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| HOW TO DRAW HAIR |
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This is where it gets hard. Long hair is
an entirely different ordeal altogether.
This is because it's LONG and has to drape
over the shoulders and fall in certain
ways. Look at the picture to the left,
it's a template you can print out and draw
on yourself. You start by drawing the
hairline as in the previous lesson, then
you consider the hairstyle and the part
and work your way from there. In this
picture, the part is directly in the
center of the head and the hair falls
straight down at either side. The front
bangs are a bit shorter than the back and
the back is long enough to fall behind the
shoulders. What you have to realize is
that the bangs are in front, so they
should be "on top" of all of the hair. See
how the bangs cover up part of the ear?
That's what I mean, they should hang over
the sides and cover up most of the
hairline. That line I have going aross the
top of the head is to represent where the
side of the head starts so you know that
on that part, the hair bends down and the
light will be strongest there.
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This picture illustrates how hair can
drape over the face, or around the
ear.
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This picture shows how gravity affects
hair. The model is laying back her head
and, since gravity is always pulling stuff
down, the hair falls down. Notice how I've
layered the hair. The top of the hair
curves away and gets hidden by the side
length of hair. Near the neck, you can see
the hair coming from the back of the head,
and it's got more lines in it because it's
further away and is hidden by the other
hair, so it must have shadow. See along
the neck line? The hair grows directly out
of it, but it"s only visible that way
because of the way the character has her
head turned.
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This picture shows the reaction to
movement. The model has suddenly turned
her head to the right, and the force of
her head pulls her hair in the same
direction. Her hair swirls through the air
from left to right, just as she has turned
her head. However, only the longest parts
of the hair are affected, the hair nearest
to her scalp is too tightly bunched
together to be noticeably affected.
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When you want to have a character with a
shaved head, you don"t have to do much to
achieve the effect. Draw the hair as you
normally would, only in the areas you want
to looked shaved, just draw faint lines in
the direction of the hair and that's all
there is to it.
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