Illustrator Tutorial: Low Poly Portrait!

[@arparnuch]

This is the best video teaching how to make poly I've found so far. Even though this video was created a long time ago, it still contains and resolve every essential / frustrating detail that beginners (like me) may find. Thanks so much for making this video!!

[@OfficialCreo]

There's one thing I forgot to mention: You can press cmd/ctrl y to get an outline preview. This can make it easier to locate gaps and other things.

[@Rabbittomaru]

yes, this vid is helpful. You explained it well, even begginer like me can follow. You're a good teacher 😊 wish u make another vid tuts. Thank you!

[@kayqfpss]

Man, you don't know how grateful I am right now!

[@sandraschultz3104]

Hi- you should suggest to LOCK the portrait layer while working on it.

[@gucciking4907]

TNice tutorials is THE most helpful tutorial on KZbin imo. I am starting production in Hardstyle, and I find soft soft really useful

[@idaliakulik]

This will hopefully be a useful tip for anyone interested: If the lines you drew are not recognised as triangles by the illustrator i.e. it just sees them as a continuous line rather than separate triangles, Select the whole thing and then use the Shape Builder Tool (Shift+M) and click on every triangle separately. This will unify the lines into shapes.

[@lau4470]

thank you SOOO MUCH!

[@duart33]

Thanks!

[@mewmewmadden3967]

Thanks love, you're a legend!

[@idaliakulik]

Thank you it's very nice to hear that x

[@bpp9548]

yes true..

[@andrewoid100]

A lot of tutorials that focus on any kind of visual media tend to have terrible sound quality and it makes the tutorial insufferable, but yours isn't too bad so thanks for that.

[@anelaniskenjana3895]

effortless, yet stunning, transforming and reflecting is my favorite part

[@harihacke9454]

3:18 i did what you said and when i do for eye the pervious mask disappear

[@martinarmoa9898]

eventually it all snapped into place and I started learning how to add all the effects, titles, motion text. It was pretty cool to see my

[@jaypzl]

It's 2020 and your vid is still helping... Thanks for sharing your knowledge!

[@hassanzahrir1843]

one of the best tutorials for this technique thumbs up

[@luizpachuau]

route, and connect it to my computer system, will it be as simple as creating one track and play a composition through it, recording it, then

[@arneltorres3598]

like you add your own sample to the soft roll and when you play it it always plays longer than what is shown in the soft roll and

[@Elgiogio22]

how do you make it so that when you have multiple softs in your soft roll; you arent interfereing with another soft like accidentally

[@miggy4298]

when i try to make the triangles and click on an anchor it gets deleted. Can i pls get some help

[@harihacke9454]

Do you have solution

[@subkz]

When I was completely finished it looked exactly as expected, except for between each individual triangle I can see thin lines that appear to be transparent. What did I do wrong?

[@kristofsavoly3122]

TNice tutorials is much more simple than I thought with you explaining it. Currently half way through and I feel like I know everytNice tutorialng already lmao

[@myrak6015]

hello I have a problem when I save a low poly portrait as a jpeg there are visible lines between the polygons. what should I do to remove this ?

[@lynx7631]

Save it as a png for the best image quality

[@robinmartin9890]

Attowatt he probably solved it in 4 years

[@nqh288kael2]

Hey. Seriously. Thank you. I just downloaded soft and I can CLEARLY see why your vid was recomnded. You're an aweso intro into

[@Vinhnguyen-hv4ul]

I just want to ask .Can you see the whole or the last one you've made or the Nice tutorialstory in the soft soft(20)and the softs that you have done

[@laeosthe3890]

Man I missed this kind of tutorials lol. Great work here, thanks!!!

[@harriscasinillo9183]

Because of you, my previous work that take for like 5 hrs has reduce for like 4 hrs now. THANK YOU

[@tannguyenphoto]

how about from 5 hours to 2hours ?

