Selfish

Yeah, I have a love for drawing hair.
From a wonderful photo entitled "Selfish" by with kind permission. Please take a look at her gallery..(especially the folder named "my hair") shes an expressive photographer. 

Pretty much 95% 0.5 and 0.7 mechanical pencil, on good old Strathmore 300 smooth. Click on "download" for a real close up look Here is kind of a tutorial I did The Scoop on How I Draw Hair :)



Hey there!! Okay, I was asked if I took any pictures of my WIP for this…heres a few. Keep in mind, as a kid growing up, I had no "YouTube" or formal art instruction to learn technique from. Just a couple comic books, and a desire to do something no one else I knew did.  So knowing that, my technique is made up by myself and may be a little strange....but then again so am I.
 So, Starting at the top....
     The first one shows- After putting down a light, simple grid, the rough outline is down and ready. The placement of the eyes at this stage is absolutely critical to me, as are teeth if they are showing.  With a 2B pencil I put down a light layer over most of the drawing. My layer is usually in two directions, it keeps pencil lines easier to blend later. Now w