Adjusting our Lines

Quick reference

• 00:04 Okay, so now that we have our first, second and third pass layers,
• 00:08 we can toggle the visibility of these layers on and
• 00:11 off to see how they look if we wanna adjust the weight.
• 00:14 So we wanna make a few adjustments to some of these lines
• 00:17 before we move on to the coloring phase.
• 00:20 So first thing I'm gonna do here is maybe take a look at just the third
• 00:25 pass layers or just the first pass layers to get started.
• 00:29 And all I'm gonna do here is hold down the Shift key, click on a few of these
• 00:34 shapes and then press Shift+X to convert it from these outlines into a fill.
• 00:38 And this is just gonna help give us a better sense of the way that things
• 00:41 are looking once they're filled in.
• 00:46 Okay, so we can kind of experiment with this a little bit.
• 00:50 Select a few different shapes and
• 00:52 see how they look as fill colors instead of just outlines.
• 00:56 All right, and then maybe turn on your second pass layer.
• 00:59 And we're gonna do the same thing here.
• 01:01 All right, so I'm just selecting the shapes.
• 01:04 Pressing Shift+X to see how they look as a fill.
• 01:07 First it's a stroke.
• 01:10 And now we can turn on our third pass and see all of these shapes here.
• 01:14 And you know,
• 01:15 we're going to probably end up merging these things together at the end.
• 01:19 But I find it very helpful, at least initially,
• 01:22 to start by keeping things kind of separate.
• 01:26 Okay, so here I can select both of those shapes and
• 01:29 press Shift+X, and you can guys can see what I was talking about,
• 01:32 how we have now kind of combined these into one shape.
• 01:37 All right, we haven't technically combined the shapes yet, but
• 01:41 it's just helpful to kind of think of it that way.
• 01:44 And these for example, these two shapes that I just changed to black here,
• 01:48 I'm thinking that ultimately we'll probably wanna go and
• 01:52 just lower the transparency of it a little bit later on, so
• 01:55 that it ends up looking like shadows inside the eyes.
• 01:59 So for now, I can just leave it like that, just so we remember.
• 02:01 And so that way, we can see how it looks,
• 02:05 surrounded by these other black shapes, right?
• 02:09 So again, just coming in here filling a lot of these shapes in now, so
• 02:13 we can start to block this out and think about which ones are gonna be our
• 02:18 highlights versus which ones are going to be our shadows.
• 02:22 All right, so this is a really helpful step,
• 02:25 because it starts to help you put a few of these things together,
• 02:29 whereas at first it may look just like a crazy mess of lines.
• 02:33 But now we can start to really bring these things all the way through.
• 02:41 Okay, let's see how that looks.
• 02:47 All right, so this shape here for the eyeball,
• 02:49 I'm actually going to press D on the keyboard to make sure that it has a solid
• 02:53 white fill because before it was just a stroke.
• 02:56 So if I change the color of this shape behind it or made it a solid black fill,
• 02:59 we can't really see anything else because there is no fill color here.
• 03:04 Okay, so I'm just going to press D on the keyboard to make it a white fill with
• 03:09 a black stroke, and it looks like we may need to either move this shape forward or
• 03:13 send this other shape back.
• 03:16 So what I want to do is hold down the Shift key and
• 03:18 select both of these shapes together.
• 03:20 And then I'm going to press Shift+Cmd and the right bracket on the keyboard, and
• 03:23 that's going to bring it all the way to the front.
• 03:27 All right, let's do the same thing here.
• 03:28 Select the other eye, press D on the keyboard.
• 03:31 Hold down the Shift key and select the shadow on the inside of the eye.
• 03:35 And then once again, press Cmd+Shift in the right bracket on the keyboard.
• 03:39 And then you can select this shape just behind the eye,
• 03:41 and press Shift+X to create a black fill.
• 03:45 Now, if I zoom in here, obviously we need to fix a few of these points,
• 03:50 maybe move a few things around.
• 03:53 But it's easy to see now where things are overlapping,
• 03:55 and It makes it makes them a lot easier to fix them and modify some of these points.
• 04:00 So I'm just pressing A to get my direct selection tool, clicking on a point.
• 04:04 I'm gonna put it in place there so it's not spilling outside of the shape.
