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Selene-Blackthorn — Hair shading tutorial
Published: 2011-05-03 18:01:29 +0000 UTC; Views: 21020; Favourites: 368; Downloads: 2068
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2011 Click "Download file" to get the tutorial as a .RAR file
OR
Click HERE to view in dA.
And this works in the digital media as well, if you have a tablet installed.
I was asked a few times how to do it, so.... I answered
TL;DR: just look at the pictures XD I tried to make it so that people could get the idea from just reading the big titles and looking at the illustrations.
CRITIQUE me please! And tell me of spelling errors, I tend to have many typos >.> Photoshop has no spell-check XD I kind of envied the people who made those pretty tutorials with an actual design and stuff... my former tutorials were a visual fail =_=
So I gave it a try with relevant drawings from my gallery (hair and all XD) and these super-awesome brushes which I noobishly used.
More tutorials by me: Failed ones >.>
Colorizing pencil drawings, part 1 (no part 2 as of now 
) How to blend colors without the smudge/blur tool The MANUAL Photoshop tutorial (editing, the traditional way)INFO:
© Selene-Blackthorn/Crystal-Snowflakes 2011~NOW
Credits:
All drawing made by me (duh!)
Brushes by *Shiranui
Fonts were installed on my comp for ages so I can't give accurate links... but you can look up their names:
Colonna MT (main title)
Magic: The Gathering (username and part titles)
Angelic war (username at the lower corner XD)
Comic Sans MS (the rest of it)
I take commissions! 
Commission info 
[link] People who used it!
~alex96pet ~ [link]
*Kotrebo ~ [link]
~whitesoul0011 ~ [link] [link]
~MYTHICSONOFGOD ~ [link]
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I tried doing the shade and this is what i've got ^^ [link]
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im a dumby im sorry T^T but i can't figure out how to veiw it but i love how u do ur hair!
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hmm.. basically you need to hit "download" on the top right side of the page, and open the file using winRAR.
however, if for some reason you can't, you can view it on dA, here~ [link]
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thank you! i love you xD haha ill show you the results of the hair when im done ^-^ i hope you will like them
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thanks... I hope this will help you
I'd love to see what you made!
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Really helpful! <3 Thank you so much for sharing! :'D
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glad to help~!
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thanks 
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Hey would this technique with sharp tip permanent markers as well because I don't normally use pen for my art
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if you manage to figure out the movement, it should work 
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Ah ok I see thank you very much
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soooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooo helpfull thanks!
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Whoa! Awesome!
But what if I want to shade Blonde or Light-color hair...?
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you do the same with a light pencil and weak strokes
hope I helped
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Oh my gash, Ive really wanted to learn to draw like this, thank you! This is super helpful!
Btw I looked up Crayon Shin Chan and I really regret it xD
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Glad I could help out!
...And I told you you don't want to know.
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you're welcome 
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Awesome! Thank you soooooooooo much for making this tutorial!! I'm gonna try it now!!
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np
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no problem!
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Oh how neat! C: You seem to have a good grasp on defining hair strokes, as well as drawing the hair so it flows.
The one tip I'll mention is that you should probably do some light source shading in the hair. Here, I'll explain that better, haha.
The way you shade the hair defines shines well, but it looks like the light is coming from everywhere at once. You may not want to focus so much on the highlights- and try shading and then highlighting. As I noticed, you do sketch where the highlights are, which is great \o/ Try sketching where the shadows would be, then shading them in with your darkest color, then fleshing out the rest of the hair with a lighter color then the shadows- of course keeping the highlights white, haha. To remember where your lightsource is coming from, try placing a small round object (like a coin) in the corner/along the edge of the paper where the light is supposed to be coming from. It really helps to serve as a good reminder \o/
Hope that helped OTL
Again, you've got a good concept on hair and this tutorial was explained well C:
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thanks, this helps a lot
I'm having trouble with placing shadows, I'll admit. super-shine usually works for me, but that's 'cause I'm such a lazybum...
I'll definitely give that a try.
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You're very welcome ^^
Shadows are super tricky to get right. I'm obviously still learning with them, haha. Hopefully the small object trick works for you! <3
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This is an awesome tutorial
This will really be useful for me sometime ^.^
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thank you
hope it'll help!
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Your welcome ^.^
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This will most definitely help with artwork in the future.
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glad I could help out
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Interesting tips, gives me some ideas, despite me being a digital artist as opposed to traditional. Looks like I can still imitate the look once I figure out the right techniques.
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If you have a tablet installed, you can do pretty much the same
I use this method for hair even digitally (though I don't make a lot of digital pieces...)
I'm not very good at it because I lack practice, but here are some digital results for demonstration - [link] [link] [link] (just ignore the poor proportions/coloring and look at the hair
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Thanks for the links!
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I spotted a typo at "Storke till ya drop!" (point 6, second last)
XD
This looks like a helpful tutorial XD
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thanks
I'll fix that ^^
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Wooo now you showed us your secret how you do the hair! Pretty nice
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