splickedylit:

Okay wow so this is really hard for me to try to explain, because I really mostly just eyeball it.  I draw hair a lot, especially Gamzee’s, so I can just kind of draw curls and it’s easy, but here’s sort of how it works in terms of the curl itself.

(The curls change depending on how thick you make them and how many turns you add to the swirl.)

Okay but like, re: how I place those curls when I actually draw them (I’m gonna use Gamzee as an example, because he was mentioned in the question and also drawing him repeatedly is part of the reason I enjoy drawing curly hair so much. <3)

(EDIT: oops forgot his freckles OH WELL I’m not going back to get them now it’s late)

The part is generally a sort of crooked patchy line approximately in the middle of your head unless you part your hair specifically on purpose, which Gamzee obviously does not.  Some people don’t have a part so much as a center where their hair radiates from, but after a certain point the hair will have to fall one way or another and then a part forms.  So with hair as long as this, there is definitely going to be a part.

I tend to draw people with some of their hair hanging down between their eyes, so the lock of hair right about in the middle front is usually the one I start with. 

I don’t usually draw these, but you can think of the root of a single big curl/lock of hair as a specific patch on the character’s’ skull; then draw the curl extending from that patch…

…and intertwine them over and under others, which is kind of the hard part to get natural looking.  Especially with hair like this that is kind of made up of big, long waves more than tight little curls, I usually try to bear in mind that each lock of hair is a 3D shape, and the other pieces of hair can sort of…interact with them.

This is hard to explain because, like I said, I’ve mostly figured it out by eyeballing it.  But if I had to explain the thought process, I think this is the closest I’m going to get. :)  I hope this helped, sorry it took so long for me to get back to you!  If I can help with anything else, please let me know.

brighidin:

Sure! 

I start by drawing in the hairline (sorry for how whack and beef his face looks i was too lazy) 

then I draw in the middle-part on his head and draw the weird fringe curling into his eyes

I draw the rest of his hair kind of pushed back off his face in that horrible “I’m a 24-year-old amateur hockey player who thinks 90s garage grunge was the greatest” hairstyle. i think thats why i like having the hairline -_-

(disclaimer: this isn’t canon lolz) 

I think the key is to keep your lines kinda loose and wavy since I imagine he has more curl to his hair than USA’s, which is gelled and pomaded to ice hell ftw (i love u americker) 

ok as you can see I use the hair part as a “springboard” for all these thick waves at the very back… idk in my experience, if you just “encase” all the other lines in this wavy ocean line (see the blue) it makes the character’s hair look less messy and have a defined silhouette. holy fuck I don’t know what I’m doing

and then you add that puff of hair at the back of the neck. Of course. Keep it very high up and close to the neck-line, or it’ll start to look voluminous and much too feminized

cleanup+finishing touches. ahoge and scruff. hahahaha oh my god this is the part everyone hates me for because basically you have to flip your canvas and somehow figure out how you messed up symmetry this time. Anyway yeah I kinda flattened the top bit because it looked lopsided. 

AAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAND that’s how you draw canada’s hair if you want him to look like a hockey douche! don’t forget to like and subscribe if u want to see more videos like these and don’t forget to donate $500,000 to my patreostarter for a signed picture of my foot