a little bit more of the yellow and we are adding a bit more of the orange, red color to balance it up and make it warmer. On the contrary, we are going cooler by adding blue, purple, pinkish colors, and as for the neutral, we are adding a little bit more gray, just a little bit to not make it too muddy and we also can mix warm and cool tones to create this neutrality in a color. If we are still in doubt, we can compare our colors with known anchors. For example, we know that the color of the orange is warm. We can compare our color in accordance with it, make sure that you put the second color near it and you can see whether it's cool color or warm color. And on the contrary, you can go and do it with the blue color. Now, when we know a little bit about the temperature, we need to make sure that we can create harmony with our colors, and let's go and see what options we have for our carbonate. So for the harmony, we can go with two options. Option A, it is a match and option B is contrast. Again, as I mentioned before, you pick the color for the skin, you want to go with a warm color palette. How can you do that? You will need to add the warm color for the skin, the warm color for the hair, warm color for the clothes, and on the contrary, cool palette, cool skin, cool hair, cool clothes. It's an easier approach. It's cohesive, it's natural, and it creates the overall natural harmony. Option B is to go with contrast and it is a little bit more stylish, a little bit more eye catching and unique, and it creates visual intrast. How can we create the contrast without creating some kind of the chaos right here? What we need to do is to go with one approach, either warm cool contrast or cool warm contrast, and we are editing it in accordance with some rules, of course. We are not editing it randomly. For example, you selected the warm skin and you want to go with a bit more of the contrast right here. You can add cool hair and you can go with any color of the clothes, but you will need to select this color in accordance either with the skin or with the hair. If you picked the warm skin, you can go either with the warm color for the clothes or if you want to make sure that the cool hair is the main point of your illustration, you can go and create the cool close right here to make sure that everything is looking good. Again, we are not adding it randomly. We are adding it in accordance with some little formula right here. On the contrary, cool, warm contrast, go with cool skin, warm hair, and any clothes, and these any clothes again, should match either with the color of the skin, the tone of the skin, and maybe the tone of the hair, something either skin or either hair. We are not mixing both of these approaches because again, we want to create the harmony right here and if we mix these two approaches, it won't be harmony, so we are sticking with one of these approaches. When we know about these things, our little kawaii formula, our little balance formula, and this temperature harmony. We can take a look at our familiar photographs that we used before to identify the temperature of what we have right here. Let's go and one by one, see what we have for our harmony onto these portraits. So let's identify the color temperature and harmony of the portraits. We will go one by one through all of these portraits that we had before. On the bottom, we have some letters right here, some numbers and something not very cohesive. Let's go and see what all this means. So again, as I mentioned before, for our harmony, we have a match. We have the contrast, and we also could have no dominant temperature, so everything will be quite balanced right here. So for the skin, the first letter right here is the skin. We have the cool five color. And for the skin, you can go under the Project Enersis app and you can download the color palette with the skin. We have the skin tones right here. We have neutral, we have warm and we have the cool colored tones, and they are going from the very fair color to pretty dark ones. And we will be using these colored tones that we have into our color palette to identify the colors that we have for the portraits that we have onto our screen. So again, as I mentioned before, the first photograph that we have right here, the first skin color is our cool five. We are going to our color palettes right here and we are going under five color into our color palette. When we identify the first color, we picked it, for example, from our photo, we will need to go with one approach again, for our temperature. So right here onto this photograph, we are analyzing everything. We are looking at the here and again, we are going with the cool color. As for the clothes that we have onto this photograph, again, something pretty cool and overall, we have a temperature harmony match. Again, it's cohesive and it is our natural harmony right here. Everything is matching. As for the second portrait, we have neutral five color for the skin. We have warm color for the hair, and we have pretty cool color right here for the clothes, and we are creating the contrast in accordance with it. So we have warm color for the hair, and we have the cool color right here to create the contrast. As for the last one, we have neutral, pretty darkish color for the skin, maybe a little bit of the olive skin right here. We have pretty warm color for the hair. We can take a look at the highlights right here. They are not cool. They are very warm and as for the clothes, again, we