How Do You Draw Unkempt Hair In A More Simple Style? I Have A Character Who The Most He Does Is Probably

How do you draw unkempt hair in a more simple style? I have a character who the most he does is probably brush his fingers through it but I can't draw him not looking like he has nicely styled wavy locks.

Using a variety of hair textures and abstract hair shapes can help create the messy effect you want;

Here’s an example for hair textures, The left is a full head of curly hair; on the right I made some generals shapes on the base to guide where the textures would change, this could be as smile and complex as you want!

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If your character reference doesn’t allow for different hair textures, you can always try building abstract or conflicting shapes out of the hair itself. Long hair which is messy generally has lots of fly-aways you can shape, as well as crude edges or bunching together at random. Short hair is more diverse in my opinion, it depends on the texture and the cut, but I would try to group part of the hair together at random, and direct the shapes to give a sense of asymmetry to the silhouette. The simpler your style needs to be, the fewer general the shapes you may want to build into the body of the hair.

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I hope this gives you some fun ideas!

(With Love from Mod Koikro55)

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francis how would you do a vampires teeth so that theyre like. more unsettling in ur opinion

i think honestly a good place to start would be just looking at blood sucking animals in nature, because in most cases their mouths would look pretty unsettling when applied to human anatomy

vampire bats are an obvious starting point but they dont look too uncanny for the most part until you take some liberties w/ it 

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if youre thinking more along the lines of “nah id prefer to enact psychological warfare against anyone who calls vampires sexy” a lamprey is a GREAT starting point

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or a tick

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these are just ideas for starting points of course, theres no Rule That Vampire Must Resemble Animal but i think looking to nature is really helpful with creature design and combining animal traits onto human shapes is a great way to make a really fucked up scary looking creature.

but really all a vampire needs to do is to be able to access blood (either by opening a wound and lapping it up as the victim bleeds or getting its mouth into the body and sucking) so like you have a TON of options so you can kind of just go wild with it. 


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Hi! I recently saw your tutorial on drawing/designing PoC characters, do you have any tips on drawing monolids? Especially stylized monolids?

Here are a couple of links to really great tutorials: 

https://theredlinestation.tumblr.com/post/182913540819/eschergirls-really-cool-tutorial-about-drawing

http://chuwenjie.tumblr.com/post/158694460814/a-compilation-of-stuff-i-know-about-drawing-asian

Here are some of my own observations about monolids and double eyelids. All in all, there’s very subtle differences between the different eyes. It is the combination of all different features that makes someone look a certain way. 

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-Mod Future (ko-fi)

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Could we possibly see an eye and hair tutorial? I'm struggling with liking my style because it's not up to my(too high) standards and would very much so enjoy some of your advice :>

Could We Possibly See An Eye And Hair Tutorial? I'm Struggling With Liking My Style Because It's Not

not much of a tut but here’s my usual process

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and some doodles, done in like 15 sec per pair

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I haaate painting hair so i try not to take too much time on it

6 years ago

i’m gonna drop an art tip here

i think an important thing to learn, especially if you start out with drawing anime, is that faces don’t necessarily have to narrow from top to bottom

I’m Gonna Drop An Art Tip Here

i like to think of wide top, wide middle, wide bottom, and rectangle-like as the 4 main face shapes

what you should keep in mind about them:

you’re only halfway done: the jawlines, the width-length ratio, the amount of fat in the cheeks, the intensity or subtlety of the face’s curves are all important components you still have to decide on after choosing the shape itself

none of these shapes are exclusively feminine or masculine, don’t hesitate drawing them on any gender

most people in real life have some variation of the wide middle type

if you are trying to draw real people, getting the shape of their face down is the first step

i’ve seen tutorials say the shape of the face can tell a lot of the character’s personality - you don’t necessarily have to live by that rule. as long as you aren’t unrealistically drastic about their proportions, their face shape determines their inner qualities as much as it would in real life (not at all)


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