This is the way I use to draw hair:
1. the scan of the original photo reference.
2. I finish my sketch and fill in the shape of the whole character with a dark color before starting to draw. That colored part on the right is the face, which I finished before drawing the hair.
3. I pick a brush, set the transparency to a very high level (about 95 of 100) and begin to sketch with some bright brown/yellow. I always use a grid when drawing after a photo reference.
4. use the smudge tool (again with high transparency) to work out the shape of the single strands of hair.
5. now I start to work on the details. I permanently switch from the coloring brush to smudge tool and back again to get the highlights. For the coloring brush I pick a bright yellow, almost white. And again with a high transparency. The things in the foreground will be finished at last.
6. Finally I add some last details like the tiny hairs (lower the transparency of the brush to do this), which hardly can be realized in the final submission, but I want to have them there.
If you got more questions or you just can’t understand my English
feel free to ask or send me a note.
View the finished drawing:
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Viel Übung erfordert das jeweilige Malprogramm, denke ich.
Ich kenne den Vorteil eines Airbrush Pens nicht und würde Dir das auch nicht empfehlen, wenn Du "normal" malen willst. Was an dem Stift nun anders ist, weiß ich nicht, aber, wie Du bereits sagtest, kannst Du in den Malprogrammen eigentlich jede traditionelle Malsituation simulieren. Da sind die Möglichkeiten des Programms entscheidender als das Werkzeug. Und "simplen" Airbrush kann man damit sehr leicht simulieren.
Ich benutze das Intuos 2 im A4-Format. Davor hatte ich das kleine Graphire (A6) von Wacom und muß sagen, daß mir das im Grunde auch genügte.
Daß Du mit Photoshop umgehen kannst, zeigt Deine Galerie zur Genüge
am ende ist es doch nur abgekupfert.
hair has always been a problem for me, i think i just need more patience.