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The Art of Drawing Hair: Crafting Remarkable Hairstyles

teacher avatar Amelie Braun, Artist & Cartoonist

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Lessons in This Class

    • 1.

      Introduction

      1:22

    • 2.

      Basic sketch of braided hairstyle

      3:26

    • 3.

      Basic shading of braided hairstyle

      7:21

    • 4.

      Continuing the shading of braided hair and final details

      12:16

    • 5.

      Basic sketch and shading of European chignon hairstyle

      16:09

    • 6.

      Continuing the shading of European chignon hairstyle and final details

      13:28

    • 7.

      Drawing and shading of long curly hairstyle

      13:10

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About This Class

In this class, I am proud to share with you my experiences and knowledge in pencil hairstyle drawing.
In this class, using the simplest tools and techniques, I will share with you my knowledge and experience in the field of pencil hair drawing. My goal is to teach you how to take your hairstyling skills to a new level in a simple and understandable way.
Also, in this class, you will also learn how to design basic hair to create unique designs.
Most importantly, this class will teach you all the tips and tricks you need to create amazing designs. From focusing on the basics of braiding hair to performing a European chignon and creating long curly hair with an attractive look, you will be taught all these skills in this class.

My goal with this course is to improve your pencil hair drawing skills. I am proud to say that in this class, I have shared with you all the secrets and details of success in hairstyle drawing. From choosing the right tools to the necessary knowledge to create attractive designs of hairstyles.

So don't miss this opportunity and take part in this class to make your hair look beautiful as a skilled designer. All the tips and tricks you need for hair design will be taught to you comprehensively in this class.


Necessary tools: HB and B6 pencil, regular eraser and Etude eraser, sharpener, paper or cardboard.

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Amelie Braun

Artist & Cartoonist

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Hello, I'm Amelie.

I started drawing with a pencil when I was sixteen, initially focusing on pencil drawing classes. During these early years, I developed a strong foundation in portrait drawing, figure drawing, and facial features design. I also honed my skills in working with colored pencils, ink pens, and watercolors. These diverse experiences have given me a comprehensive understanding of various techniques and styles.

As my interest grew, I discovered a passion for character design and animation, which led me to pursue professional character design classes. My university education in the field of animation further deepened my expertise. At the age of twenty-four, I began teaching character drawing with a pencil, combining my knowledge of traditional drawing techniques... See full profile

