- [Voiceover] Alright now the problem with the mouth
and the teeth is that they look pretty flat,
especially when compared with the tracing template,
which has a dark edge around the entire mouth,
which rather violates what you
can do with a linear gradient.
And we have this darkness under the teeth,
which is why, in this movie, we're going to
enhance the gradients using dynamic effects.
Because after all, soft effects like drop shadows,
and as we'll see, inner glows,
are just other forms of gradients inside Illustrator.
And so I'll just go ahead and press ctrl + y,
or command + y on the mac,
to switch back to the preview mode
and then I'll click on the mouth shape to select it,
and I'll go up to the effect menu,
choose Stylize, and then choose this guy right here,
inner glow.
Now, by default, you're going to brighten things.
Notice if I turn on the preview check box,
then we might end up seeing some sort
of brightness inside the mouth.
But the reason we're not seeing a darned thing
is because I'm assigning inner glow to the wrong attribute.
So what I'm gonna do is just
click okay to accept these settings,
and then here inside the appearance panel,
I'll click on the inner glow effect right there,
and then I'll drag it and drop it onto the fill.
At which point you can actually see that glow
on the inside of the mouth.
Now I don't really want that glow, I want darkness.
So I'll go ahead and click on the words inner glow
to bring up the inner glow dialogue box.
And the thing about glows and shadows,
a drop shadow can be bright,
and an inner glow can be dark if you want 'em to be.
All you have to do is switch the blend mode and the color.
And so the difference between these effects is that
a drop shadow has direction associated with it,
and inner glow doesn't. It's omnidirectional.
So it traces the entire perimeter of the path outline.
So what we're gonna do here is switch to a different color
by clicking on this color swatch
and that'll bring up the color picker dialogue box,
and then click on the color swatches button
in order to switch to a list of your color swatches.
Go ahead and scroll down that entire list
and select Brown one, and then click okay.
Now if I turn on the preview check box,
you're not gonna see a darned thing,
and that's because the blend mode is set to screen.
Screen always brightens.
And it brightens more effectively with bright colors,
less effectively with dark ones,
which is why the effect is pretty much just dropping out.
If we want to darken instead,
then we need to switch the mode to multiply,
in order to produce this effect right here.
Alright now I'm gonna crank the opacity value up to 100
and I'm gonna take the blur up to 10 points.
You wanna leave this guy set to edge
because if you change it to center,
you're gonna darken the center of the mouth instead.
So edge is what we're looking for, at which point,
go ahead and click okay to accept that change.
Alright now let's put that darkness below the teeth,
better known as a shadow, of course,
so I'll go ahead and click on the teeth to select 'em.
And then I'll go up to the effect menu,
choose stylize, and choose drop shadow.
Alright I'll start by turning on the preview check box
so we can see our setting so far.
I'm interested in using that color
that I sampled in the previous movie, however,
so I'll select the color option
and click on its swatch to bring up
the color picker dialogue box.
Once again, click on the color swatches dialogue button,
scroll all the way down to the bottom of the list,
and select Brown five, and then click okay.
And now we wanna go ahead and crank
the opacity value all the way up to 100%,
tab to the X Offset value, make sure it's set to zero.
We also want the Y Offset value to remain at eight points,
but I wanna take the blur value up to six points
to produce this effect right here,
At which point I'll click okay in order
to accept that change.
And now I'll press ctrl + zero,
or command + zero on a mac, to zoom out.
I'll press ctrl + shift + a,
or command + shift + a on a mac,
in order to deselect my artwork.
I'll switch back over to the layers panel
and I'll turn off my guides layer.
And now let's confirm that we've done a good job
by pressing ctrl + y, or command + y on a mac,
to switch to the outline mode,
at which point we can see the
tracing template in the background.
And then I'll press ctrl + y, or command + y again,
in order to switch to the preview mode
so that we can see our version of the artwork.
And while every detail might not be absolutely identical,
I consider it to be a pretty darn good match.
And my final step is gonna be to turn the template off
by clicking on this icon in the first column,
and that will hide any of this stuff in the background,
including that extra drop shadow,
so that we can see a clean version of our artwork.
And that's how you combine gradients
along with dynamic effects to create
more sophisticated shading.
Not to mention how you create a vector-based emoji
that you can scale to any size and purpose that you like
here inside Illustrator.