how would you guys go about fixing / replicating this beard correctly?

>>274017
photoshop - color range (save each one separately)
illustrator - image trace (manually adjust each)
you could ask on /wsr/ for someone to do it for you.

>>274044
i was doing a little illustrator tracing, but the original photo is so old that it's a little hard to see where one strand ends and the other begins.

as for the color range, im not trying to replicate the rust i'm removing it

& i'd rather finish it up myself, dont want to get dependent on others for help

OP here, another question if anyone cares:

how can one get single strokes to have pointed edges? if you see the chin in my pic, i tried making a fully completed stroke and it just squared off on the ends.

>>274166
illustrator brushes palette or expand strokes and manually change each bezier point.

>>274166
Select all strokes you want to have pointed ends. Then select the according option in the stroke menu.

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>>274212
got it, thank you!!