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Lesson 32 Introduction to Tracing a Character Tutorial

Get COMPLETE COURSE FOR FREE at http://tr4ckit.com/0mhb Hi this is Mark Diaz for www.2danimation101.com, In the next couple of lessons, I will show you how to do the Overshoot Technique to give a finished look to your character designs. This is what we are going to do. The first stage will be the preparation 1. Preparation In here we will import the image we are going to trace. Then, after we import it, we will lower the opacity to make it easier for tracing. Then we will move to the second stage. 2. Tracing We will start drawing over it, but, we will overshoot our lines. The purpose is to have overlapping lines. This is why is called the overshoot technique, because every line we do has to be overshoot. Then after everything is traced, we change the width profile of the lines to have a variable width. With thin endings and thicker middle. After we have finished with the lines we move to the next stage, the cleaning. 3. Cleaning In here, we will select all the strokes and expand appearance... make it live paint, and expand the paint into paths. That way we can get rid of the overshot lines. Deleting every little piece that doesn’t belong to the design, until we have a clean outline. 4. Painting After we have a clean drawing, we will create a color palette in the swatches panel. Then, we will make it live paint again so we can paint it and just start painting it. Easy. 5. Shading Then, after we have the drawing all painted and ready, we will expand the live paint into paths once again so we can add shadows. We will use the knife tool for that. Just selecting each area, cutting it, and changing the color to a darker tone. And finally, after all the shadow is there, we will add some highlights. Interesting? Ok. This is what we will do in the following lessons. If you are feeling brave, you won’t need the other lessons to go into detail, and this video will be enough. But for those of you starting in illustrator, let’s jump right in to the next lesson to prepare the image for tracing. See you there.