Illustrator CS Vector Hair by crazychild

Illustrator CS Vector Hair by crazychild

I whipped this up in about an hour, because I was looking around DA and I couldn't find any vector tutorials to find hair, so I made one myself lol, I hope it helps.

Final Pic: o0 Un-dress 0o

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mattiuw Featured By Owner Feb 27, 2013 Hobbyist Digital Artist

Thanks! now I try to do how you teach...

nenglehardt Featured By Owner Apr 27, 2012 Student Digital Artist

I'm going to try this out for sure! I have the most difficulty vectoring hair! Thank you for sharing

Snuggdesigns Featured By Owner Apr 14, 2012 Professional Digital Artist

wonderful! thank you SO much, I've had the same problem with being unable to find a suitable hair tutorial.

Jim-Zombie Featured By Owner Nov 14, 2011 Hobbyist Digital Artist

Great tutorial. Seems so simple!

diana-amazin Featured By Owner Dec 17, 2010 Student Digital Artist

great! i have been looking for this

CraigRoyceee Featured By Owner Nov 2, 2010

thank you very much, i have been looking for a tut for hair, great stuff, really helpfull and very much appreciated, please make some more tut's, maybe on the Illustrator CS4 gradient i cant get the direction right it drives me mad, and also how about an eye tut and a lips tut

thnx again

mac-hdz Featured By Owner Sep 3, 2010 Hobbyist General Artist

Thank you very much. Very useful!!!

kozmicdeb Featured By Owner Aug 25, 2010

Thanks! Straightforward, simple and direct -- very useful. Cheers!

AudioInjectedSoul11 Featured By Owner Jul 12, 2010

Sorry but to me this tutorial is very hard to understand for me.

AudioInjectedSoul11 Featured By Owner Jul 12, 2010

hard to understand*

kaim0108 Featured By Owner Jun 11, 2010

excelente gracias

sumographics Featured By Owner May 22, 2010

This looks like a great approach to try out. I'm currently working on a mesh portrait in Illustrator and I wasn't quite sure on how to go about with the hair. And I doubt anything good can be acquired with the mesh tool for the hair.
Thanks!

FlySkyHigh22 Featured By Owner Apr 10, 2010 Student Digital Artist

Just what I needed! Thank you

AiPathFinder Featured By Owner Jan 7, 2010

Awesome! just what i needed! thanks a lot!

PrincessOctavia Featured By Owner Oct 16, 2009

yo ur the shit dude i jus so happen to be lookin on google for a hair tutorial and came accross yours thats cool as hell dude that u went out ur way to help others. i only been a graphic design artist for like 2 years and hair and shading are 2 of my problem areas im still tryna figure it out as good as i see others and this makes it real easy wish some1 had showed me this way sooner! so thanks and if u think of anything bout shading let me kno since ur so good at this tutorial thing. lol im not so good with the shading alot better but not good enough yet i do it alittle but usually i jus avoid it cuz my shading doesnt really do the job of making it look as realistic as i want

PhunkyVenom Featured By Owner Sep 16, 2009

This is very handy, I prefer doing my vectors in Illustrator due to being able to reselect your line work etc and play around with it. but hair has always been a nightmare with me in illustrator, especially as you dont have the smudge, burn and lighten function like in Photoshop. So hopefully this method will make things look better!

Hooters87 Featured By Owner Sep 1, 2009

hair is such a pain to vector, but this helps alot, thank you!!!

MaLuRo Featured By Owner Aug 4, 2009

wow thanks!
I'll use this in my self-protrait

rinlacer Featured By Owner Feb 16, 2009

thanks man! that's really helpful for fast-learners like us..

RolexKatira Featured By Owner Nov 10, 2008

Can't be that simple!

dylaofmax Featured By Owner Apr 2, 2008

this is great! i'm having some issues with vector (read my journal) and this helps! thank you so much.

crazychild Featured By Owner Apr 13, 2008

Thanks, I'm glad it helps

SpindleMoon Featured By Owner Feb 6, 2008

Awesome tutorial! I've been struggling with this for a while. Lol! Definitely makes it look easier than what it is.

crazychild Featured By Owner Feb 6, 2008

Thanks, yer but you know what they say, practice makes perfect!

airf0rce0ne Featured By Owner Jan 24, 2008

seems like one of those thing thats easier said then done....

crazychild Featured By Owner Jan 25, 2008

yer thats true, but all you need to do is practice

cgdezign Featured By Owner Dec 29, 2007 Professional Interface Designer

Awesome work!

