What is our YouTube? It is your boy, Domins here at CommonSansGraphics. And today in this video, a guy with special treat, back at it again with another video, but in this video, I'm going to be teaching you guys how to do line art in Adobe Illustrator, how to make your anime pieces of art look amazing, how from going from a sketched piece of art to a nice crisp piece of art with really nice fine black lines. And we're going to jump into it. The first thing is by creating a brush that is the most important thing when it comes to making your line art, when you want it to look like this out of your sketching phase, just to make it look really crisp and free start coloring and stuff like that. But let's jump into it. So the very first thing that you want to do is you want to pull up your ellipse tool, which is L on your keyboard and make a very, very small ellipse, a very small circle. And this is what your line is going to be, but you really want to make it very small and very fine and very good looking on the edges where it's very sharp and pointy, almost kind of like an arrow where the middle there is a bit of a little bit of girth for the line to pull through. And then after that, what you're going to want to do on top of your toolbars on the top of the screen, there's little pull dab to open up your brush menu. You want to click the plus symbol in that menu and then you want to click on art brush in that other menu that pops up. Click OK. Then another menu is going to pop up. You can just ignore this one and just click OK as well. You just beat it through and then pretty much boom. Your perfect brush for drawing anime is pretty much done. Now what I always do is I always change the sizes of it because I don't want to play with the scroll wheel or the size wheel because sometimes it can be very inaccurate. I can pick a size brush that I'm not trying to pick. Usually it's always in between 0.5 through 3 and the reason why I have this on the side is because I can quickly click on each individual one to get the correct size that I'm looking for and I'm able to differentiate which parts of the body has more bolted lines versus which parts of the body has more fine lines. But let's jump into the drawing process. So whenever I'm doing my line work for my anime, one thing you always want to do is you want to make sure you have very long strokes with your drawing. You don't want to do little small sketching strokes. You want to have them to be pretty much even uniform, nice, good, strong, solid, long lines and it takes practice. Do not fret. It's Adobe Illustrator or you got to do is undo something that might not look right to you. Very quick and simple. That's not worry about. The second thing that I do when I'm doing my first initial line work right here is that I overlap almost everything. You can see right here with the chin line and her neck lines. The lines are overlapping. It's a very old technique that I do. But it makes things very clean and uniform when it comes to the end of the entire project. It's a pathfinder type of thing. You have to expand all the lines and then you go into pathfinder then divide and then you go into delete all the little cat stales is what people call it. Cat stale is just hanging out the end of whatever in the corner, whatever you want to call it. And pretty much that's it. That's how you clean it up to getting it to one of the best sharpest looking cleanups. You can possibly get in a vector software like Adobe Illustrator. And that's pretty much it when it comes to setting up your character for all of the line work. You just want to plug away at it and you know, take your time. Do not rush yourself when plugging away at each individual line. Do not forget to change the size of certain brushes and stuff like that when you're creating because it just helps show more emphasis certain body parts. For example, I made her chin line very big and bold that I use size three for this her little chin and then for her neck I use size two. And then for certain parts that were here, majority of it was size one, but for the bottom section or here and there was size two and you just want to plug away at it and just keep on running with it. Make sure you're taking those really long big strokes that I was talking about earlier because it helps everything stay uniform. If you do not think you have a very solid hand, if you think you have a very shaky hand when doing something Adobe Illustrator does have handicaps built into the software, all you got to do is double click or triple click the brush button in your essentials toolbar and it will open up a menu that will allow you to adjust how much you want your brush stroke to be smooth versus soft when you're going through so much when you click smooth. Whatever you do makes the brush look more smooth, more straightened. It's not going to be all lumpy and stuff. It's going to be more streamlined, you know. And that's pretty much it when it comes to that part. And so pretty much to wrap up this video as you see here, I'm now doing the part I mentioned earlier with the expand object pathfinder and divide everything. I'm not cleaning up all the ends that were left out. And like I said earlier, this really does help out when it comes to speed and accuracy and making sure you're learning your lines stay very nice and sharp. The reason why I do this is because if I were to use a traditional calligraphy pressure brush and then I start to plug away at it, a lot of the lines can become distorted and misshaped when you use the eraser tool or if you divide it unproperly. And it's a longer process. In my eyes, this process is a lot faster to me. I can bang out an entire image in like two minutes, no time at all. It's really quick and real fast. Little tedious is because you have to click here, click there, but it's Adobe Illustrator. If you mess up, all you gotta do is undo redo. Doesn't matter. And let's switch up things a little bit to talk about other stuff. So I mentioned this in my previous video that I'm trying to change up the way how I do things. I'm trying to take my initial Annie Monday images that I do on Monday and I'm trying to break them down into sections. Usually my videos would be, I would go through certain phases and then at the end of the video, it would be a speed art doing the whole entire completion thing, but I'm deciding to chop all of that up. So like the first part would be like the sketching and stuff like that. Then maybe on Wednesday, I could throw it what I'm doing right now, the line art phase or whatever. Usually it was what I call it, whatever Wednesday. And then maybe you know Friday or Saturday, I can do the coloring. And then maybe at the end of all of that, I could throw it all together and just make it into a speed art after having everything broken down. But let me know what you guys think about that. I really do like your guys' feedback about how I'm trying to do my new process. It's not too crazy or too different. I'm pretty much just chopping things up in the sections just so I know that I can have more content down the way. And of course, I'm going to be also doing other things here and there as usual, as typical Domestial, as what it used to be, what it is now. It's just what I'm trying to shoot for. But that's pretty much it. Let me know what you guys think about this video. Make sure you guys rate, comment, subscribe. Your boy, Dom is here at Comments and Graphics. Your boy out.