Drawing Hair: An Easy Approach for Complete Beginners

1. Welcome!: We're going to talk about hair and it's gonna get super fun. Hair is beautiful and expressive. And it can say a lot about you and your character. If you're like me, you're an artist. And when you draw a lot of characters, you've got to draw a lot of hair. Drawing hair, it can be, it can be daunting, it can be scary. And sometimes you draw it and it just looks like a messy blob and you don't know where you went wrong. That's okay. I've been there too. My name is Sam Coughlin. I'm an animator and comic creator. I have over the years, perfected. Over the years, I've gotten to drawing hair a lot better. And if you're someone who doesn't really know where to start, or maybe you're looking for some tips to refreshing what you already know. I'm here to help out. Over the years, I have taught myself some tricks that have helped me to develop my own system of drawing hair. That way the hair of my characters looks consistent and it can draw with a lot of competence. And at the end of the day, isn't that what we all want? Just a little bit of confidence. Learning to draw hair is critical and you can use it in whatever medium you choose to use. So I like to draw digitally. I have you can't really see it, but I do have my laptop here, so we'll be drawing a lot on my laptop. But you can also learn to draw hair. Pencil, good old-fashioned pencil and paper, or for me, Sharpie and sketchbook. In this class, we're going to discuss how you can think about hair in a way that's constructive and helps you actually put it on the page. Then we'll go through a systematic approach. So you can learn to draw hair in the same way each way, and you can feel a lot more confident as you do. It will be going through some examples. I'll also have some interactive activities that you can do throughout, ready to get started. I know I am. Before we go, make sure you grab your paper and your drawing utensil. And I will see you in the project overview. 2. Class Project: Hey, you made it. Thanks for taking this class. Let's talk about the class project briefly before we get started. The class project is we're going to fill up a sketchbook page with some hair art. And the key here is that we just practiced different hairstyles. Are we doing curly or straight? Are we doing short or long? Are we doing like a bunch of fun layers? Or is it going to be very chic and symbol? Remember that this is all about practice. And once we're done with the class, feel free to take whatever you draw, sticking in our projects section, I would love to see what you make because we're all about practice here. It doesn't matter if it looks perfect. What we're really going for is that you're trying new things, you're experimenting and you're having fun with it. So remember to post whatever you make in the project section so I can give some feedback or just tell you how awesome you did. It's also a great place for other students to learn from you and you guys can learn from each other. And then it's like this endless positivity loop, which is just, we love that. We love to see it for all ready to go, go ahead and grab your paper, grab your drawing utensil. Let's get started. 3. Drawing the Human Head: Now as we get started, we're going to jump right into these examples. So you can feel free to follow along and whatever software or medium you feel most comfortable in. For me, I'm going to be drawing in Photoshop. The first thing we're going to discuss is how to draw the human head. I like to think about the human head as being a sphere or a ball. And then your jaw slash face is attached and squished into it. That's hard to describe. And I'm just going to show you what I mean. Human head is a ball just like this, a circle. And then draw straight line down with your circle and your line. You can connect the sides of the head down to this point here. This becomes your chin, is becomes the jaw. And boom, we have a human head. Let's draw a few more. We've got our circle line and then connect these down. It's heads are, these heads are looking a little tall. So I'm going to draw a few different shapes just like this. So this is more of a pointed chin or it could be like a heart shape. They say they're different head shapes out there and they're generally are, but it's not as many as you think. So you can really go wild with this. Let's make one that's a little squarish, a circle straight down. I'm going to really emphasize the angles there. This person has a very strong jaw line. Mine, my handwriting, it's more it's more for me than anything else. Like, yes, draw a line at point D. We have these heads. That's great. Let's put faces on them because you know what's cool about humans? We got faces. So let's put some faces on these guys by turning this opacity down. Again, that's just for the Photoshop nerds. This is to make it look easier on the head. Let's say the top of the head is here and the bottom is here. If you were to draw a dot exactly in the center between these two, it's about there. That dot there is where we want to align our eyes. Generally, a lot of beginner artists like to put eyes a little bit too high in the head, leaving basically no forehead. And then this really long face and you don't know where to put the nose and the mouth because no matter where you put them, it looks a little silly, right? What we wanna do is take these eyes and move them just to this zone here where they're just about in the center of the head. Now we have room for the forehead, as well as the nose and the mouth. The eyes are just about in the center and you can draw them as circles with dots. Also. I like to do an arc. And as a general rule of thumb, unless you're doing something really cartoony with these big old bug eyes. As a general rule of thumb, your eyes are about as far apart as each one is wide. So if you have big eyes, they're generally going to be more far apart. If you have smaller eyes, they're generally going