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Blissful Hair Drawing - VIDEO NOW ADDED!
Sat Feb 25, 2012 5:47 am
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My Hair drawings:
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Getting Started...
Step 1.
I am only going to show the basics here. I will start off by showing you how to get the strands and look I create with my hair. I suggest you practice with strands like this before you try anything to difficult.
I am going to apply some strands to this white background.
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Step 2.
Choosing the color I will be working with. This is not really important because with my method, you can change the hair color at the end of the tutorial.
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Step 3.
Grab the hair brush you will be working with and size it down to your choosing.
Hair Brushes can be downloaded here - CLICK FOR BRUSHES
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Step 4.
I have selected the "PATHS" tool in the toolbox on the top left. I will make a "S" Shape on the white background for the stroke of the Hair.
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Step 5.
Now click "Stroke Path" and make sure you have the option "Stoke with a Paint tool" and "Emulate brush dynamics" selected. These are both very important or your strokes will NOT look like mine.
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Step 6.
You should now have a smooth stroke of hair strands. If you got something with a bunch of dots, this means your spacing is not set to 1.0 as seen in the bottom right of the paint brush box.
Go on ahead and stroke the brush a couple more times to thicken it up a bit.
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Step 7.
Now I will ADD NEW LAYER and select a tad lighter shade of hair color.
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Step 8.
I have now applied a few more strands of the lighter shade of hair on top of our original strands.
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Step 9.
ADD NEW LAYER > Select another lighter shade of hair. We will now be applying another layer of strands on top of the bottom two layers you just applied.
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Step 10.
This is what I have now...
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Step 11.
ADD NEW LAYER > I will be applying one last set of strands. So once again grab a tad lighter shade of hair.
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Step 12.
I Will apply one set of strands on top of the bottom 3 layers. You should now see it coming together nicely and the hair has some depth.
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Step 13.
"Merger all visible layers". This will make all the hair layers into ONE LAYER.
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Step 14.
COLOR CHANGING TIME! I really like playing with purple hue colored hair just for the fun of it. I think the high lights on maroon/purple hair looks good and something a lil different.
I will play with the color hues until I find something I like.
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Step 15.
NOW DUPLICATE YOUR LAYER
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Step 16.
In the layers box you will see a drop down box next to "MODE" and on the top layer you will change it to "OVERLAY"
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Step 17.
Adding SHINE! Shine is VERY important when creating hair and no you should not have white blobs of shine, You should make the hair shine looks realistic and it should blend well into the hair. So I have 2 different ways I shine hair. First being with the dodge tool set to "Highlight" and you MUST use a fuzzy circle brush and DAB IT when applying the shine. OR the second way which is pretty common for A LOT of hair drawers and this is the "Overlay" option.
So ADD NEW LAYER > Grab your fuzzy circle brush and apply some white paint on top of the hair where the shine should be. Now go to the overlay option again and select it.
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Step 18.
Gaussian Blur! This will blur out the high lights you just applied so they are not too chunky and they fade out over the hair nice and smooth.
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You are done!
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My Hair drawings:
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Getting Started...
Step 1.
I am only going to show the basics here. I will start off by showing you how to get the strands and look I create with my hair. I suggest you practice with strands like this before you try anything to difficult.
I am going to apply some strands to this white background.
[You must be registered and logged in to see this image.]
Step 2.
Choosing the color I will be working with. This is not really important because with my method, you can change the hair color at the end of the tutorial.
[You must be registered and logged in to see this image.]
Step 3.
Grab the hair brush you will be working with and size it down to your choosing.
Hair Brushes can be downloaded here - CLICK FOR BRUSHES
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Step 4.
I have selected the "PATHS" tool in the toolbox on the top left. I will make a "S" Shape on the white background for the stroke of the Hair.
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Step 5.
Now click "Stroke Path" and make sure you have the option "Stoke with a Paint tool" and "Emulate brush dynamics" selected. These are both very important or your strokes will NOT look like mine.
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Step 6.
You should now have a smooth stroke of hair strands. If you got something with a bunch of dots, this means your spacing is not set to 1.0 as seen in the bottom right of the paint brush box.
Go on ahead and stroke the brush a couple more times to thicken it up a bit.
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Step 7.
Now I will ADD NEW LAYER and select a tad lighter shade of hair color.
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Step 8.
I have now applied a few more strands of the lighter shade of hair on top of our original strands.
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Step 9.
ADD NEW LAYER > Select another lighter shade of hair. We will now be applying another layer of strands on top of the bottom two layers you just applied.
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Step 10.
This is what I have now...
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Step 11.
ADD NEW LAYER > I will be applying one last set of strands. So once again grab a tad lighter shade of hair.
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Step 12.
I Will apply one set of strands on top of the bottom 3 layers. You should now see it coming together nicely and the hair has some depth.
[You must be registered and logged in to see this image.]
Step 13.
"Merger all visible layers". This will make all the hair layers into ONE LAYER.
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Step 14.
COLOR CHANGING TIME! I really like playing with purple hue colored hair just for the fun of it. I think the high lights on maroon/purple hair looks good and something a lil different.
I will play with the color hues until I find something I like.
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Step 15.
NOW DUPLICATE YOUR LAYER
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Step 16.
In the layers box you will see a drop down box next to "MODE" and on the top layer you will change it to "OVERLAY"
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Step 17.
Adding SHINE! Shine is VERY important when creating hair and no you should not have white blobs of shine, You should make the hair shine looks realistic and it should blend well into the hair. So I have 2 different ways I shine hair. First being with the dodge tool set to "Highlight" and you MUST use a fuzzy circle brush and DAB IT when applying the shine. OR the second way which is pretty common for A LOT of hair drawers and this is the "Overlay" option.
