Third Pass

Quick reference

• 00:04 All right, guys, so, now that we have our first pass here, let's go ahead and
• 00:08 double-click on this layer.
• 00:09 We'll just change the name to First Pass.
• 00:12 Now, technically our first pass was the trace layer.
• 00:16 But just to keep things in order here,
• 00:17 we're just going to be sticking with that naming convention.
• 00:21 So, once you change that, go ahead and add a new layer.
• 00:24 Grab your pen tool and make sure that you just have a single black stroke
• 00:29 selected here and no fill, all right?
• 00:32 And what we're going to do now is work on tracing the remaining
• 00:37 shapes here, these next group of larger shapes.
• 00:41 And we're just going to kind of come in here and
• 00:43 maybe add a couple of shapes along the way.
• 00:47 Improvise, a little bit of improvisation is okay.
• 00:53 All right, and the basic idea here, again,
• 00:55 is just kind of like what we've been doing.
• 00:57 To just continue working our way in towards the smaller shapes and details,
• 01:02 all right?
• 01:03 So that we end up covering everything.
• 01:06 Now I'm still not a 100% satisfied with the way that I did the math here in
• 01:11 the First Pass.
• 01:12 So I may actually delete that line and just come back and redraw it,
• 01:17 so that I can kind of maybe follow that snarl here that I had going on.
• 01:23 We may revisit this a little bit later, but for
• 01:26 now I just wanted to kind of redo that section here.
• 01:29 And as you can see in my regular sketch,
• 01:31 I actually had just kind of a single line here on top of the nose.
• 01:35 And I'd kind of done that as a way to remind myself that this could be used
• 01:39 as either a highlight or a shadow in the illustration.
• 01:42 So here I'm going to kind of build it out as a complete shape.
• 01:45 So that I can come back to it later and
• 01:47 kinda figure out which one of those I want it to be.
• 01:50 Okay, and same thing here, I might just do this as a solid shape for
• 01:55 now, to kind of keep that theme going.
• 01:58 And then we're just going to continue along, tracing these images.
• 02:02 But, as you'll notice, I'm actually on the wrong layer right now.
• 02:05 So, I want to come back to my top layer here,
• 02:08 which is going to serve as our second pass.
• 02:11 Okay, and here I'm just going to continue tracing,
• 02:15 following these shapes along the jaw line or the sides of the face.
• 02:19 Okay and pretty straightforward,
• 02:21 guys, you kind of hopefully see the groove that we're in now.
• 02:24 The way that we're working in the whole process for doing this,
• 02:28 it's really not super complicated.
• 02:30 It's just a matter of kind of getting comfortable and getting in there and
• 02:33 getting all of these details ready.
• 02:35 So for the nose here,
• 02:36 I'm just going to kinda do the same thing where I create these shapes.
• 02:40 And then we can just kind of build it out from there, same thing for
• 02:44 the brow up top.
• 02:45 I just want to keep this furrowed looking brow and we'll be jumping around a little
• 02:49 bit to get the rest of these shapes in here as well.
• 02:52 Now, you don't have to be tied to these.
• 02:54 You're not married to them, but the idea is to just get as many of these shapes
• 02:58 down as we can so that we have more to work with.
• 03:00 Okay, so that's all I'm doing here.
• 03:02 I'm just going to continue this process for a few more minutes until I can get
• 03:06 the rest of these shapes and we should be good to go.
• 03:08 All right, so again, I'm just clicking, dragging,
• 03:11 holding down the pen to get a nice looking curve.
• 03:13 And then I'm kind of just coming back up here to close the shape and
• 03:17 do the same thing on the top here.
• 03:18 All right because we just want to have it be pretty straightforward.
• 03:24 It just takes a little bit of time and some patience.
• 03:26 We'll come in here and try to work on these highlights a bit and
• 03:30 the shadow areas for the horns.
• 03:32 We may change them slightly as we go, but this is a good place to start.
• 03:38 And I think we may actually do one more pass after this,
• 03:41 just to add a few extra details and elements here.
• 03:44 That can really help push our design and take it to the next level.
• 03:48 And this is all part of the master plan here to end up with
• 03:52 a cool-looking logo design.
• 03:54 Let's just keep going here for a little bit longer and see what we can do, okay?
• 03:58 Again, I'm not too worried about sticking exactly with where the lines are and
• 04:02 everything.
• 04:03 Because I can always come back in and cover that up.
• 04:06 And as I said in the previous lessons, guys,
• 04:09 don't be worried too much about having lines that overlap each other.
• 04:12 Because that's really there just to kind of serve as a visual aid for us.
• 04:18 I'm going to create one shape for this, kind of like a moon shape or
• 04:22 a sliver of a moon there.
• 04:24 All right, I'm just going to select that point and
• 04:26 use the handle to tweak it a bit, if I can grab that handle there, there we go.
• 04:31 Sometimes it can be a little bit tricky to grab those handles, but
• 04:34 we're going to use them as best as we can.
• 04:37 And you can see that once you kinda get warmed up and in the zone.
• 04:40 It's a little bit easier to just kind of breeze through some of these steps,
• 04:45 all right?
• 04:46 So that we can work on building this out, but
• 04:49 it is important to try and take your time with it without rushing.
• 04:53 And now I'm going to trace this part up here, okay?
• 04:57 And we can fill these in later with a solid color.
• 04:59 Again, it can be black, it can be a shade of whatever your main logo color is going
• 05:04 to be, it can be white if you want it to be a highlight.
• 05:07 And we also have the ability to experiment with things like the blending mode.
• 05:10 So there's a lot of cool stuff here that we can do once we have
• 05:15 some of these shapes down.
• 05:17 And I'm just using some of those existing lines to guide me along the way.
• 05:23 All right, I think we're looking pretty good guys,
• 05:26 that's going to be our second pass.
• 05:29 So let's just double click on that layer, call it Second Pass, and
• 05:33 we're going to go ahead and change the label color to Red as well.
• 05:37 Turn off the sketch, lock that layer, and
• 05:40 be sure to save your work before moving on.

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