to be closer together. We ever eyes right there. Next we are going to draw the nose, which is about halfway between this dot and here and the chin. And the nose can be it can be like an upturn situation. You can add nostrils. I think that looks a little goofy, little silly. The way that I've seen a lot of artists do it and the way that I've started to lean more toward is just drawing the bottom part of the nose. Something like that. Maybe it's simple like that. Maybe we have a little more detail. Maybe it's a larger nose. We want to put some emphasis on there. If you want to draw the bridge of the nose, that is completely optional as well. Finally, the mouth is about halfway between the nose and this dot right here. If you ever have to choose one or the other, I typically like to draw the mouth slightly closer to the nose then to the chin. Sometimes I'll draw like a lip there to add some detail. I'm gonna erase this here and we have a human head. We've got some facial features. Super cool. Let's draw a few more. So we have top of the head here, the bottom halfway mark is here. So we're going to draw some eyes here. Maybe some eyebrows. Let's draw one more here. At the top. The bottom. Person's going to be more serious, I think. Kind of going more serious with the eyebrows here, just trying to give each character a little bit of a different personality. This is super important when you're first starting as an artist because you want your characters to look different and distinguishable. A rule of thumb I like to have is there's this thing in the industry called same face syndrome. What this means is if you take an artist work and you take away all the color and the hair, that all of the character's faces look the same. This is something that once I became aware, I was very keen on addressing some great examples of art that are really good at avoiding making all the faces look the same. I would lean toward animals such as Naruto or Full Metal Alchemist Brotherhood. You can just do a quick Google of those later on and just check out how they approach. Making heads and faces different. Even by adding some sort of Band-Aid on his guy's head. Or maybe a scar will make them look different compared to all of the other characters on your cast. And then we're going to draw one more example here. I'm going to maybe make this face little more animated, little more cute and fun. Just this one. So it's a little bit lower in the head. There we go. Animate big foreheads, small point each and it's a thing, it's a thing. Awesome. We've got some heads. They're looking pretty good, serious, expressive, fun. Something else we're going to talk about is how to draw head, not just from straight on, but from an angle. To draw a head on the angle, we're going to, it's going to be very similar steps. We're just going to draw a circle. But instead of drawing the center line straight down like this, It's going to be slightly off to one side and curved inward to just show where the center of the head is when the head is turned. So we're going to turn like this. Then this is tricky because these two sides are going to look a little bit different. The easier side is this is the chin. We're going to connect the back of the head to the chin. And there will always be these two, this distinction because that's where you have the shape, the shape of your jaw here, and then it comes in. So we have 12 and then on this side we're going to go in a little bit, out a little bit and then down. Now this, this will vary. This is a feature that basically everyone has. Everybody generally has the same skeletal structural structure. Meaning we have a forehead bone, we have a cheek bone, we have the jaw bone. So what this part right here is signifying the eyebrows go here. This is where the eye is. Gogh made it a little bit low in this space, but that's okay. I just go there. This is the just shows the top of the cheek cheek bone. This is showing the person's cheek. So let's draw a few more heads just to get the gist of it. I'm going to draw a circle here. Diagonal jaw connects in, out like that. Go a little bit like this. And I try to align this again with about With about the center between the top and the bottom of the head. To the left. We're gonna go here. Go around here. Maybe you'll have one person looking slightly up. My cheat sheet for drawing heads that are looking up or down is when I draw a character looking up, I give them more space between their mouth and between their face and the chin. And when I just have them looking down, I have a bigger forehead and the facial features are closer to the chin. So let's turn this down and add some details. What we're doing here is we're going to draw our eyes about halfway between the top and the bottom. Hopefully they align with this. And another thing to keep in mind is your eyes are going to be slightly narrower. On the side facing away from the camera. It's foreshortening. It's this thing happens with faces. If you don't do it, don't worry about it because it took me a long time to start doing it. Don't forget to leave a little bit of space between the mouth and the cheek here because there's some space there. Let's fill in the rest of these guys right here. The last thing I forgot to mention is where to drop ears on these guys. The ear is going to be looking at your head. If you look at a perfect side profile, the ear is located perfectly in the center of the head. So just try to visualize that when you're drawing a character on an angle. I just personally like to use a simple line because it is just a lot easier that way. Cool. So now we've drawn some heads and some phases. Now it's your turn to practice. Grabbed whatever utensils you have and just take a few minutes here to draw some heads. We're going to draw heads to looking to the left, to looking to the right. And then three head-on, draw the full head. Feel free to experiment with different shapes and sizes, especially with the jaw line. Then draw some faces on there. Once again, experimenting and trying different features to see what you like. Once you're done, I'll see you in the next lesson. 