<span style="color: #000000;font-family: Calibri">          It looks like the art gods have found favor on me again. Yep, you guys know the deal and the favorite subject that I’m covering today…..HAIR! I’m pretty sure you guys know how pretty stoke I am about drawing hair so I’ll spare you the details of my excitement and get right into the lesson. Here is the subject we’ll be studying today:</span>

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<span style="color: #000000;font-family: Calibri">I’ve used Jennifer in past articles so she’ll be our guinea pig in this article today. Look over her hair closely and try your best to follow me. Hopefully you have some Col-Erase color pencils – you’ll need them in this and future color pencil articles. If not, stop and order them or go out and buy them, I’ll be here waiting.</span>

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<span style="color: #000000;font-family: Calibri">                         First off, as usual, sketch the model lightly. You’ll be lifting the dark marks with a Blu Tack erasure later when applying the different color pencils.</span>

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<span style="color: #000000;font-family: Calibri">          Once you have the basic sketch, you want to add tone to the subject. Here you can see that I added Col-Erase Black to the darker areas of the hair as well as at the top of the head. I then smudged or blended the black using a tortillion. I have always read that many artists say to start off with the darker areas first. Sometimes I do, sometimes I don’t. It just mostly depends on the subject I’m working on at that moment. </span>

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<span style="color: #000000;font-family: Calibri">          Moving right along, I started using my camera instead of my scanner since it didn’t pick up light color that much. In this picture, even though I used my camera, the brown wasn’t picked up as well but at least you can see it and know what I’m doing. Here I lightly apply Col-Erase Brown in selective areas of the hair. </span>

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Next I apply Col-Erase canary yellow to spots that are not colored.

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<span style="color: #000000;font-family: Calibri">          I then take a tortillion and smudge the entire hair area. As I have stated in previous articles, Col-Erase pencils are blendable. Prismacolor are too but to an extent and they do not extend their blend smoothly to the corresponding area as easily as Col-Erase does. With Prismacolor, it’s best to blend by using a Prismacolor white color pencil or a colorless blender. After I applied the smudging, I then used Prismacolor dark brown to go over the majority of the hair to give it a somewhat glossy look. I then take a Prismacolor white pencil and colored over it to illustrate a blend which I don’t think you can see in this photo. I think it was done in the next and final step. </span>

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<span style="color: #000000;font-family: Calibri">          The last and final step is always optional. It just depends on how much of a finished look you are going for. Basically, the previous step before this one is considered the final step but if you are going for the computer look here you go. Just load the semi-finished piece onto your computer and then use your paint shop program to “smooth” the drawing. It may look a little blurry, especially since the surroundings are pretty plain with no color or back ground; it would look better if the previous was done. If you want, go to my website and you will see some computer enhancements that were done. One of them, “Enticement” was actually done in crayon and I smoothed it out and now you can’t tell. Again, how you finish a piece is your prerogative, but mine will always be finish it with computer finishing. Hopefully you can take that information and apply it to some of your work. See you guys in the next round! </span>

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