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How to Draw Hair in Any Hairstyle (For Beginners)

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Reichel_Ilustra

How to Draw Hair in Any Hairstyle (For Beginners)

Hi everyone, my name is Reichel. Welcome to my tutorial. In this Tip I’m going to explain How to Draw Hair in Any Harystyle for Beginners.

I divided this tutorial into five topics: 1:Types, 2:Characteristics, 3:Haircut, 4:Tied Hair and 5:Hair Painting.

Brushes I use: below I will leave the brushes I like to use for drawing and painting.

# Video Tutorial

1. TYPES

> Type 1: Straight

Type 1 is Straight hair. The strands are straight, like lines, but it’s important to pay attention to how the hair falls.

So even though you're drawing straight lines, they should have some flow — add slight curves, and don’t forget to mix big, medium, and small sections, along with a few loose strands.

> Type 2: Wavy

Type 2 is Wavy hair, for this type of hair is important to focus in drawing waves with the lines. Think of like a “S” and “C” lines shapes when your drawing this type of hair.

Wavy hair, unlike straight hair, naturally has more volume. I also added some layered hair (we’ll talk more about Layers later). That way, the wavy hair looks even fuller.

>Type 3: Curly

Type 3 is Curly hair — it's naturally voluminous. For this type of hair I like to draw little fluffy balls and some individual hair strands. The shape is kinda like waves too, but smaller and closer together.

There are many other ways I like to use to draw curly hair, the one I showed is just the easiest in my opinion, you just need to focus on the hair’s silhouette.

>Type 4: Coily

Type 4 is Curly hair, it’s the most voluminous type and also the shortest in length.

For this hair I really like to make a lot of volume and random texture, like zig-zag or cloud or other format of shape.

So for this type of hair pay attention to the volume and texture shapes.

2. CHARACTERISTICS

> Length

I like to think of hair length in three different sizes, there are others, but I like to keep it simple.

>Short: Short hair usually goes up to the chin.

>Medium: It can go up to the shoulders.

>Long: From shoulder height and beyond.

> Volume

Hair volume is about how full it looks on the sides and the top of the head.

Hair types 3 and 4 are naturally pretty voluminous, but you can also add more volume to any hair type by cutting it in layers.

> Layers

Hair layers are parts of the hair in different lengths.

In figure A, the hair is all one long length. In B, it has long and medium. And in C, it has long, medium, and short parts. This type of size change is used to add volume.

> Direction

The direction the hair is styled in also makes a big difference, even with the same haircut.

Back: when the hair is brushed backward.

Side: when it’s brushed to a big one side.

Forward: when it’s brushed for front of the head.

Middle: when the hair is parted down the middle and styled to both sides.

3. HAIRCUT

> Parts

Fist I like to divide the head in these parts: 1. front, 2. top, 3. crown, 4. side and 5. nape. With these sections in my mind, I think is more easy to create a lot of different haircuts.

Part 4 (side) is subdivided into 3 parts, in addition to "catching" the sides of part 5 (nape).

So let´s look some haircuts.

> Front

Front is the part of bangs cuts, have a lot of styles of bangs, but I choose these five types of bangs: Bardot, baby, curtain, blunt, side.

Bardot: This bang is cut longer on the sides and shorter in the front.

Baby: It's a very short bang.

Curtain: It is a long bang open at the front.

Blunt: This is a really thick bang, with no gaps in the front.

Side: bangs on just one side of the hair.

> Top

Then we have the top part, I like to putting together (front, top, and crown parts).

Look these haircuts undercut, french crop, samurai cut, the hairstyle is in the top of head, look how the side and nape part is just cut off.

Undercut: In this cut, the focus is only in the top of the head. Often the hair is combed back or forward.

French Crop: This cut, in addition to the top, also focuses on the front, adding bangs.

Samurai Cut: In this type of cut, the length of the top is medium or long.