4. Basic Hair Principles: When I was a beginner artist, whenever I drew hair, I lamented it because it looks bad. And the reason was when I thought about hair, I thought about hair as being a blob. And so whenever I drew here, it looks like a blob. But then I learned, oh, okay, so hair grows out and then it flows down. And that makes sense, right? Once I started thinking about hair that way it helped me a lot. I want you, when you're thinking about hair, say this is a person's head. The hair grows out of all these little points in your head and all wants to grow out. Just radiating straight out of your head as much as it can. The first step is it grows out. The second thing is hair. Once there's enough of it, once there it's long enough, gravity will start to pull down on it. So then hair will start to move down. Depending on your hairstyle. This might be very prominent. Some people like me have very thick hair and when it grows out and then down, there's a lot of volume toward the scalp of the head. Fun fact about me my entire life, I've always had semi long hair until about a couple of years ago in July of 2020, I got to cut super short At a long part and sides were short and it was cute and I loved it. I didn't anticipate. However, when my hair started growing out, it took a long time for gravity to start pulling down on it because my hair is so thick, My hair was growing out, out, out and it became this just I was like a puff ball. It looks like I had a little cotton cotton ball head, which was cute, but like, I didn't know how to style it. And it was a very confusing time for me. But over the past few months, my hair is finally started to have enough weight, enough length that gravity is pulling down on it. So while there are parts that stick straight out, a lot of it, the majority goes down. The third thing to know is your hair will usually be thinner toward the bottom than it is at the top. That's because you have more hairs at the top of your head. And you gradually, as you had some haircut or its tape and tapered somehow you have less hair is going down. We're talking about the literal number of hairs on your head. You'll never have someone with more hair at the bottom of their head then is attached to the top because all the hair has to be attached to the top, right. What I'm saying is when you're drawing a character, either their hair will be the same thickness all the way down like that. Or your hair will get thinner as it grows down. You'll never have a character with hair that is thicker at the bottom. Unless they have naturally thick, heavy hair, in which case, gravity has pulled so, so hard on this top part that it's acting straight down and the hairs are able to spread out once they get down here and there's less gravity pulling on it, there's less weight. This is something I definitely experienced growing up as well. There was a point in high school where I had really long hair and it was all straight and flat at the top and at the bottom it was really curly. And I learned it didn't look the way I wanted it to because hair has weight. And when it drags down it goes and it makes unexpected shapes. This is just something to be aware of. Typically when I draw hair, I like to think that it goes from thick to thin, thicker on top, and then thinner on the bottom. So just keep this in mind while you're drawing. 5. Know Your Hair: Next, we're going to talk about how you got to know your hair. Have a hair plan before you start drawing. I like to think about this in a couple of ways. One of them being, does your character have naturally curly hair, straight hair? Is it thick or is it thin? Is it short or long? And does it have many layers like veins and then it's longer toward the back? Or does this person have hair that's the same length all the way around? These are the core things I think about when I'm drawing my characters. Let's talk about curls really quick. So somebody with perfectly straight hair, It's going to be exactly what you think is their hair glides down and it looks almost like a piece of silk just kinda growing from their head. It might be a little roughly at the bottom, but generally this person has hair that's very straight. Very simple approach. The next level of hair of this curliness is we have straight hair, but it has a bit of flow to it. So I like to call this flowy hair. It's generally straight, but I like to draw a little bit of volume and play to it. I have a fictional character called Malibu. This is her hair style. Her hair type. That's what I think whenever I draw this character is she has flowy thick hair. And then when I think that, boom, I put it on the page and it always looks the same. This next one is what I like to refer to as beach waves. So this hair has some wave to it. They're not necessarily very curly, but there's definitely something else going on. There's some balance, There's some fun shapes going on, some elements of curly hair, but I wouldn't say necessarily that hair that has beach waves is curly for say, for example, up here it's a lot more straight, but down here we have a bit more curl. Next we're going to talk about loose curls. So these curls, or there's definitely some curl going on. But they're not super defined. They don't defy gravity. So it's just a little bit tighter than the beach wave or not getting, we're not getting too much curl here. Next, I would describe this as straight up curly. This is what I got straight down here. And then we'll add just some regular bounces, just regular everywhere you look, we've got some curls going on. Not doing the best job of just drawing like a full head of hair. I'm just trying to give an example of what these hairs types look like. This is where you can really have fun, relax, sort of develop your muscle memory in your hand and your wrist is