have very warm pallet right here, again, it's a match. When we have it, let's take a look at the next set of our portraits. Again, we will decide what color temperature we have there. Right here on the left, we have pretty dark skin, so it's warm skin too. We have neutral color for the hair. We can see it properly right here, but it's not too bright or too contrast. Again, neutral. We will go with a very warm color for the clothes, and again, we have a match. As for this middle photograph, we pretty warm color of our skin, it's on the darkish side. We have cool color for the hair. It's a little bit of the blond dish right here and we have neutral clothes. We can either say that it is the match or we can go with the balance right here because we don't have the dominant temperature over these portrait. As for this one, we have warm color, the very fair one right here for the skin, we have warm color for the hair. We have warm color for our little greenish clothes right here. For the green, it's a little bit tricky because green originally is the cool color, but here we have it on the warmer side of it. We can say that it is the warmer temperature. Again, we have a metre here. Let's go for the next set. We have the match right here, we have cool color, the very fair one, again, we have cool here. We have neutral clothes as for the black colors and very dark colors, we are not using them into Kawaiillustration. We are trying to soften them up, and I will show you how to do it a little bit later on when we are going to be creating the color palette and creating the colors for our illustration. For now, let's go with neutral color for black. And again, we have a match right here. For the next portrait, we have warm skin. We have neutral color for our hair. We have warm color for the clothes. We probably can see it right here, but it was warm. We again, have a match. Right here on the right, we have neutral color for our skin, warm color for the hair. And cool color for our clothes. And again, we have the contrast. So something similar to what we have on the first slide, where we had the warm color for the hair and where we have, again, blue shirt on the close part. When we identified the temperature on this slide, let's go to the next one to the last one, what we have right here. The first one, we have neutral color for the skin. We have cool hair, and we have warm clothes. So again, we have a contrast on the middle, we have the very dark photograph right here, but again, we can identify something from it. We have warm color for our skin. We have neutral hair, and again, we have some blackish or bluish color right here for the short. We can go with cool color or neutral color and we will have either contrast or balance right here, so you can decide on your own. As for the last photograph right here, we have very warm color. We have neutral hair or we can see that it is a little bit on the warmish side. Again, we can go with warm palette right here. And again, it's not seen what we have for the clothes, but we can say that it's warm palette, and we can go with the metre here. Again, it's known the total signs here. If you see things differently or if you want to go with a bit of a different approach, you can fix the colors, you can adjust them to your liking, but remember that we will need to have harmony. To sum up everything that we mentioned before, let's go with a bit of the three step process of how we are going to be simplifying the colors. We will go with three easy steps to build a perfect kawaii palette. Firstly, we will go and identify our main color, our 60%. This is, for example, skin tone, and we will need to identify the bees. So we are going either with warm color, cool color, neutral color, and when we know it, we will need to select our 30%, our support color, and it's going to be, for example, our hair color. We are either matching our temperature. We are either creating the contrast and we can stylize it, of course. But again, we are going with one of the approaches, either matching or contrast. When we picked our approach, we are moving to our third step, and we are selecting our 10%, our accent color. So it's our eyes, it's our accessories, and we are adding our finishing touches with it. Again, we are remembering that we will need to either match or complement some of the colors that we have right here, either skin or our hair. And when we know our simple approach to creating a kawaii palette, let's go and one more time, sum everything up by figuring out what are dos and dos in colors of kawaii. The main secret is to use fewer colors, and we will also use brighter tones and with these, we will have a cleaner result. We are not using muddy colors, so nothing too gray, too brownish, something desaturated. We are not picking directly from the photo as we remember it. We are adjusting it. We are using more than five colors because this will be a little bit overwhelming. We are randomly not mixing warm and cool colors, and we are not using super dark colors because kawaii is all about light and bright colors. And as for due, we are again, using our little formula, we are lightening and brightening the color that we picked. We are using our harmony rule. We are using 30, 60, ten balance. We are either matching or contrasting our temperature, and we are again, staying clean and pure and again, not using too many colors, something simple, something cute, three to five colors maximum. And when we sum it up, let's go and build our little color palette. 