A lot of my students ask about sculpting hair. Just making stripy marks in your fondant or modelling chocolate won’ t necessarily create the kind of effect that you ultimately want. Here are a few quick steps to creating more beautiful hair on your work!
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Roll some thin‘ snakes’. You want to vary the sizes, as uniformity breaks the illusion and makes the hair less visually interesting.
Create a few layers. If your figure is going to have long hair, think about creating movement by adding a bit of curl to some of the layers. Even if your piece has straight hair, you’ re still going to want to give it some life!
Use your tool to create some grooves in the sections of hair. This breaks them up and creates the illusion of strands of hair. Don’ t add too many layers before you stop to create the lines, as the sections become harder to reach and carve with nice curves if you’ re trying to carve around another layer.
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As with the sections of hair, when creating the grooves you want to vary your lines. Make some deeper than others, and make sure you’ re not spacing your lines evenly. If there are evenly spaced lines, your mind reads them as a pattern, and not as something organic like hair.
As with the sections of hair, when creating the grooves you want to vary your lines. Make some deeper than others, and make sure you’ re not spacing your lines evenly. If there are evenly spaced lines, your mind reads them as a pattern, and not as something organic like hair.
And there you have it! Long flowing hair, captured in a soft ocean breeze!