how to paint hair? (anime style)

[Anonymous No.6451226]

ok so i suck at painting hair, this is my attempt. does anyone have tutorials or tips on how to paint hair? i have never been able to do it. feel free to paint over it if you need

[Anonymous No.6451233]

>>6451226
Hard round brush.

[Anonymous No.6451240]

>>6451233
still terrible

[Anonymous No.6451241]

harder rounder brush

[Anonymous No.6451244]

you should probably fix those bug eyes first

[Anonymous No.6451246]

>>6451240
You're not painting with the hard round brush, the reason it looks terrible is because you do not understand form well enough to be able to describe the different planes involved to give the illusion of depth and form and you try to compensate that with an airbrush.

[Anonymous No.6451253]

>>6451226
>how do I
Read a book. I would have said google it a few years ago but search and youtube don’t give relevant results anymore

[Anonymous No.6451264]

>>6451244
what should i fix? smaller? this is my first time trying to draw anime style

[Anonymous No.6451265]

>>6451226
Post the work of the person you're referencing.

[Anonymous No.6451274]

>>6451226
You do not need to shade every stand of hair. It is nice to have details but with that you a are making the head look flat because of all the hair bands having neatly detailed shading. This is also made moer apparent by not having a lot of shading on the face (I know it is still wip). It is more important to make the head feel round this can be done by focusing the light into one area instead of individually shading all the hairs. Your rendering details look really nice otherwise.

Maybe this helps? I did change some stuff about the positioning of the eyes and ear.

[Anonymous No.6451279]

>>6451274
omg that looks way better! tysm!

[Anonymous No.6451282]

>>6451265
i'd like to be able to achieve stuff similar to his. i know its not always preferable to shade every individual strand but they do, and it somehow looks good

[Anonymous No.6451289]

>>6451282
go for a lot of gradient layers overlay/multiply/whatever, see the glossy sort of gradients in those examples, then have those painted strands that aren't overblended

[Anonymous No.6451295]

>>6451246
i was using the hard round brush, unless im mistaken?

[Anonymous No.6451307]

>>6451282
Who's the artist on top left and mid left?

[Anonymous No.6451309]

>>6451282
it is subtle on these but you can see that they all put emphasis on the roundness of the head first and the details come later.

[Anonymous No.6451316]

>>6451282
what you mean is hair texture. it's different than painting single strands because it's just subtle detail on bundles of hair instead of defined lines like you did. I've had more success using low opacity hard edged brushes personally
this video helped me a lot with it https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=kkmrgc8ca3A

[Anonymous No.6451329]

>>6451309
i understand how to shade forms but for some reason when it comes to adding details it just looks terrible. i can make the head appear round but after that idk what to do

[Anonymous No.6451368]

>>6451316
lol i wanna cry i suck

[Anonymous No.6451369]

>>6451329
I see. I am not sure know how to help you after that. it comes down to how much detail is too much and how much is fine. On the process while we work it tends to happen that as we get tired our attention naturally starts to get narrower and narrower and and focus on smaller and smaller area of the picture where we tend to cram more and more of those "cool shiny details." But we loose focus on the big picture and it comes out awkward with one small area of the picture being detailed but almost totally disconnected from the rest.

I can only guess this might have happened with your process and the eyes on. >>6451226

This is nothing special just normal attention fatigue. The best way combat this is to take breaks more frequently and allow the mind to rest itself, just a few minutes is okay. And then when you come back look at the picture from a far view to see it as it is fully. This is even done in traditional art classes when you put your picture down to the wall and need to look at it from far away to get a fresh look

Since you do digital you can also use digital methods like flipping the canvas left-right periodically or zooming out and then back or temporarily turning the picture to greyscale etc. The main goal is to break looking at the very same thing for long time period and give the mind a break or a new perspective.

[Anonymous No.6451388]

>>6451368
Change your brush and experiment.
Some use multiple brushes to achieve >>6451282

[Anonymous No.6451390]

>>6451368
This is better the new problem is that the angle of the curvature does not match the face. How about like this?

[Anonymous No.6451404]

>>6451226
Idk op, I’ve been drawing for over a decade now and hair still gives me trouble.

[Anonymous No.6451415]

>>6451390
for some reason im having an easier time with darker hair. theres some improvement but still not good

[Anonymous No.6451438]

>>6451415
Keep practicing, Anon you will get this eventually! Have faith!

[Anonymous No.6451449]

>>6451415
hair looks miles better but anon, you have to promise me you'll study how to draw faces next

[Anonymous No.6451483]

>>6451449
This does look a bit better, the eyes especially, but the cheeks are way too low. It would fit if you went less semi realistic with the proportions, but as of now it doesn't fit.

[Anonymous No.6451487]

PLEASE fix the eyes I'm GONNA cry. Her right eye is floating away.

[Anonymous No.6451499]

>>6451487
how should i fix it im blind to my mistakes lol how does it need to be positioned?

[Anonymous No.6451503]

>>6451499
The eyes on a turned head will not have the same exact outline and the spacing between them also changes slightly

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[Anonymous No.6451512]

>>6451499
>how should i fix it im blind to my mistakes
Keep changing/refreshing your view like Anon said in >>6451369 art is a complex process and you simply have to make mistakes to learn from them even if you keep making them eventually you will learn that is the price to pay but trust me it is worth paying.

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[Anonymous No.6451520]

>>6451226

[Anonymous No.6451522]

>>6451520
WTF HOW THATS SO GOOD OMG

[Anonymous No.6451529]

>>6451512
FUCK I TOTALLY FORGET TO FLIP MY CANVAS AND IT IS AN ABOMINATION

[Anonymous No.6451596]

ok i gave up being so anime-ish and reverted more to my own style i hope its looking better than what i started with. ty everyone for the advice and help so far

[Anonymous No.6451598]

>>6451226
steve huston advanced head drawing class