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1. Introduction : ID has trouble drawing hair and really want to try to focus on drawing guy hairstyles. Well. My name is Lakina. I'm a traditional digal artist. I would like to help
you with just that. So in this class, we're going to be talking about different types of hairstyles and hair
textures for men. I'm just going to be
going over the basics, not anything too complicated or any techniques that are just too detailed at this stage. This class is for beginners and intermediate artists who just like a different
idea of how to break down hairstyles and how these
approaches can help you in your sketches and just to get your studies going as you
tackle new hairstyles. We'll be looking
over references. I'll also include a
worksheet that you can use. We talking about
tips for hairline. I'll also break down a
demo using a reference, and I will show you how you can shade your hair just
using basic shapes and other sketching styles
that might help you as you start to sketch.
Let's get started.
2. Class Materials: For the class materials. What you will need is
the default brushes in procreate and
the procreate app, Apple pencil and ipad or any digital art app
you have on hand. The reference photos
you use is your choice. But these are examples I would like you to look
for the website. Pixels has great options like everyday haircut and
short hair with volume. Next up, see you in
the class project.
3. Class Project: Class project, it will be
relatively easy and simple. First, I would like you to
choose a photo reference, break the hairstyle into shapes, choose a shading style, then sketch out the hairstyle. Lastly, as you make
your progress, you can show that in
the project section or just post your
final drawings. You can do multiple or more than one however
you want to practice. But this is just
a course to have fun and try out new hairstyles. Let's get to hair line.
4. Hair Drawing Tips I : Now we'll be talking
about hair line types. I also want to start with letting you know about
the hairline types. You have high hair line which
is very high on the head. Then you have popular
hair line which is M shaped hair line that you can notice on many male characters. The next hair line is a
straight hair hair line, where you can note
in most hair cuts. Then you have the
widow's peak hair line, which is also a very popular
hair line in guy's hair. You can get familiar
with the different types of hair styles. We have the straight hair, we have the wavy hair, we also have long hair
for guys curly hair. You can note that
the curly hair can also be bigger curls, but I just included the
tighter curl hair style hair. The next you have dreads
that can vary in length. This one is a shoulder
length dread style. Lastly, you have Afro
style Afro as well. Can be big or small. In this case I added a lot of
volume to this Afro style. I also have male
hair, buns and beard. I'm not going to be talking
about beard in this class, but I also want to just
give this example. I included three
different head shapes. I wanted to discuss
that a little here. You have a very
rounded head shape, cone head shape, and then you
have a flatter head shape. What you don't want is a two
round head shape because our heads are not entirely round either from the
front or from the side. There's also always a
flat surface on top. Unless your character
is very stylized, you want them to
have a round head, wouldn't really fit into a semi realistic or
realistic style shape. As your face shape changes, the hair styles that you can draw on your characters
might change as well. This is just a quick example of a rounder shaped face for a guy. Also good to note, you can study how the head shape
changes the hair line, different face
shapes might change the hair styles you can draw. Each hair line also changes
as you age up characters. When you note this, usually in older characters the hair
line is very far back, or the character might
have a few hairs closer to the ears rather than have much of
their hair on top. Everything varies as you
age your characters. Also good to do is to study
face types as you sketch. Usually in a guise, you might
find an angular round face, a chisel draw, or a
longer face type. And those are the tips
I wanted to include. Next up, hair types
Tips, number two.
5. Hair Drawing Tips Part II: This section, I'll be talking
about more important tips. Let's start off with long hair. You want to find the
point of tension. This way you have a
good idea of where the hair starts by using
where the hair usually parts. You can use a center
part or a side part as your starting guide as you analyze different hairstyles
in simple shapes, you want to just note
the direction it's going and the length or certain other details in short hair in this
example is a center part. By going from the center, you can follow the
arrows and note that the top part of the hair is longer than the
back part of the hair. The shapes are
almost like a book. Like an open book
that's just flat. If you think of it that
way, that might help. In this curly hair hairstyle, you can note the big shapes. This is a simple mohawk style. Note that the sides of this
curly hairstyle is shaved. Usually if you use
a regular pencil, you can achieve this texture. The next hairstyle we have
is a straight short hair. Note that this hairstyle
has a side part. The side of the head on the left side is shorter than
the side on the right side, which has almost like
a bang look to it. But underneath that hair
is usually a shorter hair. As you can see, the side burns, you know that the back hair is always shorter than the front. Now let's analyze a
reference in this. I am trying to break down
the main shapes I see. The first thing I notice
is the hairline type. What we see here is a
widow's peak hair line. And now noting the
points of tension, you can see the
direction of where the hair is flowing and
it is away from the face. As you note with these arrows, as I'm breaking down, I want to start off with
the top of the head. Because the top of the hair
is away from the face, it draws your line of sight. You want to start off
with a bigger shapes. This is what I'm
going to be breaking down the hair in sections. These are not really the
main shapes I'm following, but I'm really just trying
to see what I note. Now I'm going to show
you a quick demo. This is how I'm breaking
down the shape visually. I see that the hair is
going away from the face. There's another area that's
a little more waver. And the side of the hair
closer to the ears are short. You don't always have to put all that detail into the hair. I'm just trying to mike that just a little bit here to
show you this example. Next up, we're going to talk more about different
hair styles.
