#hair shading

[catfan1000]

I CANT- BrOoo!!HOw dO YoU drAw a hAlOoooo??!!! AND NOW DO YOU MAKE IT GLOOWWWOWOOW?!?!🔥🔥

edit i misread cuz im dumb and sleep deprived just draw a circle and follow the light part

first, you need to know where your hair is coming from in the first place. i like to divide it in lenght so here we have bangs (pink outline), side hair (green outline) and back hair (blue outline).

in most front facing works the attention will be on the face so our priority is bangs, side hair then back hair. you can divide all of them into smaller subsections too but its most commonly done with the bangs, such as how i showed with the different bisexual colors.

think of hair flowing like the wind, despite there being imperfections, overlaps, strong and weak areas it all follows a general flow.

know what your hair is like in 3d and see how strands would overlap and interact like strangely shaped ribbons, which you can mostly do just by feel but still follow the wind rule

feel free to twist and turn them like ribbons too

for longer hair, strands might pop out just to loop back in as shown on her back hair (shes wearing loose twintails), those most often show ribbon-like behavior

make sure their thickness doesnt decrease too abruptly and that the lenght of the stray hairs is the same as the section they come from

now light:

know where your light source is coming from, here its useful to think in 3D instead of just picking a side of the canvas. Here, the light source is above and slightly in front of the character.

Those ball-shading exercises your art teachers made you do will come in handy here, so map out how light would fall on your characters mostly round head

now just think about which strands stick out enough to catch more light than the others, and carve shadows into sections that wouldnt catch light like that

you also just follow the general flow here, its all about that flow

pro tip: use a low opacity big size airbrush to erase the lower part of the bangs that cover ur characters face to make them ~glow~

and remember, dont be shy with the aggressiveness of your lighting

[sealitsgills]

practice of some random nonexistent anime girl i made yesterday

[p1ss-uwuuwu]

How the fuck do you even shade hair I need tutorials please

[golyadkin]

in every universe...

[thesociallyanxioussociopath]

Part 3 of Alastor's really bad awful day~ What's worse than having to go on a fake date with your rival ? Your other rival (one-sided) deciding to play paparazzi, of course.

Part 1 | Part 2 | Part 4 (end)

[cosmicwar]

why did they ever even attempt to try and make another actor wear a white-blonde wig after orlando bloom in the lotr trilogy. don’t they understand that we peaked 20 years ago and everything else has looked like shit after that

[beebfreeb]

If I saw a nutcracker nobody could stop me

[stardayzzing]

[God Games Once Again]

For the sake of my own sanity (and to kindly get some of yall off my back) I am just embracing the "Apollo just wanted to LEAVE" view on his verse and made this diaster to celebrate it sjdjd

To be noted: I drew this at like midnight to 1am last night, got 3 hours of sleep, and then colored it, so DONT look too closely at details or anything really

(To the person asking for Hyacinthus, here is your crumb until I manage to properly draw him later)

[sillyfairygarden]

fallen from the sky with grace / into your arms

(closeup + print link below)

(double life! pearl recreation of “the fallen angel” by alexandre cabanel)

it was only a matter of time… my favorite wounded woman with one of my favorite pieces of all time.

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[shootingstarrfish]

i feel ya buddy

[shyhandart]

Ask and ye shall receive!

[glimersims]

Sage & Magnolia

hi guys is it bad that i looked at a candle in my house and was like: wow, that would be so cute as a pair of hairs for the sims 4!!!! yeah my life is just not real atp. but anyway they are a little shitty so i apologize.

bgc

teen to elder

female only

24 swatches

disabled for random

not hat compatible

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[kosmokhaos]

Sim hairs come in two varieties:

Like this

Or like this

There is rarely any in between 🤣

[pumpkster]

my fav anime girl

[dimichuu]

I just had the idea ever. So we all know and love Empress Malice. A redhead from a small place who played music and was a huge inspiration everywhere. I wonder if that resembles anyone in real life…

[torveiglyart]

Allura looks good in any hairstyle, the goddess she is, but especially braids!

This was really just an excuse to draw my faves.

Edit: WOW I did not expect this to blow up the way it did! Thank you all! It's nice to know those braids weren't in vain ��