firstorderfelid:

I’m not sure how to answer this concisely because it depends on so many things… the style im using for the drawing, how realistic im trying to be, the hair itself (texture, colour, style, length, etc) environmental factors (is it wet, blowing, tangled, clean/dirty etc) but uh, heres a quick little doodle pointing out some stuff? 
Basically when I draw anything its sort of a “how many things affect this thing” so all those things above tend to be questioned?

If you’re drawing a character with short curly hair with lots of texture and volume who just ran through the woods away from a monster and is dirty and sweaty vs drawing a character with long smooth hair half submerged in a lake (aka part of it is going to be slicked down and part floating and buoyant)- those are two VERY different approaches to hair. Or like, if its super stylized, it might just be big chunky shapes. Or think like, alphonse mucha, that hair is very stylized. 

idk if this helps at all lmfao. Feel free to ask more questions if theres smthn else u were tryna get at that went over my head. (also sorry i merged my sketch and line layer so its a little messy)