Hello wonderful people, it's Geneviève and
my goal here on this channel is to teach you all about illustration and design. So if you're new, make sure to subscribe so
you don't miss any of the weekly videos and so that you can join our wonderful drawing
community. In this video, we're going to learn how to
draw really fun cartoon faces that are super easy but really cute. So grab your drawing tools, and let's get
started! So this video is great for both beginners
and intermediate artists. If you're a beginner, don't worry I'm going
to show everything step-by-step so you can definitely follow along it might just take
you a little bit more time and you might have to pause here and there in the video. If you're an intermediate, I'm going to be
showing you some tips in how to improve your workflow and just, just little things you
can do to bring your art to the next level in general. So the first step is to create a new canvas
in which we can draw, obviously. And the dimensions here are totally up to
you depending on your project. Here are the dimensions that I'm using and
it's literally just the size of the screen. And we're going to start with the sketch,
which might be both the most fun part but also maybe a little bit more the hardest part. So make sure you give yourself time here and
don't be too hard on yourself. So creating a new layer, renaming it to sketch
and then picking whichever color you like to sketch with. I personally like going with gray. And guys, in this video I'm always going to
be recommending two different brushes for every single step. So, one brush is going to be just a regular
free brush that comes with Procreate and is going to allow you to get really cool results,
and I'm also going to be recommending a brush that can allow you to maybe get a little bit
more of a professional result or save some time, basically just get your art to the next
level. And these brushes are the brushes that I've
created and that I use every single day when I draw you know in my job children's book
illustrations. So I really really love them but again there
is no pressure, they're not essential to completing this tutorial. If you want to check them out, however, they
will be linked in the descirption below along with a special promo code as usual for the
YouTube people. So if you have my illustration bundle just
pick the sketching brush, otherwise go in the sketching panel and use the HB Pencil
that comes with Procreate. So we're going to start really simply by drawing
a circle. Here my brush was way too big but if you're
drawing in Procreate one really neat tip is if you draw a circle hold you pencil and then
tap with a secondary finger. It creates like a perfect circle. So that's definitely something that you can
use to your advantage. And you can really play with any shape you
want for your head. You could go with a square or a rectangle,
a triangle, whatever. Here I'm just going with a circle and then
I'm refining the edges just a little bit to make it less... circle? hahaha! Yeah, so you can really start with whichever
shape you want. Once you have your main shape, go ahead and
draw this kind of + sign in the center of your face so a vertical line and then a horizontal
line. The horizontal line is going to be for the
eyes. In general, the lower the eyes are on the
face and the bigger they are, the younger your character is going to be. But that's not really the point of this video. I'm going to actually do another one about
showing age into cartoon faces but for now just remember this rule of thumb which is,
if you take the width of one eye, you can usually place it between the 2 eyes and then
on either sides of the eyes. So you're going to have the width of 5 eyes
across the head. The nose is super simple, it's just this little
curvy shape here and you can put it pretty much anywhere that you want around the center
of your plus shape. And same for the mouth, I quite like to put
if off center, I just think it's cuter but that depends on the emotion you want to show
as well. Same for the eyebrows, it depends on the emotion
- you might want to them higher or lower closer to the eyes or with different angles. Here I'm just keeping them fairly neutral. And at this point, you might want to make
your brush a little bigger and kind of go over some of your sketch line. So I recommend you don't necessarily worry
about erasing that much you just start by drawing very lightly with super thin lines
and then you go back in and kind of find the one line that you like. And we're really going to build on this sketch
step by step. So the next step is to add the irises. I personally like to go with super big circles,
I just think it's really cute and kind of center them in the eyes themselves and here
this is optional, but I also like to quickly fill in the shape of the iris just so I have
a better idea of how everything looks, 'cause it's kind of hard to get a good feel for the
eyes if the irises are like blank in the sketch. I also like to map out just very quickly 2
ovals or ellipses for the cheeks, and then fleshing out the cheeks a little bit more
in the profile line, so kind of the outside of the head of the character, just so that
it looks a little bit more like I want it to. But again, the size and the shape of the head
is totally up to you, you can experiment with different things. For the ears, I just go with this "C" shape
here and then draw kind of an inverted 5 inside, if that makes sense. So yeah, there's really nothing super complicated
