Sometimes designers usually invent a little and that's when our imagination begins to fly, our thoughts speak for themselves and our brain asks us to illustrate, for lovers of emoticons it will be a pretty entertaining tutorial, as I will explain certain things that will be useful when handling the tools, these simple caricatures sometimes make us laugh cry, and become very significant, since at certain moments of our life we ​​usually identify ourselves, with them we give to express the emotions and feelings, they speak for themselves, is the generation of relief of words, sometimes with just an emoticon say more than a word, and is that the technology has advanced so much that they are crazy about the amount of emoji that there is today , and that is that they are cute dynamic fun, and very explicit.

These are not the simple round emoji we know, my motto is if designed, give a different touch and personality to things, that is why I added to this illustration some balloons of texts that represent the face of the emoji, giving it a prese and different persolity, the traits are also personalized, and you can not imagine the amount of emoji that we can invent, these are the traditional ones, but I have many more.

Beautiful emoji, no? , now let's go to our tutorial, where we will learn, to vectorize these simple characters, you just have to enter the illustrator or the program of your preference and let your imagination fly.

There are too many hundreds! It is impossible to know them all, especially considering that some come from different cultures (especially Japanese), but as we are going to create today I will show you 12 different emoji with different emotions and expressions

We entered our illustration program, we created a work table if you have a reference drawing would be good because those who illustrate without seeing are already experts, I have already done this for a long time and I still do not consider myself an expert but I try to do nice things, then once you have a bocetom you take the pen and start to make anchor points, likewise I will be doing a video soon since this technique is learned is in practice and I would like to see it we started to draw lines and points to shape the emoticon

Once we have all the lines ready, we start to apply color, if you want to create a unique pantone is valid and if you want to clone, use the dropper is fast and very simple just press it to the place where you want to take the color that if you have to section the element that you are going to paint.

Finally, let's apply some shadows and lights to give life to the emoticon, the contours are also indispensable in an illustration of life and highlight, and ready to think that it is an angry emoji are very cute and original.

This answer is relative, all designers have different ways of working, I generally like more illustrator. If you are new and want to venture into the world of design, I recommend you try and with the most you feel comfortable use that.