10. Practice: Building a Color Palette: Let's start by picking up the color from our photograph as our three step rule is saying us to do. So firstly, we are going and selecting the color from some area that is not in the dark and something not too light. So for example, somewhere in the middle, somewhere closer to the nose, for example, right here, we can pick the color, and when we have the color, we can go and adjust it in accordance with what we mentioned before. We need to lighten and brighten it. So let's go to our color palette, and let's go firstly, a little bit purer with the color up with the value into our color wheel. So get a little bit higher and then we can go and make it a little bit brighter to make it a little bit more saturated. So let's go and create it in this way. We can go and firstly, put the color right here into our little color palette. I will pick the brush that will work right here. So for example, we can go to the inking folder. We can select some brush that is not too misbehaving. So for example, studio pan, we can go and put the color right here. And when we have the color right here, we can go and decide whether we want to go with this color or whether we want to maybe adjust it more toward our kawaii colors. For example, I think that overall, this color is a little bit too dark for the overall look that we are going to be using for our illustration. So we can go and make it even a little bit lighter. Overall, if we take a look at our photograph, we will see that we have pretty fair skin right here. So we can either go again to our color palette and make it a little bit lighter by going a little bit more toward the left to add more white right here. Again, we can test it out right here. Or you can go to the color palette that you downloaded from the project on rezo stab and we will need to firstly decide what kind of color, what color tone and color temperature we have right here. Comparing it to white color, we can see that this color that we picked and adjusted is on the cooler tones. So we can go towards the color palette right here toward the last row. This is our cooler tones, and we can pick the color from here and compare it with this color that we have put on our screen. So for example, let's start by selecting the fourth color. We can go and put it right here. So we have something similar to what we have right here as we selected it from our photo. Or if you want, you can go a little bit lighter with the color to match it with the overall photograph color that we have and make it else a bit fairer. So for example, let's go with the third color and we can put it right here. So you can decide with which color you want to go. I will probably go with the lighter color to make it a match with the reference. So I will pick the third one. When we have our main color selected, we can move on to the support color, and in this stage, we will need to identify what approach we are going to be using. We identify that the color that we have for our skin are 60% of everything that we are going to be using is on the cool range, and we will need to decide whether we want to go with the harmony or whether we want to add some contrast. So for example, let's go with the harmony. We will use the pinkish color that we have for our hair. We will match it with our skin, and we will use the cool skin color here too. So again, let's pink the color from our photograph. So for example, let's go somewhere where we have the very clean and pure color. And again, we will go and put it right here onto our support color right here. We can definitely say that we will need to lighten and brighten it. So let's go to our color palette one more time, and let's go first up with our value, then we can go and maybe make it a little bit brighter by moving more towards the whitish area over the top. Let's test it out right here and decide whether we like this color or whether we want to go with slightly different color. You want to maybe make it a little bit less saturated, you are welcome to do it. Just keep it at the range that we have right here and something similar to what we have for our reference photo. Of course, if you don't want to adjust it in any way, you can go a little bit cooler with the tone or a little bit lighter with the tone, it's up to you. Decide on the color and put it into this little box for our support color. And now when we have the support color selected, let's go for our and colors. So we will need the color for our clothes right here, and we will need the color for our eyes. So for example, let's not select the dark color that we have right here, the black one. We can go and pick a slightly different color and create the color palette that will be balanced. So for example, let's go toward our colors and we will select the matching cool color for the bottom part. So let's go to the opposite side and we will go with something bluish color, maybe a little bit more on the purplish side. But we will make it not that bright. We can go with something a little bit muted. For example, something like that, something a little bit grayish, more toward the neutral area right here. You can go again and test it out onto your color palette right here. You can go with slightly different color a little bit lighter if you want to. Just make sure that you are staying true to your approach, whether you are matching it or contrasting it. Select a couple of colors that work for you, maybe go with slightly