This is one of my first heads, and my first semi-realistic tex.

Looking for tips and comments as I progress.

Will likely re-do hair lines.

WIP(s):

The way you smudged the hair on the sides makes it look like the skin is coming above the hair. I think you should add some shadow under the hair near those areas.

Looks like you've been practising, but you should do what slycooper said

You can also put a white/black gradient in overlay from top to bottom to give it a nice look.

I think it would look better with a face! ^^

Seriously, though, the hair border looks great around the top, but I can see you got a little lazy towards the bottom. Also, that little extruding bit of hair looks... odd to me.
Also, I'm not sure I like the look of the hair itself, the realism that shows on the skin-hair border simply isn't there.

Cheers guys.

Ujelly, I've fixed that extruding part and it looks pretty cool

Lol, I had a bit of an airbrush-fest.

WIP:

You need shadows under the hair on all sides, so your perspective doesn't matter.

The shaded region represents the area under the hair which has been lifted. Thus, there is a shadow underneath it. I'll give what you have said a go, but I'm not sure if it would be beneficial.

Possibly just defining the hair strands more would serve as a better alternative.

Is this how you meant? I think I will try lighter shadowing though, as the fringe looks shortened in-game due to the shading.


The eyes don't really match the rest of it, but I'm not sure of what else I could attempt.


I think I'll try something with a bit more flare after this..

>realistic
>anime

choose one

i can't say i like this head, the eyes and mouth are all awkwardly drawn and it doesn't really look like a human being

I totally agree with you

I think I'll go with some realism for my next tex.

See how some sort of demon-lord turns out.