How To Draw Hair With Just A Pencil

This is true for hair on people and on animals.
How to draw hair with just a pencil. Create the hair strands. Unsubscribe from dan beardshaw. It s soft but not too dark which makes it easy to erase a mistake. That is the primary pitfall of artists when it comes to hair.
Holding the pencil at a 45 degrees or near level to the table with end of pencil under your palm allows you to stroke from side of pencil of the flat. Holding a sharpened pencil in normal writing form with fingers in the middle or near the lead allows for very thin strokes. Hair is erratic fluid and never does what it s supposed to so make your hair interesting. Hair like the rest of a drawing is chunks of light and shadow so treat them as such.
Next add light umber to the hair and then deepen the dark areas with dark umber. Then go over it with some dark umber to separate the layers of the hair. I am going to first use my hb pencil. Hair can be unwieldy just think of the frizz but much like my tutorial on drawing shiny objects we ll break it up into multiple and manageable steps.
To begin lightly draw the shapes of the hair with a mechanical pencil. Subscribe subscribed unsubscribe 343k. How to draw hair in pencil narrated tutorial example 1 dan beardshaw. With this in mind it s time to start drawing.
As a result drawing hair is difficult. Hair comes in many shapes sizes twists colors and turns. I ve been asked that a lot since i am a professional portrait artist and an art teacher at penn state university. How to draw hair with the theuer method.
The secret is in how you hold the pencil and the type of pencil s edge. How do i draw hair.