Vent: My character's hair looked like a plastic helmet for months

Honestly, I kept painting hair as one solid block and it never looked right. Last week, I found a video from an artist named Loish where she paints hair in three distinct value groups, light, mid, and dark, as separate shapes first. I tried it on a portrait and blocked in those big shapes before any detail. Ngl, it clicked immediately and the hair finally had volume and flow. Has anyone else found a specific method that fixed a part of their art that just wasn't working?

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the_val1d ago

Oh wow, that three-shape method saved me from drawing flat grass forever lol.

tara7451d ago

Wait, you were drawing flat grass before?