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Drawing Stylized Hair: Tips for Portrait Illustration

teacher avatar Iva Mikles, Illustrator | Top Teacher | Art Side of Life

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Lessons in This Class

    • 1.

      Introduction

      3:17

    • 2.

      Class Overview

      3:52

    • 3.

      Design & Hairstyle

      2:59

    • 4.

      Finding References

      5:04

    • 5.

      Beginner Mistakes

      4:32

    • 6.

      Hair Shape

      5:07

    • 7.

      Smooth & Wild Style

      7:53

    • 8.

      Hairstyle & Hair Split

      8:02

    • 9.

      Hairstyle & Hairline

      10:10

    • 10.

      Hair Direction

      4:46

    • 11.

      Direction & Texture

      8:31

    • 12.

      Hair Sections

      8:12

    • 13.

      Sections & Loose Strands

      5:11

    • 14.

      Mini Exercise

      10:34

    • 15.

      Let's Start The Project

      17:44

    • 16.

      Let's Add Some Color

      12:09

    • 17.

      Let's Add HIghlights

      8:56

    • 18.

      Let's Add Shading

      9:46

    • 19.

      Let's Add Color To The Outfit

      7:43

    • 20.

      Let's Summarize

      1:42

    • 21.

      How Did It Go?

      1:33

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About This Class

Learn to draw stylized people portraits with different hair designs

Drawing stylized people portraits with cool hair is a lot of fun. It can add so much personality and uniqueness to your character illustrations.

If you want to feel more comfortable drawing stylized people portraits with different hair designs, this class is for you!

We will design stylized hair for character portraits using simple shapes. You get more comfortable and have a solid starting point when drawing hairstyles for your character illustrations.

To make learning fun and personal, I will share lots of tips and tricks you can use when designing your stylized portraits.

You will learn:

  • How to use simple shapes to draw hair
  • How to draw stylized character portraits with different hair designs
  • How to work with references which will help you with designing hairstyles for your characters
  • How to simplify the real-life in your character design

I will be using Procreate, but feel free to use any drawing software or medium you prefer. 

In addition, you will also get practice sheets with references and a character color palette as a freebie.

Let’s start expanding our horizons and drawing people portraits with awesome hair designs!

See you in the class! ♡

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Iva Mikles

Illustrator | Top Teacher | Art Side of Life

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I am Iva (rhymes with "viva"), and I'm a full-time illustrator, teacher, and nature enthusiast.

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I'd love for you to have fun while learning, so I always aim for a fun, positive, actionable, and inspiring creative experience with all my classes.

I love when you share you had many "AHA" moments, learned valuable time-saving tips, gained confidence in your skills, and that it is much easier for you to illustrate what you imagine and you are very proud of your finished work.

