Blissful Hair Drawing - VIDEO NOW ADDED!

Creator Posts : 8724 Tokens : 12493 Join date : 2011-05-18

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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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Member Posts : 176 Tokens : 2494 Join date : 2011-11-18

Ahhh! That makes sense! :D Ty Ty!

Creator Posts : 8724 Tokens : 12493 Join date : 2011-05-18

ellebell wrote:: Ahhh! That makes sense! :D Ty Ty!

I just replied in the mentor threads btw on your hair drawing

Member Posts : 1 Tokens : 1923 Join date : 2013-01-15

Thanks on this tutorial it helped me a lot, though I use photoshop CS6 extended so I had to do some things different but still helped a lot.

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Member Posts : 1954 Tokens : 5738 Join date : 2011-10-01

but it looks like the brushes your using in the tut are diferent from the ones for download

Creator Posts : 8724 Tokens : 12493 Join date : 2011-05-18

Yes I prefer my brushes now. So I no longer use the old downloaded brushes.

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Bliss wrote:: Yes I prefer my brushes now. So I no longer use the old downloaded brushes.

Why dont you pu those for download theyr much better

Creator Posts : 8724 Tokens : 12493 Join date : 2011-05-18

which ones?

Member Posts : 1954 Tokens : 5738 Join date : 2011-10-01

the one in the picture steps

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rey1993 wrote:: the one in the picture steps

I dont have those brushes anymore because I dont like the uniformed stroke look they make so I no longer have the link for them since I no longer have a use for them.

You are more than welcome to browse deviantart for them though.

If they are better than shouldn't you have them already in your GIMP to know that they are better?

Member Posts : 1954 Tokens : 5738 Join date : 2011-10-01

no im just saying cause it has a lot of dots and the more dots the more hair you get i think idk im just saying

Member Posts : 59 Tokens : 1838 Join date : 2013-06-16

How do you fill in the shape?

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Member Posts : 19 Tokens : 1841 Join date : 2013-04-27

Wowww! I might need to get more advanced and familiar with GIMP before I follow this tutorial, but it's pretty good! Like, AMAZING good! :D

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ty :D

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Here's mine

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Just wondering, do you have a tutorial on how to actually apply it to the sims?

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I tried putting it on the sim, but I can't get the shape right.

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I like how the bottom turned out, but the top seems flat and has a weird shape. Do you have any tips?

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Yes. Shape is very difficult to get the hang of. It takes a lot of trial and error. After about the 10th or 20th time, you will start to find it much easier. My suggestion to you...Try drawing over some googled hair of an image

This is is how I started!

Member Posts : 22 Tokens : 1500 Join date : 2014-04-08

just been giving these brushes a whirl, and something really strange is happening.

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what is with all of the lines clumping together like that? anyone know? i have my spacing all right. bizarre!

*in photoshop btw!

Subject: Re: Blissful Hair Drawing - VIDEO NOW ADDED! Fri Aug 01, 2014 2:40 pm

Looks like you have scatter turned on... turn that off

Member Posts : 22 Tokens : 1500 Join date : 2014-04-08

still not working unfortunately. :--(

Member Posts : 22 Tokens : 1500 Join date : 2014-04-08

nevermind, apparently i've been tweaking the shape dynamics of the wrong brushes! i'll redownload them fresh and *not* be an idiot next time, thanks vana!