I broke my toe at a show in May because I wasn’t wearing good enough shoes to be in the pit that I didn’t exactly plan on being in. Learn from my mistakes, protect your toes.
But seriously. Please stay safe at shows and drink plenty of water and don’t get awful sunburns and PLEASE wear your earplugs. You can get super cheap, super comfortable reusable ones that still allow for great sound fidelity in the high end and then you won’t have to worry about developing a permanent ringing/hissing soundtrack later in life.
Also, if you’re gonna take drugs, know what you’re taking and let a friend who’s staying drug-free know what you’ve taken. If pill testing is available, USE IT. Also, if you or a friend needs a medic TELL THEM WHAT YOU/THEY TOOK. They’re not police, and they’re not there to judge, they just want to give you the best care possible without worrying about funky drug interactions. Telling friends and medics what you took can 100% save your life! Love, a former volunteer drug-rover from Sydney Mardi Gras Afterparty.
Natural Black Hair Tutorial! Usually Black hair is excluded in the hair tutorials which I have seen so I have gone through it in depth because it’s really not enough to tell someone simply, “Black hair is really curly, draw it really curly.”
The next part of Black Hair In Depth will feature styles and ideas for designing characters and I will release it around February. If you would like to see certain styles, please shoot me a message!
Thanks a lot for your question and for enjoying my art so much ^^
May I ask, how you draw hair to be so detailed?
It depends what kind of artwork you are talking about. When I draw realistic style (without a black line art, that is to say like in this art), here is how I do it:
I define the palette. I try to use a palette as subtle and
natural as possible so that the hair looks natural, precisely. In other
words I very rarely go for a super bright yellow for blond hair.
NATURAL.
With the darker colors, I block the colors. By
“blocking the colors”, I mean blocking the shape of the hair because
hair is a shape. It’s important to draw the general shape of the hair,
whatever the haircut, before taking care of individual hair. The worst
you can do is starting to draw hair strand by strand, on a white
background. Horrible.
Then with medium size brush, I draw
the first strands, using medium tones. The idea is to give the general
texture of the hair, the strands, the curls, etc. If you try to draw
hair one by one it’s gonna look ridiculous, like in these video games of
the 1990′s where you could see every hair individually (and no, it
wasn’t a good thing. It looked fake as hell)
Then, with a
small size brush I draw the lighter colors and I refine the details.
This is where I draw the tiniest strands but not on the whole hair. Here
again, I only draw them at specific places: on the forehead, above the
general shape of the head (where the light hits), near the ears.
Finally,
I add with a round edge brush some shadows on specific places: near the
roots of the hair, the ears. That’s what is important with hair:
knowing where to place shadows and highlights (along with simplifying
some strands and detailing others)
Anyway, the important thing is to render the general impression
of the hair and focusing on details on specific parts. If you try to
draw every strands, every individual hair, it’s gonna look cheap and as
far from realistic as it can be. It’s the same process whatever the
quality of the hair: straight, curvy, wavy, etc. You just enhance
different shadows and highlights in order to create different textures.
Don’t
forget either that hair follows a pattern on the head. It grows a
certain way and it’s different according to people. When you are working
with your medium brush (step 3), you have to pay attention to “the
direction” of the hair. Look at Jensen Ackles for instance:
And of course, don’t hesitate to use a reference picture. If you want to
draw realistically it’s essential. And it doesn’t matter if you draw
an OC. Your OC is a woman with long ginger hair? Google is your friend
to show you how ginger hair reflects the light and all the information
you need on color and texture.
When I draw artworks for The Life of Bucky Barnes, it’s a completely different method because here, I do draw the hair almost strand by strand. Basically:
This is a drawing I’m working on at the moment for The LoBB, it’s Steve. So first, I define the general shape of the hair, then I draw the line art, then I block the colors (usually far darker than Steve’s actual color) and the rest is just working slowly on the details and doing some color correction from time to time. I tend to draw the root darker but it’s closer to comics than actual realistic style.
Two styles, two different methods, two different rendering. 🙂
I hope I answered your question ♥ Thanks again for enjoying my art so much ^^
So I hadn’t cut my hair in about six years and it was most of the way down my back. It’s one of the hottest summers on record and I reached my limit. So I got @kath-ballantyne to attack me with scissors. She’s been my hairdresser since I was seventeen/eighteen.
Short. Really short. Shorter than I’ve ever had it. So comfortable. It dried in about a half an hour when I washed it, rather than, oh, eight hours. It’s short enough that it’s not tickling the back of my neck or my forehead, which are major sensory issues for me. And it should be easy enough to maintain. The ridiculously tiny amount of shampoo I need! Seriously, I was using a cupped palmful before, this time, it took like a ten-cent piece dab.
For now, it’s longer on top, but if I decide in a week that I want it shorter all over, we can do that.
—Seriously. ‘m trustin’ ya here, pal. —Mmmhm. I got it, Bucky. Can’t be too hard. Just gotta cut it like I draw it, right? —Steve.
Thanks for the 100+ followers, guys! Which probably doesn’t seem like much, but considering I got 70+ followers in a week… Yeah idk what even happened.
Chris Pratt Interrupts Interview To French Braid Intern’s Hair
SHUT THE HELL U P
this man has gone too far
damn
Where does Marvel FIND these people?
Imagine – Chris Pratt and Jeremy Renner show up to your door the night of prom and your parents are like WHY DO YOU HAVE TWO DATES AND WHY ARE THEY SO BIG AND BEEFY AND INTIMIDATING but Chris is just like “Nah I’m hair” and Jeremy raises his hand and says “And I’m makeup”
surprisingly well done
If this doesn’t result in an AU where Hawkeye and Star-Lord decide to retire and open a salon together, I don’t know what we’re all doing with our lives.
this post just keeps getting better
There are tears in my eyes
bucky doesn’t know why he puts up with these losers
(it’s because clint does such an amazing smokey eye)
knitting in the dark 