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More adult!Zutara by popular demand.

full nsfw on my bluesky

here's a link to Nightshade

here's a link to Glaze

My process is basically: silhouette/shape -> stuff inside the shape -> stuff outside the shape

I always start with a blob that is the entire hair shape, nothing detailed. For example with a ponytail I would include the entire tail or at least a vague shape to show where I want it to sit or swing, but I am not concerned with the area at or around the head at this point. After that is when I add darks to the roots/dense areas and lights to the opposite/less dense areas. This part is what starts cutting up the shape into the different sections of hair depending on the style. The way I do my brushstrokes at this point would match the hair texture and direction. Like with most things I think these earlier steps should be down before sweating the details, so once I'm satisfied with that is when I actually start tapering ends, adding stray hairs, adjusting the shape around the head, adjusting color, etc.

I think that's it. It's one of those things I don't think about so I start getting confused when thinking deeply but it seems to work.