AProphetsDaydream Featured By Owner Dec 8, 2007

ah thanks! that makes sense. i started doing one and the hair drove me craaazy!

madame-faith Featured By Owner Jul 19, 2007

Heey... I can't save it. When i do, the filename becomes "blank".png- and this isn't downloadable either! TT_TT

pjsingleton Featured By Owner May 29, 2007

thankyou so much for this tutorial!
ive been looking for a tute for vectoring hair in illistrator for so long. much appreciate

pencillicious Featured By Owner Apr 10, 2007 Writer

I'm just starting to research vector art and have to say that this is about the BEST tutorial I've seen on the net for rendering hair.

Thanks...you did a GREAT job! Can't wait to see what else you have to offer.

VodKat Featured By Owner Mar 4, 2007

no matter how i try,, i don't get how you great people create these magnificent vector images.

Shah-G Featured By Owner Aug 23, 2006 Digital Artist

OOOOOOOOOOHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHH!!!! Thank you! Thank you! Thank you! Thank you! Thank you! Thank you! Thank you!!!! This has helped me enormously!! The only thing else I wish you had done was make a hair tutorial for dirty blonds (mostly blond hair with some light/dark brown here n' there)!

hell1z Featured By Owner Aug 10, 2006 Professional Interface Designer

Very cool.. !!
I wanna try to use this tech.. ^^

gErgin Featured By Owner Jul 7, 2006

thnaks for share

fade319 Featured By Owner Jul 3, 2006

this is a good tutorial!

eNocliP Featured By Owner Jun 30, 2006

Very smart

lewanderson Featured By Owner Mar 10, 2006 Professional Digital Artist

very good tut.
really helped alot

Woo Hoo

ferdians Featured By Owner Mar 8, 2006 Hobbyist Digital Artist

BIG BIG BIG BIG THANKS

for the tutor

jlnl27 Featured By Owner Jan 1, 2006

Grat tutorial, i will try it now Thanks

crazychild Featured By Owner Jan 2, 2006

no problem

nous-sommes-vous Featured By Owner Nov 19, 2005

nice

thanks for the tips.

crazychild Featured By Owner Nov 20, 2005

No problems, its nice to help some of those people out there that appreciate it

nous-sommes-vous Featured By Owner Nov 20, 2005

i've downloaded a trial version of illustrator in the hope of doing some vector stuff (snowboard designs would be a dream) but at the moment, nothing i do will make the "layers" palette come back on my screen. i've no idea where it went, but it's not there anymore. it's difficult to do anything when i can't access the layers properly

i'm very confused, but maybe it's a sign i should stop trying to use illustrator

oh well. thanks again

crazychild Featured By Owner Nov 21, 2005

Ok mate, if you go into window (this is located in the taskbar) scroll down til you find layers, and what you need should be that, or a quicker way just press F7.

I hope that helped, thankyou

nous-sommes-vous Featured By Owner Nov 21, 2005

i know

i've tried that again and again and again. it's been very frustrating. i've cliked the windows > layers thing, i've tried F7, but nothing is working. 'frustrating' is an understatement, actually.

crazychild Featured By Owner Nov 21, 2005

hmmm dont know then, probably a glitch with the trial version, i dont seem to have any problems with the whole version, Illustrator CS is one of the best, cant go wrong with it, i havn't tried CS2 yet, i may have to try it out sometime.

nous-sommes-vous Featured By Owner Nov 21, 2005

yeah i'm assuming it's because it's try-out

i hear that the full version is expensive, and i guess that makes sense if it's so awesome (and a necessity if you're using it for graphic design jobs, so i've noticed). oh well. it might sort itself out, it might not. guess i'll wait and see.

thank you.

Erador Featured By Owner Aug 31, 2005 Hobbyist Artist

thanks a lot. I'll try it out in Xara a little later.

N.

Pearls-Girl Featured By Owner Jul 3, 2005

I just read this tutorial now, and it's very helpful. I've been doing hair that way fer a while, but yers just turns out so well. I need a better technique at doing the tips/strands of hair on their own if you know what I mean. No worries fer now, but if you come across anything, please let me know.