From the course: Animation Foundations: Drawing Cartoon Characters

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Hair and beards

Hair and beards

From the course: Animation Foundations: Drawing Cartoon Characters

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Hair and beards

- Now I'm going to talk about hair. And hair is best thought of as a single mass, like one continuous object. Do not think about it as being thousands and thousands of individual hairs or you will lose your mind. So in this case what I have is a man with a short sensible haircut on the top and a woman with a shoulder length sensible haircut on the bottom. Both quite similar physically. And as you can see the major shapes and forms have been dealt with like they're one object, so we have the most of his hair is up here in one big triangular shape. And likewise with her we just have added the sides. So let's see how we would apply his shape to this profile. And it's good to have a three dimensional idea of the hair. So what I'm going to do is make a clean layer and just with a red line, so we can see precisely what's going on I'm going to make some strokes. His hair will look I think very similar to hers from this angle, I would think it would be probably something like this. The major…

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