your drawing. It's also full arm as well, uses the whole arm when you're drawing these. Then finally we have coyly hair. This is natural Afro type pair that a lot of people have. At this point. It's kind of tricky to draw the individual curls because there's so much hair and there's so much volume that at this point, we start getting into this more curly territory. You want to draw the whole shape. Instead. I like to think is, I want to draw hair that's sort of like this where we have maybe some hair that frames the face and then we have some more hair on the outside. So I have this shape in mind and then I just take my pen and I very carefully just wiggle it to get that shape. Let me show you what that whole thing would look like. Just personally have that part in the middle of their head, which I've been drawing this whole time. We've just kinda wiggle it down. Maybe have it end here, and then draw some more. If you draw some zig-zags down here to show that these are like the ends of the hair. There's some Tufte's there. And then we're gonna come over here, draw some more super wiggly. For people with super curly hair. You just want to be thinking about what is the best way to draw their hair the way it looks. Because they're going to be different approaches for each of these. It's almost very similar to the extremely straight hair because you're just drawing a shape. This is essentially a rectangle that's curved on top. Here we have generally this hair that comes out. I would even say that this should have more volume on top because the hair is so thick on top. There we go. That's a lot better. So these are the different curl patterns. And now it's your turn to think about it. Picked three friends with different hairstyles. Or pick three celebrities that you like. And think about their hair. Is their hair long or short? Is it the same length all-around are different. Most importantly, is it thick or thin? And how Curly is it? If you could put it under one of these categories, which one does their hair fit multiple categories. Some people have parts of their head that are earlier than others. That is very common with people with curly hair. So use this exercise as a minute to pause, reflect, and consider these different kinds of hair styles and types. So feel free to pause the lesson now and give some thought to these different people that you know. And look up a picture if you need to, and think about how these different hairstyles and cuts are different than each other. And how would you describe their hair to someone so that they could draw it? 6. Practice Hair Shapes: With different hairstyles in mind, let's start actually drawing. Alright. What we're gonna do is I'm going to break down different curl and hair pieces that I draw all the time. And then we'll learn to put it together in a little bit. Quick thing is when you're drawing hair, you don't want to draw the individual strands. It might look kind of messy and bulky and it's hard to control. What's better is to draw hair and locks. Because even though here is made out of individual strands, when you look at someone, you don't think she has 120004565 thousand pieces of hair on her head. Now, what we do instead is we look at, oh, she's got a curl there and the curl there and the curl there really, when you're drawing hair, It's based off of different pieces kinda stuck together. So let's get started with some examples. At the end of this lesson, I'm going to ask you to do some drawing and practicing. So pay attention, feel free to follow up, follow along if you like. And let's get started. Hair generally tapers, which is why I like to think of hair as being a triangle with a curve to it. So draw a line here and a line here. That's the only, that's the shape are going for. Loose, confident if they don't touch it, don't worry about it. Loose just like that generally connecting in the bottom. But what's most important is there a curling in the same direction? And it's wider at the top than it is at the bottom. Next step is, let's take that and actually make that an S shape. Once again, these are just different shapes that you can utilize when drawing hair. You can win. I'm not sure what to do. You can refer back to these shapes and put them together in different arrangements to create different hairstyles and cuts. This is more of an S shape. Once again, whiter on top point here at the bottom. Actually, I think at 1 before I used to refer to these as bananas. And if it helps you to think of it as like the bottom half of a banana. Go for it. Yeah. Next we're going to combine these top shapes here, these bananas. We're going to do the good old 12 and then add another line, 12 and then use this line at another one. And it's almost like there's two pieces of hair that are overlapping one to one to do a different direction too. I didn't even mentioned that before. Be sure to practice these going in different directions so that you can be prepared for any direction your hair might go into. Alright, And the final one for wavy styles, for wavy pieces are these sort of W shapes. So just imagine your hair, imaginary character's hair is like laying down and you want to connect it back up. So we have a bunch of these shapes together. Just like that. You can even combine them. So these are some wavy shapes. Next we're going to talk about curly shapes. The first curly shape is, I like to think of it as being thick and short. Just like that. The really curl. And this one instead of being a banana, this is more like the bottom half of a crescent moon. So if it helps you to think of it that way, absolutely go for it. The next part of the curliness is we're going to draw something the same shape except instead of coming down with a crescent moon, It's going to be a little bump to it, like a curl and a backwards S or curl and S. Or if you want to think of this as being like half of the Yin Yang symbol. If that helps you out, you can do that as well. But we're going to