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By  Birthe Jabs, Gallery 503.Drawing and painting hairPart 2, BraidsMany 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.  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. 
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| Date | Name | Comment | | | 8 Dec 2007 |  allie | I couldnt please myself with anything i drew and now that i have read your tutorial i can draw like magic i hope u write more cause you dont know how much this helps me | |
| 12 Dec 2007 | Anonymous | No offense, but the directions- HARD TO FOLLOW. The beginning,v use dullards terms. Explain everything. I need to learn to do this for a project... | |
| 20 Jan 2008 |  Squeek | I love your art trutorials and I find drawing hair particarly difficult. This will come in useful. When I draw people I usually make them very bold and basic. | |
| 22 Jan 2008 | CISCO | My girlfriend is painting right now and used you site to see how to paint her braids. Thanks... the painting is coming out great!!! | |
| 28 Jan 2008 | Abc | But how do you draw a braid from the side. D; | |
| 10 Mar 2008 |  Jerina Kamaria Ruissen | I’m surely gonna use this in my paintings! Not that I have much, but i’m busy on it  | |
| 21 Mar 2008 | Hot dog | thank u
I am doin a project and i wanted to know how to draw them | |
| 26 Mar 2008 | Kirrhi | Love this. I do digital work, but this helped me a lot. The hair looks wonderful. I want to touch it. LOL. | |
| 4 Apr 2008 |  Roxanne Fuchs | I agree, hair is a very difficult thing to master, but it looks like you’ve done your homework. Now, for an anime hair tutorial!!  | |
| 14 May 2008 | Elwing | Been looking for this quite a while now. Thanks!! | |
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