How to create a 1/2 cartoon digital portrait

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hey welcome to make a mark studios

my name is miss v and today we're going

to be drawing

a half face digital cartoon portrait

this is a really fun activity in which

half of the face

is the photograph and half of the face

is a

digitally drawn cartoon portrait we're

going to be using a free web-based

drawing program called clucky.com

but you can use any digital drawing

program that you prefer

i highly recommend it has the capability

to do layers

the first thing you're going to want to

do is go to file

import and choose the photo you want to

use

choose it as a layer and then stretch it

to fit your canvas

go to edit and crop to remove any excess

canvas

if needed so that your photograph takes

up the entire

canvas click the plus sign under the

layer tab

and add a layer then click rename

and rename it outline make sure that

this layer is above

your photograph then select your

photograph

layer and bring the opacity down to

about 25

on your outline layer you're going to

start

by drawing a line that divides your

photo in half

you can be creative with how you divide

it it doesn't have to be a straight

horizontal or vertical line

it can be a curvy line like this one

seen here

and then you want to take your time

outlining all of the contours

of the portrait when you're doing little

details

like eyes make sure you zoom in

using zoom in and zoom out icons in the

top right on clucky you can control

how close up you're looking at your

image and using the

hand tool you can move around your

canvas

let's take a little break to go over how

to save your work on clicky

you'll want to go to the file tab and

you'll see a few different options

you can click save which saves your work

you can save it as a png

psd which is a photoshop file or you can

save

individual layers note that when you

save it as a png

it will compress all of your layers into

one

a good way to work is to browser storage

save it

you'll see it says store and it stores

the current state of your image

and it'll be loaded again with layers

each time that you open up clucky

so if i were to exit out of clucky and

open it back up

as long as i haven't done any major

reboot on my computer

and deleted anything then you should

still have all of your layers there

so let's keep working our next step is

to go to the layers tab

and add another layer we're going to

rename this layer the color layer

and we're going to make sure we drag it

below the outline layer

by dragging it below the outline layer

we'll be able to color in

our cartoon portrait but still be able

to see those black lines on top

just like before as you're adding color

make sure that you zoom in to get finer

details

you can change your brush size to get

better detail

since this is a cartoon it doesn't have

to be realistically colored

you can have fun with expressive color

in the hair

clothing and skin

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the next step is to go back to the

layers tab and we're going to add one

last layer

and call this our background color layer

we're going to drag this underneath the

color layer

what's cool about that is that you'll be

able to color in your background

without affecting the color of the

cartoon on top

as you work you might want to go back to

your photo layer

and bring the opacity up just to get a

feel for what it's starting to look like

and your very last step is to start to

add some value and details

going back to your color layer you can

use the eyedropper tool

to sample colors throughout your

composition and then you can use the

blending brush

which is the second brush tool in from

the left

and you can explore different levels of

blending and opacity

and different values of the colors

your background doesn't have to be

realistic you can get really fun and

expressive with this space

add some patterns add some quirky

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details

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as you work you might want to explore

the edit tab

on clucky there's some cool features

that you can do to certain layers

like changing the hue and saturation to

see what different colors would look

like

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when you're done don't forget to save

your work and here's my finished example

of my half cartoon digitally drawn

portrait

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