Post by shiva on Mar 27, 2007 23:44:12 GMT
I've build a hair tutorial a bit aswell. Please do not use this tutorial to claim it to be yours, as I will take precautions! If you got any questions, regarding this tutorial, pm me. Thank you
Phase I: I draw the eyes, as I distance them in between for about 1 eye. I begin to draw them pretty detailed too. If I don't do this, I'll get a wrong deceiving eyewidt to estimate the nose and faceline offsets, that have to do with each other.
Phase II: Here I set off where the nose should end and the rough baseline with a stomp and very light pencil, which is EZ to erase.
Phase III: I begin shading up the eyes, determine the eyebrows more, and determining the shape of the head more. I dimension the nose a bit by shading it, so I can determine the mouth and aswell the more accurate faceline.
Phase IV: I shade a bit here and there an more and more and set off the beginning of the hair, which determine the total head shape. Because the mouth is very detemined for the faceline, aswell for the expression, I will draw this fairly detailed too. Do not underestimate this, cause is is just as important as the eyes. Once I got a fair accurate mouth, I will determine the chinline and the jawline.
Phase V: This one is important. I will broaden shade areas and I will tilt out the head. I do this too wide and start out there where I can take a lot of mistakes (dark areas) I go with the flow of the main setted faceline from the last phase. I set of very lightly the outhern and inner boundries of the hair. Since she has very difficult hair, I will start building up an area that is most obvious to do. It is there where I can easily associate with figures, images or something that makes you think about its shape. I draw lightly sharp strokes and estimate the dark areas, which I indeed draw as an area and not with strokes. The build up is done in this way: I first draw the shape of the inner and outhern boundry of the hair. Then I divide it in sublevels, by estimate and drawing the more broad dark sides. Then I'll subdivide the sublevels in substrokes. Then I will build up hair darkness/intensity around it, by adding strokes as hair with a light, but sharp pencil.
Phase VI: I will construct another area that is typicall in properties in the same way. Because the hair is a lot of work, I will draw something else as a diversion. Here I made an extra layer on the eyes, film them and drew details in it. Shaded more and began to final shape the nose a bit. Also, I increased a bit on her final faceline.
Phase VII: This phase is much effort; I will draw the 2 hairareas to each other and extend some parts, to there where it is going more difficult. I do this, to average and dim out the errors in offsets, to make it not really noticable. I also build up the hairtones with darker and very sharp pencils. I will try to miss out the highlites a bit. Then I see something at the face. I draw a slightly broaden edge right under her chin, to get an impression in how the face is going to get to the front. Now I see that the face is still too broad and the left jawline bends too low.
Phase VIII: I'm increasing slightly on the face, but I'm scared. What I do then, is to draw the basic hair in the west part aswell to get an impression of the total picture. Then I dare more to fix the faceline and it clarifies some detail errors.
Phase IX: I work on the hair alot. I midflow areas in each other with lighter very sharp penclis and rebreak some areas with a cut off, fairly soft eraser. I will have a very sharp edge and I will stroke with the eraser throug those dark areas that are a bit lumpy. Then I take a light and very sharp pencil again to re-edges some highlites, areas and reclarify the hair. Don't worry, cause the smudge you created from your errors will eventually turn out to be the basic background haircolour. Just focus on the more frontal hair. I also increased the very dark areas; you have to be carefull with that. You should draw from 2 sides: the dark side towards the light and the light side towards the dark, to there where you think it turns obviously from light to dark.
Phase X: I will draw the final shape of the face, without taking notice of the shades that make the face look more round and not strawberry like. This is very deceiving! I extend the shade of the chin, clarify the very inner hairs in the north and detemine the shape of the shadow, the hair creates on the face. I also build up some frontal hair by adding dark strokes on top of the basic. I also draw wild hairs a bit with my sharp eraser. I will edge the white fly off-strands hair with a very very sharp and light pencil and start to pincer the white single strokes. Some of them I will extend into dark hair and some wild hairs are totally dark. The drawing is halfway now. It is also a nice time to post a whip, as you have done a lot on dimensioning and get some feedback for critisism.
