How To Draw Long Anime Hair Male

Hair is one of my meridian five favorite things to depict and color, and this was likewise a very requested tutorial. I tried to add as much information every bit possible while keeping the video fun to watch and total of tips!

Zilch here is a hard dominion, and it's mostly to evidence how I do things, and so I hope y'all enjoy information technology 🙂

Using references

It'south tough to draw things when you don't bank check what they expect like in real life. So every time yous're stuck, search for photos! Non simply of anime drawings, merely bodily people as well.

Where, you lot ask? There're enough of places; you can go on Pinterest, Instagram, DeviantArt, etc.! And if you think that's cheating, copying, or stealing, it's not. Every slap-up artist uses references, and so you should too!

Shape and book

Hair and eyes in anime are often used to express emotions and a graphic symbol's personality, so they're ordinarily given more details than in real life. But this is drawing, so at that place aren't any circuitous rules for this! Let your mitt flow, and practice your creativity. Take a look at your favorite anime drawings. How does the hair make you feel?

Direct black pilus feels serious;

while fluffy curls are warm and welcoming!

Sketching tips

I kickoff hair merely thinking of the full general outline without giving much attention to details: when sketching, only the 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 plenty to correspond that. You can make the top part more circuitous as you lot learn how pilus works.

Also, it'southward practiced to work with S curves. Even if the hair is straight, it can exist a long open up Southward, making the hair look lite and flowy. With wavy hair, the South curves will be more than visible!

For perfectly curly hair, I use a different technique. I first draw a spring and define the forepart role. And so, I duplicate that line shape.

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

You don't demand to draw every strand like that (feel free to practise so if you like though!), a few will be plenty to requite the feeling you are looking for, and the back tin just have a uncomplicated shape.

Don't exist afraid to delete what looks incorrect and try again. Fifty-fifty if information technology takes time, spending time on this part to get the feeling correct will pay off in the end.

Another important tip is to work with long lines, not short craven scratches. Information technology will make your drawing await more than polished, and you volition have fewer chances to hurt your wrist!

Take breaks if yous are lost, and await up new references to refresh your eyes. Make sure to leave them open while you depict; information technology will help a lot.

Almost lineart

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

By "clean upward", I hateful I will erase the messy lines and become over them when necessary, giving it a different feeling than a perfectly clean line. I experience this helps me relax near fine art and not worry besides 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 are likely to be the only ane that will exist able to spot your small mistakes.

The castor for lineart tin be the same as for sketching, simply this will depend on how you want it to await. I highly recommend looking at the standard brushes or checking Clip Studio Assets. There are many fun brushes you tin easily download and use.

In this stage, you tin make the lines thicker where they intersect or where shadows will be. It will requite your lines more depth.

Shading

Once y'all have the base colour added, define where your light source is. Remember your basic lessons about ball shading? Do exactly that.

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

One time you have the general shape defined, you lot can polish information technology until your liking.

But equally you are nevertheless learning, y'all don't need to go fancy on the shading. Go slowly, within the scope of what you feel is challenging enough for your current skills, then make information technology complex as you get!

Every bit you tin can run into, there'south some kind of backlight on the black that matches the grey on the white side. I normally add some extra color to the hair I depict, because information technology looks pretty!

Now, how to pick the right color?

Short answer, there is no right color! Play with them until you lot find what you lot like: endeavor pinkish in blue, purple in green, orange in xanthous, and and then on. Accept fun! Wonder how to make black and white pilus non wait grey, imperial, etc.

If you use similar colors to your drawing's environment, the tone will await correct. For example, if her shirt were red, I would add more red tones to the hair. I tend to use colors already on the drawing and playing around with them. Like this hair strand in a bluish and red room: in that location'south a fleck of each colour on it.

Merely if you are working with complicated pilus like a rainbow or gradient, you tin set up a new layer on pinnacle in Multiply blending manner, and test out which colors work better without messing upward the slope.

Highlights

This part is very fun, and there are many means to add shine to the hair.

Yep, fifty-fifty white hair!

I like to airbrush the peel color on the bangs, then when I add together white highlights on peak, it will testify!

If you don't know which color to use, you can take the hair color, create a new layer, fix the blending fashion to Add (Glow), and then add blobs, triangles, lines, etc. Any shape works, so do what fits your taste, and then use hue and saturation (Ctrl+U) to change the colour to a tone that matches.

When I add highlights, that's when I besides add messy strands. Nosotros all struggle with messy hair, right?

Another fiddling thing I enjoy is making the eyelashes and eyebrows transparent. You tin easily practise that by locking the lineart layer, and then coloring with a color that's darker than the hair, or lighter. Try it out; it depends on the hair color you are using, and if your lineart is fix as multiply or non.

Conclusion

Maybe you lot're still unsure how to draw pilus even after this tutorial, but I don't await you to all of a sudden exist a pro. As I always say, art takes fourth dimension.

Then at the very least, take away this important point from this: utilize references! I can't repeat this plenty simply make certain to use them mindfully.

I believe yous don't actually need a step-past-pace to learn something. Instead, try to understand things in your own manner. Every bit long every bit you enjoy what you practice and are up for the challenges life volition bring, you volition abound as an artist!

Practicing is key, simply patience and passion brand upward the door.

Cheers very much for checking it out!

Have a good time cartoon ☆ ～('▽^人)

– Hyanna Natsu

Twitter

YouTube Channel