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September 15, 2005

Growing My Hair Out

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For the shot I chose to use, adding hair to my head will be a bit easier, since I'm outside, wearing scruffy clothes (much to the chagrin of the Italian folk), so it doesn't have to be perfect. Remember the steps needed to create a brush stroke from the previous article, we need to create at least 3 brushes for hair. This of course will depend on the hairstyle you're creating, but mine is simple, with just three brushes needed. Why different brushes? For the left side, right side and the back of the hair. This is easier, and much faster than it sounds.

Let's go back to where we left off:

Again, we need three differnt brush strokes for this hair. One for each side of the head, and part of the back. This is a snap though. Following the steps from before, create a brush stroke that looks like this:

Then, it's just a matter of Ctrl + T to transform the brush to the angles desired.

See, it's so easy, it's dumb!

Each are saved separately, and voila, we can start adding some hair. Let's go back to our bald guy.

It doesn't matter what side of the head you start on, just start brushing some hair (black) in there. Start with a small (3px) brush, and work your way up from there. Before you know it, you'll be done.

You're going to get hair, all over the place. Let me say that again, you're going to get hair all over the place. Don't fret.

When you're done, you're going to give him a haircut anyway, so the hell with it. Get a lot of hair in there. Cover the outline of the head completely, otherwise it will look even worse. Change colours, and sizes often!

Just after the haircut,

A few finishing touches and here you go: