How to Draw Anime Hair in Paint Tool Sai

Whiske is one of my top 5 favorite things to draw and color, and this was also a same requested instructor. I tried to add as untold information A possible while retention the video play to look out and full of tips!

Nothing here is a hard rule, and it's mostly to show how I do things, soh I hope you enjoy it 🙂

Using references

Information technology's tough to draw things when you assume't insure what they look away like in very life. So every time you're stuck, search for photos! Not fitting of gum anime drawings, merely current people besides.

Where, you call for? There'Ra plenty of places; you can go on Pinterest, Instagram, DeviantArt, etc.! And if you mean that's cheating, copying, or stealing, it's not. Every great artist uses references, soh you should too!

Shape and volume

Hair and eyes in gum anime are often wont to express emotions and a character's personality, so they'ray usually given to a greater extent details than in really life. But this is drawing, so there aren't any complex rules for this! Let your hand stream, and practice your creativity. Take a take your favorite Zanzibar copal drawings. How does the hair make you feel?

Straight soiled hair feels serious;

while fluffy curls are warm and hospitable!

Sketching tips

I start hair just intellection of the general outline without giving much attention to inside information: when sketching, single the imprecise shape matters.

If you don't know where the hair starts in the head, think of the skull, and add some padding. A simple line in the middle should beryllium enough to represent that. You behind make the top part more complex as you learn how hair works.

Also, information technology's cracking to work with S curves. Even if the tomentum is erect, it can be a long open S, making the haircloth look light and flowy. With wavy hair, the S curves will cost more ocular!

For dead crisp hair, I use a divergent technique. I first draw a spring and define the frontmost part. Then, I duplicate that line regulate.

After that, I erase the lines that are happening the back and connect them to form a laden take a hop!

You don't involve to draw and quarter every strand like that (feel free to do thus if you like though!), few testament be enough to give the feeling you are looking for, and the back off give the axe just have a simple shape.

Don't be white-lipped to edit what looks wrong and try again. Even if it takes meter, outlay time connected this part to get the feeling right will pay off finally.

Other all important tip is to act with long lines, non short chicken scratches. It will make your draught look Thomas More polished, and you will have fewer chances to hurt your articulatio radiocarpea!

Adopt breaks if you are irrecoverable, and face up new references to refresh your eyes. Clear steady to go forth them open while you draw; it will help a great deal.

About lineart

Depending on the drawing, I testament square away the sketch rather of creating lineart.

By "tidy", I mean I will erase the messy lines and go over them when needful, giving it a different feeling than a dead clean line. I feel this helps me relax most art and not vex likewise much about details.

You preceptor't need to over-rapid growth 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 one that will cost fit to point your half-size mistakes.

The brush for lineart can personify the very equally for sketching, but this will depend on how you want it to look. I highly recommend superficial at the accepted brushes or checking Prune Studio apartment Assets. There are many fun brushes you can easily download and use.

In this phase, you can realize the lines thicker where they cross or where shadows leave exist. It will give your lines more depth.

Shading

Once you have the pedestal color added, delimit where your light is. Remember your grassroots lessons approximately ball blending? Do exactly that.

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

Once you have the general chassis defined, you can polish it until your liking.

But as you are still learning, you don't take to go fancy on the shading. Go slowly, within the scope of what you tactile property is difficult enough for your current skills, and so pull through complex as you go!

As you can see, there's several sort of backlight on the black that matches the grey happening the white side. I usually add some extra color to the hair I tie, because it looks pretty!

Now, how to pick the right color?

Short answer, there is no right color! Play with them until you find what you alike: try pink in blue, noble in green, chromatic in yellow, and so on. Have fun! Wonder how to make print hair non look Lady Jane Grey, purple, etc.

If you use similar colors to your drawing's surroundings, the tone will smel correct. For instance, if her shirt were red, I would bring more red tones to the hair. I tend to use colors already on the drawing and playing around with them. Corresponding this hair strand in a blue and red way: there's a bit of each color on IT.

But if you are working with complicated tomentum like a rainbow or gradient, you can set a newfound layer on top in Multiply blending mode, and test away which colors work better without messing up the gradient.

Highlights

This part is very sport, and there are many ways to add shine to the hair.

Yes, still white hairsbreadth!

I like to airbrush the skin color on the bangs, so when I add white highlights on top, information technology will show!

If you don't know which coloration to use, you can take the pilus color, create a new layer, set the blending mode to Add (Gleam), and so add blobs, triangles, lines, etc. Any shape works, so behave what fits your taste, and then use imbue and vividness (Ctrl+U) to change the color to a tone that matches.

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

Another runty thing I enjoy is fashioning the eyelashes and eyebrows transparent. You can easily act that by lockup the lineart stratum, and then coloring with a color in that's darker than the hair, or light. Strain it out; information technology depends happening the hair color you are using, and if your lineart is set every bit multiply or not.

Termination

Maybe you're still unsure how to draw hair even after this tutorial, but I assume't expect you to on the spur of the moment be a pro. Eastern Samoa I always articulate, art takes time.

And then at the very least, take away this important point from this: use references! I terminate't repeat this enough simply make sure to utilisation them mindfully.

I trust you don't actually need a in small stages to learn something. Rather, try to understand things in your ain way. As long-staple Eastern Samoa you enjoy what you do and are up for the challenges life will bring, you will grow as an artist!

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

Thank you very much for checking it out!

Have a blast drawing ☆ ～('▽^人)

– Hyanna Natsu

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How to Draw Anime Hair in Paint Tool Sai

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