I would go see them
“the beetles were the most iconic band in history” uuuh explain this then
Definitely only the important things
the switch successor will be as powerful as 2 switches duct-taped together
Sorry these tags need to be acknowledged I think
Natural Black Hair Tutorial!
Usually Black hair is excluded in the hair tutorials which I have seen so I have gone through it in depth because it’s really not enough to tell someone simply, “Black hair is really curly, draw it really curly.”
The next part of Black Hair In Depth will feature styles and ideas for designing characters and I will release it around February. If you would like to see certain styles, please shoot me a message!
YES! BOOSTINGGGG FOR MY FOLKS WHO WANNA/NEED TO KNOW HOW
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Black Hair In Depth
[Drawing Hair * misselaney.tumblr.com ]
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Introduction: Unique Visual Texture
The subject of Black hair is largely overlooked in drawing tutorials, but this hair type’s visual texture and behavior is so unique that it deserves careful attention. We’ll start with the building blocks of drawing this har.
Up close, you will find that the hair has a wealth of different patterns:
- micro-ringlets (small, tight, near-uniform coils)
- micro-crimping (small zig-zags)
- Sproadic strands (mixed loops and zig-zags, frequently changing direction]
Drawing this hair is a matter of layering lines which describe its texture:
Notice how, in comparison to straight-or-wavy hair, the texture also has an impact on the hairline, making it soft, gradual, and non-uniform.
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Hair Types
There are myriad of hair typing systems for natural Black hair. The most common one is the Walker hair type system, which we will use for the sake of how abundant reference pictures are in the system.
Type 3C: volumnous corkscrew curls about as wide as a pencil.
Type 4A, 4B: Strands an an S (4A) or Z (4B) pattern, the locks about as wide as a crochet needle.
Type 4C: The most tightly curled hair, in a Z. The difference between 4B and 4C visually speaking is how tight the individual curls are, eliminating an easily discernable curling pattern.
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Lighting for Afro-Textured Hair
Due to its pattern, most 4B and 4C hair behaves differently than other hair types when it comes to receiving light. Rendering it properly is an exercise in thought, especially for those who follow formulas to shade hair. Here are the major considerations:
In drawing other hairtypes, you’ll put these sharp pops of light in. This is specular highlighting, and you see it even in low lighting.
But afro-textured hair handles light differently. It still picks up the same amount of light, but it scatters it,s oftening these highlights for a matte look.
In drawing it left loose, think about this hair in layers from the outside in when you light and color it rather than using what you know from straight and wavy hair types. Block it into sections and then think about how they cast shadow on one another. This applies to 3C hair, but not as much.
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Considerations For Hair Behavior
If you live in a context where you just don’t see Natural hair, you may miss out on these subtler visual points its character.
When parted, you see more of the scalp than you may have expected.
Due to a thing called shrinkage, the hair is much longer than it looks, sometimes up to 4 times longer.
This hair is finer in terms of density and generally in strand diameter, so it is actually much -lighter- than you might think!
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Further Considerations - When Wet
In cartooning and stylized works, we exaggerate the excess weight of water, the shine, and how it will stick to itself. This is similar for Black hair in most cases, but tehre are hair types which react to water in a unique fashion that one wouldn’t intuitively assume.
In terms of body loss, wavy and straight hair goes completely limp when wet, but curly and coily hair keeps most of its curls despite the weight of the water within it.
Regarding the lighting, the sharp specular pops of light are smaller, tighter, and more noisy than in hair which water straightens.
The final touch is the behavior of water still in the hair; instead of sliding down to drip off in sheets, hair can bead up along curls. This is not in every Black hair type, rather the more wiry ones, but it is an interesting effect that you may wish to draw.
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Coloring
The color gamut of African hair (as in purely from Africa) is largely from eumelanin, or brown-black. The undertones have cooler huse than in European hair, which usually has more pheomelanin. Instead of rufous colors, undertones like crimson and maroon are more common.
However, to say black and almost-black is the only range to ever use is nonsense. Make it honey blond, red, whatever, make it *green* even
Whatever color you pick, shade with the base color’s compliment to create a nice depth. Highlight with the same temperature as the base.
Side note: This is the tutorial I was referring to for this piece. You’d better believe I’ll be linking back to it properly now!
Yeah these shrines might not be in Hyrule anymore, but they’ll always have a place on my nerd shelf
Used this model from Thingiverse: https://www.thingiverse.com/thing:3172683, paint job was my own, “light” effects were done via a cellphone flashlight underneath (printed in transparent blue PLA) and a small hand-drill to thin the walls on the “stars” so more light could get through
Recently bought Tears of the Kingdom and so far, it’s pretty fun! I feel bad for Link though lolol
My uncle, who grew up a poor immigrant on a pig farm, became a heart surgeon and keeps marrying into wealth. His third wife is from old money. She’s very sweet and I do love her to death but she’s completely out of touch with anyone who is not born wealthy. She told me “Oh you simply MUST rent a villa in Italy for a summer. It’s so great.”
Bless my uncle, he just started laughing his ass off and said, “Joan, normal people don’t do that.”
She was so confused.
Can “Joan, normal people don’t do that” be added to the “Harold, they’re lesbians” litany?
Seconded.