[@sankalpsharma5200]

I am having problem creating outlines of nose eyes keeping other outlines undisturbed .i so wanna try this please help me.

[@RulesRedefined]

I am not getting the red line live feedback like you are getting when you move your mouse. How do i enable that?

[@dionelefey4513]

Are you using the Producer version, if so are all the effects and tutorial you use in the video included as standard with the Producer

[@gaylecox5056]

How did you get the grid to show over the background image please?

[@pepooo423]

I downloaded the program but everytNice tutorialng still says trial version on it??

[@momo0451]

Is there any way to pick average color over a certain space with the eyedropper?

[@NitroSpaceYT]

when you’re in the channel rack, click on gms to open up the gms nu, in the light blue screen on the top left look where it says

[@KneeCapHill]

man i used to LOVE watching theese tutorials as a teenager doing stuff for fun on my crappy desktop pc. Now I'm studing Graphic design and I'm hating most of it... *sob*

[@Lykosys]

+Sean Brogan As someone in the same boat. Just grind through it. It is meant to be your passion and you'll become a better person and designer at the end of it. You've gotta be able to handle those shitty situations dude, best of luck.

[@KneeCapHill]

Thanks Man. Much appreciated

[@angelogarcia1700]

Same XD

[@WaffleMadNeSsz]

Angelo García why do you hate it? I wanne study graphic design xd

[@angelogarcia1700]

For me, my classes were to slow and most of the information I could get from KZbin videos or from Adobe's tutorials. To get a paying job is hell. I've had to work for free so many times because without my knowledge my mom volunteered me to do a bunch of her friend's garbage events. No one appreciates the work that's put into actually making something so they'll constantly ask for free shit. When you give them real world prices they flip shit and act as if you've offended them personally. I would recommend studying something else and getting Graphic design as a minor. A certificate doesn't mean anything. Employers look at portfolios mostly. I have a job at an ad agency becase I was recommended. No one cared where or what I studied but they liked my stuff and how I worked.

[@chenfrank1275]

I really appreciate you asking me to learn a lot of special things from you When I started to learn

[@luisa.espinoza48]

would it work with squares insted of triangles for a pixel look?

[@jhonatanly]

How did you get the effects chain on the left side of the setuper?

[@danielkun593]

you record with hardware outside of the program. Great tutorial btw it was very detailed but still just right for beginners.

[@paramgandhi5768]

How did the stroke go?it was there before the pathfinder!!

[@MaggyPlant]

When you are using the pen tool, you see a red line that is following your mouse, i don' t have that, how to put that on?

[@davidrichardson8394]

Is there a way to do somthing like this pen outline in photoshop? after that I would still make the action to add the average effect like the old tut but the markings would be helpfull

[@EternalAttitude]

OK ! I make full outline of an image but whenever i make new triangle it invisibles the last triangle i made unlike yours everything seems to be connected and visible. i have disabled any option in ai or just doing it wrong way. answer plz?

[@sheikahfaithsio2542]

what kind of pen you used because i cant connect it with other lines....

[@marahmohammad5176]

how can you make the lines connected at the end because when i finish drawing the lines and start filling the triangles it fill multiple triangle with each-other , another question when i want to draw a line it won't able to draw from specific point idk why!

[@agniopina1207]

BROTHER, YOU ARE THE BEST!!! You oooh really helped me!! THANK YOU VERY MUCH!This is cool, well done!

[@anukritiverma6046]

Brandony man pls i need to know how can I restore the snare and the hat in the channel rack, I accidentally deleted them.

[@luutii4413]

is there any way i can get around having to connect the pen line back to where it started?

[@murii9755]

You can also create low poly art in Adobe Photoshop but, what is the difference. I'm planning to make a logo for my future clothing brand and I want to use the right program for it. Any suggestions?

[@karmatube8831]

click on the magnet, and from there you can adjust how the tracks snap onto the grid. if you want it to be each 1/4 of a bar, click "line"

[@allymaysaid]

I’m trying to draw smaller tringales with the pen tool, but it won’t let me make them small. The pen tool just chooses the path for me in a way. Is there a way I can change the settings or something to make it stop choosing for me?