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1. Introduction: [MUSIC] Drawing portraits with cool hair is so much fun. It can add so much personality and uniqueness to your character illustrations. If you want to feel more comfortable drawing stylized character portraits with different hair designs, this class is for you. Hi. My name is Iva Mikles and I'm an illustrator and designer based in Central Europe. Drawing characters with interesting details and hairstyles help me to work successfully on many projects, big and small, such as Lego Friends, the animated series, which aired on Netflix, illustrations for software companies, magazines, and explainer illustrations for various clients, for their websites and presentations. In this class, I will take you on a journey of designing stylized hair for character portrait using simple shapes so you'll get more comfortable and have a solid starting point when drawing hairstyles for your character illustrations. To make learning fun and more personal for you, I will be sharing lots of tips and tricks that you can use when designing your stylized portraits. You will learn how to use simple shapes to draw hair starting from sketching the idea, defining the line art, coloring and shading the hair and the face before putting it all together in a character with cool outfit based on your chosen reference. We will also be looking at lots of references, which will help you with designing hairstyles for your characters. In this way, you will learn how to simplify the real life in your character designs. You will gain a solid skill for developing your character design style further. At the end of the class, you will have a cool character illustration with amazing hairstyle and lots of tips and tricks up your sleeve to practice drawing more characters from various references. In addition, you will also get a bunch of freebies, practice sheets, color palette inspiration, and much more. I will be using Procreate, but feel free to use any other drawing software or medium you prefer. Last but not least, before we start don't forget to follow me here on Skillshare to get notified when I release new classes and make announcements about the giveaways. I also invite you to join me on Instagram where you can see my newest artworks and explore the stories from my life as an artist. I would love to see and share your projects. So don't forget to tag me in the stories on Instagram, in the post description description or in the reals. Now let's get started with expanding your horizons and drawing awesome characters. See you in the class. 2. Class Overview: [MUSIC] During the class, I will show you many references so you can practice observing different techniques when designing hairstyles for your characters. The class is split into three main parts. In the first part, I will share with you all the tips and tricks I use when designing hair for my characters. In the second part, we will put the theory into practice, first, with the mini exercise while coloring fun and curly lock of hair. In this part, I will show you different ways how you can approach shading the hair. Then we will move to the project section of the class, where I will show you how you can observe the photo reference and design your character based on this reference starting from sketch, the line art, designing the face, coloring the hair, shading the face, and then coloring the outfit. You can use the same photo reference as me which you can find in the free additional practice sheet which I prepared for you. Or you can use your own photo reference so you don't need to use the same reference image as me. I will also show you different brushes that you can use for coloring and sketching which come with Procreate and ideas for extra brushes that you can get if you want to experiment further. To download the additional practice sheets and free resources, visit my website and subscribe to my newsletter where I will be sharing new brushes, challenges, updates, more tips and tricks so it's fun and creative place. Of course you can unsubscribe anytime you want. I have also prepared extra premium resources like new brush sets and they are not needed for this class because I will share with you other techniques and brush alternatives that come with Procreate. But it was so fun to explore and prepare these new brushes for you guys. I hope that if you decide to get them, you will love them as much as I do and I think they're so fun to use. Let me show you a few things as an overview before we get to it in more detail in following lessons. During this class, we will be looking at various steps we should consider when drawing hair, such as hair design and different hairstyles that people wear and they are may be trending or that you like. Then we will be looking also at mistakes to avoid, then we will consider overall shape of the hairstyle and also how to bring variety to this overall shape to avoid the helmet look. Then we will also talk about shadows in the hairstyle and also the highlights of the hair and how you can approach them. Another thing we will be looking at is stray hair which go loose out of the hairstyle and how you can approach that and add it to your illustration and much, much more. Now let's start exploring the tips and tricks in the next lesson. 3. Design & Hairstyle: [MUSIC] Another thing, what I want to mention to you is that drawing hair and the way how you approach stylizing the hair is very artistic choice, or it's design of self-expression of your illustration as well. Because you can create hair and draw it in a way that is more realistic or very stylized and almost flat, and this will add to your art style and the choices you make there. Because there are not so many rules in the way you can draw the hair, you can play with it more than, for example, when you are drawing face and trying to get the proportions right. Of course, the tips and tricks that I'm showing you in this class regarding drawing hair are very helpful, but you can adjust and exaggerate some of these things to develop your style further. Anyway, this illustration is part of my drawing faces class. If you have taken it, you might already know it. But what I wanted to show you here as well is different hairstyles which you can add to your characters. But also drawing hair is very dependent on different hairstyles. We have this one which is more curly and definitely has different texture than, for example, this one which has more straight hair and it's shorter. This hairstyle is shorter than, of course, this one. Drawing hair is very much dependent on references if you don't have all of these basically in your head and have the visual library of drawing a lot of characters with different hairstyles. Definitely lean on the references when drawing characters with different hair because the hairstyle will definitely influence it a lot. As you can see here, each hair type has a different structure, texture, and the shape. As I mentioned, you can maybe guess that the drawing here is very much connected to the stylistic choices you'll make about the hairstyle and how you simplify it. Definitely consider the hairstyle before going into the texture and overall design of the hair as well. [MUSIC] 4. Finding References: [MUSIC] Now let's briefly talk about finding the right reference or not the right reference, but more helpful reference for you, especially when you're learning. There are a lot of images on Pinterest or other also free resource platforms with photography and portrait, which is great, but then what to look for. In this image, what is nice is that you can actually see the highlights here and here. You can also see some of the shadows here, but you don't see it very clearly. You can see the overall silhouette here, but maybe you can find something which has more interesting silhouette, then just more like straight hair. Another thing to watch out for is the angle of the head. Here we can see quite nice silhouette of the hair so you can actually tell where the hair is. You can also see the highlights. Also the shadow is pretty defined, which is great. But here, the head is angled, so it's tilted to the side, so it will be more difficult to figure out how to draw the hair and it's little bit more advanced than just straight portrait within either frontal view and this is also three quarter view slightly. Try to avoid these type of images as well, especially at the beginning. Then in this image, is very hard to see where are the shadows and highlights because it's very dark as you can see. We can see a little bit of highlight here and here, but it's very hard to see the silhouette because I'm not sure where the hair strands are ending and basically the overall silhouette is super hard to see. On top of it, she also has a head here. We don't even see the back or the top of the head where the hair basically ends. Try to avoid images like this also at the beginning. Even though the face is quite nice in three quarter view, the eyes are leveled. The face is good to use as a reference, but hair would be tricky to find the right silhouette. Let's look at the next one. This type of reference image would be quite nice to use because it's frontal view. The face is towards us as you can see. You can clearly see how to place the eyes, nose and the mouth. The head is not turned, so it's easier to see the hair. Also in this image because she has darker hair against lighter background, you can see the silhouette of the hair quite easily. You can define the hair. You can see the loose strands, but here, because the hair is so dark and there are not so many reflections visible in this picture, it's hard to see where the hair ends or grows or where it split. Try to find references where you can see the highlights and the shadows. To summarize, regarding the reference images, try to find images of the hair. First, if you are a beginner from the frontal view, which is easier to practice. Another tip is to try to find images where you can see the shadows in the hair and also the highlights or the reflections on the hair. If we look back at this image, in straight hair it's easier to see the texture of the hair rather than curly hair. So I would suggest you to start with straight hair. Then try to avoid the tilted head like in this picture. Because that's a more tricky to draw and figure out where is the silhouette of the hair and how to draw the face together with the hair. Overall, try to find an image where you can see the silhouette clearly. Now, let's move on to the next part. 5. Beginner Mistakes: [MUSIC] Now let's look at some common beginner mistakes when it comes to drawing here. One of the first things which I want to mention here is try not to draw every strand of the hair because you will drive yourself crazy. First of all, it would take you super long time to draw every strand of the