So ADD NEW LAYER > Grab your fuzzy circle brush and apply some white paint on top of the hair where the shine should be. Now go to the overlay option again and select it.
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Step 18.
Gaussian Blur! This will blur out the high lights you just applied so they are not too chunky and they fade out over the hair nice and smooth.
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You are done!
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Re: Blissful Hair Drawing - VIDEO NOW ADDED!
Sat Jun 16, 2012 5:20 pm
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Re: Blissful Hair Drawing - VIDEO NOW ADDED!
Sat Jun 16, 2012 5:22 pm
Looking much better ^^ Dont be shy about giving some extra strands on the outsides of the hair as well ^^
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Re: Blissful Hair Drawing - VIDEO NOW ADDED!
Sat Jun 16, 2012 5:28 pm
You do that using the pen/paths tool right?
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Re: Blissful Hair Drawing - VIDEO NOW ADDED!
Sat Jun 16, 2012 6:24 pm
Okay, thanks
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Re: Blissful Hair Drawing - VIDEO NOW ADDED!
Mon Jun 18, 2012 1:06 pm
what you think Blissie??
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Re: Blissful Hair Drawing - VIDEO NOW ADDED!
Mon Jun 18, 2012 2:28 pm
it looks good some of the ends look a lil choppy and rough on the left side, but the shape is much better
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Re: Blissful Hair Drawing - VIDEO NOW ADDED!
Mon Jun 18, 2012 2:32 pm
thanks! il work on that ;) what about the shdading?
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Mon Jun 18, 2012 2:35 pm
rey1993 wrote:thanks! il work on that ;) what about the shdading?
well for black hair it is a lil hard to tell, but that looks fine to me
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Re: Blissful Hair Drawing - VIDEO NOW ADDED!
Mon Jun 18, 2012 2:38 pm
haha lol Bliss i meant the skin , i know this topic is for hair but i would love to know what you think no hard feelings in fact i will take it as an advice
Re: Blissful Hair Drawing - VIDEO NOW ADDED!
Mon Jun 18, 2012 2:48 pm
oh yes it looks fine. Im more of a fan of the skin smoothe look vs the skin shading now. But everyone has their own taste :P
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Re: Blissful Hair Drawing - VIDEO NOW ADDED!
Mon Jun 18, 2012 6:24 pm
I love your hair drawing method, Bliss. I use it all of the time now and I've come a long ways from when I first started. My most recent one is my avatar pic. I hope you like it [: I keep meaning to make her hair actually closer to white, but I always end up going to gray.
Re: Blissful Hair Drawing - VIDEO NOW ADDED!
Mon Jun 18, 2012 6:29 pm
^^ It looks awesome, You can always play with the color tools to get a lighter white if you want.
I play with the color of the hair a lot when I am done drawing it :P
I play with the color of the hair a lot when I am done drawing it :P
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Re: Blissful Hair Drawing - VIDEO NOW ADDED!
Mon Jun 18, 2012 10:17 pm
Oh I hadn't actually though about that. Great idea
Re: Blissful Hair Drawing - VIDEO NOW ADDED!
Tue Jun 19, 2012 2:34 pm
cherriblossom wrote:Oh I hadn't actually though about that. Great idea
yea, thats what I was doing in the videa when I was playing with the colors for like 30 seconds
Re: Blissful Hair Drawing - VIDEO NOW ADDED!
Wed Jul 04, 2012 12:23 am
One of my first trys
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Re: Blissful Hair Drawing - VIDEO NOW ADDED!
Wed Jul 04, 2012 12:31 am
You have really good shape Are you not using a hair brush though?
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Wed Jul 04, 2012 12:43 am
Bliss wrote:You have really good shape Are you not using a hair brush though?
I started to give up with the brush because I'm really shaky with my mouse. Hopefully when I get back to my home town I'll buy a tablet. RIght now I was just using the pen tool.
Re: Blissful Hair Drawing - VIDEO NOW ADDED!
Wed Jul 04, 2012 4:41 pm
I attempted a curly hair...lol I went for a more realistic look but this my first hair attempt ever. I couldn't really get the shine to look right with the curly look though. Thanks for lettings us play with your picture Bliss!
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Re: Blissful Hair Drawing - VIDEO NOW ADDED!
Wed Jul 04, 2012 8:50 pm
sweetstop7 wrote:Bliss wrote:You have really good shape Are you not using a hair brush though?
I started to give up with the brush because I'm really shaky with my mouse. Hopefully when I get back to my home town I'll buy a tablet. RIght now I was just using the pen tool.
I have a tablet, but I dont use it to draw hair, I still used hair brushes and the paths tool which is key
I alos use the paint brush not the pen tool
You gotta get more strands in the hair so it looks like actual hair so I would suggest playing around with some hair brushes until you get one that you like
@Kosmo, looks really good! Just needs shine and you will be set
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Re: Blissful Hair Drawing - VIDEO NOW ADDED!
Wed Jul 04, 2012 9:29 pm
Wow,,,,Kosmo....that looks amazing for your first time!
Re: Blissful Hair Drawing - VIDEO NOW ADDED!
Wed Jul 04, 2012 9:38 pm
:D Thanks! But I think it was luck LOL I haven't tried a straight hair yet and making the shine on curls was an epic fail xD I think I only have luck editing in Gimp because I draw alot.
Re: Blissful Hair Drawing - VIDEO NOW ADDED!
Thu Jul 05, 2012 4:26 pm
Lol another attempt XD
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Re: Blissful Hair Drawing - VIDEO NOW ADDED!
Thu Jul 05, 2012 5:39 pm
latest attempt :(
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