different tone, decide whether you want to adjust it in any way. When you satisfied with the color for the clothes, let's go and select, again, some matching color for our eyes, for example. We can barely see what we have right here. We have something like darkish, gray or a little bit of the bluish tone right here. We can go and match it right here with what we have on our reference. Let's go with slightly lighter color because we are creating a kawaii illustration, we want it to pop. Let's go a little bit closer towards the bluish area right here, so something a little bit greenish blue, and we will go with very light color right here. Again, we are trying not to make it too popping up. We can go with something neutral firstly. Try it out right here, decide whether you like this color or decide whether you want to go with something a little bit lighter, maybe a little bit more contrast, a little bit more saturated. You can go with it too. So try it out a couple of times and create your color palette. And when we have all of our colors selected, we can go and put them in the little color scheme. So we can go to our color palettes right here and pick the colors that we selected and put them right here to our color palette so we can use them onto our illustration. So let's go one by one and select our colors and put them into our color palette. You also can go with a couple of colors that you picked. Maybe you want to go and test it onto your illustration, how it all looks together. You can go and pick all of the colors that you have right here and then go and test them onto your illustration. And when we have our color palettes done, let's go and put it all into practice and recolor our little illustration that we've created before. 11. Practice: Coloring: So let's get back to our lines, and let's go and start adding the colors that we picked previously. Let's first go to our layers, and we will need to do one more thing. So where we have our lines, we need to make sure that we have everything on one layer, and when we have everything on one layer, we will use one option that Procreate has to help us with adding the colors inside. Let's tap onto our layer where we have the lines and we will use the option reference right here. We can use these lines that we have to this layer and we can use them on separate layers from this one. Let's go underneath this layer and create one more layer underneath the layer with our lines, and on this layer, we will first go and recolor our skin. We are going to our color palettes and we are starting to test out our colors. For example, let's go with our lighter we drag it toward the areas that are supposed to be the skin areas. Let's go one by one and recolor these little part. If you need to go to some small areas with, for example, your brush, you are welcome to go and do it here. Make sure that you've recolored everything that belongs to our skin and then let's go again to our list and create one more layer on top. Now, let's go and recolor our here. Again, going into our color palette and starting to test out our colors. For example, let's go with this lighter one and we will again dragon drop everything toward our colors right here. So when we have the color for our here, let's go and tricolor the next elements that we have right here. And then if we want, we can see the whole picture and we can adjust the colors if we need to. So one more time, let's go to our layers. Let's create one more layer, and we will go and select the color, for example, for our little sweater right here. Let's go with this bluish element, maybe a little bit darker first. Let's go and edit right here to all the areas that are supposed to be recolored with this color. If you zoomed in your illustration and you see that you missed some parts, you can always get back to the layer where you need to add the color. Select the color that you need to add right here and manually go to these areas and add the color to these places. Now when we are done with the sweater, let's go and create one more layer for the eyes and accessories. For example, let's go with this bluish color, maybe this one, and we will drag it towards these areas that we have for our eyes. If you want to use the same color for these little parts, you are welcome to go and do it. You can go with something contrast, something different right here. Maybe something not from your palette. You still have the room to add more colors right here into our approach of three to five colors into the Kai color palette. If you want to add something here, you are welcome to go and do that. You are welcome to go to the colors right here, onto our color wheel and select the same matching color that we can use right here for the elements. Again, remember that we are following our approach right here and we are not going beyond we are not adding the contrast, of course, if you don't want to add the contrast. For example, we can go with something maybe a little bit brighter and add the details with this color. Now when we have all the colors done, let's decide whether we want to adjust some of the colors. For example, we can go and test out different colors that we had for the sweater and the hair. Firstly, let's go toward the layer where we have our lines. We will tap on it and we will turn off reference so we will be able to test our colors very easily. Let's first go toward the here, create one more layer on top of it, tap on the layer and use the option clipping mask. Now we