hair and also, it doesn't look that great. This is one of the things which you should try to avoid when you are stylizing drawing the characters because you also want to create something quite interesting and stylized, probably. This is one of the things, try to avoid drawing every strand of the hair. The second thing is when people start drawing hair without adding any volume to the hair of the character. Basically, you would just draw the hair like this without adding any extra shape above this skull of the character. A lot of people forget adding any volume to the hair. Try to add volume to the hair. Another common beginner mistake is starting to draw the hairline super high. If you want to draw for example a band on top of the head and the hairline is way too high, it starts to look quite odd because naturally the hair is growing, maybe from somewhere here so, the hairline would not be so high. But maybe if you consider some historical figures actually, or some historical drawings, some of the hair lines there in the paintings, or people actually were wearing the hair like this. If you're creating maybe illustration with the historical sub-tones or very specific style, you can get away with this. But I would suggest you to consider more natural hairline and we will talk about hairline and how to adjust it later as well but watch out of that. Hairline, all strands of the hair, super flat design of the hair, so no volume, try to avoid these, well, unless you want to draw a character with very flat hair. But I just want you to be aware of it. One of the last things, what I want to mention here is the shape or the silhouette. For example, if you want to draw curly hair or something which has more repetitive shapes, try to vary the shapes of the hair. For example, I wouldn't do the bumps or these half curves all the same but I would maybe make this one bigger and maybe another smaller one here. Basically, try to add variety in the hair, so don't create the same shapes. I might do another class just about styling the hair and different styles but these are some of the things I wanted to mention for you here. Try to match or try to create the hairline in a position you would be happy with not too high, and not too low which will be also quite unnatural in broad spectrum of hairstyles or the hair you usually see on the people. Then every strand of the hair, flat, no volume and shapes which are too repetitive. I think this is enough for this part and let's move on to the next one. 6. Hair Shape: I already mentioned a few things about the shape of the hair, but let's look at it more in detail. First of all, what I mentioned to you is to notice overall shape of the hair. What I see here is like a triangle shape of the hair. But of course, if you would just draw a triangle, that's not very interesting hairstyle. We want to break off some of these shapes. What you can see here is this shape. You can see that the hair has a bump here and then it curves here. There is already variety in shapes. Then here we can see that the hair is cut behind the neck. In this type of shape, try to always connect the hair at the same height or that you can see how this side of the hair is connected to this side. You will not suddenly draw maybe one part of the hair here and other part completely in a different height. Always consider how the hair is connected behind the neck. We can also see that there is this small bump which I always draw when I'm drawing hair. The shorter hair goes upwards here, Then because of the gravity, it goes down. Shorter hair up, longer hair down. Then you would break off the silhouette here, because at the end, the hair is again lighter. It goes up slightly. We have this overall silhouette here. We have broken up here, you will go down. We have a little bit of curve going back up. And then you connect them behind the neck in the same height. Consider the full silhouette here. Now let's sketch this also with the face, so we can start practicing. If you haven't done my class where I mentioned all the tips on drawing faces, check that out because this might be too quick and I will just quickly sketch the shape so we can draw this hairstyle. If you are not comfortable just drawing the hair and the face just by looking at the reference, you can always bring your reference as a separate layer and draw on top of the layer above the reference image. I will quickly draw the rough proportions for my character and I reduce the opacity of that layer, also the reference layer. And then I will be drawing on the layer on the top. Okay, so I have a sketch based on this photo. And as you can see we talked about the overall shape of the hair and breaking of the silhouette. I didn't just draw a triangle here for the hair style, but I created this small curve to create more volume and movement. And the end of the hair, as I mentioned to you, when hair grows out of the head, the hair goes a little bit up and then it goes down with the gravity. And then there is some movement here at the end. I mentioned to you this back of the hair that try to connect the hair at the same height. The illustration is more readable and people see what you mean by that. This is more like how to end the hair, even though the hairstyle might be a little bit longer here in the front, then you can create like this type of curve. Now let me show you a few more examples of how the hair can end and what to pay attention and how you can draw it. 7. Smooth & Wild Style: Now, let's compare the shape of the hairstyle and the overall silhouette of the hair on these two references. As you can see, they have similar hairstyle, if you think about it, but one has this mass of hair flopped to the side. But if you draw the hair, let me make the brush bigger. Here, for sketching, I'm just using one of my custom brushes which are nice for sketching but you don't need them for this class. Let me draw this. Let's just make it quite simple. Imagine you would draw hairstyle like this, that you would just end the hair here. It might look quite strange in your drawing, and people might not be able to imagine what you mean. I would make sure that I make this line curve downwards, so people who are looking at your drawing can imagine that the hairstyle continues behind her neck. Again, don't do just straight line, but try to curve the hair so people can see that the hairstyle continues behind her neck. Because here we can clearly see where the hairline goes, but again, if we just draw something like this and like this, how you see it on the picture, it might look strange, because it would look like it's cutoff. Try to always connect the hair behind the neck. You are basically stylizing, and people can imagine how the hair is connected behind the neck. Let's look at more examples now. Here, we have two more examples. Let's first talk about this one. Her hair has more smooth shape at the bottom. I mean, if you disregard all of this hair flying out. Let me sketch around the hairstyle. You can include some of these. You can imagine that her hair and the overall hair shape is connected in a more rounded cut or rounded hairstyle. If you simplify this hairstyle even more, basically her hair would look something like this, being more round around the head. Then because of the gravity and the volume of the hair, there will be more hair at the bottom and going closer to the face around the neck. This is how I would simplify the hair most of the time because you can disregard this loose strands of the hair with this one. Here you can see I already ended this little bit higher than this one. I can always correct that and try to connect the hair in a smoother shape, because we are stylizing the hair. I would use this shape when I want to show that the character is more put together or more simplified, so basically the end of the hair is more smooth. Let's compare it to this one. Here we have more frontal view even though she is turned, but this one is a more three-quarter view. You can see the shape around the head is already a little bit different. You can either create very round shape around the head, but to make it a little bit more interesting, I usually create curved shape on the left side here because she is in three-quarter view on the right side, so we have more volume here. As in the previous example, here I would go a little bit up as the shorter hair grows out and then more straight line and then curve back inside. Here we are already creating little bit more interesting silhouette than just round shape. Now, to compare the bottom part of the hair, that's what I wanted to show you. Here, it's more smooth, as I mentioned, but here we have so many strands of hair or these hair sections. If I would draw all of the sections, her hair is still stylized but it looks a little bit more wild or scruffy. You can definitely design the hair following these shapes, especially at the bottom like this. Her hair would look more wild. It's different styling than this one. You can still draw these ends of the hair which are more pointy within the shape. We can delete this part so you can imagine it better. But the shapes here at the end are within the silhouette. I am not breaking the smoothness of the silhouette that much. Always pay attention how you want to stylize the ends of the hair. Is it more smooth and more put together, or will it be more wild and you will use these triangle shapes. This is one tip, or one thing to pay attention to when you are stylizing the hair. If you want to create the same styling also on the top, you can always add this little bump where the hairline is. We have the hairline here on the side. We'll talk about the split of the hair more in the following part. Now, just to recap what we talked about here is the volume of the hair. The overall shape of the hair which we have here around on the face. Paying attention to the overall hair and overall hair shape and disregarding some of these lose hair for a while. Then the other thing is to pay attention how you want to end the hair shape or the hairstyle. Do you want more wild look for the ends of the hair or do you want to have it more smooth and more put together? Now, let's move on to the next part. 8. Hairstyle & Hair Split: Now let's talk about the hair split. As you can see on this photo reference, her hair is almost in the middle of the face, but the middle of the face is somewhere here, so the hair split is not exactly where the middle of the face would be. Because, of course, most of the people don't split the hair exactly in the middle of the face, but it's more or less there. But what I would suggest you do is to actually draw the hair split more aligned with the middle of the face because that will help you to balance the face features because if you place the hair split slightly off, that might create these visual illusion that the head or the face