Hey guys, so this was a piece I finished a few weeks ago but am finally get up on Steemit. I was scrolling through Instagram and came across this picture and it was one of those times that something inside of me yelled, "You have to do this!".....and so I did! I asked the owner of the photo on Instagram if she minded if I used it to which she happily obliged.

Hair has always been a bit daunting for me; it was one of the more difficult things for me to grasp and get "good at" in my pursuit of improving my art skills. Basically, it took getting my mind to seeing hair as just blocks of highlights and shadows - once you get the main blocks, then you can go into further detail and render it better. I'll be doing more in depth videos of my processes in the future (once I get a better camera, which I think is coming soon thanks to winning the "trial by comics" contest which @kommienezuspadt hosts, and as he pointed out the 25 SBD right now is worth a little over $300 USD! So a big thanks to him for putting on that contest and all the winnings from that will go toward a new camera which will be a very tangible way that the steemit community is helping each other out and that camera will allow me to do my part to give back to the steemit community with hopefully some insightful art tutorials for those wanting to learn traditional art! :) )

Anyone who does art and is only using a phone camera to take pictures of their art will understand the unbelievable level of frustration when you take the picture and load in into the comp only to see all the contrast and such completely lost :( - can't wait for that new camera....

Here are a few short videos spliced together that I made for my Instagram - these are in no particular order. I will be doing much more in depth videos about my processes in the future! (this is also my first time using dtube!)
I'm not sure why but there is a short 10 second delay at the start of the video...

Short little videos I made for my Instagram page.

▶️ DTube
▶️ IPFS

I mostly used the "dry brush" method for this but I used some graphite in various places where it would be too hard for a bulky brush to work and for strands of the hair - but most of the hair is dry brush and then I take an eraser to remove the larger dry brush strokes to make the appearance of strands.