will go toward our colors and we can select the different color that we have into our color palette and very easily just drag it towards the area right here, toward our canvas and decide on the color right here. You can see right here we have the rectangle. If you like how it looks, you can merge these two layers together. If you want to test it out, go and hide and unhide this little element, this little checkmark, and decide which color you like best. If you want to try out one more color, one more time, you can go either create one more layer, and do it onto the separate layer or do it right here and adjust the color onto this layer. I think this color is too dark. This color is pretty perfect, but if you want to go with the lighter one, you are welcome to use it too. Let's go and do the same for the sweater. Again, selecting the new layer, creating it over the top of our sweater, tapping, clipping mask, and testing out colors. This one looks a little bit too pale and maybe a little bit less contrast with what we have for our here. We can keep it, but I think that previous color was better. Let's test out this darkish one and decide whether we want to go with it or whether we want to go with the first color that we use. I think I will go with the very first color that we used because it adds a little bit more contrast and not too dark. And it also looks good with this element that we have created. If you want to adjust the ice, you are welcome to go and test out the colors here too. So the same way tapping, clipping mask onto the new layer and testing out different colors that we picked for our color for the ice. One by one, go and adjust it. I think that I will again go with the first color that I picked and when we have the result like that, we will need to add a couple of more details. So firstly, we will go and add the whites for our eyes. So let's go and select the white color. Very easily, we can go toward our color wheel and tap twice right here onto the whitish area, and we'll select the white color. Again, we can use our symmetry tool to do it on both sides at the same time. So we can get back to our layers, create one more layer on the top, and we will tap onto this layer and use the option drawing assist. When we have it, let's go towards the bottom part of our eyes right here and we will add the white areas. So go along this whole shape and manually adding the white color. Now when we have it, let's also go and add the highlight toward the eye so they don't look too blank. Let's get back to our layers and we will go above our layer with our lines and we will create one more layer on top of it. Let's go with the same white color and we will go over the top of our eyes and we will create the rounded shape right here. Hold your line at the end and hold one of your fingers on the screen to create a perfectly rounded circle. And the color inside, make sure that the outline looks good and not too jagged. If you need to go over it with your brush or with your eraser, go and adjust it to your liking. Take a look at everything from the distance, decide whether this is too big or too small. When you have the shape and you want to adjust the size of it, you can go to the Aoki on the top left. Go the uniform, go to one of the corners and adjust the size to your liking. Adjust the placement to by dragging it more towards the top and when we have the result that we like and the placement that we like, let's go and put the same highlight onto the opposite side. So firstly, taping onto our rookie to close this window and then going toward our layers and making a copy of this layer. To make a copy, we will need to swipe the layer from right to left and choose the option duplicate. And then when we have the second circle right here, we will get back to our Aoki one more time. We will use snapping and snapping right here into the settings to make sure that we are staying at the same line and we will drag it toward the opposite side. Go along these guiding lines and position it on the same level and on the same place onto the opposite e two. When you are done, let's tap on our Ero key to close this window. Take a look at everything from the distance. If you want you can merge these two lays together by making a pinch movement like that, and when we have the result like that, we can go and beautify it a little bit by adding a couple of shadows and a couple of highlights and a little bit of the beautification right here. So for the shadows, firstly, let's go with the shadows. We will go and start from the bottom. So we will find the layer where we have our skin. We will select it and we will create one more layer on top. Let's tap onto our layer and we will use again the option clipping mask. We are not going to be adding too much of the shadows and highlights. We want to have this clean kawaii look, so we will add just a few details. What we need to do is to change the blending mode right here to create nicely looking shadows and highlights. For the shadows, let's tap onto our icon onto this new layer and we will use the option multiply. When we have selected it, let's select the same color that we have for our skin. We can do it very easily by holding our finger onto the screen and popping up this window. When we have the same color, we will go with our brush to the est where there is supposed to be a shadow. So something that is going underneath. For example, we'll need to go right here over the top and add a bit of the shadow underneath