The hair follicle is a challenge to draw and I have tried a number of different methods. This time I have concentrated on using Object>path>offset path. The hair shaft & follicle consist of concentric rings of epithelial cells so it lends itself to this Ai command.
First I drew the hair shaft (brown) with the pen tool then offset the path 1mm for the inner root sheath (yellow) and 4mm for the outer root sheath (purple). I used the pencil tool to shorten the tops so that they don’t surround the hair shaft completely. I then offset -1.5mm to created the hair shaft cortex (dark brown), using the blend tool to merge it into the bulb of the hair follicle. So then all I needed was to draw the skin surface and sebaceous gland which I did with the pencil tool (fidelity 4 pixels; smoothness 34%).
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