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TurquoiseSubmarine In reply to anime-master-96 [2014-04-18 14:51:36 +0000 UTC]

Thank you for the advice!^^ It really would look better that way -I´ll keep it in mind for future hair drawing!

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TurquoiseSubmarine In reply to ToddNTheShiningSword [2014-03-31 15:03:03 +0000 UTC]

Oh yes, the upper lip is too up isn´t it?.... Thanks!

I guess It is easier for me to draw curly hair than straight hair since I have curly hair myself... so I kind of know how it works. For me drawing hair is not so much about references but figuring out how the hair would work, where it would go and how I want to style it...

How about just drawing a lot of curly curvy lines on a paper first... and then something.. put them on someones head ?? I´m so damn good at advice...

I just draw for the pencil sketch a lot of curly lines for the hair, like A LOT. And then when inking over just ink the lines that seem to be working best for the hair and erase the rest. It´s all about experimenting with the hair for me When drawing curly hair nothing is too curly, just go crazy with curly lines and see what happens..!

And yes, the forehead is BIG XD

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ToddNTheShiningSword In reply to TurquoiseSubmarine [2014-04-16 15:14:00 +0000 UTC]

The forehead is big, but that doesn't mean it's wrong. The real flaw is still secretly hidden in that upper lip  

Thanks for the tips on hair. My problem is that I don't understand how hair would work, combined with the fact that I like more cartoonish hair more than trying to draw photorealistic hair, so I want to draw something stylized. I know enough about how hair could flow enough to move a body of hair as a whole, but not enough to draw the lines in it and make them look nice.
I bet the best way to learn and practice this will be to do your exercise you said, and try to just draw lines first, with no head. The problem I might have with that, though, is that my brain likes things to be very structured, so it will be a challenge and a lesson in freeing my brain too, I think.
Also, I like "wavy" and "flowy" more than "curly" for my drawings, but I bet your advice is still applicable! I'm gonna try it!

THANKS AGAIN for the advice!

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TurquoiseSubmarine In reply to ToddNTheShiningSword [2014-04-25 14:40:53 +0000 UTC]

Hope it helps some! How about watching hair on movies, anime etc. and trying to think how it works. Do you watch Doctor Who... anyway actor Alex Kingston playing this character River Song has amazing curly hair, maybe watch some videos of her and examine the curly hair in action... and the try to style it your way?   

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ToddNTheShiningSword In reply to TurquoiseSubmarine [2014-11-05 03:59:58 +0000 UTC]

Thanks for the advice. I actually thought about it. At first I didn't, but then later I did.

I think my main problem though is that my brain is in artistic bondage that it was not in when I was a child. It cannot draw things wild and free the way it used to, and that keeps me from creating flowy lines. It wants to make math out of everything, and that gets in the way of flowiness... so making me make flowy lines will be like making a robot do it: it must be made mathematically measurable! I look at my childhood drawings, and they were so free... my drawings now are better, (and way more fun to make [as a kid I just drew because I was bored]!) but less free.

And I want to make it stylized, not as mimicry of reality. The reason being, that reality itself is easy enough to understand and/or copy if you have the right reference(s), but the artistic process behind a line... that's harder to learn, I think, and conquering that problem opens a whole different gate of opportunity.

Really, though, I think your advice will help me get there.

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TurquoiseSubmarine In reply to kaytilynn [2013-12-30 23:21:29 +0000 UTC]

Thank you!!  

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TurquoiseSubmarine In reply to MikazukiRisa [2013-12-30 23:20:42 +0000 UTC]

Thank you!  

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TurquoiseSubmarine In reply to KlaudiaKasperek [2013-12-27 18:35:16 +0000 UTC]

Thanks!  

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