Let's learn how to draw hair easy and fast.

The first thing we must do is draw and fill in the base for the hair, like this:

To make this process easier, remember to paint the base on a layer below the lineArt.

Now the next step is to duplicate the layer where we made the hair base and put it in multiply mode

 

we can see the difference in the tone of the hair, the base is seen in the braids and the multiply mode in the rest of the hair.

The next step is to delete the parts of the layer that are in multiply, those areas where the light should go, and just leave the parts that will carry the shadows.

At the moment the drawing will be somewhat rough and shapeless, but wait, we still have to mix that layer, don't be scared if it looks like the sample image.

What we will do is take a brush from the ones that are already predetermined in clip studio paint, the one that is in the thick paint area, under the name of "Tempera Mixer" We use it all over the contour where we erase to blur and mix, thus obtaining a gradient.

 

When we finish mixing we will have a gradient of shadows and midtones that looks more natural.

 

We will repeat the process of duplicating the color layer, the one we made as a base, with the difference that we will place this new layer on top of the multiplication layer.

We will put this new layer in "Brighten" or "Screen" mode, either of these works.

 

Once again we have a messy image, so we will repeat the step of the mixing brush, carefully and patiently we go through the entire erased contour until it is properly blurred.

 

 

 

Once finished we can observe the tones in the hair, we can already visualize, shadows, midtones, base and brightness.

 

Now we will only create a new layer to make the final highlights that will give the hair more enhancement.

From the base tone we will move a little until we reach a light medium tone, this last step can be done with the brush of your choice, it is only to enhance the shine.

We make several lines that go in the direction of the hair, not many, some will be long to simulate long locks and others short that will go at different levels to give that shiny appearance.

So that we don't get this marked, we will use the blending brush that we have used with the previous layers and we will pass it slightly only at the beginning and at the end of the clear lines.

 

We finally get this result.

Add color to the illustration and background to show them the end result.

 

I hope this tip has been useful to you, please give it a like if you liked it.

You can see the video tutorial in the following link: