Hair tutorial??

[Rifty]

hi zind
i love to draw but i can't draw hair and i've noticed that you can make hair sooo pretty
so my question is, if you could make a hair tutorial
i would be a great help


grt rifty

[Elli]

I had a problem with drawing hair, too. Iīve found a nice tutorial which helped me a lot:

http://www.rebekahlynn.com/free/tutorial/hair_tutorial.html

I hope it will help you, too :).

[Rifty]

thxx

i hope it will help 2 :D

[marzza123]

im dont wanna sound rude, but i dont think zindy's hair is anything to rave on about, i think it looks really good, but it isnt what hair looks like, she adds all this light that isnt actually there, i'm no expert at all, but i showed my art teacher some of her pics, and these were her comments, and i agree, if you look at her drawings, the hair looks really good, but it just isnt what hair looks like, hair doesnt bounce and reflect that much light.

[Elli]

Mh, sorry but I donīt agree. The first thing I immediately notice when I see a new drawing of zindy is the hair. I love the way she does it and I wish I could draw hair like that.
Sometimes you are right and the hair really doesnīt look like real hair, but if you want to have a drawing that looks just like a photo, you could take a photo. An artist has to have an own way to draw, and I think I could recognize a drawing of zindy everywhere I see it.

[Rifty]

it's true, but some drawings show "really" hair, for ex. a few of the blond-hair drawings
i would only like to know how she does that because i can't even creathe dept (i don't know how to write that word) in the hair i draw

[Zindy]

I don't have a hair tutorial for several reasons. I don't feel like I can explain how I do it and I don't know if it's the right way of during it... I just draw it like I want to. As Elli said, if you want to make perfectly lifelike hair you might as well just take a photo. I make it the way I like it and add a lot of highlights cause I like it that way and often photographs don't have all these highlights but I feel it gives the drawing "life".
I don't think it's nice to show the hair I do to your artteacher just for her/him to criticize it. Call me sensitive but I don't like that :/
Realistic or not I think I will continue just doing what I do cause it's kind of my way... I think everbody should have their own style whether it being super realistic or not - like mine ; )

[Nina du Preez]

I agree with Zindy to a point...

I agree that its important to find your own style, but thats not an excuse not to try and get better anyway...

On the subject of hair, there are many ways to draw it. You can choose to go for a toony effect, in which the hair does not look very real, but the idea of hair is good. Then you can choose to go for photo realistic hair, in which hair actually looks like the real thing...

I believe that a person who wants to specialize in drawing portraits of people has to aim for the photorealistic hair, otherwise there would not be any point would there?

[Zindy]

Well I don't mean it as an excuse at all, I just like the way of during hair, to me it's more alive but I know everybody don't share the same opinion and they shouldn't. In my opinion it's not "an easy way" to make your own style, in this case - hair, because sometimes it would be easier to actually make it look totally realistic, cause most of the times hair have the same "tone", specially if it's black, in my opinion. Of cause sometimes if the light is great and you can see almost every straw of the hair it would be great to make it look just the same.

Still I think people should do it their own way..
I understand why the hair should be just as realistic as the rest and to be honest I did not really think about whether I was doing hair the wrong way or realistic way. I only got to think about it when somebody told me my hair was very catoony. But I guess it's just a matter of taste, isn't it?

[Golfiscool]

obviously we all liked zindy's drawings...that's how we found this forum. If you are gonna dis zindy, then don't talk on her message board.

[Nina du Preez]

obviously we all liked zindy's drawings...that's how we found this forum. If you are gonna dis zindy, then don't talk on her message board.

Who was dissing her?

We are all just giving our opinions about whether or not hair should look realistic...

There is nothing wrong with her way of drawing hair, its very different, and one still gets the impression of hair and movement.

[Golfiscool]

I was talking to that marzahh123 person..he sounded a little harsh

[Nina du Preez]

ahhh ok. I agree...

But perhaps this person has some issues with other artists. Jealousy perhaps...who knows.. :wink: