Help with hair
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Topic: Help with hair
Posted By: purple_monkey
Subject: Help with hair
Date Posted: 22 May 2005 at 2:12am
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Hello, this is my first post and Iīve been working on a portrait of Chester frm Linkin Park, Itīs coming out rather well but what I need now is to do the hair, thatīs the problem, I need help with the hair, I donīt know how to draw it. :S Could you guys give me some tips and whatnot? Very much appreciated. Hereīs the pixel piece and the photo I was copying from.
Keith |
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Posted By: sedgemonkey
Date Posted: 22 May 2005 at 2:38am
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Really nice work so far. Maybe I don't understand what you are asking. What specifically is giving you problems with the hair? Every other part is shaded nicely and the hair could be just the same no? |
Posted By: purple_monkey
Date Posted: 22 May 2005 at 3:37am
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Iīve never done detialed hair before and as hair has is made of fibres itīs diferent to skin, clothes,etc, I was just wandering if anyone with experience on doing hair could give me some pointers, because itīll be hard. Thanks for replying. Keith |
Posted By: Zoomrix
Date Posted: 22 May 2005 at 12:34pm
Awesome, LP rocks. ahem. Well the only tip I got is just to look at the hair flatly and see the direction of each strand of the spikes. As you look at the hair flatly notice the different shades of color. Hope that helped at least a little bit. I'm not an expert but... just trying to help.  ------------- http://zoomrix.com - My Portfolio |
Posted By: purple_monkey
Date Posted: 24 May 2005 at 7:48am
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Hmmm, I think I know what you mean, Iīll try that out and if any one else has some usefull tits please donīt hesitate to tell me. Thanks. Keith |
Posted By: Garage Inc.
Date Posted: 24 May 2005 at 8:19am
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I have some useful tits... Now, about the hair. Just look at the picture, and do what your heart tells you. I know that probobly doesn't help, I just wanted to point out the tits thing without being off-topic. ------------- For every second spent wondering if you can do something, you could spend 2 seconds doing it. |
Posted By: purple_monkey
Date Posted: 28 May 2005 at 2:17am
Hehehehe, I thought some one was going to point that out. I really need some usefull tits  Hmmm, I might as well get some more done on the pic today, then post it up and then you could all give me C&C.
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Posted By: pixelblink
Date Posted: 28 May 2005 at 10:31am
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Originally posted by purple_monkey
I really need some usefull tits It's such a shame the "i" key is so close to the "u" ------------- |
Posted By: Garage Inc.
Date Posted: 28 May 2005 at 3:30pm
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I think he ment tips, haha. Close enough. ------------- For every second spent wondering if you can do something, you could spend 2 seconds doing it. |
Posted By: purple_monkey
Date Posted: 29 May 2005 at 10:35am
| Well, the second time I meant tits just for a laugh but the first time was a typo :P. |
Posted By: Faktablad
Date Posted: 30 May 2005 at 6:49pm
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OK, back on topic. As for what you have done so far, the outline of his hair looks a bit too polygonal. I'd start on the outline and clean that up first. Notice the glow of the light on his hair. As for the main part of the hair, I would actually start with the darkest color (being on the bottom) and add layers of progressively lighter hair "regions" (couldn't find a better word) as you go. IDK, maybe this'll help. Good luck with this, it looks great! |
Posted By: purple_monkey
Date Posted: 31 May 2005 at 1:21pm
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Yeah thanks :), Iīve actually finished it and just put it up now
:). The poligon shape was really just a base, I fixed that when I
finished, I used that method like you said for the light bits of
hair. I donīt know if to put it up or not here. This is the WIP
section after all, anyway,you can all look at it in my gallery :). &nbs p; Keith |
Posted By: Faktablad
Date Posted: 31 May 2005 at 2:30pm
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Yeah, I sort of figured it was just a template. Why don't you upload it to photobucket or something and put a link here so we can see? |
I'd love to see what you've come up with.Posted By: purple_monkey
Date Posted: 01 June 2005 at 2:01am
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Yy, Itīs now up, hereīs a link to it :). http://www.pixeljoint.com/pixels/icons/icons/icon3158.asp - http://www.pixeljoint.com/pixels/icons/icons/icon3158.asp # Enjoy :D |
Posted By: Faktablad
Date Posted: 01 June 2005 at 4:32am
Hey, nice work!! That turned out really great!!
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Posted By: Faktablad
Date Posted: 01 June 2005 at 4:36am
| One thing that bothers me though. Where his hair meets his forehead at the top, it's just a line. Perhaps you could smooth that out so it looks like his hair is more connected to his head. |
Posted By: purple_monkey
Date Posted: 01 June 2005 at 11:27am
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Hmm, yes that bothers me too, you have a good eye :). But meh, Iīm too damn lazy to fix it at the mo, it took long enough to do lol, maybe some other time ;) |