RENDERING HAIR
The basic categories of dog hair are long and curly, long and straight, short and curly, and short and straight. Roughness or smoothness of the hair also affects its appearance. There are many variations within each basic type of hair, but you should be able to adapt one of the techniques demonstrated in this section to draw any dog hair you wish. For the longer hair types, I’ll show both a detailed method with definite areas of shadow and highlight and a quicker, sketchier method created simply with lines.
LONG, CURLY HAIR
DETAIL METHOD
Step 1 Long, curly hair tends to flow in waves. Begin drawing wavy lines using an HB pencil, ...
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