any tips to make the hair appear to have more volume/look less stiff?

[naive plaza]

pretty bad example but bear with me im working on drawing faces 😭

[pearl flame]

you could shade the hair topographically

[median stirrup]

I'd add more fluff I guess around the sides

And yeah shading it differently will also help

[naive plaza]

me no hablo ingles

[median stirrup]

a lot of volume is shading

[pearl flame]

basically the shading should follow the form of the hair

[naive plaza]

yeah for sure i was just lazy to actually colour it

[naive plaza]

oo ic

[pearl flame]

and use ribbons instead of draing just a shape

[naive plaza]

ribbons?

[pearl flame]

and have phases of hair

[naive plaza]

oh wait

u mean like

[pearl flame]

the front hair, the side hair and the back hair

[naive plaza]

drawing little strings from the uhh

the whats it

the middle thing

[pearl flame]

one way of giving in 3dness is to have seperate defining shapes on the front hair, side hair, and back hair.

one way of doing this is draw a shape, and turn it into ribbons/locks

[naive plaza]

icic

so like

[pearl flame]

uhh wait

1. is the seperation 2. is an example of front hair 3. is how ribbons look like

lol

hopefully this helps

[median stirrup]

The two main methods are the ribbon method and the banana method, I personally prefer the banan but depending on your preference yk.

the second image is goofy as hell but I couldn't find another

[naive plaza]

ohh shit ok i get it let me just

[pearl flame]

holy shit banana

thats fuckin funny

[naive plaza]

stash those into my screenshots

WAIT A FUCKING MINUTE

IS THAT KOLEEN

[median stirrup]

mayeb?

[pearl flame]

its funny how i know this cus my hair is very sytlistically flat

[naive plaza]

ok i think i get it

[pearl flame]

hah

[pearl flame]

yea

thats her i recognise that style and font anywhere

[naive plaza]

why the left kind a

😛

waait

how old is they im not going on a list anytime soon

[pearl flame]

shes 18 dont worry

just starting college

they both got a scholarship

[naive plaza]

HELL YEAH

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[pearl flame]

lmfao SHE GETS LIKE

LAID AT THE FIRST COMIC (she got a lesbi gf)

[naive plaza]

shiiit

guess i gotta

[pearl flame]

the two girls in the back

[naive plaza]

https://tenor.com/view/i-just-wanna-get-high-with-my-lover-gif-11130444917076846146

[pearl flame]

lmfao

[naive plaza]

they all fine as hell

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[pearl flame]

true

[naive plaza]

ok im gon stash those hair things earlier and draw more

tyty

so long story short imagine it has like

thick ribbons first

then split them as hair later

skadoosh

[pearl flame]

shapes on front side and back, turn them to ribbons (giving them more detail)

[naive plaza]

icic

[pearl flame]

😄

NO

I HATE YOU DISCORD

:D

yeah thats it do

[naive plaza]

sososo

itd be something like this?

im using reference because i still cant do jack shit from memory

[pearl flame]

yeppers

instead of using 2d shapes

imagine them more like bended paper

imagine a 3d plane it folling down to the sides

[naive plaza]

ahh icic

ill keep that in mind

[naive plaza]

ok yeah it lowkey worked i understand it now

thanks so much twin

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[pearl flame]

chehoooo

yay

yay