Hi everyone! Chiken here.
In the last lesson, we finished off the
head by learning to draw the face.
In this lesson, we will complete our
human by finishing off with hair.
So to help us visualize the different parts of hair,
we can simplify it into these three main portions.
The bangs, the side hairs, which frames the face and
the side of the bangs can be tucked into.
And lastly, the back hair.
So if we see here, the hair all comes
from one point of origin, and flows out.
So if I start afresh on the bald head here, we
can start by finding a point of origin on the head.
This is where all our hair is gonna come out
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from and it can guide us in the direction of flow.
So please keep in mind that the hair will follow
the curve of the head and in most cases, the
heair will have volume of its own. As in it
won't be completely flat. It might be slightly curly and
curved at the end or at the middle.
And here the back hair is just going to wrap around the head.
And we can see here all the hairs flowing out from the point of origin.
We can try a different hairstyle here.
So similarly, we'll find the point of origin,
and let's split our bangs into two.
So similarly, all our chunks of hair are going
to flow out from the point of origin.
So yeah, you can see how they're
all coming out from this point.
So that's how I separate the hair into large chunks.
But now let's try to detail it.
Usually stylized and anime hair is separated into
chunks, like how I drew it here.
And in these examples.
We want to avoid focusing on drawing every single strand and instead focus on
the flow of the hair in general.
If not, we may end up with something
like this where everything looks too uniform and
there's no depth and layering in the hair.
So I'll demonstrate how to draw and
detail a few types of hair.
Firstly, a square cut with a horizontal edge.
We will start with a rectangular sort of
shape and cut little triangles into the hair.
The thing with hair is that it's always very random.
So try to incorporate different lengths of triangles at
different intervals, so that it can look more natural.
And we already got a pretty good shape here.
But to simulate the strands, we are going to draw extra
stray strands in and they're gonna roughly follow the flow
of the hair, but they can curve a little bit on
their own, and I like to overlap them over the existing
lines just so that we can have a little bit of
volume and different layers to it.
And we can stop here,
but I like to finish off
with an extra strand over here.
What I like about many of my favorite artists is how
their hair seems to be layered and have lots of volume.
So I kind of incorporated that into my art, too.
Next, we have hair that kind of goes to a point.
I'll start with the main shape first, and
then I'll split it into parts like this.
We can have the illusion of the longer part
going over the shorter part, which adds volume,
and again, layers to the hair.
And again, like the square cut, I'm gonna
cut a little triangle into the hair.
And I'm just going to extend this small part here and
make it more curly and bouncy.
And again, I like to overlap the main shape of
the hair, just to give it layers and volume.
Now we can add the stray strands again,
following the flow of the hair. But they
can have a little curve of their own.
And I'll finish off again with a
little curved strand at the top.
Okay, so we did a straight cut and a more pointed cut.
Now let's do something somewhere in the middle.
A square-ish cut with a little curl at the end.
We start off fairly rectangular, like
the square cut, but slightly curved.
Then we split the hair into
two parts, like the pointed hair.
And now we can cut the triangles, and
we'll finish off with the stray strands.
And yup! That's our three types of hair.
They are pretty easy and fun
to draw when they are short.
But when the hair gets slightly longer or when we
have longer portions of hair, they might not fall straight.
We can get some twisting and turning, and adding that
in can really make it look more flowy and pretty.
And to help us visualize the twist of the hair, we
can imagine that the hair is a long piece of paper.
This is a kitchen towel I cut up into a strip,
and we can see that as I twist and turn it,
it kind of looks like a long piece of hair.
And I'll just demonstrate here how
that can translate into our drawing.
For the most part, I'm going to
replicate the shape of the paper towel.
But like the short hair that I
demonstrated previously, I'm just going to add
random strengths of hair.
And another one...
This time, I'm going to go with a square-ish cut.
So again, I'm going to go with a similar shape to
the paper towel, and then cut my triangles into it.
And then add in the stray hairs.
And a final one... But this time we have two twists involved.
I'm gonna make this hair a bit more pointed.
And again, cutting triangles and adding stray strands.
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So by visualizing the longer pieces of hair as a
strip of paper, we added more twist and turn to
it to make it more dynamic and alive.
Now let's apply what we learnt
to a whole head of hair.
We find the point of origin, which is kind
of above the hairline, and the hair comes down from it.
For the bangs, we are gonna
separate it into three parts and cut our triangles.
Next just adding the stray strands...
and I'll move on to the side hairs.
I'm going to kind of make them pointed.
And I'm going to split it here.
Next for the back hair I'm going to start by drawing in
the parting, and the hair is gonna flow out from the parting.
And maybe I'll make this strain longer, and have a twist in it
And the rest of the back hair.
Remember we are drawing the hair in chunks and
not getting too caught up with single strands.
Gonna erase the lines underneath.
And we're done!
Now let's try a different hairstyle and
instead of three parts I'm just going
to break the bangs into two parts.
But like the three parted hair, they are all gonna
flow out from the point of origin.
And as always, main shape first and then the stray hairs.
And the side hairs...
I'll make them pointed as well.
We'll split it here...
And our stray strands.
For this part, I think I'm gonna tuck it behind her ears.
And let's give her ponytails.
When I draw her ponytail,
if I overlap it like this, it can give
the illusion of more volume and more layers.
And that's our two hairstyles.
For the mission, draw the
three different types of hair we learnt today.
Do one bunch each like I did here
and complete at least one head by drawing
in the hair.
And that concludes chapter two.
I hope you now have more confidence
in anatomy and preparing a sketch, or
line art in preparation for painting.
In the next chapter we will be
learning about composition rules and how to
utilize them to create beautiful scenes. See you there!