I've decided to turn myself into a cartoon so I'm using procreate as always
love procreate and I am going to turn myself into a cartoon which is something
I've never done before I feel like it's really hard to draw yourself I don't
know why I am most critical of my own work when it is some work designed for
me for example designing my own logo took
me ages so we'll see how this video goes but either way it should be fun so I
actually want to draw it in a similar style to when I drew my subscribers I
really really liked that and that was the first time I'd ever drawn in that
style so I figured I need a little bit more practice and let's draw myself an
icon so I am going to import one of the old drawings so I have something to kind
of go off so I'm just gonna insert this one here which I drew in that video and
then also a couple of photos of me so I have something to kind of go off alright
so I've got my photos in there and first things first is to sketch so I obviously
need a sketching and I just use either the technical pencil or the 6b I don't
think they're like majorly different other than the 6 B's a little bit darker but
either way you can either draw a thin line or you can shade and draw a thick
lines or soft lines it all depends on like way holding the pen so to be honest
at this point doesn't really matter I'm gonna make a new layer and just sketch
things out actually I'm gonna be either sneaky or tactical you decide I'm gonna
trace this one because surely everyone's face looks pretty similar I'm gonna
trace the kind of placement of the jaw the nose the eyes and the mouth because
that's a bit I always get wrong and it always frustrates me so I'm just gonna
lower the opacity a little bit and and let's trace over this so I've got a good
idea for the jaw line now I feel like I've got like a pretty angled jaw line like
sometime I look like a moon sometimes I've got definition depends how much chocolate I've had
and what I feel like I'm gonna do a little bit of the definition for this
just so it looks a little bit more like me rather than just your average brown
haired girl you know cool and then the nose I'll just do a quick thing and then
do I want to smile with my teeth
hmm I feel like a lot of the time I don't smile with my teeth so maybe I'll
just do a normal mouth it's kind of pointless me copying this actually like
why am i tracing my own work why am I being lazy who knows but I mean
laziness is the story my life so might as well go with it and then draw the
head further up like that obviously it's a cartoon so it doesn't really matter
right let's let's move that other thing so let's move her back over here oh damn
that looks scary oh my god okay those eyes are terrifying let's hope they
don't look like that in the end so we've got some brows I like to think I've got
fluffy brows sometimes but I don't think that's the case so we'll just do some
rough brows for now like that um what else like the nose bits my ears are
always covered up and my hair now isn't actually that long so let's just do the
neck part and I guess do I draw myself in this hmm I feel like a collared shirt
of some sort is very very me so maybe let's to go with like a button
open collared shirt
and I don't draw it all the way down for little avatars so I'll just leave it
like that and then my hair currently it's actually really short isn't it so
it's like kind of up to my collarbone so maybe maybe I'll exaggerate it a
little bit I'll make it a little bit shorter maybe like wavy hair that's some
sort I always have a middle part in so that's easy so that's just middle part
and then I have no idea how to draw wavy short hair like how how do we do this
I'm gonna actually do it where my hair's tied up
so maybe exaggerate this bit because a lot of the time when I have my hair tied
up it's kind of big so exaggerated that I mean that looks terrifying but I think
it's something to work off we'll give it a go either way so once I've done a
sketch I like to create a new layer and then I'm gonna go around it with an ink
pen so I just use the inking bit with the gel pen and it's just a solid mono line
shape it's the same width all the way through so first I just do it in black
actually you know what I really do need a photo of myself right so I found one
my hair is actually it's shorter than I thought it was when it's curly
so I'll bear that in mind when I draw it and I'm actually gonna get rid of the
collar for the top and I really like my little polka dot one so
I'll do polka dots on it when I get to that bit cool right back to the actual
sketching so like I said ink pen just the gel pen and I'm just gonna outline
the bits that I'm gonna see
basic features are done I know I'm gonna do the hair so middle parting and I
always have it tied up alright I feel like that is a solid start so now I've
done that outline I'm just gonna hide the one underneath it and then create
another new layer lower the opacity of this one and this is where I start
drawing in color so I am gonna draw skin color so I mean I can pick the color
from here but I look very pale in that photo I mean I look pale anyway so first
I'm gonna do the jawline so I usually just copy the line that I've already
done but hopefully neater
then I also do the neck with this line too that layer underneath is not dark
enough do I like that color not sure so if I ever want to change the lines I
just put alpha lock on so I click the layer alpha lock and then I can change
the color of the skin so I feel like I'm just gonna pick up a color out of this
drawing and I'm just gonna fill the layer with that color there we go that's
more skin colored then new layer so every time I change the line color I
create a new layer I'm gonna do the hair so I need like a darky brown color not
black we're not too light and I'm just gonna outline the hair so
again new layer so for the top it is a white top which isn't going to show very
well so for now I'm just going to draw it in like a red orange orange burnt
orange
my paint-filled things not working like usually if you drag it over and fill and
let go it feels just that shape especially when like there's no gaps in
that drawing but it doesn't seem to want to work I mean I suppose I could google
it fixed it okay happy about that I don't know how that ended up getting
changed
like that and then I'm just gonna put the lines for the jumper completely
underneath the hair so it's hidden oh I've missed a bit
then the jumper let's fill it in in orange actually quite like the orange
maybe I'll keep the orange I do wear Orange a lot especially at this time of
year I always fill in the layer underneath so that I can change the
colors of the lines separately because they're two separate layers
what color are my eyes mucky blue I feel like that's an accurate representation
right so for the middle of the eye I usually make the pen a lot fatter like
that and then I get rid of the overlap at the bottom because it's kind of going
over the white let's put it back up to the normal color and then I do a little
bit lighter for the inside again on a new layer whilst I saw it out then we
have black so new layer well you're way too big
eyelashes sometimes I don't do the eyelashes but obviously I always have
mascara on so I'm gonna do the eyelashes so for this I use a script pen and I end
up refining this anyway but I'm gonna do this on a new layer again above
everything like that cute so I'm gonna copy it over and do that and then I look
a bit cross-eyed at the minute and it's because of these two bits so basically
all I need to do is flip them over and move it to the other side there we go
and then the same with the eyebrow so why are you there duplicate like that
flip
I'm gonna do some more finer details so I'm going to do some details on the
jumper so I thought maybe and add some stripes around the neck so it actually
looks like a jumper like that and then some shadows which I always think brings
everything to life a lot more so I'm gonna do it quite dark to begin with and
then I darken it down as I get going so
then I always like to do some under the chin just because there's always
naturally a shadow there and then a little bit under the nose and then I'm just
gonna lighten that up with the opacity I actually think I need to
darken this outline a little bit which is why I coloured in the outline
separate because it lets me darken the outlines without having to start again
of which I've learned the hard way there we go right let's just go on to the hair
so I want some dark bits and some lighter bits so picking up the color of
the hair and then I'm gonna use the calligraphy script pen again and then to
make sure I am on the right layer
and then I'm just gonna change the opacity again so it's not as
in-your-face let's add some texture
all right so I've added a few freckles I've added a little bit of texture in
the hair and some blush I do think there's a little bit missing let me
know in the comments what you think I could add to this to improve it like I
said at the beginning I don't usually do this kind of thing but there we go I've
turned myself into a cartoon and hopefully you enjoyed this video let me
know what other videos you like to see from me down in the comments below and
yeah I'll see you soon for another one bye