Phase XI: I'll finish off the hair at the eastern/northeastern hair (as I'm a lefty). I judge over and over, and draw, untill I'm satisfied. I take an average pencil of the hair, which is incredible sharp and a very sharp edged eraser, which is not too soft and not too hard. I crak some smudge areas again, re-edge again and I Extra tonal the front hair to really give it's dimension. Also, you can stretch out some dark areas and midflow it into the lighter. I will edge the outher boundry aswell and add some final wild hairs, there where I think it supposed to be there. Really take your time for this to judge where and what and wait until you say: "yes, there..." !!! I also add some background, there where I think I'm (nearly) done to be there anymore; it will only smudge if you don't. Now I'm getting a real fine impression on how the whole face and hair is coming to the front!
Phase XII: I'll build on further and furthes on the hair. I blend out and finish of the face entirely. I'm extending a bit body aswell. I work on the X-cross shading (see tips and techniques), there where the hair leaves the face. This is a very difficult part, as your face will look like it will change, but is actually doesn't. I will also pincer shade the faceline and some detailareas to let it fade out naturally (see tips and techniques). Now I'm ready to head on south. I put in some last skin, eye, nose, mouth details aswell.
Phase XIII: Here I finished off the east/north and west part, as I continued adding wild hairs, build up in layers and resolute hair. I'm prepairing myself on how to end this....
Phase XIV: I finish the whole drawing. Here I chose for a dream effect. I drew the hair at the ends clearly and fairly hard. Tthen I just ersae it softly, going harder and harder when I will come near to the edge, as I litterly pull the hair to a fade-out. The smudge trace I just erase with a very cleang and sharpcornered eraser and I re-edged some details.
Phase XV: TIME TO POST AND GET SOME EGO-PETTING COMPLIMENTS
; ESPECIALLY FROM LIANNE .
....Or just learn from your mistakes
Phase I: I draw the eyes, as I distance them in between for about 1 eye. I begin to draw them pretty detailed too. If I don't do this, I'll get a wrong deceiving eyewidt to estimate the nose and faceline offsets, that have to do with each other.
Phase II: Here I set off where the nose should end and the rough baseline with a stomp and very light pencil, which is EZ to erase.
Phase III: I begin shading up the eyes, determine the eyebrows more, and determining the shape of the head more. I dimension the nose a bit by shading it, so I can determine the mouth and aswell the more accurate faceline.
Phase IV: I shade a bit here and there an more and more and set off the beginning of the hair, which determine the total head shape. Because the mouth is very detemined for the faceline, aswell for the expression, I will draw this fairly detailed too. Do not underestimate this, cause is is just as important as the eyes. Once I got a fair accurate mouth, I will determine the chinline and the jawline.
Phase V: This one is important. I will broaden shade areas and I will tilt out the head. I do this too wide and start out there where I can take a lot of mistakes (dark areas) I go with the flow of the main setted faceline from the last phase. I set of very lightly the outhern and inner boundries of the hair. Since she has very difficult hair, I will start building up an area that is most obvious to do. It is there where I can easily associate with figures, images or something that makes you think about its shape. I draw lightly sharp strokes and estimate the dark areas, which I indeed draw as an area and not with strokes. The build up is done in this way: I first draw the shape of the inner and outhern boundry of the hair. Then I divide it in sublevels, by estimate and drawing the more broad dark sides. Then I'll subdivide the sublevels in substrokes. Then I will build up hair darkness/intensity around it, by adding strokes as hair with a light, but sharp pencil.
Phase VI: I will construct another area that is typicall in properties in the same way. Because the hair is a lot of work, I will draw something else as a diversion. Here I made an extra layer on the eyes, film them and drew details in it. Shaded more and began to final shape the nose a bit. Also, I increased a bit on her final faceline.
