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5 Minute Hair Tutorial by ~Whitness:iconWhitness:


©2006-2009 ~Whitness
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I've had a lot of questions regarding how I add hair to some of my characters. Here's the basic process in five minutes worth of photoshop sketching. 1) Make your character's head (don't bake it yet) 2) wrap your "hair" around a card, a couple fingers, your tv remote, whatever. 3) before taking the hair off the card, slip a wire around it and twist the ends together. remove the hair from the card 4) cut off the top of your character's head. you can cut more or less depending on how thick you want the hair to look. 5) insert the wire into the soft clay, careful not to poke out the other side. 6) Now you can bake the head and hair following your polymer clay's instructions. 7) cut and style the hair with water

***A note on hair: I use embroidery floss which can be baked in the oven at 275F. BE CAREFUL what you use. Some plastics or other materials may melt or catch fire in the oven.

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:icondrayfae:
oh wow cool!!!!! that's such a great idea...thank you so much for posting this

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:iconsilvertwilight05:
Hmm, this is very interesting. I look forward to trying this out. Thanks a bunch.
:iconvenothaya:
does the "hair" just go "flop" when you bake it, or do you have to use hairspray/ andother adhisive to keep it down?
very innovative technique, i never thought you could backe embrodery thread (though ive never tried XD)

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After I bake it I just wet it with water and style it like I want. It usually stays in place that way. I only use the cotton variety (the majority of floss is cotton) so you can get that pretty hot before it does anything crazy. I haven't tried any of the other kinds yet. Good luck!

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:iconvenothaya:
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oooh, i get it. alrighty, thanks alot! <3

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