doesn't have a correct symmetry and it should start somewhere here. So basically what I would suggest you to do, if you want to create the hair split more on the side, push it even further. You either do it aligned with the middle of the face or a little bit further, so not too close to the middle because that can throw off the illusion. I would suggest you focus on two options like this. Even though this is not exactly how it is on the reference photo, because you're stylizing either create it somewhere here or you would split her hair somewhere here. If you go to the other side, it might be tricky to create the curve, but of course, you can do that. These are some of the options which I would suggest that you do when you are thinking about the hair split. Now, let's look at more reference images so I can show you the same idea on more references. We already looked at these two reference images and as I mentioned to you, for example, here, the hairline is very close to the middle of the face, so what I would do here is to push the hair line somewhere here if you want to do that, and then create the shape with the curve. The hairline is not too close to the middle of the face if you don't want to place it there. Here, I feel like the middle of the face is still a little bit too close, so even though the hairline is here or the hair split, I would place it further down to the left and then create the curve and the shape of the hair. What you can do here with this hair split, you can see it's little bit curved. You can do that as well, just to create more variety in shapes. But there, you have to be more careful how you create these shapes because it can start looking a bit odd. So in order to simplify it, I usually don't curve the hair split that much. You can start here and then you can connect it with the curve of the fringe or these hair which is growing out of the face where the hairline start. You can do something like this and push it further down. These are two ideas that you have, the hairline on the side of the face, this one is curved, this one is straight, and then we looked at the hairline in the middle of the face. You have these two options, like further away from the face that we are looking at, or more on the visible side, so we have the middle split, side split, straight, split here, or curved. Let me show you another idea what you can do. Here we have these two examples. This one, as we already looked at, she has the side split with the hair going in this soft curve, and this is what I usually like to do with illustrations, that the hair again grows up and then goes down in this soft movement as I showed you before. Going up from the hair split, and this one is the example where she has it almost in the middle of the face, but the middle of the face is aligned with the nose, the mouth, and the chin, so the hairline should be somewhere here if you want to create it in the middle and then again, go up and down following the face. I can delete this part so you can see it better. We have the middle and then we have the side split, and now we can compare it with the fringe. Here we have the back of the head here, and on this one we don't see it that well. But obviously, she has also the back of the head there and then her fringe is quite high up. Basically the hair split is here and her hair split is here, so we have it this direction or this direction. You can then draw the rest of the fringe and then create another hair split here, creating the fringe shape and connected with the hair here. We talked about the hair split in this one. This one is more straight, which is horizontal. This one is almost vertical but following the head's shape. Don't make the hairline like this. Obviously, as you can see, even on the reference picture, you would make it more like this and to follow the head's shape. Then as you remember, we had this one which was more on the side, so we had three versions of the hair split on this one. Now let's move on to the next example. 9. Hairstyle & Hairline: [MUSIC] Now let's talk about the hairline. Because it's also one of the important things to consider where you place the hairline on the character illustration. Because that can influence the look, as I mentioned to you before in the common mistakes, where to place the hairline. So let me just sketch it out. Here, we have the eyebrows and the hairline is somewhere here compared to the end of the head. You would consider what is the distance here, so you don't want to place it too low or too high. That's one of the things. If I place the hairline too low, maybe her forehead would start to look quite disproportional to her face, but if I want to create maybe cuter character, I can always create bigger forehead like kids have. But if I place the hairline far too high up and then maybe create something like this, then she might start to look more like an alien because you would imagine a huge skull or basically something what you don't see very often in the hairstyles. Consider the height. As you can see it here, we have the placement. Another thing, when I start with the hairline, I would start with simple curve. But as you can see, the hairline is not just one curve, because usually, the hairline goes little bit up in the temples, then it goes back down where the eyebrows are, and then it curves again towards the ear. On this reference, you don't see that well, and, of course, you have different types of hairlines on different people. We will look at some other references. But as you can see, even though I kept it pretty simple here, I created a line already curved. I didn't just make one straight line. This is one tip what I always consider when drawing hair, that the hairline is not straight. First, the height compared to the top of the head and the eyebrows. I usually keep it longer here and shorter here, and then you have the curve. Now, let's look at more examples of how you can see the hairline. Here, we have two very bright examples. On this one, you have almost profile view, but it's still a three-quarter view, and here we have a frontal view. First, let's look at this one. As I mentioned to you, we have the height of the forehead. This line is not completely straight. It is following the shape, how the forehead is curved. Then you see there is less hair in this area, so I wouldn't draw the hairline to go super far out because then she might start to look like she's bald. Even though she has less hair here, I would just curve it slightly, and then you have more hair towards the ear. I would create something like this and then smoothen out the line here. It's always curved. But if you feel like that she doesn't have too much hair or the character doesn't have too much hair here, you can always reduce this curve. [MUSIC] So something like this and consider where the hair volume also goes here. You can notice that the hair goes up here slightly and then we have the forehead. As I mentioned to you in the common mistakes, don't just draw the hair following the head shape just like this, always go up. We will have the forehead and then the hair would go up, growing up, and then you would create the rest of the hairstyle. This is how I might simplify it. [MUSIC] If you add more hair here closer to the ear, like the sideburns, this might start to look more like a more manly shape. You don't want to create too much gender classification, but this is what usually people in the society consider more manly hairstyle. I wouldn't add too much hair in this area, even though females have hair there too, of course. Now, let's look at this one. Now, I will take yellow again, so you'll see it better. This girl has very curved hairline. I might simplify it. I wouldn't create maybe such a curved line, but as well kind of contradicting what I'm saying, it might create a very interesting hairstyle and interesting character. Maybe you can keep it like this. Always consider the hairline that it's not straight. Here you can smoothen it out more or you can keep it more interesting and curved. This depends on your style. But if you want to make it more simplified, you can smoothen out these curves a little bit more, but still keeping it quite curved. There you go. Then I would add her hair following the shape and the silhouette of the hair. [MUSIC] To recap about the hairline, always consider the hairline is curved in three-quarter view on the forehead, then it goes little bit up near the temples. Here, especially with men hairstyles, you would create the curve more here, and then it curves back up to the ear near the eyes. If you want to create more manly hairstyle, you can add hair here as well, and then you can create the rest of the hairstyle. In the frontal view, you can create more straight line or a little bit curved on top of the forehead. Then here, this is very specific hairstyle. It's more curved because she has very interesting hair sticking out on the temples, but you can simplify just going out here. You can always redraw this one. If you want to simplify this area, you can create actually something like this. Very interesting hair shape. You can study different hairstyles to see how people have the hairline growing out, but most of the cases you have hair more straight here on the temples, it goes back, and here near the ears goes in that curve shape. Then you consider the distance among the hairline and the eyebrows. As you can see, this girl has higher forehead, this girl has quite short forehead, so you can play with the distance, but then consider what would be maybe too low. This might be too low or this might be too high. It depends when you look at the picture, but you might see, okay, maybe that's why my drawing is not working, the hairline is too high or too low or it's not curved and then it looks too much like a helmet. Now, let's move on to the next one. 10. Hair Direction: Now let's talk about the hair texture and the direction. We talked about the volume of the hair and we talked about the overall shape. Then we talked about the hairline, hair split. Now let's talk about the direction and how it influences drawing the hair, and of course, the texture. Because of the direction of the hair, it's easier, I think, to spot on straight or wavy hair. That's why we're starting with these two examples. So let me show you what I mean on a separate layer. You can notice that hair direction from the top of the head it grows out as we talked about a little bit, and then it goes down. But because of the wind and the volume, you have different directions how the hair flows. Here, again, it goes up and down, and then here it goes straight. And on this specific hairstyle, the hair goes back towards her torso. On this side is little bit different. You have these two waves. First it goes down, then out. There is a repetition of this wave going down and up and up. Again, the