hello
how are you doing so i thought i would
revisit an old video that i did
it was a video with emma's rectangles
beautiful little face i will leave it up
here so you can see what i'm talking
about
and that video actually got a lot of
views
more than i expected and turns out you
guys really wanted to know
how i did the highlights and shadows on
that video
so this video is just going to focus on
the highlights and shadows so if you
are coming to this video because you
don't know how to draw vector portraits
at all you want a little bit of a
guidance i guess head over to the
previous video with emma and then
you can watch that and then when you get
to the highlights bit which i skimmed
over you can watch this one
so without further ado let's get into
the video
i have a photo of sophie clough
she's beautiful she has a youtube
channel instagram
all that jazz i will leave her links in
the description and she's very kindly
let me
borrow her face for the purpose of this
video so
what i have done is created a very flat
and basic version of sophie using
vectors in the pen tool so i'm going to
show you basically how to bring it to
life a little bit more
um with some various tools so
what we're going to do is zoom in
and the first thing i like to do is the
eyes i feel like the eyes is the
part of the face that obviously you look
at first it draws attention and that is
what i want to focus on so what i'm
going to do first of all
is do the little reflection in her
eyes so in order to do that i'm just
going to use the blob brush tool
and to do that and click and hold this
and it's down here or you can click
shift
b i'm going to put it onto white just
pure white and then i'm going to just
draw
a random little shape i could be super
precise about this sometimes you can see
like reflections of ring lights in
people's eyes
sometimes it's just a blob but there's
always
well there's generally always a
reflection in people's eyes
otherwise they look a bit dead on the
inside and we don't want to do that do
we so
yeah let's add these i'm going to do one
larger
one smaller same on this eye
so sort of in the same place like in a
similar place
because that's obviously where the light
has hit
so it's gonna be similar but not
completely identical in each eye
and then what i'm also gonna do in the
eyes
is she has a bit of a shadow like over
here and obviously the inner
part of her eye is different colors i'm
gonna add
a little bit of brown i think into this
so i'm gonna
go to the blob brush again and i'm gonna
put it in like a
i guess like a hazelly brown sort of
color maybe like that
and all i'm gonna do is put a big old
blob of that
sort of around the black part of her eye
i always forget what that's called is
that the iris i'm not sure
um and then what we're gonna do is we're
gonna go
click that and then we're gonna go on to
effect
and we're gonna go on to when i can find
it
gaussian blur so this tool will blur out
what i have drawn
um make sure the preview is ticked and
drag the slider until you can see
things happening basically so if it's on
zero it's got pretty solid lines and if
it's
dragged further out the more i drag it
the blurrier it gets
basically so i'm going to leave it at
that
and then i'm going to put that behind
i think it's the pupil isn't it the
black bit the pupil wow
i love i actually passed science believe
it or not but clearly wouldn't know
i've done that and it actually looking
back
the hazel part is only at the top so i'm
gonna just lower the opacity of it
i'm gonna not touch that i'm gonna drag
it
up here a tad and then i'm just gonna
duplicate it for the other side
so i'm just gonna click whilst i'm
holding option
and drag that over like so and then
it is a lot lighter so again i'm going
to go for blob brush
i'm going to put it on an off white
then using the blob brush i'm just going
to
draw a little circle
i could do this with like an actual um
shape but i'm lazy
basically and then we're going to get
artistic blur
gaussian blur and we're gonna blur it
and obviously the more you drag the more
blurry it gets
press okay i'm gonna send that behind so
it's on the right area of her eye
and you can see there's just more
dimension to it i can spend
ages fiddling with this and doing many
different versions of it
but just do it to whatever you want see
how it
fits with the photo that you're using
and go from there it's all sort of
experimentation so yeah if you are
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my little creative family i have now
added some highlights to her eyes
again i could go in even further i could
add a little bit of shadow to the white
of her eyes here
but we're not going to bother because i
don't want this video to be two hours
long
right what i'm going to do now is i'm
going to blur these parts
here which i added earlier so these are
the pink bits of eyeshadow that she's
put in the corner of her eyes
so again literally simple as effect
blur gaussian blur and then
move the slider however you want i think
i'm going to blur it quite a lot
um and then of course i've got the
option
of changing the opacity if i want it to
be a little bit softer to show some more
skin tone through it
but you can see the difference from me
just quickly doing that
and then again the same with the eye
shadow
so effect blur
glossy and blur and
we're gonna blur it
so far maybe not too much on this one i
actually did change the opacity on this
so we can darken that up a little bit
and you can see
that it has softened the edges and then
finally this little color here so you
can kind of see that i do it in stages
i'll do
the darkest part of it the medium shade
part of it and the lightest part of it
that's just
how i have always done it there might be
other more professional ways of doing it
but you know this one works
so yeah i've never claimed to be a
professional just winging it
