Afro hair

Support Modeling
1

Hey!

Does anybody out here know how to model an afro hair like this one?

Url with more images:
http://pedroconti.cgsociety.org/gallery/830902/
http://features.cgsociety.org/newgallerycrits/g12/218812/218812_1235167485_large.jpg

Or this one:

I would like to add some hair to one of my characters and I’d like to make it like this

Thank you very much!

2

I would probably model the general shape of the afro and then add short hair particles on top of that.