here you can see the sketch that I'm working on is super rough, super quick, nothing too
precise here, that is definitely not the point. But feel free to pause the video at this point
and work on your sketch a little bit more, cause we're now going to move on and start
to add the hair. So obviously for the hair there's an infinite
amount of hairstyles you can draw. So seriously here, just play. Have fun with it. I personally find it's helpful to just think
of the hair more like an helmet. You know like the little Lego characters they
have separate hair pieces that you kind of just stick on the head. I like to think of my hair when I' drawing
cartoon characters a little bit like this. I think it's way less overwhelming thinking
of them as this solid shape that is draped over the head as opposed to a bunch of individual
little hair strands, that can be a bit difficult to manage. So when you're drawing cartoon hair, don't
be afraid to go and find references for hairstyles that you like. So you can just type hair styles on Google,
and then try to think of how these hairstyles would look like if they were made out of a
towel instead of just a bunch of separate hair strands. If you think of it that way, it's going to
be way easier to draw on your cartoon character. If you want your face to be a little bit more
feminine, go ahead and draw little eyelashes. I like to just draw two little pointy shapes
just like this. And before we move on to the color, I have
one little pro tip for you. If you click on the arrow tool here, you can
flip you sketch layer and that really helps to kind of see if something is out of place. so in my case, I'm happy with it, but you
might notice that one eye is way up high and one is too low or something like that, so
that's a really nice way to kind of double-check your sketch before adding the color. So once you have a rough sketch that you're
happy with, go ahead and change the blending mode to multiply. That is optional, but it's going to help. And you can also lower the opacity until you
can just barely see your sketch. You're then going to create a new layer, put
it below the sketch but we're not going to rename it just yet 'cause we're going to do
a few things, merge some layers and we would lose the name anyway. So now we're going to draw the face and for
that you can pick something that resembles skin color but don't worry too much because
we're going to tweak it a bit later. And, now, if you have the illustration brushes
you can use the base round brush, otherwise you can go and use the round brush that comes
in the airbrushing panel. And if you follow my watercolor tutorials,
make sure that you bring the opacity back up to 100%. And all we're doing here is really just drawing
the outlines of the head well, I should say the face because we want to also exclude the
hair so you're drawing the hairline here as well and make sure that you're being precise
because this shape is going to be the base for pretty much everything. And once you have your outline, making sure
that it is fully closed, you're just going to fill it in, either using auto-fill if you're
using Procreate or just the paint bucket in Photoshop for example. Once you have your basic shape, go ahead and
create a new layer, set it as a clipping mask so if you double-tap on the layer you're going
to have the clipping mask option, and you're going to pick a slightly lighter version of
your skin color. For the brush, if you have the illustration
brushes, use the basic texture, it is by far my favorite brush. It's just so cool. Otherwise, you can go in the sketching panel
and pick the 6B brush or 6B pencil I should say, it's definitely also going to work. And you're just going to roughly fill in your
shape. So you're going to see that the base color
that we use in the previous step is going to shine through or show through some of the
texture of this brush and that way you get to have some really cool undertones in you
skin. And I have a really important pro-tip for
you guys at this step. When you're filling in a shape, instead of
drawing this little zigzag type of motion, try to go and draw more of a spiral type of
motion. This is really going to make a big difference,
And that's something that I've personally learned by drawing with, you know, really
life pencils on real life paper. you can see if I'm drawing in a zigzag motions
there's a lot of gaps and it's really uneven but if you're drawing really tight little
spirals you get something that is much more blended, but still has lots of textures. So I'm going to just undo this and kind of
start over and yeah, draw big tight, little, spiral curls... whatever... All over the face, very quickly. And once you have you texture you can go back
and tweak the color of the shape layer, so the bottom layer. Just select it, and in the adjustment panel,
select hue, saturation and brightness, apply it to the entire layer, and then you can play
with all the settings. I'm personally just going to lower the brightness,
up the saturation just so that I can see the contrast a little bit more between the texture
and the base, and I'm also going to change the hue a little bit to make it just a bit
more pink so that my character looks more alive. When you're happy with your color, just merge
your layers by squeezing them together, and then you can rename this newly created layer
to 'face'. And we're pretyt much going to be doing the
exact same steps for the hair. So creating a new layer, not renaming it just
yet, and then you're going to pick whichever color you want the hair to be, but I mean...
you can always change it a bit later like you see so it doesn't matter that much at
this point. I'm going to go with a purple, because why
not? If you have the illustration brushes go with
the base square one it's just easier to draw angles with this one. Otherwise you can just stick with the hard
brush from the airbrushing panel and just like for the face all you're going to do now
is draw the outline of your hair. And guys, if you've watched this far int he
video, please go ahead and comment the word 'Cartoon'. I know it sounds crazy, but it really gives
me some interesting insight into how to pace my videos better, which in turns help me create
better tutorials for you guys. And it's also really cool because you guys
know me, but I don't know you, so whenever you comment something I get to see your username,
sometimes even your name and your picture, which is just so cool because I get to see
the really wonderful drawing community that we're building here on this channel which
is just so great. So go ahead and comment the word 'Cartoon',
and we'll keep going! So once you have your outlines for the hair,
just like for the face, we're going to fill it in with color, and then you might want
to use the eraser to kind of tweak this shape a little bit in some areas, and just make
sure that everything looks super nice, and just as you want it. And here I've notices I forgot this little
stray hair piece at the top which is something that I draw on most of my characters. I just think it's so cute. I encourage to to experiment with little features
like this that you carry through most of your illustrations, cause that's really what style
is all about you know, finding a little something that you draw on different characters and
just bring it back. You're also going to draw the eyebrows on
this layer, so again, outline, then fill them in. And just like for the face, again the next
step is going to be to add texture, so I'm going to speed this up because there's really
no point in you watching me add the texture, but basically what you do: you create a new
layer, you apply it as a clipping mask, then you change your color to a slightly lighter
version of your base and then with a textured brush (so the basic texture or the 6B pencil)
you just go over your entire shape, adding some texture. Here you want to make sure that you kind of
follow the direction of the hair, so that you can kind of use this texture to your full
advantage? No, you can use this texture to it's full
potential, or to your advantage whichever you want, so yeah, just following the direction
of the hair here is going to just be, you know, a little pro tip again. And just like for the skin, we're going to
go back and change the color of the hair or the base shape of the hair a little bit, so
hue, saturation and brightness, apply to the entire layer. I like to change the hue here, so the skin
I kind of made it a little bit more pink, but here' I'm really changing the hue so that
there is a lot of dimension in the hair, and so that the base color looks fairly different,
like quite different from the top color. And once you have something that you like,
go ahead, merge your layers and rename the new layer to 'hair'. And this next step is probably one of my favorite
steps in this whole tutorial, pretty much equal to the very last step of the tutorial,
so anyway. It is to create a new layer. This one we're going to apply it as a clipping
mask on the face layer, and we're going to rename it to 'cheek', or 'cheeks', haha. And we're going to pick a picker and darker
version of our base skin color. So yeah, you just go back in your history,
pick your skin color and make it just a bit more dark and just a bit more red. And with the same brush that you used for
the texture, so the basic texture or the 6B pencil, you're just going to add a little
but more of a skin flush tint on some areas. So I like to do it on the top of the ear,
then I draw and color in the nose, and then go in and move to adding some really roughly
sketched, drawn, colored-in cheeks. So here you're using the same technique that
you used to add the texture on both the skin and the hair, but you're using it in more
of a localized area as opposed to just covering the entire shape. And I really like to kind of draw above the
nose as well, this really lighter, lighter than the cheeks of course, just this really
nice kind of arch above the nose, it makes the character feel sooo cute. And here the goal is really just to kind of
build on the texture and add a little bit more color variation on your character, but
don't worry too much about the edges. If you have something weird like that, you
can always use the smudge tool, setting it to 'stucco', in the painting brushes that
come with Procreate and just kind of refine the blending of your edges. You don't want to blend in the center cause
you're going to lose the nice texture that you worked so hard on including, but yeah
you can blend the edges in so that everything looks a little bit more smooth. Great! So now we're going to add the eyes, it's about
time! So go ahead and create a new layer, rename
it to 'eyes' and we're going to do this in a few steps. So on this eye layer we're just going to color
in the white section, so the eyeball, but you can see I'm not using a pure white, I'm
more going with a cream color. That way, we can add more light in the eye
later. And for that I'm just going to use the base
round brush. If you're using the free Procreate brushes
just go back to the hard brush in the airbrushing panel, and just like for the face and the
eye (*hair) you're just going to outline your eyes and then fill them in with auto-fill,
color-fill, I never remember exactly what it is called, but you're going to fill them
in. Once you have your basic shape, go ahead and
create a new layer, right on top of the eye layer and you're going to apply it as a clipping