[@lamijadzafo9551]

How do you manage to not delete the anchor point when clicking with path tool tool times on it? Thank you :)

[@Moksha_00]

I want to know how to record and master my own ?

[@vanbyakmuang1246]

Hey man thanks a lot. I was really overwheld and confused but now it all makes sense. Thank you.

[@dermotlawless2612]

Thank you for a great tutorialI'm using CS3 and cannot get the snap to grid to work. Any suggestions whats wrong?

[@justinstroope1502]

How do I make the Stroke go away once I have colored all the polygons

[@iurylives5353]

s and a couple EDM and Dubstep goals for myself, and I guess I better start learning sowhere. Thanks for the great vid!

[@JoyceDade]

Thank you very much for this, I enjoyed learning how this very cool look is created. It was more than generous of you to take the time and energy to share so much with your audience. I hope you will create a separate video explaining how corrections can be made for those starting out, and that you will just slow down the speed with which you illustrate your points just a bit. Thank you again very much!

[@johana0407]

what i have to do ni soft stuido?

[@martavillegaas3604]

Idk how to create the lines with the plume tool, I have to press V and P each time I want to connect a new diferent shape

[@alejandraestrella2741]

Hi! I'm having trouble, when i get to the pathfinder

[@nohops8803]

So the lines you draw automatically outline whatever you want by itself? Like for example the eyebrow? Like anyone can do this its just connections the points am I correct or are you actually having to draw straight lines. I ask because I want to draw people but I have no skill what so ever 😩

[@christopher8116]

How did you remove the blue lines while at the same time giving the polygon the color ?

[@jessthompson3156]

When you use the eyedropper tool, it will select the colour AND the stroke of that object. Because he was sampling from an image that didn't have a stroke, it could only get the colour. That's why the blue stroke removed at the same time. Hope this helped

[@pmaxstore]

purchased soft soft was because there are so many resources and remake templates out there to help understand how people have

[@mdzahirr007]

How is he moving the out bord without using mouse

[@huozay280]

I didn't know this video existed! Thanks bro! Really grateful.

[@lxcasgavrbeats3835]

Your video is very helpful. I downloaded it successfully. Thank you!

[@Domergueg]

bro whats the name of that background sound i loved it!!!!!!!!

[@alexkambesis7873]

How does he upload the photo into illustrator

[@aliasgar.burhani1099]

Cant we use live paint instead of pathfinder

[@momo0451]

when I looked at the list of paths, they weren't triangles. they were all just a collection of seemingly random lines, when you opened your list of paths, everything was automatically separated into perfect triangles, despite the fact that you drew your lines as a collection of disconnected lines. what did I do wrong? Edit: nevermind I missed the part where you said to hit the divide button in the pathfinder

[@snepsy]

here any of the notes i click on. Any idea why? (I'm a beginner)

[@JarrettWilliams99]

How do you get your pen tool to do straight lines when clicking and dragging? When I try that, it does all curves. So I did it with click and not drag, then whenever i go back after doing the outer path, when i try to make triangles it deletes all the points i have made as i click them. how do you get it to just keep drawing lines?

[@vishalgandotra1328]

Do smaller clicks and don't move your mouse during click, it'll add direction vector that's why you're getting curves.

[@xiwenzz9677]

That was an amazing video and I feel like I can actually get started using soft soft. Thank you so much!

[@daniell_llucena]

Nice tutorial Michael,

[@jadsdrew7171]

When I use the pen tool like this, it doesn't "connect", instead it is deleting the anchor points. He seems to be able to create many triangles off of one line, whereas Illustrator wants me to create every triangle separately. Is this a setting?

[@Homarya]

Try holding shift when doing it

[@TheWizardsFTI]

+Jads Drew SAME PROBLEM

[@liyanarizal9557]

+Jads Drew same as me!