curl, have a bump. Because sometimes curls lay and very silly, fun ways. They're not always exactly like this top one here. The next shape we're going to draw is we're going to expand on these, add a little bit of curl, but we're going to go do, do, do, do, do, do. Make these curls. Not exactly touch like we're making a figure eight, but take this part, move it up so that we have this nice little wiggly part. Finally connect them at the bottom. So Doo, Doo, Doo, Doo, Doo, Doo and connect. I don't know how to describe this other than to make the sound effects. So I hope this visual aid is helpful to you. To do, do, do, do, connect. Again, we can make it on the other side. So this is probably how I would draw my hair personally, just very thick, curly sort of situation going on. Lots of girls as you see on my head. No tube. Curls look the same because that's how humans work. Maybe not to curls look the same. So that's why with curly hair, It's a lot of fun to make all these different shapes and also add some interest to your character. The final one is just kinda wiggly back-and-forth. So depending on how curly your person's hair is, you might go with the spiky little to do, or you might have the flu Venus. Or you can do what I did here, which is sort of combine them. I get S and then a bump. There aren't too many rules. I generally like to keep them somewhat parallel, meaning these curls kind of go in the same direction, but there's no specific rule. It's mostly about how you capture a specific shape using lines. Those are our curly shapes. Finally, we're going to learn more complex shapes. Alright, so we have three of these to go over. The first is you have a curly hair. Sort of draw a curl, draw another one right next to it that's attached to it. And then draw another curl as well. I'm going to draw that even more simply. We're going to draw curl like this. And then using this line, we're going to draw another curl right next to it. It's connected but not perfectly. This is the way I like to draw hair so that curly hair is connected, but the ends still are defined and have their own shape to them. Next, we're going to do a similar thing, but we're going to have flowy hair, hair the ends. I like to think of this as being a person sitting down. But this is their back, not the front. Like their back. You have that. We're gonna give them some hair. The hair comes down. We draw the top and their hair comes down. And then just draw some lines going down this way. Because you can see with that there is, there's a shape going on there. It's not necessarily a completely blunt cut, is a little bit of length in the back. Finally, we've got the blunt cuts. So that's if you have straight hair and you cut it straight across. Once again, I like to think of it as being sort of a rectangle, but we add some fun at the bottom. At some zigzags, maybe a little upside-down V at some zigzags, add some lines here. And it looks like a pair of shorts, but I promise it's hair. Let's see it in context. This is a person's head. And if they have a blunt haircut, going to draw this top ridge here, it comes down straight, hug the head and then come down straight. Maybe give them a piece right up front. And then a little bit of wiggles and some lines just like that. If you appear as well. And that is blunt hair, that is blunt straight hair. These are ways to approach drawing the end, the ends of the hair, the bottom of the hair. We've gone over some shapes. We've gone over curly shapes, wavy shapes, and how to end the bottom of the hair with complex shapes. Now it's your turn to apply this in the drawing format of your choice. Let's go back to your utensils. You can pause the lesson in just a moment, go back to your materials and just fill up an entire sketch book page with this. Actually, I'm going to show you mine. In preparation for this class, I did some examples. What we're doing here. These are the shapes that I went ahead and drew. So I did, these are some curly styles that I made. I did some complex ones down here and just generally practicing that little willingness to sort of loosen up your wrist is a great way to practice drawing different shapes. Here. Here's my example of some wavy stuff. So we have some waviness down here. Our little bananas are little curvy W's, if you will. These are different ways that I've drawn those as well. So these are my examples. Now it's time for you to do some practicing of your own. Go ahead back to your drawing medium and go ahead and practice some of the wavy, curly and complex shapes we already discussed in this lesson. Feel free to pause the lesson now, and I'll see you in the next one. 7. Hairlines: Next we're going to talk about the thing I used to hate a lot, okay, well, hate is a strong word, but when I was a beginner artists, I used to really struggle with this next one. It is hair lines. I guess still like to pretend that I know people who have hair lines, but I don't want to draw them because they don't understand how they work. So I'm just going to draw everyone with veins. And it got away with it until I became a professional artist and I realize I got to learn. I gotta learn how to draw this. So what is a hairline? First of all, the hair, your hair hairline is everybody's got one. If you've got here you've got a hairline. Take your head. If you have long hair like me, I'll pull it back to show you. Your hairline is basically where your hair connects to your head, goes all the way around your head. And basically what we're talking about is, what shape does this take? For me? It's an asymmetrical shape. So it kind of comes up in curls around and comes in, and then this one comes around this way. So I'm going to hold my head like this and you can see how it's asymmetrical. I used to be insecure about this and then I talked to my hairstylist about it and she said it's actually very common for people to have asymmetrical hair lines. It doesn't, It could be because you're damaged your