repetition of that same shape. But as I mentioned to you, try to avoid exactly the same shapes. So you can see this one is slightly longer, this one is shorter, and this one is longer, even though you have the same shapes, but they are not the same length, and also the curve is not the same, like this one is a little bit bigger, this one is more shallow. Here on this other side, you have similar shape that basically going other direction. Now she looks a little bit more like Medusa. But anyway, so this is how I would approach the direction of the hair, always going up little bit from the hairline and then going down and depending on the volume or the wind, they would curve. Let's compare it with this one. It's the same going up first, then going down. But as you can see, some of her hair is influenced by the wind. Here it goes out. But this one, it's probably a little bit heavier. It goes down, and these ones are going back to her torso, but she still has few of these hair strands going up. Again, just going down around the skull and here because these small hair strands are probably very light, they go up here, but the top part of the hair here it's heavier going down, here, again, going down and from the ear because usually we have the lighter hair here. It like in those old commercials when you have the wind in your face and the hairdos out from the face. But then at the bottom, it goes back down. Consider the direction, grow up and then down. This is usually the movement which I'm considering when I'm drawing the hair without the reference. Let's look at different examples where we don't have straight hair, it has a little bit different direction because these long hairstyles have heavier hair. Basically the gravity is pulling it down. But still you have some curves, so it's not super straight in these two examples. Now let's move on to the next one. 11. Direction & Texture: [MUSIC] Now, as you can see, we have different texture of the hair. In this picture is little bit hard to see where the direction of the hair is because of the darker background. First, let's look at this one. The hair is probably heavier, so it doesn't curve that much. But because of the movement or the wind, it goes out a little bit here. Again, here it's a little bit heavier, so it doesn't grow out that much. But still it goes up then down around the skull. Then here because she probably turned, so the hair goes this way. Here it's a little bit more straight. Going up around the skull down and here going down again. This is the movement because consider where she moves. Probably she moved from this area here. The hair is not so falling down straight as on this side. Let's talk about direction of the hair on this hairstyle. Because the hair is usually lighter around this part, so you have the hair growing out slightly more out and then falling down. Then it will go down here. As you can see with the curves going down here. It grows out a little bit more based on the gravity because this hairstyle is probably a little bit lighter than this hairstyle because she has these like braids and they are longer, probably heavier. You can see the braids or the curls going in different directions. Consider the direction and try to notice where are the hair strands going. Notice the highlights then in that way you would see the hair better. Now, if we talk about the texture. We have the braids. If you want to draw the braids, you can simply draw bumps, something like this. There are different ways how you can draw the braids. I can create another class about drawing different hairstyles. Maybe let's move this so you can see it better. I would approach drawing braids following the direction as I showed you. It will not be exactly straight. But there are different ways how you can draw braids, but this is how I usually simplify braids with these like half circles. But I think it's definitely fun to create different hairstyles and stylize it differently. This is just one of the ways how you can stylize the braids. Now, if we look at this one, because of the curls, you can see here that they create this type of movement. It's sometimes hard to see because there is a lot going on in these beautiful hairstyles. Let's simplify it more in this way. This is how I would create the curls. Either just with half circles if I want to simplify a lot or you can play around with different shapes within this beautiful hairstyle. You can play with half circles and creating and always thinking about the overall shape. Compared to the straight or wavy hair where we create it more flowy lines, almost straight, here we are playing with half circles or these wiggly lines. I hope this is interesting example of texture and direction of the hair. Just to recap, think about the direction of each specific hairstyle, because every person has a little bit different hairstyle, how the hair grows out of the head. Is there a wind? Is there movement? Is the hair heavy? There will be a gravity involved. Think about the direction of the hair and then think about the texture of the hair. Would you describe it with half circles or the squiggly lines? After you thought about the overall shape and other things, what we already discussed. We can recap what we talked about. We talked about overall shape. We talked about the ends of the hair. Is it more smooth? Or is it with smaller strands? Or then think about the hair split. Where is it? Is it on the side? Is it in the middle? Then we talked about the hairline. Where is the hairline? Is it higher up or it's little bit lower? Now, we talked about the hair direction and the hair texture. These are some of the things to consider and definitely try to experiment with those. Now let's move on to the next part. Here, this is the example from the drawing faces with astrology inspiration. You can see what we just looked at from the reference photos in the illustration. We will be doing another illustration later on in the class, following the reference image. But here, you can see what we just talked about to compare it. Let's start with this one growing out, then following the head shape and then going down. Here I'm using the idea that the hair is lift up by the wind. In this one, you can see that I'm following the same idea, going around the skull, lift up from the wind a little bit and then going down. Same here, around the head, and then going down. Then I'm using all these lines following the same direction. Here, I added a little bit of variety, but the hair still follows the same direction. The same here. It's not only outside of the head, but also the direction within the hairstyle. Here the same as we talked about just a second ago, using these half circles to create the direction of the hair. I'm following the front hair shapes here. You can imagine that the hair is growing from the skull outwards and still using these different shapes to create hair. If you want to see the full illustration process of this one, please go ahead and check out that class as well if you haven't done so yet. It's a good practice to draw hair as well with more examples, the better. 12. Hair Sections: [MUSIC] Now let's talk about another thing, what I think about, and you should consider when creating hairstyles to create variety and interesting shapes into your illustrations. There is hair sections or hair chunks. How you can divide the hairstyle going from the overall shape into the hair sections. Let me show you on these two examples because you can see the hair chunks or hair sections more clearly than in some other reference photos. Then when you are drawing your illustrations and hairstyles, maybe from a memory, you can invent these hair sections. For now, let me show you what hair sections I would consider on these illustrations. I would consider this one, one of the hair sections which goes to the back. Then I will take another color for this other hair section. They are divided by the shadows, right? You can notice them clearly. There is a shadow here. I would consider this one another hair section. Then you can split also this other side into two hair sections. One will be more on the top and one will be more at the bottom, closer to her neck. Let's take a different color. Maybe this one. This will be connected behind her neck. This would be another section. It is up to you how many sections of the hair you want to create here. Maybe we can take dark blue for this last one or a purple. As you can see, I divided the hair to different sections. I don't like end of the hair so I can adjust it here. It's like that anyway. We can draw these also on this other character. Do you already see how you would split the hair? Maybe let's start with a yellow again. I can have this one as one of the shapes. Then subsection would be maybe this together with this part, considering the amount of light it's getting. Then let's take maybe this green one. We stay consistent for this bottom part of the hair. You can split this one into two sections maybe if you want to. Here, we can take maybe something like this. [MUSIC] Maybe add this part to it. Then we still have little bit of hair here. This would be another section, and I would separate these with shadows. Let's look at the drawing we made previously to apply this method on top of that one as well. With this one, try to remember that I'm varying the shapes, so they don't have the same width. You have these squiggly lines. Now looking at the same example as we had before, let's try to add the sections to this drawing as well. Because creating sections will help us define other shadows more as well. Especially if you consider maybe hairstyles like this, because you don't have very strong light source and it's quite hard to see where the shadows are because also she has two different colors in her hairstyle. Let's sketch these sections as in the previous example. Let's create the section for the darker area, which is this one around the face. This area will be also little bit darker. We can create already section in this part. We can plan to have it darker actually. Then let's create another section, which is this one. It can be slightly darker as well as you can see, it's here. [MUSIC] We can see that this section is more clearly in the shadow. So we can already start thinking about that this will be darker area. Then we have this section, which is little bit lighter. Then we have these two sections. You can think about shading within these sections. You can create darker area here and lighter area here and then connect them. For example, it can be lighter here and darker here, but we'll practice that little bit later as well. You start observing the sections when you look at someone's hairstyle. Because it can be quite tricky to think about where to add highlights, where to add shadows. Now let's move to the next part. [MUSIC] 13. Sections & Loose Strands: