How to Draw Anime Hair Full Drawing Process Explained
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To draw anime hair, start by sketching the shape of your character’s head. Sketch a line where you want their hairline to be, usually about halfway between the brow line and the top of the head. Next, pencil in the character’s hair using simple lines and curves.
Step 5: Add the facials features
Unlike manga style, I don’t always want the lines to be visible. When I’m finished, I change the color of the sketch to dark orange. This will allow the outline to blend more easily with yellow tones of the hair, as opposed to the original black lines. For this particular hairstyle you can begin drawing the hair with the section that runs along the forehead (shown in red). As is traditional for the anime/manga style draw it as a series of pointy clumps.
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These features you will need to portray in your upcoming work. Major shapes give you direction and the overall look of the whole hair. It’s easier to design hair when you draw big chunks of it rather than drawing individual hair strands. It might feel too much of a burden to start learning and studying some difficult parts just when you are in the flow of drawing. After finishing the above you can also erase the parts of the head that are covered by the hair so that you have a clean drawing similar to the example.
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After some shading and color, your hair should look complete. In many ways, anime characters can be androgynous-looking; therefore, it can be difficult to distinguish between male and female characters. However, there are subtle facial features, wardrobe choices, and specific facial characteristics that can define a character as a male or female character.
If it seems to you that drawing manga hair is difficult, then you are mistaken. It is only necessary to correctly draw the main contour of the hair and then draw individual strands, while arbitrary lines are allowed. Put effort into the hair; it will make your character feel and look much better. In the last phase of drawing hair, I sharpen the details. After creating a few major shapes for the character, think about the vibe, mood, and feeling you want to tell with the shapes. Also, think about the character’s personality and the hair’s personality.
For the first step of the shading process simply fill in the entire area of the hair with grey (or use color if you prefer). Start the drawing with the “front section” of the hair (along the forehead). Give it a longer bit in the middle and shorter parts on the sides. With all of the shadows in place you should have a finished drawing of the hair buns. To shade the hair first fill in it’s entire area with a solid grey (or color). Draw the highlights along the forehead and the sides in streaks.
Step 5: Repeat
Draw the side sections of the hair somewhat hugging the shape of the head. Give each one a little clump around the ears and a split on it’s end. Next, add the shadows along it’s different sections beginning with those along the forehead. Draw the side sections covering the ears and lightly curving around each side of the face with splits on their ends.
Step 1: Draw two lines
In this tutorial on how to draw anime hair, we will find that the drawing process is quite simple and allows for a lot of creative exploration. Once the drawing process is broken down into its basic fundamental steps, you can then play around with changing hairstyles for various anime characters. Anime hair is perhaps the most iconic aspect of anime characters; therefore, it is an essential skill if you are interested in learning how to draw anime characters. We will find that the drawing process is the same with both anime girl’s hair and anime boy’s hair. Anime characters are very androgynous and, in many ways, the hair becomes a contextualizing factor of character genders.
Now, with your 4B pencil, add shadows to the base of the hair, following the shapes and flow of the lines. Outline the anime boy hair above the head using a series of short, curved lines that meet in jagged points. Enclose an irregular form within the circle using two curved lines. Notice how the lines meet in a downward facing point, off centered to one side of the head.
For the hair buns you can make their placement a little more random as their folds will tend to catch the light in different places. Inside the hair you can outline several sets of highlights that will show light reflecting form it’s surface. This will help convey that it has a smooth texture and give it a shiny look. You can watch it for a detailed breakdown of the drawing process (shown line by line) and read the more in depth instructions below. Matthew has been creating drawing and painting tutorials since the relaunch in 2020. Through his involvement with artincontext.org, he has been able to deepen his knowledge of various painting mediums.
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Draw the top area curving around the upper part of the head. As this is anime hair you can give it quite a bit of volume. After you have the part along the forehead outline the hair along the sides and on top of the head. For spikey hair, you’re obviously going to want each strand to go upwards. But remember - with manga and anime you don’t actually draw each hair individually. You’ll want to clump them together in larger, thicker segments.
You can also add them in over top of the pencil shading using a white correction pen. Draw the hair in fairly large clumps that curve in different directions to help create a messy look. Place a pair of larger shadows along each of their bottoms with smaller/narrower shadows along the bottom or side facing folds. Matthew organized various exhibitions before and during his years as a student and is still passionate about doing so today.
In this section we will explain some characteristics of hair that will help you understand how it is composed and thus draw it more easily. Next, add a shadow on the lower part of each of the sides. Above is the video version of this guide where the ponytail drawing is shown line by line. You can watch it and read the more detailed instructions below. You can break the flow of the hair by adding curls to the hair. In this phase, your goal is to define the hair a bit more and give it that structure.
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