• 04:07 Then I can just use this handle to drag it up and
• 04:10 make sure that there's no white gap there in between.
• 04:14 I'm gonna do the same thing on some of these other shapes here just to try and
• 04:18 mesh things up nicely line everything up.
• 04:24 Okay and by filling these colors in with solid black,
• 04:28 it does make it a lot easier to see these things, they really stand out more.
• 04:34 So for example here, I could see that I need to modify that shape a little bit.
• 04:40 Same thing here.
• 04:41 And we're just kind of tweaking and adjusting the lines now before we move on.
• 04:46 All right, it's better to do it now and just kinda get it out of the way.
• 04:51 All right, let's see if we can match these lines up a little bit All right,
• 04:59 just modifying a few more of these points here, there we go.
• 05:05 Right, and sometimes I have to press Cmd+Shift+] to bring it in the front
• 05:09 before it will allow me to grab any of these handles here.
• 05:14 Right, sometimes it's a little picky, but we do our best.
• 05:24 All right it looks like this one I may just want to redo.
• 05:27 So I'm just gonna select that point, click and hold over here so they can follow
• 05:32 the same direction or the same path that our other shapes are already in.
• 05:37 Bring it all the way down and just close the shape.
• 05:41 Right, press Shift+X to turn it into a fill color, and there you go.
• 05:45 Right, and I'll zoom in down here, just move that up slightly,
• 05:51 make sure that there's no weird gaps in here.
• 05:56 It looks like there may be a little one, So
• 06:01 we can just do that, right?
• 06:05 Now we'll continue doing this for some of our other shapes just filling it with
• 06:09 black, and trying to line them up as best as we can, all right?
• 06:15 So here I can just grab these handles.
• 06:17 Maybe that not that handle, this handle.
• 06:21 Just bring that down, come in here and check this side.
• 06:27 And then we can just modify this a bit.
• 06:31 Again, I think I'm grabbing the wrong handle here.
• 06:37 Let's see, maybe if I just bring this up.
• 06:44 It doesn't really matter how you guys do this,
• 06:47 the important thing is the end result.
• 06:52 All right, so if you need to, if you're having a hard time filling some of these
• 06:55 things in, you can just come back in afterwards and draw on top of them.
• 07:01 All right and I think this piece we may fill with a different shaded color.
• 07:07 So for now I'm not gonna to worry about that cuz it's gonna
• 07:09 be filled in with something other than black or white.
• 07:15 But let's just come in here and
• 07:16 finish adjusting some of these lines to make sure that we are In good shape.
• 07:25 There we go, just making a few more adjustments.
• 07:30 And we did pretty good guys, there's alway gonna be some tweaks that you have to make
• 07:35 as you go along, but all things considered, this one's.
• 07:39 Pretty good so far, this part is probably going to be overlapped,
• 07:42 I think the ears are gonna come in front of the horn on this side, so
• 07:46 you don't have to worry about that too much.
• 07:48 Let's line our shapes up with the horns here, make sure
• 07:53 that this is filling in here nicely And that there's no white gaps, all right?
• 08:00 And we can just continue modifying these a bit more as you go.
• 08:06 So here, for example, I just wanna make sure that this edge lines up, right there.
• 08:12 And it's super helpful to be zoomed-in for this, because there's a lot of these
• 08:16 things that you just can't see when you zoomed further out.
• 08:19 But you know,
• 08:20 it's one of those things where you don't want to look at it after it's finished and
• 08:24 be like, you know, I should have fixed that when I had the chance.
• 08:28 So better to get in there now and do it at this point.
• 08:35 There we go, guys.
• 08:36 We pretty much have all of our lines filled in,
• 08:39 let me just come back in here, okay?
• 08:44 And for that line I think we can just take that out for now.
• 08:49 All right, move this up here and
• 08:52 we're just about ready to move on to the next phase.
• 09:00 All right, so there we go guys.
• 09:02 At this point, we've kind of modified a lot of these lines,
• 09:05 filled them in to see how they look.
• 09:07 And this will make it a lot easier for us to start blocking in some color.
• 09:11 So be sure to save your work before you move on.

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