okay do that so now we've blurred out
all the eyeshadow portions i'm sure
some makeup artists out there feel like
that's probably not a great job at doing
the eyeshadow but we're just gonna roll
with it
when i've done that i've realized now
that this part that i drew is a little
bit too light so i'm just going to go in
here and just darken it up so
it blends in a little bit better with
everything else
so it's sort of all all together
i'm just going to zoom out and you can
see already that the eyes
really have come to life like i said if
i spend more time on it i would put some
shadow on the actual white part of her
eye
but we ain't got the time for that today
and i ain't got the patience
basically so what we're going to do now
is make her actual
face look a little bit more face like
so to do this again we're going to take
the blob brush tool
we're actually going to do it in a
clipping mask um so i'll show you how
i'm gonna do that
so i want to draw the contour the
highlight and the blush
on sophie's face so we can make it look
good so this
is the layer that i have that is the
face i am gonna copy that
command c i am going to paste that in
front so
edit paste in front or command f
if you're on mac so now i have two
versions of sophie's face
and they're both exactly on top of each
other and
what i'm gonna do is paint some
shadows highlights and blusher and then
mid-tones
into this layer and then we'll move
forward
so firstly for shadows i want to pick
a color that is darker than her skin
tone
um we can change the color of this later
on but we'll just
go with sort of
that kind of shade for now obviously we
can change it and what i'm going to do
is blob brush it again there's different
ways you could do this you could use the
pen tool you could use the pencil tool
you could use whatever tool you feel
like there's no set rules with
art and graphic design you can just
wing it and see what happens is my motto
so
firstly i'm going to draw the contours
of her nose
so i'm going to go down here like that
see how that feels when i blur it out
and we're gonna go down here
like that then there is
shadow sort of up here
so we're gonna go up here like this
and then same on this side but in a
little bit of a lower
place and there's obviously shadow round
where her hair
has sort of skimmed her face a little
bit so we're just gonna do that
then there's some under her lips so i'm
just gonna do it around the lips
too and then also she's got a little bit
of
shadow on her jaw
like this maybe going up slightly
here so it sort of shapes around her
chin and then
obviously the contour that she has
under her cheekbone which we're gonna
draw
like that then finally i'm gonna do a
little line
around her hairline
this looks crazy so i've done
all the um shadow looks a bit crazy
i'm gonna click on them all and just
quickly
group them together just to make things
a little bit easier
down the line we're probably going to
add some more shadow as well but this is
just
to begin with and what i'm going to do
is group so
command g for mac users and then
remember that face layer that we copied
i'm going to click on that
bring it to the front so you can do that
with right click
arrange bring to front or you can do it
with the keyboard shortcuts
and i am going to click that group we've
just created
and create a clipping mask i'm not gonna
go into clipping masks because
they confuse me still basically think of
it like
a giant cookie cutter so obviously these
bits are all
kind of sticking outside the lines we
don't want that to happen so if i create
a clipping mask it's going to chop it
out like a giant cookie cutter
so if i click make you can see if i
click off that it has cut everything out
but it's still kept all those
shapes in full working order so if i
double clicked now
you can see that i can edit just those
shapes and they're all still there
they're just sort of hiding behind the
cookie cutter
what a great description so what i'm
gonna do now is go in here
and i feel like i could probably blur
all these together
but it might not look right so we're not
gonna do that we're gonna do it
like one at a time or like two at a time
so i'm actually going to ungroup it
so i can click on them all separately
we're going to go for the nose to begin
with
and then we're going to effect
blur glossy blur
and we're just going to pump it up
pretty far and just
see what the outcome is i'm not quite
sure how this is going to work it's all
experimentation
it depends on how big the file is it
depends on how much shadow there is
you know so we'll leave it at that press
okay and then if i go back
to the original layer you can see that
there's some sort of shadow happening
there but it has sort of lost its shape
it sort of lost
the really solid definition so
i'm gonna go back into the layer and
just adjust that
so because i have applied the gaussian
blur i can go in and re-edit that
so what i've done is i've opened
properties if you can't find that it is
in window
properties and it will pop up and then
in here i can click the gaussian blur
that i applied and i can adjust it so
i'm going to just drag it
down a little bit go back and see
what that looks like i feel like that's
okay we can add to it
so then we are going to do the same for
under her
under her lip so i'm just gonna effect
blur
gaussian blur and probably leave it at
that and we can obviously
i'm gonna bump it up a little bit and
maybe make it a tad
smaller because obviously it's sort of
spread out all the pixels and i don't
want it to be too crazy so
let's just see what that looks like it's
added a nice little bit of blur maybe
i'll add another layer of shadow on it
but for the purpose of this video we'll
leave it at that for now
then i want to do the bits around her
face
so again i'm sure you know this by now
effect
blur gassium blur and