Now, let's look at more hairstyles. I will show you another cool tip, which I think about when drawing different hair. I will sketch the silhouette of the hair as a first thing. We already discussed that. This would be the first silhouette. Then I would consider these hair sections keeping them uneven. Now, as you can see on this reference, which is super great, have these loose strands of the hair which would break the overall silhouette. Even if you don't have these loose strands of hair in the reference photo, I always try to add few loose strands like this to make the hairstyle more interesting. You don't have to add too many of these loose hair strands. For example, you can pick and choose how many you want to add and you can invent few. I already have one going here. I don't have to add this one even though it's already there. Because this one is quite curved, I can curve this one as well just to align or balance out the styling of the hair. As you can see, I can just draw it like this. I'm trying to leave them in different height, so they are slightly different. Maybe I will not add this one because it will create better flow if I keep only this one and this one. You can work with the hairstyle, so you don't have to keep it exactly as it is in the reference. You will think about the hair sections, as you can see here. Then you can add these loose strands of the hair. For example, here, we would see the shading pretty nicely. As you can see already this section, you can see it's lighter here and darker here. That's why we are creating these sections. Because you can balance out the highlights and shadows much easier. You will not just add shadow to this top part of the hair, but within the sections. Then making the overall silhouette with a sections more interesting. Adding these loose hair. Then of course, the sections are following the direction of the hair as we already talked about. If I show you how I would approach this one just for more examples, because looking at more examples always help, I think. You can see the overall silhouette is quite bumpy. I can simplify it a little bit, but still keeping it quite lose. I'm already thinking about the sections. This will be one section, another section. This can be a loose strand. This would be another section. Here would be a loose strands of hair. I can add this as a section. Another. I can split this one in two sections, and add one more section here. Then keeping few loose strands of hair. It's up to you how many loose strands of hair you want to keep, and how many sections you want to have within the hairstyle. I think this is super helpful technique when observing hairstyles. You will look first at the silhouette, then you would consider the direction and the texture. Then you can start thinking how you would split the hairstyle into sections. Now let's go to the next part. 14. Mini Exercise: Now it's time for mini-exercise. Here I want to show you the ribbon shading technique, which is super secret or not so secret anymore, a way of shading hair because then you can create very nice and glossy looking here. I found this reference where we can base our mini-exercise on. First let me show you what I'm paying attention to. I will take a section of this hair trying to look for this ribbon shape. Then I will be noticing the darker areas and lighter areas of this ribbon. Let me duplicate this shape so we can see it also here. This will be the ribbon and I was drawing with these chunky smooth-out sketching brush which I created. But you definitely don't need this one, but these are some of my brushes which I made and you can get them on my website if you are interested. I created hair and also fur pack and sketching pack for this one. But if you don't want to get these brushes, you will get similar look from some of these brushes. I would recommend, for example, 6B pencil, HB pencil, or technical pencil. These create similar look and you can adjust the size for this sketching exercise. You just need to get used to this brush. Now we will change the color and I will take darker brown, something around here. You can download this in the resource section so you can use the same brown tones as I will be showing you here. Now, I will take the different sketching brush, but you can use any brush from the sketching section, as I mentioned to you and I will recreate this shape. Let me make the brush bigger so we can see it better. Create similar shape to this. Thinner, thicker, and thinner. Something that resembles ribbon because then the ribbon would continue higher up. Now I will create this ribbon shading so first. I need the silhouette. The best is to work from dark to light colors. You can drop the color. Now, I will do the Alpha Lock and take the lighter color tone. The darkest areas are here on the top, here in the middle where it's more narrow then here and here. The lightest areas are here. As you know this, the highlights are not straight lines. Always try to follow the shape of the hair and they're a little bit wider on the edges. I can delete this part here so we can see the shadows better. Now I can add even a lighter shade. Try to vary the size here and then we will have the lightest tones in a smallest areas. Now what you can do is either use the color picker and create these two-tier shapes within the hair. Always picking the color which is close to it, trying to keep the same shapes as we did before. You will follow the direction of the hair as we talked about and you would create these nice transitions, mimicking the hair shape. From the distance, it will already start to look as shaded hair, which is pretty cool. This technique is more time-consuming, but still works and you can use any brush for this technique. Then other technique is to use the smudge tool. Always pushing out. This will help you to blur the edges quite nicely. Going from one side to another, always having the direction of the hair in mind. Make sure you don't smudge the colors together too much and keep the variety so you will still have these three color shades. This is little bit more blurred out. One of my favorite techniques is to actually use hair brush. As you can see, I need to rename them for the brush pack because I just created them which are super cool, different hair brushes, so I think this one is my favorite. Let me adjust the size. Like this, I can easily draw more hair shapes in one. This is the fastest technique because of the hair brush. You can see you have three different ways. You can use any brush to create these shapes by yourself. You can smudge with any brush, or you can use custom hair brushes. This is most efficient when you create a longer brushstrokes, not shorter ones. If you want to smoothen out this part, even more, you have to make sure your layer is on Alpha Lock, and then you can go to Gaussian Blur, and adjust the smoothness. You can see it can be too much or just little bit, maybe few percent to make the hair more glossy. Then as we talked about hair sections, I can create another hair section, just dividing these highlights to make it look more natural. As you can see, we have super nice glossy ribbon-looking hair shape. This basically creates sections within this small section. It depends how much detail you want to have within your illustration. But like this, it's super easy and you can create this beautiful glossy hair. Always work from dark to light and use transition colors. You have the shadow color, you have the mid-tones, and the highlights. Here I have two colors for the highlight. Then you will have divisions within the hair silhouette or hair shape. Because here we have only one hair shape. I really like to shade hair this super cool way because you can create these beautiful glossy shapes. Now we can move on to the next part where we will color the full hairstyle using this technique. Let's do that. 15. Let's Start The Project: So let's start with our project. You can choose any reference that you like. I chose this one because I feel like here you can see nice flow of the hair, there is a three-quarter view which is always interesting, and then we can see the highlights and the shape of the hair quite clearly. Also it has quite a lot of volume. It's already partially stylized for us so it's a great reference to practice from. I will duplicate the image so we can practice creating the face on top of it. Especially if you're not used to drawing faces I will speed up this process but I will show you how I do it on top of this picture for practice. The more you do this the less reference images you need. You can also watch my other class about proportions and drawing faces. But this is generally how I would do it. I would look at the reference and then sketch on a space next to it, not necessarily on top of the picture. Here first I always start with a loose sketch. I will choose one of the pencil sketching brushes. Again, here you can take any of these sketching brushes from this folder. Let me see if I have the brush which is big enough. Now, I will reduce opacity of this one so I have a rough guide, so it's very soft there. I will create another layer with a more tighter sketch and I want will choose a different brush for it. So here what I mainly to achieve is to place the eyes correctly. I will take a darker color and you can get exactly the color palette which I created for this class. You can add the glasses on a separate layer if you want to because you can keep them maybe or maybe you decide you actually don't want to keep them before we start adding the hair. Then you can sketch the outfit loosely. Of course you can also watch my outfit drawing class if you want to. After having a loose sketch, I can always use the free hand selection tool and move some elements, if I feel like that can be in a different placement. She is quite high up this part, so I can move it a little bit lower still keeping in mind the middle of the face. I think this is fine. I think this is nice. Now I can start drawing the hair. We had the loose sketch. I will create the hair on a separate layer. So first, as I don't see where the hair is now, based on the reference, I can make the reference opacity a little bit higher again. Now I can loosely sketch the sections of the hair. Starting with the hairline here, as we discussed, I need to take the darker color, make the brush bigger. This would be one of the sections. Always thinking about the sections as we practiced before. Here I can see it ends there, so I can do that, keeping the hairline here. Let's see if it works with the forehead. I think this is quite fine. Then I will make a little deep here, and connect it with this section. Here, we can create the connection of this section. Here we see there is this nice wave, so I can do that. You can see it here. You can create actually two sections. This one connects to this section. Then I