Jaco’s Random Writings

So after a very hectic weekend, I’m finally able to get back to drawing. Well, I spent some time working on figuring out Alita’s hair situation. Here’s a rough of the movement I think her would look better with:

I’m still not quite happy with it. But, until I get a better reference, this will have to do. In the meantime, I’ll start doing initial filling in and shaping.

I had a Hell of a time finding any kind of reference online regarding the movement of long hair. No reference videos or anything. I can’t ask anyone in my immediate family, since no-one has long hair anymore. This is, for the lack of a better term, a very, very rough guess. I’m pretty much treating the hair like lots of little strings. I tried doing a simulation of it in Blender using the hair simulator. It then crashed Blender on my little lappy (didn’t drag down the rest of the computer, thank Heaven).