[@liyanarizal9557]

+Homarya Shaik i tried your method and it connects to the line (i wanted) but it wont become a line unless it connects to the first anchor

[@Homarya]

Liyana Rizal Understandable. I make overlapping triangles and use the pathfinder tool to neaten up. Might be a little less neat but almost as effective. I haven't found a way to properly do it unless I do one shape and slightly further away do another one and then draw one to connect the two. Good luck anyways if you find a way better/easier let me know :)

[@ronaldar8245]

How to change your change your channel rack from Dub back to the original channel rack you have

[@jelsonrumuar9028]

Great tutorial, links and program worked fine for

[@D_1920_R]

TNice tutorials was an amazing video! you really Nice tutorialt all the key points for the basics without ever over complicating anytNice tutorialng. A hard job and you did

[@Nehad-sr2wv]

thanks a lot, I really wanted to try to work at it to make it like that and now I knew how can I work on it with your tutorial.

[@callme_nagi]

How to contact you for my other question thank you

[@mbtips666]

do more of this!! this is amazing

[@dada4038]

how to clear the triangles after finishing with the eyedropper?

[@daiwatntx1620]

you are not like the others who puts link filled with adds, so u deserve to be subscribed..... thanks for the plugin and all the best for future

[@viatzalatara]

hey dude, your video is really helpful, but i have a question: i wear glasses and im wondering how do i remove the backround that can be seen trough a small part of the glasses. thanks a lot!

[@bsalorsano]

It's a very detailed tutorial. Thank you very much for this. It got easier for me to do low poly vectors -thumbs up-

[@chinaahpek]

would you recommend to do this in illustrator or photoshop if the final artwork will be printed on a mug.

[@HarrisonPenaVideo]

+Nicholas Chan Probably illustrator just because its vector based and not pixel based.

[@minhnhathuynh2944]

My Ai had a problem, when I press Show grid, the grid appeared but beneath the photo @@ please helppp :'(

[@0xkkonrad]

+Minh Nhật Huỳnh Step 1 Click “Edit” from the top menu in Illustrator. Step 2Select “Preferences” and then “Guides & Grid” from the Edit drop-down menu.

[@stevenvanhulle7242]

If you use smart guides you don't even need the grid, do you?

[@anandrana4899]

I can't export my work with my custom coloured background... how to do that?

[@mslovelyalyssa]

What size image do you start with?

[@ninosx191]

Good video thank you , updated visual studio and everything worked. I'm really glad I found a working crack

[@Kev3nDesigns]

Super well explained.

[@igamerly1152]

how i can make that line that follow the mouse from the anchor point

[@gabrielblanco8695]

Nice. Thanks a lot actually. It worked, you explained it well.

[@divyaprasadmohanty3948]

Can you please send the image link?

[@EC-tu1mq]

If there's a gap that I've missed earlier on, could I just use the direct selection tool to move the anchor point? Another question is, is the grid necessary? Thanks for the insightful video!

[@MiroFaltinek77]

Great tutorial. Very good job. All nice and clear. Thanks

[@angeltorres-ms2mv]

As for me, everything is simple and clear. Thank you

[@Adriventure_rod]

ITS WORKING! nice job dude

[@diegojuarezgarcia733]

Aweso tutorial bro! I like how you gets down to bus

[@kermz1919]

HI, I have followed this but alot of my triangles still have the blue line round them and I cannot get rid of them even after using the eye drop tool, help please? thanks

[@stoofystoof7802]

Go to Select - Same - Stroke Colour and then reduce it to 0.

[@michaelmorris739]

I just subscribed and have not had the full chance to check for Ai - Illustrator only tutorials. Do you have videos that only pander to the Illustrator program? Appreciate your help on this one. Thank you!

[@Meowva]

i have a problem, when i start to outline details, it gets rid of my face outline...

[@harihacke9454]

yes