hair, but it's actually really common just to be born that way. With that said, let's talk about a few shapes you can use to draw hair lines. These are important if your character has super short hair or if they pull back their hair, or even if their hair just lays down a certain way. So I've gone ahead and drawn these heads and we're going to draw some hair lines. We're going to draw four basic shapes. And then we're going to talk about something kinda cool you can do with it. So the hair lines, I like to think of them as being one of these shapes. Curved. Basically means the hair comes in and up and up. And then the part up here is curved, kind of follows the person's head. This next one is just straight. Just come straight across. Someone's again, the hair comes in and up and up. And they're hairline just goes straight across their head. Maybe their hair will, maybe this person's hair line will look either straight or curved based on how they're holding her head or where the camera is in position. This next one is going to be widow's peak. It's my favorite because it's fun to draw and it's super fun to make characters with it, especially if they're villains, because then they have a little bit of intrigue into their design. So the widow's peak comes over, makes basically this shape. I don't know how to describe it. Is it like is it two? Is it like a curvy M It could be like two Pac-Man ghosts like hugging. They're like holding, they're holding hands. Or it could be like, you can think of it as a shape of like Sonic the Hedgehog. But speak generally looks like this. Like I said, super fun to draw. Final one is I like to call this a soft V. This is how I would describe my hair, is kind of a soft V. It's kind of a widow's peak. If you think about it, all these shapes are rather similar, so you can pretty much exchange them. The soft V just comes up, down a little and then up. So it's like the curved one, but has a little bit more point to it. Now let's say you have one of these, let's say you have one of these hair lines in mind, but you want to add a little bit more personality. What you can do is add a zigzag, zigzag effect. And that makes that person's hair have a lot more texture. Or maybe they have scars because they've been a lot of battles and you can really show that off with your hairline if they have a weird jagged part to it. So this person's hair comes up, going to have some zig, zig zag is going across. That also allows me to draw, really emphasize some tufts of their hair as it goes down. Alright, next we're going to draw another hairline that has some zigzag next to it, some personality. Even be pretty subtle. Comment on, I like to do is just do the soft V-shape except right in the center. I like to draw just a little bit of wiggle. So these are some different hair lines that you can draw. Fear no more. Now we can draw hair lines. Let's move on to the next part. 8. Bangs: If your character doesn't have a hairline than they probably have bangs. These are pretty quick and easy. I'm just going to run through them and then i'll, I'll also have an example available for you to check out. This first one is again, just this blunt sort of cut is very I don t think of it. I think of it as either a bold a bowl haircut for adults to have usually someone who, I don't know. Usually this character is like serious and quiet and bookish or something like that. Or they're really nerdy because this cut is either very bold or it is used by like a little kid. It's just really easy to just take a kid give them like a bowl cut or something like that. This next one is a lot more common in animals. So it's going to be, I'm just going to call this thin. You just draw these little banana shapes all rooted in this little center part up here. You want them to emanate from 1, like a bunch of bananas that are flaring outwards. If you will. Even add a little bit, you can make them a little bit longer on the sides, if you like. Like I said, this is very common and animate to give characters this sort of thinner, thinner veins. This next one, I think is very common for hairstyles that are thick and curly. In the 990s, it was very common to have like a middle cut for your hair. And I guess it's coming back a little bit too. Very simple. I forget what I called this. I called this framed. It frames your face. And if I ever had my hair this short, I guess if a kinda look like that, kinda did, my hair was a little too curly for it to look quite like this. But if you have thick hair, you can definitely style it and get some things that look just like this. Next set of beings are one of my favorites there, swoopy, they're very pretty. The veins here, a lot of them eminent emanate from a center point. This one, they sort of come from generally the top, this whole area. On this hairstyle, the bangs sort of emanate from one spot. And here once again, the MNI, the emanate from one spot or 1. Here they're going to emanate from 1, but it's going to be on one side of the head, not the center. Draw sushi like this. Add another shape and another shape on top of that. And then we'll add sort of a banana shape going this way. And add some shapes to really frame the face. I like this one because there's a lot you can do with it. I like when hair is asymmetrical because it looks cool. The downside of drawing asymmetrical hair as you have to remember every time you draw them, what side of the head the asymmetry is on. So just keep that in mind when you're drawing this final set of veins is layered. We're just going to draw some more banana shapes here, sort of shorter up top, longer toward the sides, and then even be framed the top of the head a little bit. Make it even longer. Until finally it's about shoulder length. That is the layered style. So this is how to draw some different bangs styles. So you can either draw veins, you can draw a hairline, or you can draw a combination of the two. A combination would look something like this. Maybe they have their hair down here and the rest of their hair is pulled back into some kind of ponytail. Alright, that's bangs and hair lines. We are over the hump. We have learned a little bit of everything. Now it's finally time to put it altogether. Ready. Alright. 