How To Draw Hair Texture

Next add light umber to the hair and then deepen the dark areas with dark umber.
How to draw hair texture. Practice the steps from this article and it will become second nature. Create the hair strands. Get the illusion of the strands. You can apply the techniques of how to draw different hair texture to different lengths and styles.
Sketch the curly outline of the whole haircut. Ignoring the form and going straight for the texture results in spaghetti hair. Have confidence with every stroke. And it has all the same elements of light although slightly hidden by the texture and all the strands.
Finally with the tapered brush by adding white strokes to add further realistic shines. How to draw afro textured hair step 1. Don t try to draw every single strand. In this video i show how to draw realistic textures using pencil.
Straight hair will be different from curly hair and wavy hair will also be different. Overlap the strokes to create more intense shines in the hair. I explain a step by step process of how to draw each one clearly. This time it will have a lot of volume.
Draw the outline of the volume of the hair. Set these to opacity 20 to stand out. We cover three of the most common materials wood brick and metal. Some tips when drawing the hair texture.
Then go over it with some dark umber to separate the layers of the hair. To show that in the hair you will need a way to indicate which parts of the hair are closer to the front and which parts are receding towards the back. It s better to draw a quick confident strand slightly out of place then a wobbly stroke in the right place. It just looks like a bunch of lines coming off the head.
This happens when drawing strands that drop down the forehead. Add some stray hair here and there. Leave the highlight exposed. With the hair shine brush draw long and short strokes within the mass of hair set to blending mode normal opacity 10 and with a white stroke.
Think of the hair as a 3 dimensional form just like the nose. To achieve this look you can use darker line work towards the front of your hair drawing and use lighter strokes towards the back. To begin lightly draw the shapes of the hair with a mechanical pencil. Afro textured hair has a lot of curly strands and texture.