Other haircuts that focus on the top of the head are: Caesar cut, Flat Top, Crew Cut, Pompadour Cut

> Side

Haircuts that focus on shaving the sides of the head create a bold look that really emphasizes the center of the head. In this cut we have modern mullet, burst fade and mohawk.

Modern Mullet: Although it also focuses on the nape part, I put it here because the shaved side is also an important point of this cut.

Burst Fade: A haircut where the sides, including the sides of the nape, are shaved.

Mohawk: A popular punk haircut, the hair is completely shaved on the sides.

> Nape

Haircuts that focus on the nape create a really cool contrast with the top part of the hair.

It makes a clear separation between the fuller top and the nape part with less volume.

Curtain, bowl cut, two block and wolf cut.

Curtain: Remember curtain bangs? This is the kind of haircut where they really shine, with long, parted bangs in the front and a nicely trimmed nape in the back.

Bowl Cut: The top is cut very straight.

Two Block: The top part is cut in choppy layers, kinda like a bowl cut, but more messy.

Wolf Cut: It’s kinda like a mullet, but more voluminous in sides.

If you want to discover new haircuts, I recommend checking out hairstyling or fashion websites.

4. TIED HAIR

The tied hairsyle it’s easy to drawing when you know where is the tied point for make all the strands hair go to the same point.

First decide where you want the hair to be tied, then draw a point, and converge all the hair towards it.

I drew six types of tied hair, but you can create new ones just put them together, like a Double low or a Half side for example.

> Ponytail, Bun, Braid

Now I’ll show you how I draw a ponytail, bun and braid using this guide:

Ponytail: The most important thing in a ponytail is to keep the hair loose. Draw the full length of the hair and the lines that lead into the tied point.

Bun: The difference here is that the hair forms a round shape with no visible length.

Braid: For braids, you can draw a series of little “hearts” or “balls” stacked on top of each other. At the end, leave a few loose strands.

5. HAIR PAINTING

> Colors

I like to separate colors into two groups: natural ones and colorful ones. In the natural group, I put the colors we see in real life, like black, brown, red, blonde and white.

The colorful ones are more like the colors people dye their hair with, like pink, blue, purple, and others colors.

It’s not just one, you can use a mix of colors, but for now we will only look at the combination of two colors: Dip-Dye, Peek-a-Boo, Chunky, Split-Dye.

Dip-Dye: In this dyed hair, the ends of the hair are painted, you can leave it more marked or degrade the color change.

Peek-a-Boo: Here only the inside of the hair is painted, giving a very cool effect to hairstyles.

Chunky: In this type of dyed hair, only small ribbons are painted.

Split-Dye: Half of the hair is painted.

>Tools

So now I will explain some tools I use in Clip Studio Paint for my hair painting:

1. Selection: With this tool you can select a specific areas to paint.

2. Auto Selection: The area is select too, but just click in a shape of color or line, then this area is selected.

3. Multiply Layer: So this mode of layer I use to paint shadows.

4. Screen Layer: The screen layer I use to adding highlights.

Look how the same purple color looks different on each layer mode.

5. Brush: I like to use a simple brush with no texture for painting.

6. Soft Brush: A soft brush to blend colors smoothly.

7. Clip at Layer Below: Another useful tool is Clip at layer below, this tool I use to draw in the layer above but inside the shape of the layer below.

> Painting Process

And finally, let’s paint a hair! For this tutorial I make this drawing. I used a lot of colors: Black for base color, purple for the shadows and four colors for the highlights.

>1: I starded by using the auto-selection tool to select the hair area and painted the base color (black) on a Normal layer.

>2: Then I added shadows with purple color on Multiply layer and used a soft brush to create smooth shading.

>3: Next, on Screen layer I add some highlights at the top of the hair with soft brush and started painting light on the hair strands. After that, I add more light with soft brush.

>4: And finally, I used the purple color with the soft brush on a Glow dodge layer for create more bright highlights.