Phase VII: This phase is much effort; I will draw the 2 hairareas to each other and extend some parts, to there where it is going more difficult. I do this, to average and dim out the errors in offsets, to make it not really noticable. I also build up the hairtones with darker and very sharp pencils. I will try to miss out the highlites a bit. Then I see something at the face. I draw a slightly broaden edge right under her chin, to get an impression in how the face is going to get to the front. Now I see that the face is still too broad and the left jawline bends too low.
Phase VIII: I'm increasing slightly on the face, but I'm scared. What I do then, is to draw the basic hair in the west part aswell to get an impression of the total picture. Then I dare more to fix the faceline and it clarifies some detail errors.
Phase IX: I work on the hair alot. I midflow areas in each other with lighter very sharp penclis and rebreak some areas with a cut off, fairly soft eraser. I will have a very sharp edge and I will stroke with the eraser throug those dark areas that are a bit lumpy. Then I take a light and very sharp pencil again to re-edges some highlites, areas and reclarify the hair. Don't worry, cause the smudge you created from your errors will eventually turn out to be the basic background haircolour. Just focus on the more frontal hair. I also increased the very dark areas; you have to be carefull with that. You should draw from 2 sides: the dark side towards the light and the light side towards the dark, to there where you think it turns obviously from light to dark.
Phase X: I will draw the final shape of the face, without taking notice of the shades that make the face look more round and not strawberry like. This is very deceiving! I extend the shade of the chin, clarify the very inner hairs in the north and detemine the shape of the shadow, the hair creates on the face. I also build up some frontal hair by adding dark strokes on top of the basic. I also draw wild hairs a bit with my sharp eraser. I will edge the white fly off-strands hair with a very very sharp and light pencil and start to pincer the white single strokes. Some of them I will extend into dark hair and some wild hairs are totally dark. The drawing is halfway now. It is also a nice time to post a whip, as you have done a lot on dimensioning and get some feedback for critisism.
Phase XI: I'll finish off the hair at the eastern/northeastern hair (as I'm a lefty). I judge over and over, and draw, untill I'm satisfied. I take an average pencil of the hair, which is incredible sharp and a very sharp edged eraser, which is not too soft and not too hard. I crak some smudge areas again, re-edge again and I Extra tonal the front hair to really give it's dimension. Also, you can stretch out some dark areas and midflow it into the lighter. I will edge the outher boundry aswell and add some final wild hairs, there where I think it supposed to be there. Really take your time for this to judge where and what and wait until you say: "yes, there..." !!! I also add some background, there where I think I'm (nearly) done to be there anymore; it will only smudge if you don't. Now I'm getting a real fine impression on how the whole face and hair is coming to the front!
Phase XII: I'll build on further and furthes on the hair. I blend out and finish of the face entirely. I'm extending a bit body aswell. I work on the X-cross shading (see tips and techniques), there where the hair leaves the face. This is a very difficult part, as your face will look like it will change, but is actually doesn't. I will also pincer shade the faceline and some detailareas to let it fade out naturally (see tips and techniques). Now I'm ready to head on south. I put in some last skin, eye, nose, mouth details aswell.
Phase XIII: Here I finished off the east/north and west part, as I continued adding wild hairs, build up in layers and resolute hair. I'm prepairing myself on how to end this....
Phase XIV: I finish the whole drawing. Here I chose for a dream effect. I drew the hair at the ends clearly and fairly hard. Tthen I just ersae it softly, going harder and harder when I will come near to the edge, as I litterly pull the hair to a fade-out. The smudge trace I just erase with a very cleang and sharpcornered eraser and I re-edged some details.
Phase XV: TIME TO POST AND GET SOME EGO-PETTING COMPLIMENTS
; ESPECIALLY FROM LIANNE . ....Or just learn from your mistakes
..and i know its not...well not for me anyway 