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1. Introduction: Are you looking for learning the fascinating Art of Hairstyle drawing with pencil? Do you want to sketch all kinds of hair by mastering professional techniques? So the best opportunity has come for you. In the Hairstyle Sketching class with pencil, we teach you everything from the basics. In this class, you'll learn the professional techniques of Sketching hair with a pencil. You'll get to know the key points of braided hairstyle sketch. You sketch a European chignon easily. You discovered a secrets of composition and setting of a long curly hair. Not miss this opportunity and register for this class. Alright, now, you need a normal pencil, HB pencil, B6 pencil, and B2 pencil. And you also need an editor eraser that we've always needed it in all our chapters and tutorials. We need a normal eraser. And something that has been added to this chapter is actually a fader. It can be in any size that you have. But if you have it in the small size like this, it would be better because you can add more details to your work with it 2. Basic sketch of braided hairstyle: Hello and welcome to a new chapter of sketching and drawing with me. In this chapter, we're going to learn how we can draw and shade different kinds of hair. For starters, I want to start with a braided hair. So first, I place the primary sketch of a braided hair. First, I just draw a line and determine the direction of the hair. I'm using my HB pencil, my normal pencil to do my primary sketch. And then I determined the width of the hair in this way. And over here, the hair ends. And this would be the end of the hair. Okay. Now, did think that I do is that from the side part of this area, I come toward inside with curved lines. So I draw this curve blinds toward the central line in the middle. And then from the other side, from the opposite side, I draw my curved lines, but it, it comes actually in-between the two lines of the other side. You see each line of this side goes in-between the lines of the other side. Now over here, it will be closed like this. See, just like that. Again from here. The same way. You see it has an X or zigzag pattern. Then again, from each side, I go out very neatly. From the central line. I go toward the outside from each line. And now, as you can see, my hair has been sketched pretty well. This is the braided hairs primary sketch 3. Basic shading of braided hairstyle: This is a general shape of the braided hair. Now, I want to do the shading zone it and give some volume to it. So I started with my HB pencil and I start my shadings in the direction of each part. The z-direction is very important. I mean, the direction of your shading is very important when you're working on hair. So be really careful about it. I just shaded. And then from the sides, I'll do the more. Mostly because on the size and on the edges, we have some curved areas, some parts that have gone into one another so they would be darker. Therefore, I increase my hand pressure when I'm shading on the edges and on the sides of the lines. Then again, I'll do the same thing for the lower part. My dear friends. One of the most important hints that I should tell you is that the lines that you're drawing for shading your hair should be actually continuous and constantly moved. Your lines should not be liked that it means that your lunch should be shapeless. They would be various trade and you should just move your hand back and forth. And you should do them continuously, as I said before, don't interrupt. During the shading. You see, I'm just shading with my hand moving back and forth constantly and continuously. So as I said, during this phase of shading, they should be shapeless. Your lines. Again, as I told you before, right now, I'm just doing the background shading, so don't worry about it. In the nexus of, I'll work on the details and I'll give this beautiful hair more volume. So right now I've just done a background, shan't. Then I'm going to start from the other side as well. See again from the central area, I come toward outside and of course, as I said before, near the central line, near the center of the hair, I would have more hand pressure because on the edges of the hair, on these border lines and sides, we have more darkness. So we should increase our hand pressure and shape them darker. Remember to do it very patiently and spend as much time as you can on it. You don't have to do it as fast as I'm doing right now. I'm just saving time for you to teach you more. But when you want to do it, just take your time with it slowly and carefully. Shade each part. This way, your result will come out beautifully. And then again, from this lower part of this area, I create my shading lines, K. Like that. This would be the end of the hair. And in this area, I should also bring some shadings. And as I've done the background shading for the upper part of the hair, I'll do the same for this part of the hair, the ending part of the hair. Okay, now, for the next step, I'm going to use my fader. And with my fader, I'm actually creating a smoothness and softness for my hair. Be carefully, our hand pressure should be very, very low. My hand pressure is just as much as my lines will just look more smooth and softer. And obviously I'll do the same thing for this side to my worksheet be symmetrical. Okay? Now we will just erase the extra lines around our work or extra lines in the work. I just want my work to be cleaned so I erase everything and its surroundings. Wanted to clean work 4. Continuing the shading of braided hair and final details: And now with my B6 pencil, I want to start working. But remember, when you want to use your B6 Pencil, it should be totally sharp so you can create very fine lines, very fine and delicate lines. Let me go over this area, making this pattern more visible. And right from here, from this deep area, which is actually the depth of the hair. The hair has gone under another part of the hair. So from this deep area, I start shading dark and as I come up or as I move out, I start fading it. And I decrease my hand pressure to make lighter lines. And then I'll do the same thing for the edges insights to. Just like that. Then again, because this area is beneath the upper one, I would shape them