(Hair) realism practise

Did this mostly for the hair, but then figured I'd have to draw the rest of the head as well.

I used Tsitra360's hair tutorial to do this and it was really helpful.

It's a completely different method than I usually draw, using only the Airbrush tool and a color picker for shading instead of Sai's Watercolor tool with the blending function. Takes a lot of getting used to, but it was interesting to try out. I think it's easier like this to define the shadows and lights, but it's also hard to not have any smoothing while drawing.

Maybe I'll use a mixture of this and the Watercolor tool in the future, dunno.

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Twilight Sparkle, My Little Pony: Friendship is Magic (c) Hasbro