1 00:00:00.01 --> 00:00:02.01 - In this movie I'll demonstrate how to create 2 00:00:02.01 --> 00:00:05.00 the eyes using nothing more than a few clicks 3 00:00:05.00 --> 00:00:07.09 of the blob brush and the eraser tool. 4 00:00:07.09 --> 00:00:09.01 I'll go ahead and switch over to my 5 00:00:09.01 --> 00:00:10.06 document in progress here, and I'm going to 6 00:00:10.06 --> 00:00:13.06 turn off the background and drawing layers by 7 00:00:13.06 --> 00:00:15.09 dragging over their eyeballs so that you can see 8 00:00:15.09 --> 00:00:19.03 my sketch, and to me it looks like I've messed up. 9 00:00:19.03 --> 00:00:21.09 The eyes don't appear to be trained exactly on us. 10 00:00:21.09 --> 00:00:25.03 It looks like this guy's gaze is going off to the right. 11 00:00:25.03 --> 00:00:28.06 So, what I want to do is trace the eyes, but I want 12 00:00:28.06 --> 00:00:31.00 to make sure it's a separate object, so that I can 13 00:00:31.00 --> 00:00:33.02 nudge it into the proper location. 14 00:00:33.02 --> 00:00:35.09 So, I'll go ahead and turn the layers back on, and I'll 15 00:00:35.09 --> 00:00:38.03 press the "d" key to establish my default, 16 00:00:38.03 --> 00:00:40.05 fill and stroke colors, so that the stroke is 17 00:00:40.05 --> 00:00:44.01 black, and then I'll go ahead and select the blob brush. 18 00:00:44.01 --> 00:00:47.02 Once again, I could now do that by pressing the "b" key. 19 00:00:47.02 --> 00:00:49.08 I'll hover my cursor over the eye, and then I'll 20 00:00:49.08 --> 00:00:53.04 increase its size until it matches the eye like so. 21 00:00:53.04 --> 00:00:57.06 Then I'll just click to create a perfect circle. 22 00:00:57.06 --> 00:00:59.03 So, whenever you click with the blob brush or the 23 00:00:59.03 --> 00:01:02.02 eraser, by default you end up with a circle. 24 00:01:02.02 --> 00:01:04.03 Now I need to erase away the highlight, 25 00:01:04.03 --> 00:01:06.03 but because my shape is filled with black, I can 26 00:01:06.03 --> 00:01:07.08 no longer see the template. 27 00:01:07.08 --> 00:01:10.05 So, I'll go up to the view menu and choose 28 00:01:10.05 --> 00:01:12.05 outline, or you can press a keyboard shortcut 29 00:01:12.05 --> 00:01:15.04 of ctrl+y or cmd+y in the Mac to switch to the 30 00:01:15.04 --> 00:01:16.07 outline mode. 31 00:01:16.07 --> 00:01:18.05 Notice that we can now see through the path 32 00:01:18.05 --> 00:01:21.00 outlines to the template in the background. 33 00:01:21.00 --> 00:01:23.01 So, the great thing about putting an image on 34 00:01:23.01 --> 00:01:25.08 a template layer, and again, if I double click 35 00:01:25.08 --> 00:01:28.05 on an empty portion of this layer, it's all a function 36 00:01:28.05 --> 00:01:31.02 of having the template check box on, which makes 37 00:01:31.02 --> 00:01:34.05 sure that we can see the tracing template even in 38 00:01:34.05 --> 00:01:35.07 the outline mode. 39 00:01:35.07 --> 00:01:38.01 I'll go ahead and cancel out of there, and then I'll 40 00:01:38.01 --> 00:01:40.07 switch to the eraser tool, which I can now get by 41 00:01:40.07 --> 00:01:42.08 pressing the "e" key. 42 00:01:42.08 --> 00:01:44.09 I'll reduce the size of my cursor. 43 00:01:44.09 --> 00:01:47.04 I need to make sure the first circle is still selected. 44 00:01:47.04 --> 00:01:50.01 Then I'll go ahead and click inside of it in order 45 00:01:50.01 --> 00:01:53.04 to erase another circle out of it. 46 00:01:53.04 --> 00:01:55.07 Now, I'll return to the view menu and choose 47 00:01:55.07 --> 00:02:00.00 GPU preview, or again, you can press ctl+y or cmd+y 48 00:02:00.00 --> 00:02:02.08 in the Mac, and then I'll just erase away the top of 49 00:02:02.08 --> 00:02:04.08 that pupil like so. 50 00:02:04.08 --> 00:02:06.09 Now, I'm going to switch back to my black arrow tool, 51 00:02:06.09 --> 00:02:08.09 which I can do by pressing the "v" key. 52 00:02:08.09 --> 00:02:11.03 I'll go ahead and drag this guy over to the right-hand 53 00:02:11.03 --> 00:02:14.05 side and press the alt key or the opt key on the Mac 54 00:02:14.05 --> 00:02:16.08 in order to make a copy of it. 55 00:02:16.08 --> 00:02:19.02 Now let's go ahead and turn the template layer off 56 00:02:19.02 --> 00:02:21.09 by clicking on this little rectangle right there. 57 00:02:21.09 --> 00:02:24.03 That will hide the layer from view, so that we can 58 00:02:24.03 --> 00:02:26.04 focus on this guy's eyes. 59 00:02:26.04 --> 00:02:29.03 Now, I'll click on this left-hand eye, and I'll 60 00:02:29.03 --> 00:02:32.04 press shift+ left arrow in order to nudge it ten points 61 00:02:32.04 --> 00:02:33.07 over to the left. 62 00:02:33.07 --> 00:02:36.01 Then I'll press the up arrow a few times in order to 63 00:02:36.01 --> 00:02:37.05 raise that eye. 64 00:02:37.05 --> 00:02:39.08 Then I'll select the right-hand eye and nudge it 65 00:02:39.08 --> 00:02:42.04 a few points over to the left, as well. 66 00:02:42.04 --> 00:02:45.06 Now, I'll grab my eraser tool again, and I'll reduce 67 00:02:45.06 --> 00:02:47.04 the size of that cursor. 68 00:02:47.04 --> 00:02:50.02 I'll zoom in, as well, so we can better see what I'm doing. 69 00:02:50.02 --> 00:02:53.07 I'll go ahead and paint away the top and the left-hand 70 00:02:53.07 --> 00:02:55.00 side of this shape. 71 00:02:55.00 --> 00:02:57.06 Then I'll press the ctrl key or the cmd key on the Mac 72 00:02:57.06 --> 00:03:00.04 to temporarily access my black arrow tool, and I'll 73 00:03:00.04 --> 00:03:03.04 go ahead and click on that left-hand eye shape like so. 74 00:03:03.04 --> 00:03:06.05 Then I'll paint away the top of it, as well. 75 00:03:06.05 --> 00:03:08.08 Now, I'll just go ahead and zoom out by pressing 76 00:03:08.08 --> 00:03:11.04 ctrl+0 or cmd+0 on the Mac, and I'll deselect that 77 00:03:11.04 --> 00:03:15.03 eye by pressing ctrl+shift A or cmd+shift A on 78 00:03:15.03 --> 00:03:16.04 the Mac. 79 00:03:16.04 --> 00:03:18.05 That's how you create a couple of cartoon eyes 80 00:03:18.05 --> 00:03:21.03 with a few simple clicks of the blob brush and the 81 00:03:21.03 --> 00:03:25.00 eraser tool here inside Illustrator.