how the fuck do you even draw hair like this... the flow, i cant

>>2680750
1. understand the shape of the head
2. be able to draw

now, where did you fail?

imagine the hair as strips of chicken tendies flowing from the scalp

>>2680750
show us your merc.wip

to draw something you need to know a lot of stuff and without seeing where you are lacking we can't say what to work on

>>2680765
>>2680768
what those guys are talking about is the thing which helped them break thru with drawing hair, but that doesn\t mean it will help you too since each had learn different things up to that point, and we don't know what you know to tell you what you need to learn

tldr show us your work

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>>2680773
heres one.
the hair doesnt look natural at all

>>2681809

Try to think of them as ribbons.

>>2681809
Well, in my opinion , i really like the way you draw the hair right now altough it's a little stiff. Listen to >>2681820 and look at them as small ribbons that fall .

>>2681820
>>2681824

Also to add: try drawing cross contours/wrapping lines on the hair.

Try to not think of it as hair in the first step, just draw a simplified 3d shape of the hair, sorta like an oddly shape helmet. Then do shading. Then throw hair texture ontop of that.

>>2680750

Your problem is twofold. You lack a visual library and you're not good at drawing form.

What you need to do is to do a lot of studies of hair instead of trying to figure out as some kind of a intellectual exercise.

>>2681820
ill try that.

>>2681842
please elaborate. studies of hair? hair physics?

>>2681857
It means you have to draw a lot of hair from life.

>>2681857

Yes, studies like you would any other subject. From life, photos and copying other artist.

If you do it from a photo try to approach it like the picture in OP. Draw a loose loomis head (no need to draw a detailed face, just make sure to get the perspective down) and draw the hair on top. Try to simplify it as much as possible. Don't draw spaghetti hair. See it in larger shapes.

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>>2681861
tried to divite it into 2 shapes...

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>>2680750
Hair is all about time. The more time you put into it the better it looks.

That's allllll it is.

>>2680750
be careful with hair. You can easily get carried away and over render the fuck out of it. make sure it stays within the style your character is in. Otherwise it ends up looking out of place and out copy pasted on from another source.

>>2681920

I would disagree with you there. A beginner is going to interpret that as if he just noodles long enough he is going to achieve realistic looking hair which obviously isn't true. Hair like everything is about deconstructing and simplifying and understanding the underlying shapes and form instead of trying to draw every strand of hair. Also your picture is pretty bad

>>2681936
>Also your picture is pretty bad
In which it's clear no one should listen to anything you have ever said.

>>2681941
He's not wrong.

>Hair is all about time. The more time you put into it the better it looks.
This is pretty much bullshit.

>>2681982
having to same fag is pretty sad.

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>>2681920
Was on the right track in step 2, then autism struck.

>>2682026
...

>>2681920
this is a tad overwhelming... uh

>>2680750
study some leyendecker muh nig. he does hair beautifully.. although you might get depressed at how fantastic he pulls off the ribbon technique, try to get over it as soon as you could

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>>2682561

>>2682569
>hair is not a dead bird
hair is a flock of dead birds, according to that tutorial.