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Published: 2010-08-02 22:41:21 +0000 UTC; Views: 121125; Favourites: 4709; Downloads: 3025
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Wheeee part 2. It isn't as long as I intended to make it - but I got tired of drawing hair XD lmao. yah >.> *runs away* D:Mave & Caleb (from the commission lineart shown) are copyright (c)
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I love you so much for this. :'D I'm having a lot of trouble drawing hair. Thanks for making the tutorial.
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you are very welcome
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so, you are telling everyone to not draw manga style? I'm sorry, but I dont seem to understand the part about the first picture.
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noo.... that's not the point I was getting at XD I was showing a really old crappy drawing i did to illustrate how you shouldn't draw hair. it looks fake and plastic and has no flow or movement to it - that is the point i was trying to illustrate.
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Aah okay, I get it now <3
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oh my thank you
I can't wait apply it myself
I allready had some of these elements in my clothing but never thought of applying it to the hair
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XD hair and clothing are a lot alike in a lot of aspects, but no one ever seems to connect the two XD thank you for commenting
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I think I just always run out of hairstyle ideas DX. These are really nice tutorials for understanding the WHY and not just the how.
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again: I state that this is awesomely helpful. ^^ goes to my
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Oh, wow, this had some awesome points and it was put in wonderfully simple terms, thank you!
Gah, now I want to run off and draw even though I should be going to bed.
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XD thank you for the kind words
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You're very welcome!
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>.> I need this
I'm TERRIBLE at hair..
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thank you for commenting 
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I used to draw like that like 3 years ago
It took forever to even get as far as I have, so I would say I haven't done that much in improvement. D:
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lol hey, any bit of improvement - is improvement. lol a few years ago I actually got worse at art -_- my old 2002 stuff is better than what I did in 06. it was a horrid year XD, but i'd like to think in the past few months i've made up for the deficit XD
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It might have been something in the past that was effecting you.
That happened to me not too long ago.
It can effect your art dramatically, and even hinder you.
If this is true though, I'm sorry for whatever happened, but glad things are better.
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I really hope these help me a little, drawing hair is such a pain, I alway end up with a hairstyle looking like a lego man lol. thanks for the tut
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you're very welcome
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wow soooo good
i so wanna see more mens hair styles
but this is amazing!
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lmao ive already had people suggest I make a men's version, so I might make a part 3 in the near future that goes into more styles
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OMG id love to see that, i realy enjoyed the first 2 tutorials!
its just so hard to draw guys hair 
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lmao i know :/ i hate short hairstyles, lmao cause if you don't do it right, it's easy to spot!
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yea :/
sux cause i can barely get long styles right!
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do what I do, scribble!, it just makes everything so much easier. lol after awhile your brain just picks out the style in the mess and you dont even have to think about it XD
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^^ i am so gona try that
lol but what about line art?
i have a tablet arriving some time this week so il try out some of the tips in the tutorials then
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I dont actually use a pentablet for my lineart XD sai has some really nice lineart features built in that work really well with just a mouse (so that's what i do) the coloring though I do use a pentablet, just because it's easier
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i suck so bad at using a mouse
but i cant wait to try using a tablet
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I highly recommend them, they make art on the computer so much easier -but they do take some time to get used to XD its sort of an odd sensation to be staring at your screen and not your hand when you're drawing XD
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yea!! XD
its gona take forever getting used to that XD
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Again, this is stunning :3
I think I said everything else in my other comment XD
Keep up the wonderful job <3
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'Yes, like every fan-girl i drew anime. This is an example as to why i stopped. LOL I suck at it.'
i want to emphasize that while generic/desu anime is bad, there's just too many styles in 'anime' to just judge. In fact, people may still view your style as anime believe it or not. There's obviously much better anime styles out there that use realistic features just like you. just thought i'd point that out.
other then that, nice simple tutorial. 
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thank you for commenting
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the main reason that being is because people just start straight off with the giant-eye desu anime style which definitly puts me off too, and it obviously isn't the greatest of sides of the actual style.
i'm sure the more professional manga-anime artists started with realism and studied anatomy/real-life before going with it.
but it's the same for any style that isn't realism/fine-arts. they just copy their favorite artist, be it anime, western, nick-toons, etc. i think we're all guilty of this and not just the anime artists.
and thank you replying.
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we are, i'll agree, i think that's how people develop their style.. they pull a little bit as they go along from all their favorite artists - and eventually they end up with some kind of conglomeration that's all their own. But there are too many people out there today, I think, that don't even strive for their own style.. they just try to be like someone else - and doing that, they never learn. It's all well and good to be able to draw like some famous anime artist.. but if all you know is "a line goes here" then you don't understand any of the anatomy behind it XD.. and that's all you'll ever be able to do. that's what worries me about the current masses of copy-cat artists :/
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i think it's perfectly okay to be inspired by others and stuff around us to find our -own- style, but unfortunately you are right about the copying. what's worse is the fact that many of these people think their style -is- original. of course i know no one can exactly mimic one's style 100%, but it's obvious when one is trying to copy.
i do want to believe it's just people being stupid or naive and hopefully they will realize what they are doing isn't that great and learn from their mistakes, but i will never truly know until the time does come.
yet another unfortunate thing is people who truly do believe they are drawing uniquely, but then there happen to be a few other (popular)artists that draw similarly - who they may or may not knew of. it's a shame when that's the case. sometimes they don't see the similarities, while others can. it's hard to tell who's right or wrong when that happens.
(i've seen a fair case of quite a few well known artists who happen to all be good friends but they all have rather similar styles; it's a but shady. some may agree some may not though.)
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oh i completely agree. what really irks me is when an artist becomes popular and then suddenly there's about 20 other artists on da that have suddenly changed their styles to be just like them -_- and that poor original artist suddenly isn't very unique anymore. I hate vampire-stylists.
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vampire stylists? 
But yep, you be right.. i seen so many non-anime styles like Disney-esque styles now that get copied. whenever i see them on front page i think it's THIS artist, but no, it's another artist, but hey they know each other anyways! 
it's even more sad knowing how old these artists are too. i understand copying styles when you're a wee lad, but when you're 20+? and sometimes they be a snobby prick about it. double fail.
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i completely agree -_- vampire stylists = people who "feed" off other's designs... be it character design, concept, or artistic style, they see something they want to "be just like" and they find a way to copy it, rather than think up their own original way of doing things. I coined a new term XD
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excellent term XD here's a cookie 
i personally love to lee-- i mean get inspired myself 
it's annoying to see them on front page all the time - and unfortunately it's often. Le sigh.
(i'm not sure if i double posted. DA is being a dork)
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what program do you ink lineart on?
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wait till I make my own tut for "how to draw hair - from real life Japanese hosts and hostesses"! hehe, they sport cuts that defy the laws of physics!
Great tut! You should make a how-to-draw book and publish it!
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