Uhhh...

I want to introduce all of you to this amazing place called the ukhairdressers style gallery.

It’s basically a massive database full of high-quality images of different hairstyles. I mean, look at all the options in that sidebar (and part of it’s cut off):

In total they have 976 pages of hairstyles with about 17 styles each, that’s about 16592 hairstyles to look at. 

Look at all the stuff they’ve got! Long hair:

Short hair:

Straight hair:

Curly hair:

Afro hair:

Men’s hair:

Hair on older models:

Extra-fancy hair:

Even crazy avant-garde hair:

Books I (re)read in 2016:

∟The mistborn trilogy (first era) by Brandon Sanderson 

oh yeah, absolutely! Leyendecker and Rockwell are absolute masters, but there are a ton of illustrators to look at for later, more graphic mid-century work. A couple favourites of mine include Al Parker:

Jon Whitcomb:

Coby Whitmore:

Earl Oliver Hurst:

Pete Hawley:

…and not entirely of the same school, but Mead Scheaffer is killer at large swaths of black and value grouping throughout a composition:

…ditto that for Tom Lovell:

….and a million other artists that I’m sure I’m forgetting. But hopefully this is a good starting point! And here are some great compendium books to check out as well:

Masters of American Illustration

Lifestyle Illustration of the 1950′s

This stuff is from last summer but I dug it up since Words of Radiance is coming out tomorrow. So here they are:

Kaladin and Syl (kinda like Jesus with a fairy)

Shallan (resident ginger artist with many secrets)

Jasnah (genius scholar veristitalian atheist princess)

Eshonai (cool lady bug warrior)