Bad Hair Day
Printed From: Pixel Joint
Category: Pixel Art
Forum Name: WIP (Work In Progress)
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Printed Date: 09 June 2026 at 12:57pm
Topic: Bad Hair Day
Posted By: beef_x
Subject: Bad Hair Day
Date Posted: 14 April 2012 at 5:09pm
Every day's a bad hair day for me. Does anyone have any tips or techniques for how best to pixel hair? I tried starting with the darkest color and working up to the lightest but it looks like an uncontrolled mess :( |
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Posted By: beef_x
Date Posted: 21 April 2012 at 4:41am
An update after not having much time to work on pixels this week. I realised the answer to my question was to think more about how the hair falls before jumping in and trying to do strands. I'm still in two minds about whether the dithering helps or whether to just throw in more colors. |
Posted By: cure
Date Posted: 21 April 2012 at 6:41am
| she's got bulldog jaw. would you mind posting the reference, would help us critique the likeness. Don't worry about individual strands, that can be implied with texture. probably best to focus more on the more general "clumps", then go in and refine those. the dithering isn't necessary. |
Posted By: beef_x
Date Posted: 21 April 2012 at 4:27pm
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Bulldog jaw sounds bad :O Too angular? I don't actually have a ref because I managed to delete it from my phone, so I was doing what I could from what I pixelled before. The ref was hugely blurry so I probably got the form wrong. I think I'll try hair with a clearer reference. I found a few pencil tutorials that look promising. |
Posted By: r1k
Date Posted: 23 April 2012 at 11:37pm
her jaw is protruding foreward too much. Heres a really quick edit, its not perfect so you should probably try finding a new ref. I also noticed that if her eyes are angeling downward, then the mouth is out of perspective (the lips should angle downward too then) |
Posted By: beef_x
Date Posted: 24 April 2012 at 2:11am
Thanks for the advice and tips guys, I started afresh with a new reference, I'll post my progress when I make some, it's super early days. Here's what I have so far: And the reference: http://tinyurl.com/ckbdjfw - http://tinyurl.com/ckbdjfw |
Posted By: jeremy
Date Posted: 24 April 2012 at 3:29am
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chin is again protruding. check facial proportions - ref has pointy chin, face is about twice the height of the forehead, etc. |
Posted By: beef_x
Date Posted: 03 May 2012 at 12:38pm
 Thanks Jeremy, I started again. Not sure that the proportions/features are *right* but they're definitely better. I've been tinkering away on this in spare time but not getting anywhere fast. |