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Published: 2006-01-30 00:44:22 +0000 UTC; Views: 154627; Favourites: 309; Downloads: 5394
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Okay people. You ask me how do I do my hair? It's not magic! It's not real talent! And now you can do it too if you have the patience. I'm writing this assuming you know a little bit about using the pen tool in photoshop.1. Make a line.
2. Put a point in the middle of the line.
3. Hold ctrl (or the mac equivalent of ctrl) and click on the new point, then drag.
4. Close the shape.
5. Make a point on the new line.
6. Ctrl drag to match up with your previous curve.
7. Use the handlebars to manipulate your curve however you'd like.
8. Repeat a thousand fucking times and voi la! Pull the 'magic' out of your ass and impress your friends with a wonderful head of vectored hair
I'm sorry if I've disappointed any of you, I'm not amazing. My method is simple, I just have a lot of patience with what I do and love doing it. Although sometimes works like Angelina drive me slowly insane.
Tip: I start off with the lighter shades of hair, and to minimize your layer count use the 'add to shape area (+)' tool. The thinner the strand, the more detailed your hair will come out. Once I've done a lot of thinner, more detailed hairs, I start layering thicker strands behind them, and finally large shapes to fill in any blank areas that I missed. Adding a few stray hairs here and there help your picture to look more realistic. I use colours for hair directly from the photo but that doesn't stop me from changing them around to fit with everything else better.
Any questions? Feel free to note me. If you have no idea how to use the pen tool, I suggest you take a look at Lemon Tea's Vector Guide 3.0 for the basics.
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i always wondered if you were really penning things in PS. since you indeed are, i now have a new question: why don't you just switch over to illustrator?
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I don't like the control of the pen tool, that and I don't have my own copy, downloaded copies tend to fail on me or have catches, I'm not comfortable with it and I don't have the time to devote solely to figuring it out.
I have a few reasons lol, pick your favourite.
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Awesome tutorial. Really clean and precise. Definitely something I wish my tutorial included. I probably should have explained that step on mine.
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i always did mine by eye, but holding down crtl works too. nice job.
yeah hair is alot simpler then most people think.
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Curving it on the fly, no control needed. When I do use curving, that's how I do it too.
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to curve on the fly, when you click a point immediately drag and you can get the same effect. You can manipulate the handles too by using alt or ctrl one (I don't know which) will move only one side of the handle.
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yeah, i think that's how it works in illustrator right? i'm just showing the way i know how to do it
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it works the same in both programs, it's just the controller keys that change(ctrl, alt or shift), just look at the mouse pointer there are only a few indicators.
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my computer has decided not to LOAD the freaking thing, just like it doesn't load ANY tutorial on dA. cause it HATES me. but i have no clue how to use the pen tool anyway, even after looking at lemontea's tutorial, so it doesn't really matter. i'm just too stupid. i'll stick to flash for lines, i guess. >>;;;
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miss you dude <3 thanks for your support when it really mattered lol. you were always awesome without tutorials, its funny reading these comments from our 16 now almost 30 year old selves
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Beats my "draw a quick squiggly line" method.
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lol yeah thats how i do it. i thought i was the only one... (and i get bored easily so you notice how NONE of my images ever have detailed hair...)
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I really like doing hair lol, I like doing the details however insane it drives me usually.
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we should uh.. collab sometime. i can do all the easy parts and you can do all the detail!!!
(/cough - that sounds like the ultimate lazy plan, lol)
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We should though. You're creative and I'm...perfectionistically devoted to detail
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haha, so i come up with the concept and leave the detail to you? THAT SOUNDS LIKE A GOOD IDEA. i fricken hate doing like.. hair. or eyes. or fur.
do you use illustrator?
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I use photoshop, they can be converted right? If you save it right?
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yea you can i think. i just tried it with the file i'm working with... but i dont know how well it would work for say, stroke lines or gradients.
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Maybe not stroke lines, but probably gradients. If we work with a relatively large picture, I don't think quality would be reduced in the transfer. As long as we don't count on making it a print it should be cool lol.
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lol but a print would be fuuun (lmao okay probably not, it would be hella big on ps). anything in particular you want to vector?
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..The only thing I'm really good at is people >> I did flowers once, and I liked that. But if you have any kind of design in mind I can just make the face to fit it? And do the background or something so it's more fairly split? :b Which parts of a picture do you like doing best.
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(the easy parts... duh)
i've had three ideas sorta floating around lol. i'll note you
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yep good ol' pen tool. i've been thinking about goin to illustrator but i think i'll stay in photoshop for the comfort factor
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Opposite for me. I don't understand Photoshop at all. It's so much harder to vexel in!
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My exact thoughts. And I just have a serious grudge against Illustrator >>
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Yeah, that's how I feel too.
i'm working on a piece of a friend now,
and this tutorial have helped me a lot ^^
although, i have very little patient, and work very slowly ><
anyway, thanks
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well its good to take a lot of breaks :b
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LMAO this is the best tutorial I've ever seen
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This is insane dude! How can you be so patient? I've tried this but gave up after about 10 pieces.. So, this is nothing for me but keep it up I just love it! D
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art's the only thing i've ever been patient with so :b i just got lucky i think
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"8. Repeat a thousand fucking times and voi la! Pull the 'magic' out of your ass and impress your friends with a wonderful head of vectored hair
HAHAHAHA
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I like the art tutorial for the hair but. T_T Its wayyyy tooooo tiring. O_O
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yeah, i had a lot of free time when i was a kid...it's been a while since i've vectored hair like that lol
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True. I wouldn't say Photoshopping is hard, but it can most certainly be extremely tedious.
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Well Photoshopping in general requires knowledge and a sense of many things, but for complex stuff the bottom line is hard work
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