@um9s

Peindre

I really like the colours you chose! The green and pink really go well together! Hair is very difficult to render so I don't blame you for struggling. You want to make sure your foundations are there when you start and what I mean is you know the shape of the head underneath. The hair will follow the curve of the skull which I see you have some idea of how to do which is good! For constructing the hair, I like to block in shapes with a big brush until I get something I like. Then I begin outlining the strands. Make sure you avoid lots of superfluous lines! You have a lot of scratchy lines that aren't really outlining any of the forms and it makes it look messy. You want to be purposeful with your lineart and this takes time to do so don't rush even though I know it's boring. Once that's done you fill the hair with a base colour that is a medium value. After that you add your cast shadows. These are the areas where no light will get in. Then in the direction of the light you block in lighter areas of the hair. At this point I will also add some ambient light and hue variations to the shadows. When adding highlights, I will usually darken the area I'm planning to add them before adding a them. Remember that when placing highlights, they should land where the light it hitting the hair most. It should also follow the curve of the head, almost wrapping around it. You'll notice in anime they do a good job of this so it might be useful to study your favourite anime artist and try to figure out how they draw hair. One of the last things I'll do is outline the highlights with a more saturated colour of the hair to make them pop. It realise this might be hard to visualise so I did create a timelapse for you to see it in action if that's something you're interested in. They don't let me post links but I'm s9mu on youtube. Hope this helps!