we're gonna do the face so i want this
to be quite
subtle that one at the bottom looks a
bit too harsh for me so i probably will
end up changing the opacity of that or
moving it around
but we've blurred those
and as expected this one is a bit too
much like it's a bit too high up so i'm
just going to go in
and because it is in the cookie cutter
the magical cookie cutter that we love
i can just move it down click back out
of the clipping mask
and it's sort of like moved it down like
you can still see it's there
but it's not all on display last few
little bits of the shadow and then we'll
get on to
some more highlight things so again
click that
effect blur gaussian blur you can play
around with different blurs too
um it's all just trial and error like i
said
and you just play around until you find
something that you like
so that's very very subtle i quite like
that i actually think
this one here i'm gonna change the shape
of it
because i think that's what's making it
look a bit weird so i'm gonna just
thin out the path that i drew
and see whether that makes a little bit
of a difference
i mean that's just completely made it
disappear
maybe i need to move it actually let's
just move it up a little bit
see what that looks like i mean it's
still not
perfect but this stuff takes
time now the final one for now for the
shadow
is the jaw bone the contour
and i'm not gonna blur this one out too
much
because we all have a little bit of
contour
so i want it to be a good level and then
i can also
obviously change the opacity of it so
there we go we've got a bit of contour
going on
it's looking a little bit more lifelike
let me just move this whole layer
behind the eyes because currently it's
overlapping the eyes
so there we go it does risk looking a
little bit mucky
let's just move her ear i think this bit
is probably a little bit too harsh
so i'm gonna just change the opacity
this bit again this bit i'm not really
happy with but we'll we'll get on to
that
so for the highlights again blob brush
tool
same sort of principle but with a
lighter color so i'm gonna just put it
on
pure white for now and then obviously we
can go back in and change it that's the
beauty
of using illustrator and using vectors
and
i'm gonna highlight and paint like the
tip of her nose
the cheekbones her forehead under her
eyebrows the typical place you would
find
where the light hits so we're gonna just
draw a big old blob
there we're gonna put one on her
nose we've got a couple
of little highlights here like behind
her lips so we can put it behind the lip
layer
and then i'm gonna do some down here and
here and then possibly on her
chin and then as always we can go back
in later and
fiddle around with it so i'm going to do
these cheekbone highlights to begin with
same old principle effect blur gaussian
blur
and you can play around with the slider
so it's going to be quite harsh because
it is in white but
just look on the effect it has on the
pixels themselves rather than the color
and then we can tone it down
with the opacity so it looks more like
skin tone color
i've just always sort of chose white i
feel like it's just the easiest way
without trying to figure out skin tones
because i'm not very good at picking
the correct skin tone so yeah we have
maybe done that one a little bit too
much let's go effect
gaussian blur and don't push it too far
because then you can see the bounds of
the box
maybe like that and then change the
opacity and bump that
right down maybe a little bit more
then we have the chin so effect
blur gaussian blur
and again probably around there actually
leave it at that
i'm going to change the opacity lower it
down a little bit
perfect it's very repetitive as you can
see
and you could do it all in one go it
just depends on
what sort of effect you want in so
that's the lips
and then finally we have the nose
so i'm going to do this one less because
the highlight on sophie's nose is quite
prominent
so i'm gonna not blur this one as much
so it still looks pretty solid but of
course
change the opacity a little bit i
actually might move that one
down a touch and then obviously all
these layers
are not in a clipping mask because we
didn't do that so i'm gonna
click them all i'm gonna group them
and i'm gonna pick up the face
layer again that i used previously like
we did before
copy it so edit copy
and then paste in front i'm gonna
bring that right to the front i'm going
to pick up
the highlights and the skin layer that
i've just copied
i am going to create a clipping mask so
the cookie cutter object
clipping mask make and it stopped
those from going over the edges too much
this one needs fixing oh the hair is in
the wrong
order there we go so now it doesn't
overlap on the hair
but it is overlapping on the lips so i
need to send that layer
backwards so it's behind the features of
her face
so i've done that and you can see now
that lip layer is behind her top lip
it's behind the eyes it's not
interacting interacting
interfering with anything else
so that is the very basics of
shadows and highlights um really what
i've done actually is mid-tones and
highlights
so what i'm actually going to do now is
i'm going to go in
and do the shadows and highlights in the
hair and again it's the same principles
it's doing
the shadows the mid-tones and the
highlights it's going through
checking it blurring them a little bit
and adding different shapes in and sort
of seeing what it's going to look like
it's all trial and error but yeah this
is the basics i'm going to just
insert a really long probably time lapse
of me completing this drawing
but if you do have any questions and if
you want me to explain things a little
bit further in the comments
let me know i hope you've enjoyed this
little video and yeah cue the time lapse
and i hope you enjoy
the final product
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
