Hello, this is my first post and I´ve been working on a portrait of Chester frm Linkin Park, It´s coming out rather well but what I need now is to do the hair, that´s the problem, I need help with the hair, I don´t know how to draw it.   :S  Could you guys give me some tips and whatnot? Very much appreciated.

Here´s the pixel piece and the photo I was copying from.

              Keith

  I´ve never done detialed hair before and as hair has is made of fibres it´s diferent to skin, clothes,etc, I was just wandering if anyone with experience on doing hair could give me some pointers, because it´ll be hard.  Thanks for replying.

                  Keith

  Hmmm, I think I know what you mean, I´ll try that out and if any one else has some usefull tits please don´t hesitate to tell me. Thanks.

                  Keith

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!

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.

  Hmm, yes that bothers me too, you have a good eye :).  But meh, I´m too damn lazy to fix it at the mo, it took long enough to do lol, maybe some other time ;)