I will give you a detailed analysis of the Illustrator software to share with you the tutorial on drawing cute cartoon boys.
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Let's take a look at the effect of the production:
Figure 1: cartoon boy completion
Before you start, remember and familiarize yourself with the Black Arrow (also known as the selection tool, shortcut key "V") and white arrow (also known as the direct selection tool) in the Illusrtator toolbox, shortcut key "A") tools (Figure 2), which will play an important role in the painting process below. With the black arrow tool, we can select any objects and paths to move, scale, and rotate them. With the white arrow tool, we can modify the path of the object to be constructed. In short, it is used to change the shape of the line to conform to the requirements. This "black and white" is a basic "weapon" that Illusrtator operates on vector graphics ". In addition, there is also a very useful shortcut -- Undo shortcut key -- Ctrl + z, when not satisfied, you can use this function to restore to the original state.
Figure 2: black and white arrow tools
Now, create a 640*480 image file in Illusrtator, use the RGB color, select the circular tool in the left toolbox, and draw a circle. This is his head. (Figure 3) use the black arrow tool to move the circle to your favorite place, scale it to the desired size, and move the mouse to the Color panel on the right, select a color you like as your skin color. Here I use the following values: R255, G181, and B95. (Figure 4)
Figure 3: Create a graphic file, select a circular tool, and draw a basic circular area in the header
Figure 4: head color and size adjustment
Let's think, his face should not be a standard circle. Well, we want to sharpen his chin and click any point in the blank area outside the circular area to cancel the selection of the circular area. Select the white arrow tool in the toolbox and move it to the circle. In retrospect, when we were drawing a circle, we can see that this circle has four endpoints, up, down, and left. This is the basic operation point of the path that forms this circle. You can change the shape of the image by changing the position of any point. When the white arrow tool moves to any basic operation point, you will see a blank dot below it, indicating that this point is under your control. Click the left mouse button, and the graphic indicator line appears, indicating that the image is in the modification state. After the mouse is moved to any point, you can press and hold the left button to make any changes to the graphic shape. What are you waiting for? Pull down his chin. In the process of drawing your head, I hope you can remember the black arrow and white arrow operations as soon as possible. In the following text, we will not repeat this.
Figure 5: Fill and Stroke selection
Figure 6: Stroke palette
Next, it's time to draw his hair. In this step, we need to familiarize ourselves with the functionality of the Fill and Stroke selector (figure 5 ). Double-click the fill or stroke frame to select a color selector. The Stroke size is managed by the Stroke palette on the right. (figure 6) you can directly enter a number to determine the Stroke width. This step is a bit difficult. Let's test our mouse. Change the fill color to black. Select the pencil tool in the toolbox (Figure 7) and press and hold the left mouse button to show the lines on the canvas.
You can draw the shape of the hair in one breath, or draw the shape of the hair on the left, and then draw the shape on the right. There is a rough shape, because you can use the "black and white" to adjust it slowly, remember, be patient. After painting, you can put your hair on his head and adjust the size with a black arrow tool. (Figure 8)
Figure 7 Pencil tools
Figure 8: add the hair to the head
Add an ear to him. It's easy to draw a long elliptical shape, select the fill color, use the black arrow tool for scaling and rotation, and move to the right side. Because this part is post-painted, it will be located at the top of all images to cover the face. Adjust it. Right-click and select "Arrange & rarr; Send to Backward" in the pop-up menu. Then, copy and paste the ear, and then adjust it to the left of the ear. Both ears have come out. (Figure 9)
Figure 9: add the head behind the ear
The eyes are the place where the gods are transmitted in the painting. Isn't it difficult to draw? Ha, draw two Ovans, one filled with black and the other filled with white, as shown in the figure. Now, call the PathFinder panel. The shortcut key is Shift + F9. Use the black arrow tool to select the two Ovans. Press the Subtract button to complete the eye. (note that after you press Subtract, the original paths of the two Ovans are actually retained. If you press the "Expand" button next to them, the paths of the two Ovans are merged into one. Whether "Expand" is required depends on your needs .). Then, add an oval outside the eyes, place it under the eyes, and use the black arrow to adjust the size of the two. This is the eyes. (Figure 10)
Figure 10: eye rendering process
Figure 11: linear tools
The little boy is wearing a pair of glasses, so we need a pair of glasses. First, it's the lens. With the first few steps, you may think right away-it's an elliptic! Right, the lens is actually an elliptic adjusted with a white arrow tool, placed below the eyes. Then use the Line Segment tool on the toolbox to draw a straight Line. (Figure 11) adjust the skew and place it next to the lens to make a half frame. Well, he has half of his eyes. We need to draw out his whole eyes. Use the black arrow tool to select the half eye, right-click, and select "Transform (deformation) & rarr; Reflect (reflection)" in the pop-up menu )", in the Reflect sub-menu, select "Vertical" and click "Copy" in the lower right corner. We successfully made the other half of his eyes, carefully place this part in the appropriate position.
