- In this movie I'll demonstrate how to create
the eyes using nothing more than a few clicks
of the blob brush and the eraser tool.
I'll go ahead and switch over to my
document in progress here, and I'm going to
turn off the background and drawing layers by
dragging over their eyeballs so that you can see
my sketch, and to me it looks like I've messed up.
The eyes don't appear to be trained exactly on us.
It looks like this guy's gaze is going off to the right.
So, what I want to do is trace the eyes, but I want
to make sure it's a separate object, so that I can
nudge it into the proper location.
So, I'll go ahead and turn the layers back on, and I'll
press the "d" key to establish my default,
fill and stroke colors, so that the stroke is
black, and then I'll go ahead and select the blob brush.
Once again, I could now do that by pressing the "b" key.
I'll hover my cursor over the eye, and then I'll
increase its size until it matches the eye like so.
Then I'll just click to create a perfect circle.
So, whenever you click with the blob brush or the
eraser, by default you end up with a circle.
Now I need to erase away the highlight,
but because my shape is filled with black, I can
no longer see the template.
So, I'll go up to the view menu and choose
outline, or you can press a keyboard shortcut
of ctrl+y or cmd+y in the Mac to switch to the
outline mode.
Notice that we can now see through the path
outlines to the template in the background.
So, the great thing about putting an image on
a template layer, and again, if I double click
on an empty portion of this layer, it's all a function
of having the template check box on, which makes
sure that we can see the tracing template even in
the outline mode.
I'll go ahead and cancel out of there, and then I'll
switch to the eraser tool, which I can now get by
pressing the "e" key.
I'll reduce the size of my cursor.
I need to make sure the first circle is still selected.
Then I'll go ahead and click inside of it in order
to erase another circle out of it.
Now, I'll return to the view menu and choose
GPU preview, or again, you can press ctl+y or cmd+y
in the Mac, and then I'll just erase away the top of
that pupil like so.
Now, I'm going to switch back to my black arrow tool,
which I can do by pressing the "v" key.
I'll go ahead and drag this guy over to the right-hand
side and press the alt key or the opt key on the Mac
in order to make a copy of it.
Now let's go ahead and turn the template layer off
by clicking on this little rectangle right there.
That will hide the layer from view, so that we can
focus on this guy's eyes.
Now, I'll click on this left-hand eye, and I'll
press shift+ left arrow in order to nudge it ten points
over to the left.
Then I'll press the up arrow a few times in order to
raise that eye.
Then I'll select the right-hand eye and nudge it
a few points over to the left, as well.
Now, I'll grab my eraser tool again, and I'll reduce
the size of that cursor.
I'll zoom in, as well, so we can better see what I'm doing.
I'll go ahead and paint away the top and the left-hand
side of this shape.
Then I'll press the ctrl key or the cmd key on the Mac
to temporarily access my black arrow tool, and I'll
go ahead and click on that left-hand eye shape like so.
Then I'll paint away the top of it, as well.
Now, I'll just go ahead and zoom out by pressing
ctrl+0 or cmd+0 on the Mac, and I'll deselect that
eye by pressing ctrl+shift A or cmd+shift A on
the Mac.
That's how you create a couple of cartoon eyes
with a few simple clicks of the blob brush and the
eraser tool here inside Illustrator.