this little here. And what we need to pay attention to when we are creating the shadows and highlights, we need to be consistent with them, and we will need to put them all on one side. So for the highlights, it's going to be one side, for the shadows, it's going to be another side. Let's go firstly with our shadows and create the shadows in accordance with our light source. We also can go toward the ears and put a little bit of the shadows right here toward the inside part. So let's go toward both of the ears and edit right here to go on very easily like that and put in our shadows. And also, we will need to end the shadow right here to our neck because we have the overlapping parts on the top in the shape of the head. You can decide whether you want to make the shadows a little bit more bright or a little bit lighter. You can go and adjust the level of opacity Ota your layer with the shadows. You can adjust it to your liking. When you are satisfied, let's also go and add a bit of the checks right here Osa checks areas. Firstly, let's get back again to our list and create one more layer Os. Tap on the layer, use the option clipping mask and also we will use the symmetry tool to do it on both sides at the same time. Let's again tap on the layer and use the option drawing assist. When we have it, we want to create very soft looking blush. First, let's go and change the brush. We'll go to the airbrushing folder, and for example, we can select soft blend brush, and we will need to select some color that will match with the color of the skin and the color of the hair. Again, we are paying attention to our harmony, so we are not going with warm color to the blush right here. We are going with a cool color. So going more toward the pinkish color right here and starting to select something pretty light right here. Let's go, for example, something like that, we can go underneath our eyes and we can test it out right here. This color looks good, but probably we don't need too much of it. I'll try it out one more time with slightly lower pressure to create just a bit of the blush and create some of the very rosy cheek look right here. When we have the result like that, again, if you overdid it, you can go and adjust the amount of opacity on this layer. If you are okay with everything, you can go and maybe add the lines right here if you want to exaggerate the cheeks slightly or keep it as it is in that way. When we have done everything for the skin, let's go and add the shadows and highlights toward the hair. First, we'll go and select the layer that we used for here. If you have this testing color on top, again, you can merge these two layers together and create one more layer above it, tap on it, clip in mask, go into the N icon, and we will select the multiply blending mode. Let's go with a bit of the cooler look for our shadows. So we will first go and adjust the apacte straightaway because we don't want to have very brightly looking shadows. So let's go with something around 50% for now and we will go back to our brush that we used before. So inking folder, studio pan or any other brush that you prefer. We will go to our color palettes and we will select the color that will match with everything that we have for our hair. Firstly, we can go and pink the color that we used for the hair, and we will go a little bit cooler onto our color wheel. Let's go with a bit of the purplish color. Again, we can go and add a couple of shadows toward the areas where there is supposed to be a shadow. Let's start with this back hair out here to go in very boldly and starting to add the shadows right here. We also can go underneath all the elements that are supposed to be in shadow. Something behind the ears right here, you can go with the full line like that and then grab your erasa and erase the lines that you don't need then create some pattern right here with your shadows. Go again, make sure that you are putting your shadows in accordance with the light source. So everything should be in accordance with the light source. Let's go underneath the ear on the opposite side. Let's add the shadow right here. Let's go and add the shadows towards some of little here strands right here to again make it nice and also we will need to go toward this little part at the shadow right here and go toward the fringe and maybe add very softly looking shadows right here onto the bottom. If you feel that you need to go to some other areas with your shadows, go to them at your shadows, for example, right here where we have the ears, make sure that everything look nice and decide whether you need to go with the higher amount of opacity or lower amount of opacity. If you feel that this color is not working, it's maybe a little bit too bright. You can select the layer and go toward the magic one tool right here onto the top. Use huge saturation and brightness and adjust sliders right here. For example, we can go with the brightness to make it a little bit darker, adjust the saturation to make it a little bit less popping up. If you want to go to the hue, you can go and play with it, too, go cooler, go a little bit, not cooler, it's up to you again. Find the color that works for you and looks harmonious with everything that we've created. Now when we are done with it, let's tap on our magic one, two, and let's go and add the highlights. For the highlights, we will go above this layer, tap on it again. We'll use our clipping mask and we will change the blending mode to, for