Hair is one of the most challenging features to draw in the human portrait, especially when working from the imagination. The complexity of hair leads many beginners to just give up and scribble, resulting in the kind of mess that artists sometimes call “spaghetti hair.” Hair doesn’t have to be difficult, though, and in fact can be one of the more enjoyable parts of the portrait to draw. Understanding a few simple tips for drawing hair can make all the difference between a drawing convincing hair and a bird’s nest, regardless of the kind of hairstyle you want to draw.
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When drawing in perspective, it can often be useful to know how certain distances in your drawing relate to distances in reality. The advantage of knowing the scale of a drawing is that it ensures the various parts of the drawing are correctly sized in relation to each other. In a perspective drawing, this is particularly important because of the way that perspective distorts sizes as objects go back in space. This tutorial demonstrates how to draw a subject (in this case, a house) in two-point perspective, and to establish a scale for the drawing.
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