Heyos! My name is Curfew and today I will be showing you How I shade hair.

 

This is a heavily asked question. therefore, I want to make a tutorial!.

The technique: Hatching and Cross Hatching

Before beginning this tutorial, I need to inform you that, whenever I shade hair, I use the pen technique called hatching. Which is entirely dependent on the pressure of your pen.

 

below is a simple guide to how I direct my shading. It takes practice, however it’s easy to do.

 

For this tutorial I will be using blue arrows to guide the hatching/ shade

Materials I will be using!

For this entire tutorial I will be only using the G-Pen that is located on the pen section.

STEP:1: Sketching hair

For this tutorial I will be using different types of hair to give detail how each individual hair style can be styled.

 

Let start with simple hair styles

 

 

I will be going into each individual hairstyle and teaching how I personally shade the hair!

Hair #1: Shading

1.Let’s first do the line art of the hairstyle.

Next! Let begin by lining the strands we will be shading.

I typically follow the roots and flow them down to the ends

Next! Shade the hair.

I will be showing how to shade one strand on the hair

first: Start from the roots.

My recommendation to shading roots is having your stabilization up to 100 to have a more controlled line and to create the blending effect.

second! shade upwards towards the roots. Not all the way!

Third! Shading the middle area of the hair. Depending on how dark the hair is , you can either darken the shading or lighten the shading. for this example, I’ll give this hair piece light hair.

When shading the middle part connect little strands to the root and to the ends to make it more blended and consistent.

 

For light hair: only do light wisp back and forth.

for dark hair: apply pressure to the pen to create darker streaks back and forth.

Let’s complete this hair now!

Fourth! Adding in depth shadows to areas and hair pieces.

 

The last thing I do to the hair is add more depth and the follow the light source.

For this we will be using cross- hatching to indicate shadow

Adding strands to the hair to create a realistic effect!

It’s pretty simple and easy to do! it is time consuming if the character you draw has longer hair. However, it makes the hair look gorgeous and stunning

Using the same techniques from the previous example, Let’s incorporate it to the rest of the hair examples.

Using the Hair examples 2 and 3

Let’s start with line art!

Step #2 Adding the strands from the roots to the end.

Step #3 Using the Hatching technique to shade from the roots to the end!

step #4: Shade the ends upwards using the same technique

step #5 add the middle shading

reminder: Depending on the color of the hair depends on how dark the shading is,

step #6: cross-hatch shadows for more depth in hair

step #7: add strands of hair for realistic effect

Shading Curly or POC hairstyles

Shading hair texture that is curly is similar to the way we have been using in the previous examples. Let’s start with this example!

Step #1: Line art

 

 

step #2 Connect strands! For this process we want to try to make individual strands consistent with each other

step #3: Shade the top portion of each strand

step #4: Shade the ends to the top of the strand!

step #5, add shadow to the curls to create texture and color!

step #6: add strands of hair to make a realistic effect!

Next! Let’s start the next hairstyle by doing twists!

step #1: Lineart

step #2 Adding the strands to the hair

step #3: Shading the top portion of the strands

step#4: Shade the bottom portion of the strand

step#5 Adding shadow to more depth!

step #6 adding strands of hair to create a realistic effect

Thanks for the following this tutorial on how to shade hair! For that last hair piece, I will be doing off this tutorial using the exact steps I used above examples!