mask and you're going to rename it to 'iris'. And so we're kind of separating the eyes and
the iris just so we can play with the color of the iris later, that's just a pro tip again. And for now I'm literally just going with
the same color of the hair, because I don't quite know yet, so you can definitely do that
as well. And then we're going to tweak the color and
get something that we like. So just like for everything, outlining the
shape and then filling it in, nothing complicated here. So speaking of tweaking the color, you know
the drill by now, you go in the adjustments panel, at the top, hue, saturation and brightness,
to the entire layer and then you can play with all the little settings until you find
an eye color that you like. And you're going to see here, I'm going to
speed this up because I struggled. But this is a really nice technique to use
because you kind of end up finding color combinations that you would not necessarily have expected
if you just went and said 'ok I want brown eyes' or something like that. So, I think you know, it's really cool to
experiment and just play around and see if something catches your eye, no pun intended,
and then go with that you can also add some lighting effect on your eyes, I like to create
again a new layer, clipping mask, renaming to one to 'shadow' and changing the blending
mode to 'linear burn' I think? Yes, linear burn! And you're probably going to want to lower
the opacity but you can always tweak that later, I put it at around 50% for now. And then, with a gray-ish blue, faily pale
color, you can just kind of color with your same texture brush. You can color kind of half your eyeball. So this adds a lot of dimensions to your character. It's kind of not super realistic, but it's
kind of in a way showing what the eyelid would... like the shadow the eyelid would cast on the
eye, which again not realist, but still I think it looks really cool and adds just a
bit more details on your piece. And you can also create a new layer, renaming
it to 'lights' this one is not a clipping mask, but you do want to change the blending
mode of this one to 'add' and do we lower the opacity? not yet! And for this we're going with almost a white
and you can really any little shape here that you want in your eye, I'm going with just
a circle, or oval. And it just adds so much more like to your
character and you can play with the opacity if you want, but I was fine with what I had. Ad you might want to group all of your eye
layers, so to do that just swipe them towards the right, and then use the group option at
the top. And you can rename your group to 'eyes, collapse
it using this little, like arrow on the side. It just makes your file a bit more organized. You're then going to create a new layer, renaming
it to 'face details' and here I made a mistake. The layer should actually be above the hair. So I'm going to fix that later, but I'm just
telling you now so you don't have to make the same mistake as I am making. And you're going ton use either the 'Outlines'
brush if you have the illustration brush set, or the 6B brush if you don't have the illustration
brush set, and you're going to pick kind of a dark spot of your skin color and make it
even darker. And here' with a fairly small brush, all we're
going to do is kind of draw little lines where there's an overlap in your different facial
features. So we're not really going it with full on
outlines everywhere, but we do want to add a little bit more details and dimension int
he piece. And we also want to draw a few elements that
we hadn't drawn before, like the nose, the mouth, and this little reversed, curvy 5 shape
in the ear. So since this is a tutorial, I'm not going
to spend a whole lot of time here but if you're drawing a piece that is zoomed in on the face,
you definitely want to pause the video and go in full details here. And what I mean by that is you're going to
outline or add a line whenever a facial feature overlaps another one to really make sure that
you separate them super well. But you also might want to use this facial
detail layer to kind of add a little more texture and a little bit more grit. So a good example of that is what I'm going
to show you on the ear just now. If you zoom in and just kind of add little
crosshatches, that can be a really cool look in your piece. So that's something you could do for example
on the bottom of the face, maybe around the eyes, maybe even on the cheeks and the ears. Just adding little crosshatches everywhere
can add a lot of texture. You could also draw the eyelashes and kind
of the eyelids on this layer. I like to go ahead and create a new layer
in my eye, 'eye' group. So an eyelash just on top of everything. That way, if I end up moving the eye group,
the eyelashes are going to, you know, follow, which is really helpful. And with the same brush, so the 'Outlines'
brush or the 6B brush, and just a darker brown or even a black if you want, you're going
to outline the eyes. And I like to not outline the entire eye and
just kind of outline the outside, if that makes any sense. And then if you have eyelashes you can also
draw this little pointy thing on one side. It just looks cute. And I don't know about you, but this is so
exciting to me. Seeing the character comes together just like
this is so nice. So at this point you can also go ahead and
hide your sketch layer because we have everything mapped out and colored now, we just don't
need it anymore. And basically what we're going to do is we're
going to create a layer above the hair and rename it do 'hair details'. And kind of just like we did for the face
we're going go in and add some lines to show, well first, wherever there's some overlap
between the hair and something else. And this is also where we're going to show
little hair strands. So, without going crazy and drawing a bunch
of them, we're going to go and draw you know a handful of them just to show that it's not
just a towel, that it's actually hair. So here, I'm really going fairly quickly and
loose and kind of drawing sketchier lines instead of just one line that cover an entire
section of the hair, I just draw a bunch of shorter lines again to play with more texture
and show the feel of hair, and I'm kind of outlining the top part of the hair. Well, the top part, the place where the hair
overlaps with the face, but then I'm also going in and like I was saying, just adding
some little strands to show that the hair is not just this flat thing. And just like for the face here I'm not going
to spend a whole lot of time because I feel like this tutorial is definitely already long
enough like that. But this is definitely a step where you can
pause the video again and go in and add some little crosshatches and little details and
really go crazy and have a super precise piece. If needed be, of course. If your character is just in the background
of your illustration and you can barely see it, don't even bother about adding details,
just don't. But if it is zoomed in on the face of your
character of if the character is the main focus, definitely don't be afraid to spend
more time on this stage and experiment with different sections with crosshatches, different
sections without crosshatches and just, you know, play around and experiment. That is part of drawing, that is part of finding
your style. You might also need to go in with the eraser
and just clean up some lines a little bit, but yeah, Nothing more complicated than this. You're just going to play with textures and
don't be afraid of having lines that look a bit crazy, that's going to really look good
in the end when everything comes together. Also, don't forget the eyebrows, so for the
eyebrows I like to kind of just outline the bottom, leave the top part open, and then
just add a few little strands to kind of show that again they're not just like flat plastic
eyebrows, they actually have a little bit of movement to them. Ok, so we're going to start adding a little
bit more texture, lights and shadows. So to do that, go ahead and create a new layer
above the cheek layer, apply it as a clipping mask and change the blending mode to add. This layer, we're going to rename it to 'face
lights' or 'face highlights', however you want it, and with a super light beige color,
you're going to add some lights on your face. So here, that is up to you, what I like to
do is add 2 little shapes on the cheeks and then kind of outline the top of the nose,
maybe add a little bit of a reflection or glow on the top of the ear. And if I'm feeling really crazy, I'm also
going to line one side of the face. But again, not all the time, only if I'm feeling
crazy. So again, this is another step where you definitely
want to experiment and see what you like, you can see here I kind of started by outlining
the bottom of the face as well, which sometimes look good but I didn't like it here so I just
did undo a bunch of times. and then I tried with this ear and yeah, I
kind of liked that. So experiment here, you can also experiment
with the opacity I quite like to kind of lower the opacity, I'm going to show you here, right
at the point where it shifts from being really white to showing some sort of transparency. But again, I'm being very precise here, you
can just experiment and see what you like. And by now, you probably see me coming because
you're and expert now. We're going to do the same thing on the hair,
so creating a new layer, applying it as a clipping mask and changing the blending mode
to 'add'. And we're going to rename this layer to 'hair
light' instead of 'face light' obviously! And with the same pale beige color, we're
going to add some highlights on the hair, So just like for the hair details layer, here
your goal is to just show that the hair is hair. So you're going to draw some crazy strands,
I mean you see here, I'm literally going in with a spiral. You just want to experiment. You might also want to add some like big sections
like this to show that there's like very glossy highlight on your hair. But seriously, experiment, go crazy, don't
be afraid to do stuff that might seem a little bit insane, just play with it. And it also might be helpful to go ahead and,
before kind of drawing all of your hair texture, play with the opacity a little bit. So kind of drawing a little bit of the lines,
a little bit of textures, and then lowering the opacity, finding something you like and
then going back in and kind of finishing adding your highlights. And and this point we really only have a few
steps left, but they're probably the most important and also the easiest to do, so definitely
go ahead and make sure you watch until the end. We're going to start by kind of grouping all
of our layers together. It's just neater. So again, you just swipe your layers towards
the right and then tap 'group'. And then inside the group, but on top of the
'face details' layer, you're going to create a new layer that you're going to rename to
'shadows'. And this layer again, super important, super
easy. So for the shadow you can go back to the same
color you used in the eye. because we're going to tweak it later again. We just want to have a basic color that we
use. And speaking of basic, I'm going to use the
basic texture, you could use the shader as well. Or, again, if you don't have the illustration
brushes, just stick with the 6B brush, and you're going to change the blending mode of
this shadow layer to 'Linear Burn' and maybe lower the opacity somewhere, you know, around
30% for now. But you can see I'm already going in and tweaking
it and adding it to 50, so... You can always go back and tweak the opacity
and the color. And basically here, all we're doing is adding...