have some loose strands of hair coming out of there. Here you can imagine, again the ribbon shading technique and we can connect the hair here. Here, even though it's not there, I can add more hair so we have more volume. Here we can create nice direction connecting the hair, and here we can create another section like this. They tuck behind the other ones quite nicely. Here we can create another subsection. Here there is a nice curve, but here it's touching the neck. I can imagine the curve going here so I can be a little bit more creative. It's not exactly how it goes there, but based on these curves, you can imagine the shape of this curve. Here let's create another section of the hair. Think about what we discussed before, how the hair ends. Here we have this shape, but I'm not sure if that's super nice, so maybe we can create a curve here. Let's do that, and maybe not keeping them in the same height. Let's do this. As we discussed before, creating the driven may be creating the overlap here. That's nice. Here we can create a section. We have more layers here. Here, I can reduce the opacity of this reference image and see how I can adjust this hairstyle. I don't need it anymore. Here I can reduce the opacity of the outfit, so it doesn't distract me that much. Here you can consider if you like, the hairstyle. Here when I'm looking at the hairstyle, it is quiet stiff on this side. What I can do, I can reduce the opacity of this one, add a redraw on top of it, adding more volume and more curves. I always find it easier to draw in more steps. We can add more movement, especially when you are practicing. Let's create another version of this hair. I quite like this curve, so let's emphasize it a little bit more. Hair growing out, down, and creating these nice curves. As you can see, you can create this a bigger variety, as I mentioned to you before. You can also adjust whatever brush you are using. You can adjust the stabilization so you create smoother brush strokes. Here, you can do this. Make sure that you don't end the brush stroke exactly where the other one ends. Here we want to connect them, and here we want to create more volume. As I mentioned to you here, it feels a little bit stiff. What we can do is this and add this type of subsection, even though it wasn't there. On this side, I feel like it's pretty nice. Maybe we can create that this hair goes behind her shoulder and add another subsection here. Then create maybe this curve a little bit bigger. Then I can delete this part. We have this subsection and this one creating a curve, and then connecting them. Let's do the same on the other side, creating a variety in thickness of these hair strands. These two end in the same height, so as I said, it's not the best. So maybe we can create something different. Maybe something like this. You can play with the shapes. I think this works quite well. Here we can invent some loose brush strokes because as we looked at with other examples, it's always nice to add those. Maybe we can add one here so we don't break the silhouette too much, so maybe something like this. Following the direction of the hair, we can add maybe one here, maybe here. You can also add them at the end of the coloring to see what fits. Maybe this part is still not working that well. Maybe we can connect these two sections so there is better flow in the hair. Create more variety because here these two sections looked quite similar. I think here now we have enough variety in width and also the placement of the curls. Here we still need to add maybe some strokes which we'll connect, always thinking about the direction of the hair and the thickness of these subsections because this will help us when we will color the hair. Maybe one little strand here. I think this works pretty well already for the next part, where we will add colors. 16. Let's Add Some Color: This is where we left off. We have the sketch for the hair, we have the glasses, the jacket, and the face sketch. Before you do the coloring, always check if you have enough layers available. You can go to Canvas Information about this artwork and check the layers. I have 56 layers available for the coloring, which should be plenty. That's good enough. Now because we will have to prepare few layers, it will take some time, so prepare some coffee or tea for yourself and take it step by step so you don't get overwhelmed and you can get the exact color palette. This is the character color palette that I will be using. You can get this exact color palette in the Resource section. I will be using few brushes, which are something for the solid colors, and then have something for texture. But you don't need exact brushes for the solid texture a something similar to this. You can go to inking folder and either use Syrup brush, or I like Mercury brush, or you can go to Calligraphy folder and use Script brush or Monoline brush. Those are with solid colors, so you can use those. If you want, you can get exact brushes that I use also from my website. But again, they are not necessary for the project. Now let's start putting down the base colors. First of all, this is what we did so far. Right now, we can delete the rough hair sketch because we don't need it anymore. Then from the jacket and the glasses, we need to separate it into two layers, so I can go to Selection tool, select the glasses, swipe down, cut and paste, and we will have them on a separate layer. We can have this one under the hair. We will be creating few different groups of layers. We will have one layer group for the hair. Because the glasses will be on the top, so I will move this layer on the top. Then we will have a group with hair. Let's create the hair group. They don't have to be in the groups, so you would see the organization better. Then the jacket can go under the face because we will have also coloring of the face and the loose sketch we also don't need anymore, so I can delete that one. You can copy the Canvas if you're not sure and you might need it at some point. Here, we have faced outline, also, a rough sketch for the hair. We don't need anymore as well, so I will delete that one. The reference, as you can see, I just hit the frame and the photo reference. Whatever reference you have, you can have it on a separate layer. We have these. I will delete this one as I don't need it anymore, and the Loose Sketch, I'll just have this one here, and the shoulders. To establish the shapes, let's start creating a base for the face. We'll have the face outline. Under the face outline, let's create another layer, which will be the face base color. For that, I will take light beige color. You can choose any color that you like. I will follow the sketch that we have, and here because she will have some t-shirt I can create, maybe like a half circle here, and then I'll just fill in the shapes. Here, I notice that I forgot ears, so I can just do half oval such as the ear, and then I can just fill in the shape. I can adjust this one if it doesn't feel exactly right. I think that's fine. Good. I have base color for the face. I can put these two into a group and call it a face. I can collapse this one. Now, let's create base color for the hair. Here, I will take this color which is second from the left, not the darkest brown, and again follow the shape of the silhouette that we created. Now I can just drag and drop. If I filled in all the edges, it should be one solid shape. Here, let me see if this is nice, so everything works. Now, I will reduce the opacity of the sketch and I will be using it only as a guide. Let's create a separate layer. Create the clipping mask and take the darker color. When you look at the reference image, try to notice where are the darkest areas. Usually the darkest areas are around the roots on top of the head and the face is casting the shadow on this side, and then there are darker spots where you see the layering, so the ends of the hair are lighter. I see the darker area here, here, and here. That's what I will create here with help of the lines, what I have, so let's do that. This part, as you see there are some strokes, so I will create exactly that. I will try to vary the length of them so they are not ending at the same level, and still following the direction of the hair. Here the hair goes this way. Here I can just close it because it's behind the face shape. I think this works nicely Here I'm always ending it with half circles. Always try to vary the shapes. Then I can add some shadow here to divide this part. This is enough. Then as I told you a little bit, to the roots of the hair. To divide these two sections, I can add some darker colored tones here, and to divide this section as well. There is some darker areas here, so let's do that, and behind the ear. To divide these two sections, I will add some shadow here as well This curve can cast the shadow as well. Let's add a shadow here too. Then you can assess if you have enough shadows as it is, which I think works quite nicely. Next, we will be adding a lighter areas. We can rename these shadows. Now let's create another layer with a clipping mask for the highlights. 17. Let's Add HIghlights: Now it's time for the highlights. I will take these lighter color and also with a clipping mask, I will look at the reference. She has colored in highlights, so it's a little bit harder to spot where the highlights are. Here you can also decide where to put highlights the same way as we were looking at the ribbon. I can put some highlights here, and then on top of the head following the shape of the head, and then some on these strands of the hair. So basically ends of the hair sections, so here, here, here, and here. Let's do that. Now we can add one more layer because these are more like transition highlights that we are going from lighter brown to even lighter, and I can use this lightest brown and just add slight touches in the middle of the highlight, just to add extra glossiness. I think this is nice. Here on the highlights we just did. Let's take the lighter brown. It depends how much detail you want to keep. You can keep these transitions quiet smooth and the hair will look a little bit glossier. More stylized. You don't have to keep these rougher edges. You can round it up like this. Now let's add another layer to divide the sections. I will take the darker color. For this part, you can either use just one mono line brush as we did until now, and just draw this dividing sections like this. You can reduce the brush size and just draw them by hand just to create a little bit more definition to the hair like this, or you can get the brush that I showed you. I can basically do this quicker like this. I can make it smaller. I need to create this also clipping mask. Basically you would just draw few lines on top of the lighter tones and darker tones just to create more variety. I will create another layer. Now I will take the same color as the hair, and I will create few lines here as well. Clipping mask we have on, so just to create more texture here. Making the brush bigger. Again, you can do this with any brush and few more brushstrokes. I think this works great. Now let's create few loose hair strands as we created with practicing before. I will take, again, a smooth brush and with the same mid-tone color, I will draw few loose hair strands. I think this works great. Maybe we can add one here, maybe one here, maybe something here, and this will create more volume in the hair. You can vary the thickness of your brush, and following the direction of the hair, what we established before. We can add some hair here, and maybe something to the fringe just to break the shape of the forehead. I think this is nice. You can add as much as you prefer. These are loose strands. This is not with clipping mask. Then I sometimes do another one lighter. Then I can take the lighter color, which we used, and I will create few loose strands just to create little bit more variety. We are done with the hair, which is super cool. You can play with loose strands and more shadows or highlights in different areas if you want. In the next step, we will add some shadow to the face and colors to the jacket. 