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 !