9. Super Short Styles: Now we're going to talk about some very specific examples of different haircuts that you see often enough, but we didn't already cover. So let's talk about them now. First, let's talk about super short haircuts. We're going to start just the same as we've done before. Draw some heads. Then there's a few different ways to draw super short hair. What I do usually as I think about first of all, how short is it right? If this person just has a buzz cut, then we're really going to focus on the shape of their head. So I would focus on their head has this shape. But I would also occasionally draw little bits of hair sticking up. Maybe just a couple of little lines here and there showing, hey, they got some hair there, but it's not like perfect, right? Me as an artist, I'm all about finding texture and adding texture to character's hair and their heads and everything. That's why I draw haircuts the way I do. Then it would add just a couple of little bits here and there, a couple of little double lines to show that there is hair on his head. Is just really short, It's just really small. Let's say you have a person who instead has their hair is a little bit longer. Maybe it's like a buzz cut. That's a buzz cut, right? It's like super short. For military and sports. Even though it's short, it's still frames the face. This person, we're gonna do some zigzags up here to show they have there some hair overturned. Draw the hairline and then come down or up here, drawing some very short lines to show, hey, there, Here's a little short, a little spiky. But it's still got some texture. Not the best at drawing this kind of hair. You might see that it looks a little inconsistent. So if I were to make a character with this kind of hair, I would definitely put some time and effort into studying the hair. Short hair is fun, but I really love lavish Xing and long luxurious locks, which is why I like to make. A lot of my characters have really long hair. Sometimes their hair looks different in different panels of the same page of the same comic. And that's okay. We're all about giving the overall impression. So those are a couple of super short hairstyles. 10. Updo Styles: Next, let's quickly discuss UP do styles. When I was a kid growing up, I hated my hair. You wouldn't know it now unless I say told you about it. Unfortunately, this is very common for a lot of people with curly hair. Until we find the right cut and the right products, it just feels like a mess. And so growing up, I would put my hair into pony tails basically all of the time. So I knew after awhile, I'm going to have to learn how to draw pony tails. So let's do it is basically just an emphasis on the hairline. Let me draw the top of the head as if all the hair is flat. We draw some lines to indicate that the hair is all converging onto a point back here. And then we draw the ponytail. So the ponytail comes up over and then comes down somehow. You can really have fun with it too, depending on how thick or curly or long you want it to look. Make sure the hair, it converges onto that head. Head. An example somewhere I had like a ponytail holder. I don't have it right now. Basically, when you pull back your hair, it all comes back and converges on to that point where it's pulled back from. And then the hair when it comes out of the ponytail, it comes it comes out and flows down. So remember what we discussed earlier about flowing out and then down will give this person a couple of buttons, couple of cute little buttons. We're going to add some texture here. The tighter you draw, the little accents here, the tighter the hair will look in these little pump pumps. Just adding some faces to my beautiful little drawings. You can see them in contexts. As you can see, there's no one specific way that I draw. Eyes are generally do the two arches, but really I like to mix it up and try new stuff all the time. Right? And that is how to draw up two styles. 11. Put It Together: Now we're going to put it all together. Remember when you're drawing to try to mix it up, try to draw a curly hair, and then the next one, draw straight hair. Try drawing short hair and then draw someone with really long hair. You can also alternate withdrawing someone who has their hair back in a ponytail or somebody who hasn't all flowing downward. I'm just going to draw a few examples of haircuts that I see that are very common that I like. And you can feel free to grab your drawing utensils and follow along with me. What I see here is a canvas, a head. This head needs hair. Let's put some hair on top of it. But how do we put together everything we just learned to give this guy some hair. What we're going to do this is what I always do. These are my steps, is first I draw the head, which as you can see I have here. Next, I draw the top of the head, I think to myself before I get started, what kind of hair is this person going to have? I think I'm gonna give this person medium length curly hair. And it's not going to have too much volume on top, but I'm just going to start drawing the top and see where we go from there. Maybe a middle part comes up a little and then down, up and then down. Now we draw the top of the head. Next, let's draw how the hair cascades down the head, right? Let's refer back to those shapes and draw maybe an S here. Some more curls here. Yeah, Something, something like that. I have that curl here. And then let's make sure we show how this part cascades down. Keeping in mind this person has their head is going to obscure some of the hair on that side. Now that we have the top of the head, we have how the hair cascades down. Next we're going to draw how the bottom connects. So for someone with longer hair, I