Second Pass

Quick reference

• 00:04 So now that we have our trace layer I'm actually gonna turn that off for a moment,
• 00:08 lock the layer, and go ahead and create another new layer.
• 00:11 Now if my pen tool is selected I can come in and
• 00:14 begin tracing the next largest group of shapes here.
• 00:17 So we're gonna basically be following the same procedure to trace things like
• 00:21 the shape of the eye and all of the other shapes in here as well.
• 00:25 So again, we're just gonna use the sketch layer as a base and
• 00:28 then we're gonna kind of work our way into the smaller details.
• 00:32 So I'm gonna go through this, trace both of the eyes and
• 00:35 maybe if we like one more than the other.
• 00:38 We can reflect them and
• 00:39 copy it on the other side to make those symmetrical if we want.
• 00:42 This is the part where you can kind of get in the zone and
• 00:45 you get into a rhythm where you begin tracing these larger shapes, right?
• 00:50 So even though we already done the outline we're gonna go ahead and
• 00:53 trace the horns once again, just so that I could have them kind of separating.
• 00:56 And we'll see how they match up with our outline towards the end, all right?
• 01:01 The outline is really going to help us out though because it can still add a certain
• 01:05 bit of variety and boldness to our design.
• 01:09 And for the moment,
• 01:09 I'm actually going to kind of trace through some of these shapes here.
• 01:12 So you'll see where the ear is.
• 01:15 I'm just kind of ignoring that for a second so
• 01:17 that I can just get the horn by it's self.
• 01:20 So don't be afraid to go over some of these lines, or
• 01:23 make them a little bit different than the actual drawing that we are tracing, okay?
• 01:27 So here I'm just going around this part of the horn once again.
• 01:31 And now I can come back in here and maybe do the ear separately.
• 01:34 I'll start on the outside this time.
• 01:37 And the goal is that I just wanna be able to kind of separate these and segment all
• 01:40 of these pieces that we can break them down a little bit more, all right?
• 01:44 Because the more that you kinda break this up, the more detail your image can
• 01:47 have and the more opportunities you have to do something unique.
• 01:51 So I'm not too worried about the lines and the shading at this point,
• 01:55 I'm really just focusing on these larger shapes.
• 01:59 I apologize if that sounds redundant, but this part is fairly self explanatory,
• 02:04 once you kind of get into the groove with the pen tool.
• 02:07 So I'm just going to continue to trace over some of these shapes, so as you've
• 02:12 seen me doing so far and so we can break this up into more digestible chunks.
• 02:17 For example, I can come down here, focus on the nose and the snout and everything,
• 02:21 and we'll kinda see where we're at once we get through these larger pieces.
• 02:25 All right, so I encourage you guys, take your time with this.
• 02:29 Have some fun, put on some good music and
• 02:31 just kind of zone out as you make your way through.
• 02:34 I don't want to say, zone out in the sense that you don't pay attention.
• 02:37 You still wanna be mindful of what you're doing, right?
• 02:40 You can always come back in and tweak these and finesse them afterwards.
• 02:44 So they don't have to be perfect right out of the gate, okay?
• 02:46 So I'm just closing the shape here.
• 02:49 Next, we'll kind of tackle the nostrils here, the nose.
• 02:54 Looking again, just kinda starting with the overall the broad shape and
• 02:58 then we'll work our way in towards the center where we can add more details.
• 03:03 We're still thinking kind of in broad strokes here, so that's okay.
• 03:08 All right just continuing to make my way around the nose.
• 03:11 Maybe add a few more of these lines in here if you want to.
• 03:13 But for now let's just keep it going, okay?
• 03:16 And I'm kind of redrawing and going over the jaw again, and just so
• 03:20 they can separate this lower portion of the mouth here, all right?
• 03:24 I think I'll just make it just one kind of downward curved line like that.
• 03:29 All right, and if we want to we can kind of draw on top of this
• 03:34 afterwards to merge these shapes together.
• 03:37 All right, so here for example, I'm just kind of adding a shape.
• 03:44 Gonna do the same thing on this side use that corner of the mouth here.
• 03:47 Well, we don't really need a shape there.
• 03:50 I think these will probably need to tap over a couple of clicks,
• 03:54 a couple of notches there.
• 03:56 All right, so I'm just using the arrow key and