6. Simple Shading Practice : So we're going to start with a simple art style
for this hairstyle. This hairstyle, you
might see in Korean, shows this hairstyle is
very much very wavy. Has to be drawn in a way that you can tell that
it's very fluffy. I want to note
that the hair line is going to be a straight
hair line for this hairstyle, even though you can't
really see most of it, this hairstyle is going to have bangs just above the eyebrows. Do you have the base
drawing underneath? You can tell how
high the hair is. That way when you sketch with a different color or even
a different type of brush, you can tell if you'll have your portions correct
for your hair. I'm noting the
directions as well. Now we're going to move on
to the shading practice. As you shade, you can
decide what you want to do. If you want to do
vertical hatching or any really style of hatching. Right here, we're
going to be showing you vertical hatching then. I just decided
that vertical hatching would make more sense for
this type of hairstyle. I'm not leaving out any
parts for the highlight, I'm just going to
just straight sketch. I also wanted to show
you another option you can do for a
style like this. You can also use the
lasso tool to select the hair like I'm doing here and then
just use color drop. You just use a solid color. That way you can see
just a solid form of the hair without any details. You can add flyaways
around the hair. Basically, you're just
doing a silhouette. Refine it a little
bit to make it look a little better. Next up.
7. Practice with a Reference : This is going to be our
lesson on using references. I started off with a reference
at a different angle. Then you see my sketch. I'm going to start off
with broad shapes. I'm looking at the
reference and trying to envision how the hair will
look from the front view. Now I'm using thick lines to get the overall
shape of the hair. I'm still making sure that it looks similar to the reference, but I'm using bigger shapes
that will resemble the hair. This as a study practice because sometimes you might
not get to find a reference that is
exactly the same angle as you're trying to
draw your portrait. You want to be able to visualize how certain hair will look from different angles. Since I blocked off it
with bigger shapes. I'm using a finer
brush right now, which is the HB brush, that will help me to
get finer details. I'm still doing broad strokes, but I'm trying to envision how each hair section will flow. And using the pencil brush, I'm making sure that the curls are working to keep the
visual weight of the hair. As you sketch, it's important to remember that you're just
trying to get an overall shape. Not too many details, but using lines to make sure
you have the direction of the hair mapped out right now. I also like to do
overall shape with darker lines that way you can get the overall
shape of the hair. I just love the contrast
between the finer lines of the hair strands and the
overall shape of the hair. Using a darker pencil, as you can see, certain shape of the hair is a little
different from the reference. But it's similar enough
where I can say that the hair style I wanted
to achieve has been done. I'm not using the reference
as a shading guide either, I'm just mapping in the general shading
style I want to do. It's important to do this on different layers as well
so you don't get mixed up. Now, I'm erasing the
base sketch bit, so you can see that the
hair doesn't look flat. This hair right now
looks like it has some volume and that's
what we wanted to achieve. You can see the curl pattern. You can also see that the hair is a little more wavy as well. Now onto the second reference. This is a short dread look. I'm not mimicking or
exactly referencing the exact hair cell when
drawing dread hairstyles. You just want to do a few
scribbles here and there. General guide of what I would
want the hair to look like. You don't, you're
drawing bigger shapes. You don't need to do anything detailed or get lost in that. You just want the
overall shape of the hair to look like dreads. Certain dreads are
going to be in different directions As
long as you get that shape, you're good to go next up.
9. Final Thoughts: Thank you for taking the
time to take this class. This class was about drawing male hairstyles
and simple steps. You can find that I also
have drawing woman here, character hairstyles
on my skillshare page. It will also be very helpful if you leave a review of the class. So other students can find
in the review section, you can follow me on Youtube at LOG sketches and
my designs to art. Can follow me on Instagram
at Paper Arts Pencil, and at Design to Art. Thank you again and
see you next time.
Lakena G., Digital/Traditional Artist