would be concerned with how their hair comes together at the bottom. But since this person has more medium length pair, maybe some of we're going to assume that some of their hair just at the back of their head is there. We don't really see it because of how short it is. We're going to connect it at the top, give them a hairline. At a bang or two. There we go. I like that a lot more. And so we have this hairstyle and the final thing we wanna do is add some texture to it. But I always like to do is I like to draw some parallel lines, but not all the way down. I like to draw a little patches of parallel lines that here. Here. The add a couple of here. If you can, you can try to make them a little bit thinner than the line you use to draw the hair. That way it add some interests to the eye as the eye bounces around looking at the head. Draw some lines up here, right? This person's hair is looking pretty good onto the next one. This was sort of curly. And in the middle, we're going to make this person have long straight hair. So we're going to start at the top. It gives us person maybe aside part because her hair is straight, it's going to lay flat against their heads. So we're going to expand from there and then pull it down. You draw the head and we draw the top. Next we draw how it how it flows down their head. Next we draw how it connects the bottom. I'm thinking this person has hair that's generally the same length all around. We're going to add a little bit of texture down here, but keep a generally the same link. Next we're going to draw this person's hairline. See how it connects. I'll give I'll give them know Baines, we'll just keep it simple and different from the other one. I'm actually going to erase this part and draw their hair coming behind the ear a little bit. There just some little details that you pick up either from practice or by using reference images. So that's definitely something I recommend doing, especially when you're trying, when you're learning and you're growing as an artist. If you really care about making stuff look correct, like anatomically. Or you just want to focus on anatomy and making something look as realistic as possible, it is crucial to use reference while you're drawing. We're not doing that here, but you are welcome to do it when we get to the projects section. This person here has straight hair, they've pulled it down. This next person, I think I'm going to give a super curly hair like coyly and we're going to do a side shave. This person's head drove, going to draw that ridge right there. Not too far down. Then give them some shape. Give them some hair to frame their face. A person who has an ear they're here will have their hair be covering your ear on this side so you can't really see their ear. Let's do the hairline here. Maybe add some curls. Then we're going to add some texture. So because it's Harris so short, I'm just going to go in and add little lines, little sets of these Not really, Not really zigzags. They're a little bit disconnected. But these are, this is a texture shape. I like to do a lot because I just think going back-and-forth like that just it's kinda pretty. Then let's add some texture on this side. Alright, so these were three different examples of how I would approach drawing these different hairstyles for these different characters, different head shapes and all that. Now it is your turn. We're going to put together everything we've learned from the different shapes to hair lines, to just the basic how to draw human head. Don't worry, you've got this. If you need anything, feel free to go back and re-watch any parts of the lessons here. What we're gonna do now is move on to the project section. 12. Final Thoughts: In this class, we discussed how to draw a different head shapes on both from the front angle and a three-quarter view and how to put a face on that head. Next, we discussed how to think about hair in a way that helps you draw it, helps you put it on the page as opposed to having a guide lists. No idea what you're doing. Finally, we discussed how to draw different hair shapes. And then finally, how to put it altogether to create any kind of hairstyle you can think of or you find reference for online. What I'd like to, I would love for you to do now is take a moment, practice everything we've learned. Once it's still fresh. I like to take notes while watching stuff, but sometimes going back and seeing it again really helps me solidify what I'm learning, what I'm doing. If I want you to take away anything particular from this class, It's a want you to remember to have a plan for your hair. If you have a plan, you know what you're trying to achieve, then after you draw what you make, you can assess whether you met that goal or if there's something you need to change for the next time. Something else they recommend is practice different hairstyles, even if all your characters have curly hair, even if they all have straight hair, try out different styles. You might fall in love with something and decide to use it in a future character. Alright, we're almost done to wrap up the class, remember to do these steps. Fill up a page full of sketches and then share it in the project section of the class. I look forward to seeing what you make and so does everyone else. Next. I would really, really appreciate it if you would leave a review on this class. Let me know what you liked. Let me know what I could work on for the future. If you don't really have much to say and you just want to say, Hey, good job, look forward to the next one. That's super easy to, and I really appreciate it. Alright, so that's it for the class. We discussed how to draw hair. We discussed some of my life stories and a truly hope that you're able to gain some stuff from this class. Most importantly, I hope you're feeling more confident and more ready and more excited to draw some hair. Thank you so much for watching my class and I look forward to seeing your projects.