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’What is hair and how i can render it?’

I got this question and I really wanted to show on very simple examples how to render hair. Because it really is… simple! Following this guide you will be able to paint hair in few minutes.

This is called the ribbon technique.

It is used by many artists out there. I just wanted to show you a couple of examples. As you can see I picked Adam Hughes and J. C. Leyendecker. Look at it and see how they paint the hair. It doesn’t look like a mop. It looks more like big, overlapping shapes organized in some fashion.

Try to imagine a string of hair like a ribbon. Ribbon symbolize a large portion of hair. Don’t focus on every single hair string, instead of this imagine it as bigger shape. It will catch light in highest point and it will have core shadows.

Establish where light is hitting the hair and where it turns dark. Start with big shapes. big brushes to get the lights and volumes right. Then You can go into details and paint small brush strokes to add details like single hair strings.

I attached two examples. First is very simple where you can clearly see and understand the similarity between hair and ribbon. Second example is theory put into practice. But it’s basically doing the same things as shown in simple example.

Let me know what you think about this?

I based my knowledge on James Gurney blog (author of Dinotopia and Light and Color book)

And for the example I used Faestock (from deviantart) photo.

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Hello!! I just wanted to ask (feel free to answer this privately or not at all) - when you make sketchbooks like the ones you'll be selling at Otakon, where do you get them printed? And may I ask how much general interest is on them? I personally love sketchbooks and seeing an artist's process but I'm not sure if that's just me or not :) Thank you!!!

heyo! i print them myself! i use vellum paper from neenah extract on amazon. it’s a bit of work to format everything… i do it in photoshop then use adobe acrobat to compile it into a pdf (in this case i ask karen to help me bc i do not have acrobat _:3 )

to have a good idea of how the book will look and which page goes with which page i make a mini mock up with actual paper and just fold it and label the page numbers, then match it to pages i have saved. i hope this helped!

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Another tutorial!  This one tells you how to make articulated shoulder armor that bends with your arm.  The shoulders were probably the most difficult piece for my Tyrael cosplay, so hopefully this will make things a bit simpler for others.