example, linear burn. Let's go with slightly lighter color for it. Again, let's go toward the pinkish area and go more toward the whitish part right here. We will use the bigger size of the brush and we will go to the opposite side from our shadows to create this highlight. For example, let's go over the top and create the line like that. If you don't see it, it's probably because of the blending mode, you can go and test it out right here. You can go and select any other color mode that you prefer. You can go with the lighter color, for example, adjust the apaste straightaway when you are satisfied with it, let's go and adjust the overall shape right here by selecting our eraser. And erasing the parts that are not looking great. What we are aiming for is creating some kind of half of the circles like that, very soft, very nicely looking. When we have it going to the opposite side and starting to create something similar here too. Start with the bigger shapes firstly and go over the whole ship in half of the circle. Then by using the eraser, let's go and soften up the corners and everything and create something that will look like that. Make sure that you are not going to the shadowy parts with your highlight. So if you have something like that, go with your erasa and erase the part of the highlight on the shadow. Keep adjusting the shapes if you prefer so and make sure again that you don't go toward the shadowy parts. When we have it, let's test. Maybe we want to go with slightly brighter elements right here, go into the apacti ladder, adjusting the opacity right here, maybe go a little bit higher with it or lower with it, it's up to you. When we have the hair done, let's go toward the sweater and add a couple of shadows here too. Again, if you have a couple of layers, you can go and merge them together. Create one more layer on top, tap, clipping mask, multiply blending mode, and we can go either with the same color that we have right here, so you can pick it from your sweater that you have and go into the areas that are supposed to be in the shadow and edge in the shadow right here. Going behind the neck going toward the shoulders right here, we can go and put the shadows going like that, adjusting the shadow going underneath these little strands of hair and creating the shadows in that way, too. Use your brush, use your eraser to adjust everything, go and maybe create some interesting pattern right here to match it with the hair. And also, we can go to these little parts and add a little bit of the shadow to them too. If you want to make these elements that we've created as our accents, our little details right here little bit protruding. You can go underneath them too and add little shadows to make them pop. You can do the same with the here so you can get back to your shadow layer, select the same color and edit right here toward this part. Adjust the shadow that you've created for the sweater. So go into the opacity, maybe making it not that bright. And when we have the result like that, let's also soften up some of the lines. So what we need to do is to go to our layer where we have our lines and create one more layer on top, doing the same thing, tapping on this layer and using the option clipping mask, you can go with the same brush that you are using right now or you can go with a softer brush from the airbrush and folder. So for example, soft blend brush, and we can go to the ice, for example, and make them a little bit darker. So you can go toward color wheel and adjust the color from here, go over these little parts and adjust them. Again, we can go with the cooler color that we are using for our overall color palette and add the color right here. As for the mouth, for example, we can go with slightly lighter color. Let's go with something a little bit brownish more on the red side and soften up the overall look of the mouth right here too. If you want to add more color toward the mouth, you are welcome to go and do that too. You can decide whether you want to adjust it or not. If you want to recolor some other elements, maybe the here or something else, the lines, I mean, you are welcome to do too using the same method. But overall, we are done with the coloring part. Let's take a look at everything and let's go toward the finalizing stages. 12. Finishing Up: Times it's hard to say whether you are done with your picture or not. So to finalize everything, let's see an easy down checklist and compare whether we have everything on our illustration. Physically, take a look at your picture and decide. If you zoom out your picture and see it as a thumbnail size, can you still recognize the person? The dominant feature that you picked and exaggerate is this main attraction clear. Does the line weight feel purposeful and overall, does your line look smooth and even? As for the colors, is everything balanced and do the colors look harmonious? And the very last thing, does it look balanced overall and would in more details help or would it add more clutter. Trust your instincts and stop when it feels right. And when you think you are done, congrats. Today you identified a head shape, learned Kai proportions, captured unique features, applied colors that feel right and created your own Kai portraits. Now you can practice with different photos and create as many Kai portraits as you like. Thank you for watching this class. Let review if you liked it and cantin subscribing for Mokawi videos in the future. Looking forward to in your projects.