How To Draw Wavy Hair Deviantart

Hair is one of my meridian v favorite things to draw and color, and this was also a very requested tutorial. I tried to add as much data as possible while keeping the video fun to watch and full of tips!

Nothing here is a hard rule, and it's generally to show how I do things, so I promise you bask it 🙂

Using references

It'southward tough to draw things when you don't check what they look like in real life. So every time you lot're stuck, search for photos! Non just of anime drawings, only actual people too.

Where, you ask? There're plenty of places; you can keep Pinterest, Instagram, DeviantArt, etc.! And if you think that's cheating, copying, or stealing, it'southward not. Every great artist uses references, and then you should too!

Shape and volume

Pilus and eyes in anime are often used to express emotions and a grapheme's personality, so they're usually given more than details than in existent life. Only this is drawing, so there aren't whatever complex rules for this! Let your hand flow, and practice your creativity. Take a wait at your favorite anime drawings. How does the hair make you feel?

Directly black pilus feels serious;

while fluffy curls are warm and welcoming!

Sketching tips

I beginning hair merely thinking of the general outline without giving much attending to details: when sketching, only the full general shape matters.

If you don't know where the hair starts in the head, think of the skull, and add some padding. A uncomplicated line in the middle should be enough to stand for that. Y'all tin make the top part more circuitous as you larn how hair works.

Likewise, it'southward good to piece of work with S curves. Fifty-fifty if the hair is straight, it can be a long open S, making the hair look light and flowy. With wavy hair, the S curves will be more visible!

For perfectly curly hair, I employ a different technique. I beginning draw a spring and define the front role. Then, I indistinguishable that line shape.

Afterward that, I erase the lines that are on the back and connect them to form a total bound!

You lot don't demand to draw every strand like that (feel free to exercise so if you similar though!), a few will exist enough to give the feeling you are looking for, and the back can simply take a simple shape.

Don't be afraid to delete what looks incorrect and try again. Even if it takes fourth dimension, spending time on this role to get the feeling correct will pay off in the end.

Another of import tip is to piece of work with long lines, not short chicken scratches. It will make your drawing await more polished, and you lot will take fewer chances to hurt your wrist!

Take breaks if you are lost, and look up new references to refresh your eyes. Make sure to get out them open while you lot depict; it will help a lot.

Almost lineart

Depending on the drawing, I will clean upwards the sketch instead of creating lineart.

By "clean up", I mean I will erase the messy lines and go over them when necessary, giving it a different feeling than a perfectly clean line. I feel this helps me relax about art and non worry too much about details.

You don't need to over-zoom and glue your face on the screen to be sure the lines are perfect! To be quite honest, you lot are likely to be the only one that volition exist able to spot your small mistakes.

The brush for lineart can be the aforementioned as for sketching, but this will depend on how you lot want it to look. I highly recommend looking at the standard brushes or checking Clip Studio Assets. At that place are many fun brushes you tin can easily download and use.

In this phase, yous can make the lines thicker where they intersect or where shadows volition be. Information technology will give your lines more depth.

Shading

In one case you lot have the base color added, define where your light source is. Call back your basic lessons about ball shading? Do exactly that.

To do this, lay out a general shape with the shading color.

Once you have the general shape defined, y'all can smooth it until your liking.

But as you are even so learning, you don't demand to go fancy on the shading. Go slowly, inside the scope of what y'all feel is challenging enough for your current skills, then make it complex equally you become!

Equally you tin can see, there's some kind of backlight on the black that matches the grayness on the white side. I usually add some actress colour to the pilus I draw, because it looks pretty!

Now, how to pick the right color?

Short answer, there is no right color! Play with them until you notice what you like: try pink in blue, purple in dark-green, orange in yellowish, and then on. Have fun! Wonder how to make blackness and white pilus not look grey, regal, etc.

If yous use similar colors to your drawing's surroundings, the tone volition await correct. For instance, if her shirt were cherry-red, I would add more cherry-red tones to the hair. I tend to use colors already on the drawing and playing effectually with them. Similar this pilus strand in a blue and cherry-red room: there'south a bit of each color on information technology.

Merely if y'all are working with complicated pilus like a rainbow or slope, you can set a new layer on pinnacle in Multiply blending mode, and test out which colors work better without messing upwardly the gradient.

Highlights

This function is very fun, and there are many ways to add shine to the pilus.

Yes, fifty-fifty white hair!

I like to airbrush the skin color on the bangs, then when I add white highlights on top, it will show!

If y'all don't know which color to apply, you can take the hair color, create a new layer, set up the blending mode to Add together (Glow), and then add blobs, triangles, lines, etc. Whatever shape works, so practise what fits your sense of taste, and so utilize hue and saturation (Ctrl+U) to change the color to a tone that matches.

When I add highlights, that's when I also add together messy strands. We all struggle with messy hair, right?

Some other little matter I savor is making the eyelashes and eyebrows transparent. You can hands do that by locking the lineart layer, and so coloring with a color that'southward darker than the hair, or lighter. Effort it out; it depends on the hair colour you lot are using, and if your lineart is fix every bit multiply or not.

Conclusion

Maybe you're still unsure how to describe hair even after this tutorial, just I don't expect y'all to suddenly be a pro. As I always say, art takes time.

So at the very to the lowest degree, take away this important point from this: use references! I can't repeat this plenty but make sure to use them mindfully.

I believe y'all don't really need a stride-by-step to larn something. Instead, try to understand things in your ain way. Equally long as you savour what you do and are upward for the challenges life will bring, you will abound as an artist!

Practicing is key, but patience and passion make up the door.

Thank you very much for checking it out!

Have a good time drawing ☆ ～('▽^人)

– Hyanna Natsu

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