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By :-) Birthe Jabs, Gallery 503.

 

 

Drawing and painting hair

Part 2, Braids

Many seem to have problems with finding out how a braid is correctly drawn. But it can help with realism immensely. So perhaps it is worth to once work through the details to find it out, it is not that difficult! I often first draw two guidelines along the outline of the braids, for you easily loose track when you're drawing the strands. Then you draw tilted bows whose open ends meets with the side of the next mirrored bow. That's all already! You can draw braids in one long line with a little training, I did that on the right side of the picture and drew the line a bit seperated to show how.

Braids, raw form

Then you begin shading. Give the bows a tip, curving along the next upper bow a bit. Then shade like the strands in the first tutorial. Where one strand slips below the other it is darkest of course and at the thickest point (where another strand is below the one you are just drawing) there are the highlights. Draw the shadowing line along the conture of the strands, drawing an outer shadow where the hair comes from back to front, too, and tada, finished is the braid! And if you analyse this closely you will find that it is absolutely correct, three strands entwined.

Braid, finished

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FARP Article Guestbook

DateNameComment 
7 Jul 200945 Anon.
thank you! this tutorial is awesome
21 Jul 2009:-) Rebekah Dawn VanSlooten
wow, that is an extremely helpful tutorial. i think i can actually make decent hair now=]
8 Aug 200945 Anon.
wooooooow11111111111
8 Aug 2009:-) Edi Hoogenboezem
This is a great and helpful tutorial.
keep it going!1
8 Aug 2009:-) Edi Hoogenboezem
it’s a miracle!
I’m drawing braids!
22
Thank you very very much!!
15 Aug 200945 Anon.
thanks sooo much this is great!
15 Aug 200945 Anon.
thanks sooo much this is great111!!
16 Aug 200945 Anon.
wowmyfriends are empressed
25 Sep 2009:-) John Mad And Dark Prince Mironenko
Thank for the lesson you really helped me!12
16 Nov 200945 Anon.
thankyou so much!
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