18. Let's Add Shading: [MUSIC] Now let's color the face. First, we need to make sure that this is all in one group. It's hair. Good, so now it should be in one group. It is in one group. Now we will be working. Let's double-check. We have the base color, we have dark shadows, mid-tones highlights, lighter highlights. Then we have the divider shadow strokes which are these divider highlights. More lighter strokes, we had a loose strands in darker brown or like mid-brown and then lighter strands which we added here. Perfect, so that's that. Now let's look at the face. We had the face base color and now we will create a shadow in this angle based on the reference. Let's create another layer, create a clipping mask and let's test out this lighter brown if it works on this skin tone. It might be too dark. Let's see. I think it's too dark, so let's reduce the color a little bit. Slightly lighter and more saturated. This should work. Maybe I can save it so we have it for next time. Good. First of all, try to notice where are the shadows. I see the shadows on the face under the hair here and on the left side of the face because there is light coming from here and then we have shadows on the neck. Let's do that. First, adding shadows on the forehead as we see it here and under the hair which is casting shadow on this side of the face and a little bit on the cheek. Maybe not as much. Something like this and then on the ear. This is fine. Let's add the shadow on the neck because the head is casting a shadow on the neck and a little bit the hair the same way as here. Then this side of the face because the forehead is curved you can see the shadow is a little bit curved so you can decide if you make it straight like this or this like a slightly curved, I like that look a little bit more and then the whole side of the face under the nose you can see there is a little bit of shadow here and here so let's go to the middle, under the nose, and finish the shadow here. You can see there is this half circle on the chin, so it's not straight. Here there is a little bit of shadow under the mouth and then it's rounded, so like this and rounded off. Then I can fill in the shape here. Here you can notice there is a shadow on top of the eye from the eyebrow curve so I can add a little bit of shadow there and then from the glasses. So just under the glasses. Perfect. I think we're set with the shadows almost. There is a little bit of shadow here in the corner of her mouth, so let's do that and then at the bottom of the nose. You can make it more realistic but this is the amount of shadows I like for this one. Let's create the next step. We have the shadows. Let's add cheeks as in my other classes just to add little bit of color to her face. For this one I will be using some soft texture brush which you can originally find I think in the Artistic folder. [MUSIC] For that I will take slightly pinkish color and light tones and on a separate layer add little bit of color to her face. [MUSIC] We have some color in the cheeks. As usual you can reduce the opacity, rename cheeks. [MUSIC] Let's go to the smooth brush. Whatever brush you are using until now, use that and take a lighter color to add few highlights to the face. Actually I can take this type of beige color for the highlights so with a little bit more off-white and I will add it to the color palette. First of all, let's reduce the brush size and add white to the face. Let's zoom in so we can make it easier. I will add some white to the eyes. Here I'm making sure I don't go too much here so she doesn't look too surprised. I'm keeping it here. This other side of the eye. I want to make sure that it's in the same height. I think this works and I will add little bit of the highlight on the face. As you can see, she has highlight on the nose. Here, little bit on the chin, on top of the mouth corner here on top of the forehead and slight highlight here. Maybe that's enough. I will put the highlight here. She has highlight here, so it depends how much light you want to add to the face. I think this is enough. Perfect. We are done with the face. You are doing great. You can add the highlight to the mouth as well if you want but you don't have to. Face outlines can be nicer if they blend. Let me Alpha Lock this. I can make the outlines in a little bit darker brown color so they are not black, so let's adjust the color. I think this works nicer. This one will be the color of the shirt. I will keep the eyebrows and eyes darker. Let's see how this looks. This will be maybe darker brown because it's casting more shadow and this was not on a separate layer. Let's see how that looks. Maybe we can keep this darker I think. [MUSIC] Maybe a darker brown works better. [MUSIC] Perfect. We are done with the face. Nice. Now let's create base color for the jacket. 19. Let's Add Color To The Outfit: I will create another layer, and I will make the dark jacket blue. You can choose, of course, your own color that you prefer. I will create loose shoulders here. I'll create a shape like this and connect it behind the neck. Let's bring the frame, which I have here on the top, which is this white thing. I'll bring this here. I have the frame, which is just white. As you can see, this is the base color, now I can just drop the color in there. This is the same color, so it's more difficult to see. Let's put it to multiply so we see it better. Now, I will draw the hoodie in yellow color. We have some nice fun color in this portrait. Of course, it needs to be on a separate layer. Here, I will create shape following the hoodie, which is this wiggly shape. Here, I will add a little bit of volume and connect the shapes. Perfect. If you're wondering how I created this frame, I just used the rectangle tool. I zoomed out, and basically, you can connect the shapes like this. Then you can fill it with any color. You will just fill it with white and keep it on a separate layer. Let me rename it so we know what it is. Now I will go back here, and on a separate layer under the hoodie, I will create a layer called T-Shirt, and I will add more brighter color there. Because it's behind the other layer, I don't have to be super precise with the shape. I can just drop the color in there, which is perfect. Now, let's change this into the normal blending mode because now we can see it. It will be blue. I think that works quite nicely on top of this jacket. Here, we just need to clean up the shapes a little bit. I need to clean it up here so it doesn't go out. We can add one last fun thing on the jacket. We can add some texture in the same colors. You can draw maybe some flowers, for example, like this. Let's zoom in. You can draw few flowers, or I actually created a fun brush, which does the same trick. I can create a clipping mask, choose that brush with the same flowers and just fill in this area, which is super quick. Who doesn't like fun brushes? You can get these brush from me as well on my website, or you can draw it by hand, which is also an option. There you go. This is the character with cool hair, and we can also change the background, if you want to have it a little bit more colorful, I can change it maybe to green or you can change it to pink or whatever you like. For example, like this, it will be super bright. I like the green option there, so let's do that. There you go. We can maybe add some shadow here on the T-Shirt, which I can set to multiply. Choose the same color of the shirt, and I need to first change it to the brush which I was using. Make it a little bit bigger. Add the shadow from the hair and hoodie, and reduce the opacity. We can add the shadow as well on the jacket here. We have shadow here and shadow from the hair, this is completely optional. You don't have to do this part anymore if you want to keep it very simple. I can change to the same color, we have it set to multiply, and I can add the shadow from the hair. Reduce the opacity to have it a little bit more subtle. Just to recap, so we have the jacket, we have the shadow on the hoodie, we have the hoodie, the yellow part, we have the shadow from the hoodie here, we have the t-shirt color, texture on the jacket, and the base color. We can group all of these. There you go. We have this cool, fun character and I hope you like it and you create something that you love either by using the same reference or different reference, which may be it's your portrait or other photo references. 20. Let's Summarize: [MUSIC] Let's briefly summarize what we have talked about during this class. Before we jumped into the mini exercise and illustrate the full project with cool hair, we discussed various tips and tricks which you can use when designing hair for your characters. For example, we looked at various tips which you should consider when drawing hair; such as hair design and different hairstyles that people wear, and they are maybe trending or that you like. We also talked about mistakes to avoid as a beginner. Then we also talked about overall shape of the hairstyle and also how to bring variety to this overall shape to avoid the helmet look. We also discussed and talked about shadows and highlight which you can notice on photo references and how you can use them in your illustrations. Another topic we talked about are loose strands of the hair and much more. You can always go back to the individual tips and tricks and re-watch part of those videos if you want to practice more. 21. How Did It Go?: [MUSIC] How did it go? I can't wait to see all your awesome artwork. 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