The important thing to remember when painting/drawing hair is that, even if the figure has very fair hair, you will still need dark shadows to give it depth. In any painting or drawing it's important to keep your shadows consistant otherwise the figure or their hair will look pasted on. The darkest part on a figure is usually the pupils in their eyes or their eyelashes. You need to include some of that colour in their hair too. For the highlights in hair, don't use white. Depending on the colours in your picture, pale yellow is a good highlight. Intermingling it with strands of pale blue will give it even more depth because the blue tones receed while the yellow come forward. Hope that helps. :~)
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Date: 2006-02-21 08:53 pm (UTC)In any painting or drawing it's important to keep your shadows consistant otherwise the figure or their hair will look pasted on.
The darkest part on a figure is usually the pupils in their eyes or their eyelashes. You need to include some of that colour in their hair too.
For the highlights in hair, don't use white. Depending on the colours in your picture, pale yellow is a good highlight. Intermingling it with strands of pale blue will give it even more depth because the blue tones receed while the yellow come forward.
Hope that helps. :~)