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Download if you can't read the writing... or just curse me and my handwriting!

Please note that this is just how I draw L's hair - I didn't use any reference or anything so... it's a very rough guide!

I'm really not all that hot at profiles...
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Comments: 32

Art-in-heart4va [2012-05-08 06:15:34 +0000 UTC]

THANK U SO MUCH!I LOOK THESE THING ALL OVER!glomp:

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MiiikoChan [2012-03-06 19:03:39 +0000 UTC]

L with a bald head looks creeeepy for sure..But everything is helpfull,even though the hair doesnt look much like L's hair ^^

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AnimeGothKitteh [2010-04-11 01:59:56 +0000 UTC]

You draw L's hair a HECK of a lot different than me... I draw his hair...
uh... Poofy, i guess...fluffy... the kind you see and, totally ignoring the fact it looks all messy, you instinctively want to run your hands through, no matter what the owner of said hair thinks. Fluffy and detailed, a whole bunch of different strands, a.k.a. a pain in the butt, while you do it a wee bit more comical and easy-looking.
(i spent DAYS doing his hair one time....half the time ....sigh)
I love the little faces and stuff of...you?....as you drew it...I used to do stuff like that on mine, (especially when i was drawing late at night when I cant get to sleep...sigh)
anywayyyy
this is awesome...
You draw profile faces a LOT better than me, especially when i'm reference-less.....*sigh*
...dude, i can chatter ON... i can take something as little as this how 2 draw thingeh and make a long comment out of it, though I don't really read half the things i type.

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captain-farand In reply to AnimeGothKitteh [2010-04-11 20:30:17 +0000 UTC]

That's cool - long comments are great fun!

Yeah, I do draw L's hair in a kind of easy, simple way I guess. I go nuts if I try and draw hair properly, so I tend to draw it in pieces like this. When I'm colouring stuff in properly though, I do like spending aaaaages on hair - I practically colour it strand by strand in various shades. I think it looks better that way... I fuss especially over lighter hair colours and curly styles... an OC of mine has long, curly blonde hair, so it takes me hours to draw her! Which is why there are no pics of her in my gallery... I like your description of how you draw L's hair, by the way.

Yes, those are little pictures of me! I draw myself and other characters passing comment on my work a lot... Quite often it'll be whichever character I'm trying to draw telling me off for not doing it right...

Anyway. Thanks for the comment! I'm glad you liked it!

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AnimeGothKitteh In reply to captain-farand [2010-04-12 02:34:52 +0000 UTC]

I go crazy when the hair doesn't look perfect... like, when i draw late at night because i can't sleep, i stay WAAAY later working on comics because the guy's hair looks stupid... but it just gets worse because the later it gets, the worse it is, and so eventually i make a little note under it like, "WTF hair." so i hope that the person just laughs at the note...
You like my description of L's hair?! Woo!
I always talk like that, and so i get some weird stares, usually by people going "WTF is she saying?!" at me... and the rest of the time i'm singing japanese or just creepy songs, talking about anime or a book i read, or drawing... all my friends are either weird enough to put up with me, or anime freaks like me.

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captain-farand In reply to AnimeGothKitteh [2010-04-16 18:24:04 +0000 UTC]

I love it when people leave little notes in the margins of comics! The guy who drew Bastard!! (it's an old manga - don't know if you've read any of it...) seems to do that a lot - he makes fun of his own drawings and plot in between frames! Those notes are probably one of the best bits!
And yes, I did like the way you described L's hair, mainly because I come out with stuff like that sometimes too, and I get weird looks as well... I think most of my friends have got used to that now though!

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MsMojorisin [2009-03-30 12:40:18 +0000 UTC]

Haha, I think you should leave it at panel 3, he looks like a punk rocker!

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captain-farand In reply to MsMojorisin [2009-04-01 09:20:37 +0000 UTC]

Punk rocker L! OMG another thing to put on my collosal 'to do' list... I may get round to it in about a decade...

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AN-Pseudonym [2009-03-29 09:40:48 +0000 UTC]

There it is again in all its daunting glory... This is great to have to refer back to next time I decide to brave the dangerous waters that are L's hair...

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captain-farand In reply to AN-Pseudonym [2009-03-29 16:48:36 +0000 UTC]

But L's hair is so lovely and not-at-all-scary though!

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AN-Pseudonym In reply to captain-farand [2009-03-29 16:51:18 +0000 UTC]

I know! It's nice. It just hates me...

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captain-farand In reply to AN-Pseudonym [2009-03-31 20:15:02 +0000 UTC]

I'm sure it doesn't! ...I mean, it's hair - it's dead anyways...

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AN-Pseudonym In reply to captain-farand [2009-03-31 22:50:50 +0000 UTC]

So it hates me from beyond the grave?? Thanks VERY much, now I won't be able to sleep tonight!