• 03:58 selecting those points with my Direct Selection tool.
• 04:02 And then I can kind of come in here and take a look at the base of the nose,
• 04:07 or this, I don't know what you would call this.
• 04:11 I'm not too familiar with the appropriate anatomy for
• 04:15 all the parts of a bull, so I apologize.
• 04:19 And here I'm just grabbing this point to kind of make a more angular shape here,
• 04:23 come back up here, follow that line,
• 04:26 go all the way to the corner in the nose here, right?
• 04:29 And then I can just make one long smooth shape and then close it up top, all right?
• 04:34 Zoom out a little bit, and now I can kind of go over and
• 04:37 get just the main shape of the head once again before adding more detail.
• 04:45 I'm kinda using the existing here as a guide since we've already traced that.
• 04:51 And I can go around to here just follow the outer portion of the skull here.
• 04:59 Okay, and you may notice that there are some parts that I'm kind of retracing and
• 05:04 going over.
• 05:07 Which you don't have to do, we can just come through here,
• 05:10 since we've already got the lower portion created.
• 05:13 It's okay if your lines overlap because once those are filled with solid color
• 05:17 you're not really going to even notice.
• 05:21 I think it might be nice that it's not actually perfectly symmetrical throughout
• 05:26 the entire graphic.
• 05:30 Sometimes it's the asymmetry that can be nice.
• 05:37 All right, just make sure that I had my points selected there.
• 05:41 I think I accidentally grabbed my Zoom tool by accident.
• 05:46 Okay, if I turned off the sketch layer, you can see that we're starting to build
• 05:50 up some of these main shapes, which is great.
• 05:52 So I'm just gonna continue doing this for a few more minutes until we have
• 05:57 a few more of these elements traced and built out, right.
• 06:01 I'm kinda going in and drawing the shape that will be underneath the eye,
• 06:06 All right?
• 06:06 Kinda like the lower eye lid here.
• 06:09 I'm just gonna go around the eye and maybe extend it a bit further, just so
• 06:13 I have a little more of an interesting shape to play with.
• 06:16 Okay, so you can see where I'm using the sketch is just a reference really.
• 06:20 As I've said, you don't have to follow it exactly.
• 06:23 We'll do the same thing over here.
• 06:25 Tracing the eye following that shape.
• 06:27 Going around it adding a little bit more to it than we had originally.
• 06:30 Pick up my last point here.
• 06:31 Cuz I don't want the handle to be going all the way out to the side.
• 06:35 Now I can start to add some of these other large shapes in here.
• 06:41 No, not gonna worry about that shape for right now.
• 06:46 Cuz like I said,
• 06:47 I just want to be focusing on some of these larger areas initially.
• 06:50 All right, there's always time to add more details later.
• 06:53 I just find that it's better to start with the big shapes and work your way in.
• 07:00 All right, and then, of course we have the outside,
• 07:03 which we could just use our outline layer but
• 07:06 I think I might just take another pass at it to see how this will look.
• 07:12 All right, kind of bring it down to a point here.
• 07:13 All right, let me kinda do something like that, bring it in.
• 07:24 And I'm actually just going to connect those two points.
• 07:27 All right, so it might look weird when you're just looking at the outlines, but
• 07:30 it'll make sense later, okay?
• 07:32 So let's do something like this in the center here,
• 07:37 Which gonna create this large shape, and
• 07:41 this is going to connect all the way to the outside and
• 07:46 just follow that all the way back around.
• 07:50 Okay, and I think once we've got this piece down here we pretty much have all
• 07:54 the big pieces that we're going to need initially, all right?
• 07:57 It's not rocket science by any means, but
• 08:00 it does take a little bit of skill and finesse to to get this down.
• 08:05 So I encourage you guys, again, to take your time with it, practice, be patient.
• 08:10 Don't worry too much about messing up.
• 08:11 Because a lot of the tools in Illustrator are meant to help you correct
• 08:14 these things.
• 08:15 So let's just go ahead and the sketch layer off for a second.
• 08:18 It looks like we're in pretty good shape.
• 08:20 From here, there's just a lot of more details on the inside or on the eyes and
• 08:24 the horns and everything like that.
• 08:25 But for now, we've got most of the large shapes covered.

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