(Figure 12) the frame part in the middle of the glasses is actually an Arc produced by "Arc tool. The "Arc tool" is hidden behind the previously used linear tool. Click the line tool with the left mouse button and press and hold the left button. After a few seconds, the hidden menu will pop up for you to choose. Draw an arc and place it in the middle of the eyes with the black arrow tool. The eye drawing is complete. For future processing convenience, we need to combine this part, select the entire eye with a black arrow, right-click it, and select the "Group" command in the pop-up menu, group them into one, adjust the size, and put them on the head. (Figure 13) by the way, there is a nose. Draw an arc and place it under your eyes. The whole head is done! (Figure 14)
Figure 12: eye rendering process 1
Figure 13 eye rendering process 2
With the experience of creating headers, you should also have a certain understanding of body painting. The body we want to draw is shown in the figure. You can think of it as a combination of multiple Ovans and arcs. Our plotting in Illustrator is actually about the transformation and combination of these basic structures. After mastering these transformation techniques, you can create the desired shape as you like. In the following operations, we need to omit a lot of unnecessary words and use illustrations to illustrate the operation process.
Figure 14: completed headers
Hand plot is a typical combination of Ovans. Five Ovans are used here. Four are as fingers and one is as arm. It is easy to draw an ellipse as a finger. You just need to put them together as shown in the figure, and the ellipse as an arm needs to be adjusted with a white arrow tool, then they are combined with the "Merge" command in the "PathFinder" panel. It should be noted that, as the arm's elliptic is drawn behind, it will be placed on top of four fingers. You need to right-click it and choose "Arrange & rarr; send to Backward "put it behind your finger first. The specific operations in this step are shown in the figure. (Figure 15)
Figure 15: Hand plot
After drawing a hand, let's look back at the steps for drawing the eyes above. Because his body is symmetric between the left and right, we can use the same method as the eyes to make his other half hand. Similarly, we can also draw out his feet. That is to say, we only need to make three Ovans, one is his body, and the other two are combined into his other foot. The trunk completion diagram is shown in the figure. In this case, we need to draw 8 Ovans in total to draw a good body. Since we want to draw so many Ovans, I may wish to reveal another trick-press and hold down the Alt key when drawing an oval, press and hold the left mouse button and move it up and down to easily draw the desired shape. (Figure 16)
Figure 16: physical completion figure 1
Let me think about it. I seem to have missed something. Isn't he a boy? Ah! There should be something to reflect his male characteristics -- so I used two small arcs to show this. Now, I finally made a real boy's trunk. However, it is wrong to let him be naked. It is not good to say that he has caught a cold. Let him put on his pants. This white underwear uses a square shape, an elliptical shape, a straight line and an arc. Of course, there are also meticulous work of "Black and White. The specific steps are to be explored. When the pants are ready, you can immediately put them on. (Figure 17)
Figure 17: physical completion figure 2
Finally, the completed body part is combined with the "Merge" command, combined with the head, and then processed with the black and white arrow tools to get the cartoon boy we want. If you are still interested, you can try to change his hair style and skin color and create another different character image.
All right, the above information is a little compilation of this software for all the users of Illustrator to draw a cute cartoon little boy tutorial to parse and share all the content, users now see this. I believe that you are now very clear about the drawing method. Then, you can draw a cute cartoon boy by yourself according to the small series tutorial.
