Spriting this hairstyle problems ... help please?

[TheGreatEater]

So I'm spriting hair. And I ran into a snag that I can't seem to work my way around. Especially since I don't know the exact name of the style. 

The Manestyles are like the following:

and

for examples. 

But those Spiky type style is easier to draw on bigger than Sprite heads, trying to Sprite it is causing me to run into quite a block (literally, the style looks all blocky and wrong). Any good places to look at on doing that type of style? Since when ever I try it so far it just looks horrible, but I don't know any places to really look at that'd show how to Sprite that. 

 

[Sharm]

In the RTP the green haired girl sprites in Actor 2 and Actor 4 have similar bangs to the style you're going for.  Use them as a reference, look at how they do it.

 

[TheGreatEater]

@Sharm,  Close, but those are all straight down. I can do that, I've been using that on some of my hair sprites, My problem is the sideswept angle variety [where I need to use two converging yet totally opposite angles.Where it goes from going at an upward spike, to a downward spike above / below it. Somehow every side spike version ends up with a block like appearance where I change angles.  

 

[Sharm]

At the down angle that all sprites are at you won't have anything going upward.  If you want something that looks a bit spiker though, look at Ralph's sprite.

 

[TheGreatEater]

Ah! That arc and spikes could work. Thanks for pointing that out. Thank you.