>>7613308
I will keep it as simple as possible if you just want to have fun.

1.paint a big shape that looks what you want
2. draw a rough outline, don't draw individual strands they are noise, big strands and gaps
3. use a darker color and lighter color to refine the strands.
4. use references, if you want trace, overlay, photobash, with time you are going to be doing this stuff by intuition.

boorus are a great resource to find specific stuff.


good luck have fun, always work from big/general to small/detail.