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captain-farand In reply to AN-Pseudonym [2009-04-01 09:13:42 +0000 UTC]

No, I just meant that hair is actually just dead cells, so it can't feel emotion... one assumes. Unless perhaps it's vampiric - vampires are prone to very strong emotions, it seems...

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AN-Pseudonym In reply to captain-farand [2009-04-01 09:26:03 +0000 UTC]

Yeah, I know! And L's hair has risen from the dead. It bides its time on top of his head for the right moment to strike. And take over the world. Presumably.

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captain-farand In reply to AN-Pseudonym [2009-04-01 09:56:01 +0000 UTC]

Yeah - that's the real reason why Kira wanted rid of L - his hair was the real competition...

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AN-Pseudonym In reply to captain-farand [2009-04-01 15:38:55 +0000 UTC]

true story!

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frostypenguin14 [2009-03-29 02:17:11 +0000 UTC]

Thanks again! Aww, your handwriting is better than mine though. Im sure it will help though. Here is my first try at your other tutorial: [link] i can find many problems with it though.

Gosh, you kinda did 2 things for me can i do anything for you? I feel in debt...

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captain-farand In reply to frostypenguin14 [2009-03-29 16:15:29 +0000 UTC]

I like it! It's really cute! What do you think the problems are?

You don't have to worry about doing anything in return - I kind of enjoyed doing them anyway! If you want to do something, I won't argue, but I'm just glad you liked them!

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frostypenguin14 In reply to captain-farand [2009-03-29 21:22:53 +0000 UTC]

thanks! i think that the eyes are a bit too big, maybe the main thing is just that my scanner turned it blue.

oh ok! im glad i could help you have fun.

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captain-farand In reply to frostypenguin14 [2009-03-31 20:05:02 +0000 UTC]

Nonsense! L's all about big boggly eyes, after all! And really awesome hair, of course!

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frostypenguin14 In reply to captain-farand [2009-03-31 22:12:46 +0000 UTC]

Ah yes, the hair is quite awesome!

It was funny cuz i showed my mom and it scared her. She just doesnt get the whole concept.

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captain-farand In reply to frostypenguin14 [2009-04-01 10:23:33 +0000 UTC]

It scared her? Dear me... I get that sometimes - you draw something you think is just cute or pretty cool looking, then you show it to someone and they look at you like you eat babies...

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frostypenguin14 In reply to captain-farand [2009-04-01 22:03:32 +0000 UTC]

oh i get that so much. im drawing a picture of mello with a gun and i cant take it so school for fear of it getting confiscated cuz someone got the wrong idea.

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captain-farand In reply to frostypenguin14 [2009-04-03 19:53:27 +0000 UTC]

I wouldn't worry too much - if anyone would've gotten hold of half of the stuff I used to draw in class when I was at college, I probably would've been locked up! Random Dragon Ball Z characters coming to blow my art teacher up... Happy times!

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frostypenguin14 In reply to captain-farand [2009-04-08 21:44:34 +0000 UTC]

Lol. Yeah, but im in junior high and they expect us to be cute little innocent children (which we arent.) And we also have the most evil vice principal ever. shes scary.

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captain-farand In reply to frostypenguin14 [2009-04-10 20:42:34 +0000 UTC]

Tch - kids are never all cute little innocents, no matter how what age they are! There's always at least one little git among the group! Surely teachers should know this better than anyone? Ah well! There's always an evil teacher, too... there was one at my high school who looked and acted rather a lot like Hitler...

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frostypenguin14 In reply to captain-farand [2009-04-11 02:18:44 +0000 UTC]

Not my teachers they must pay no attention to what we do.
LOOKED like Hitler? freaky. i had an evil teacher once who hated me because of who my friends were. She also told a parent that their kid needed therapy. She acted like Hitler, and looked like a little old lady. It was an interesting combo...

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captain-farand In reply to frostypenguin14 [2009-04-12 17:07:18 +0000 UTC]

Yeah - he kind of looked like Hitler but fatter. Not nice. Although I suppose that's preferable to little-old-lady Hitler... Eeee. I had a few teachers in college who hated me and my friend, for apprently no reason other than the fact that we were friends, and we didn't seem to fit in with their perception of what teenagers should be like...

...How the hell did we get onto this conversation anyway?

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frostypenguin14 In reply to captain-farand [2009-04-13 00:34:46 +0000 UTC]

lol. i have no idea This ends up happening to me a lot lately

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captain-farand In reply to frostypenguin14 [2009-04-13 09:39:21 +0000 UTC]

Oh good! At least it's not just me going senile!

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frostypenguin14 In reply to captain-farand [2009-04-13 15:53:03 +0000 UTC]

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