shadows! Guys, I've been doing this, working on this
tutorial for probably 6 hours by now and I think I'm getting a bit delirious, so... sorry! But yeah, the shadows it's basically again,
whenever you have a piece... I was going to say a piece of furniture, wow! A facial feature that overlaps another, or
the face overlapping the hair, you're just going to want to add a little bit more dimension
and show a bit of a depth feel in your piece in general. So I'm just going here kind of on the bottom
of the face, on the bottom part of the hair which is kind of behind the head, the face,
whatever! Below the ear, and the top part where the
hair meets the top of the head. But I mean you can experiment and that's also
going to depend, here I'm just drawing a random face that's just floating on a white background
but the shadows are obviously going to depend on the lighting source if you're drawing a
full illustration. So keep that in mind but this is definitely
very important step to kind of add more again dimension in your piece and pull everything
together so that it is more coherent piece in the end. And just like when we did the cheeks twenty
thousand years ago, don't worry too much about the edges here because you can always use
the smudge tool set to 'stucco brush', by the way, just as a reminder, and go in and
blend the edges a little bit so that it looks better. And in anything that you're drawing, it's
always a good idea to try and kind of keep a good balance between sharp edges in your
shadows and in your lights and also smooth edges. So just keep that in mind and experiment with
that. And like for everything in this tutorial,
you can always go back and just kind of tweak the color here. I thought that mine was a little bit too cold,
so I just went in and tweaked everything a little bit so that I could have something
that blended better with the general vibe of the piece and the skintone. Speaking of vibe of the piece, one little
pro tip that I have for you, when you're drawing an illustration, it's really cool to kind
of add a secondary color to it. And a way to do that very easily and quickly
is to create a new layer on top of everything and call it like 'extra color' or something
like that . It doesn't really matter that much. And changing the blending mode of this layer
to 'soft light'. You're going to pick a color that is super
bright and quite crazy, so in my case here I'm just going to go with a bright blue. And you want it to be saturated, so you want
it to be, you know, colorful. And with the same texture brush, you're just
going to add this color on some elements of your piece, to make it a bit more dynamic. So what I like to do is to kind of think that
maybe there's something blue on the ground that is reflecting on my character. So all the surface of the character that are
pointing downwards, I kind of add some blue there. So the bottom of the face, the bottom of the
eyes, the bottom of the hair, below the nose, the bottom of the ears. Everything that is pointing downwards. And then you can go in with your smudge tool
and blend it in because we don't really want any dark... dark? Any sharp edges here we just want to add this
kind of secondary color to kind of make the piece feel more interesting and just a bit
more professional. So you can see it's nothing too complicated
but if I go ahead and hide the layer, you're going to see it adds a big difference and
it just makes the piece feel more interesting. Again, I know I keep using that word but it's
really what it is. Another cool thing that you can do is to add
kind of freckles. It's not necessarily freckles, but just kind
of a little bit more texture again. So to do that, create a new layer, rename
it to 'freckles', or at least try to! I always struggle renaming my layers because
my handwriting on the iPad is... not the best! And you can change the blending mode to either
'Linear Burn' or 'Linear Light', you can experiment with both. 'Linear Burn' is going to make your color
darker, 'Linear Light' is going to make it lighter. And if you have the illustration brushes you
can just use the freckle brush, it's going to just be faster, otherwise you can draw
the freckles individually. And for the color I literally went with the
same blue that I used for the hair but I'm going to tweak that later. And you can place this layer wherever you
want between the other layer that you're using. I'm personally putting it above the face lights,
but not as a clipping mask. And you can see I'm already going in and changing
the hue. I think in general, whenever I draw character
for books I kind of have one layer in which the freckles is pretty much the same color
as the eyes or as the hair, and then I have another layer in which the freckles are pretty
much the same color as regular freckles, so more of a brown skin tone. So you can see here I have the purple freckles
and then I'm creating a new layer just like I was saying, renaming it to 'freckles 2'
or at least trying to rename it to freckles 2. And this one the blending mode I'm going to
use 'Linear Burn' I think. But again, this is totally something that
you want to experiment with, and kind of see what works with your skin tone, your hair
color, and play. But I just think in general, adding freckles
especially just random colors that kind of might also like spill out of the face, as
you can see here on the right side, they're not even on the skin anymore. They're just spilling out. So they're not necessarily freckles like I
was saying. They're just added texture that makes your
character so much more interesting. And the skin just more interesting as well
in general. And it's always the simple details that make
a big difference in the end. And there we go guys! We did it! This was how to draw a cartoon face in Procreate. I really hope you enjoyed this video, and
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