darker because obviously it has rent underneath the upper parts of the hair, so that will be darker. In this part of the hair, only the middle is lighter. It totally shows the prominent part two. This is the way that I'm going to give my hair some beautiful volume. Okay. Again, I come over here and right here on the edges, I start shading. Just be careful that all the lines that I'm creating, all the lines that you should be creating are actually Sharp at both ends. So you should create or draw lines sharp at both ends. This is very important while creating any kind of hair. Again, I follow the same procedure for the rest of the parts of the hair. Now, as you can see, this middle part is obviously more prominent. Therefore, you should keep this area actually a bit lighter comparing to the sides of H part C. And each part, I'm saving a light area in the middle of that part because I wanted to show that that area is more prominent and the sides are actually dragged underneath the other parts. So that's how to hair has been braided. So again, I just emphasize on the main pattern and shape this area to do the same thing for this area. Okay, Now I'm done with one side and I should do the exact same thing on this other side. The procedure, the process is totally the same. I start darker on the deeper areas which are on the sides, especially the side which is towards center of the work. And then the middle will kept obviously a bit lighter. So dark on the edges, on the sides and lighter in the middle Okay. Now, from this lower area, I bring more darkness into my work. Again from here. I'll do the same thing. I shade the sides and the edges darker. And as I move toward the middle of the part, or better say middle of each part. I tried to keep them lighter. I just continue the same thing till the end of the hair. Again, I just emphasize on the shape of your lines. They should be sharp at both ends. There wherever you want to work on any kind of hair texture, you should create lines which are sharp at both ends. Okay. Also from here. And I still continue shading all the way through till the end of the hair. Okay. Now we're almost near the end of our work. Just like that. Okay. Now for the ending part of the hair, exactly the right here that it's tied up. I bring my darker shades and I let go of my hair. Toward the end of the hair, see some parts. I'll do it more. And in some other parts I do it less. But anyways, as you can see, I started very concentrated and very dark from the part which the hair was tied up. And as I moved outside, I just let the lines go. But I just tried to keep them sharp, even at the end. Then I get my fader and I just move over some of the shades, making them blending together and making my whole illustration softer and smoother. So That's what I'm doing right here, right now. Lending my shadings. Again, I take my B6 pencil and I just want to create some hair coming out of this beautiful braid because that will be more natural. Because when you braid zones here, it's just some of the hair are keep coming out. So that's what I'm doing right now. In order to make it look more natural. I'm creating this hair coming out of the sites. Okay. Now, if to darkness of your work got too much in some parts, you can use your editor eraser that you have already caught sideways and it has a sharp end. You can use your entity eraser to create some kind of light in the middle of your work. If in some parts your work got darker than you wanted. See just as easily as that with a sharp tip, which was called sideways. I'm using Maya to the eraser in order to lighten these areas or make some more lights in the middle to create a better contrast and a better volume. You can also create some kind of lights like this. Again, like the hair that were coming out of the sides. These are the hair. I want to show insight with my eraser. I can totally show them. And I also shade this area. And here we go. It's done. So this was the Sketching and shading of a braided hair. I hope you've enjoyed it as much as I did. So follow us for the next tutorials. 5. Basic sketch and shading of European chignon hairstyle: Hello and welcome to a new episode of a Sketching hair. Of course with me. In this episode we're going to work on another attractive hairstyle. This Hairstyle which is tied up. And so many of my students have some problems and creating this style of hair. But I'm going to teach you some hints and points that it would be super easy for you. It might seem hard by just looking at it, but when you start working on it, it would be just so easy. So first, I will make the back of my Models picture black. I've turned my paper and I am darkening behind my models. So I darken all the parts. I'm make sure that I've covered everywhere. And then when I got Sure, I turned my motto over and I firmly keep my work over here. And from the top, I start copying my primary sketch. I'm using copying method. So I'm also actually dividing the parts of the hair. For example, there we have strong darkness or where we have a part. You can actually see that. So you can also not copy the model and you can just use your hand to do it. But anyways, this is a faster way, so I'm going to do this. We also have one hair coming out here and a part of hair coming out from this area. Of course, I will work on the face to the neck. Let me just check. Yeah. You got sure that your primary sketch is transferred to or cardboard or paper. You just take your model off the cardboard or your paper and then you can start working. I've just made my paper clean and now I'm going to start with my B6 pencil. Is C because the Hairstyle over here is very dark. I can start with the method, dad, first of all, I apply the darkest areas. So basically I'm going to start with the darkest area. And even doing, even while I'm doing that, I'm using lines which are sharp at both ends. And add the same time. I am paying attention to the direction of the hair where it's going. For example, here is coming down. So I'll do the same thing. I'll keep the right direction of the hair. And as I said before, I try to keep my lines sharp at both ends. And I'm starting from the darkest areas of my work. This way I start shading, I start doing actually background shading. I also consider these parts of the hair which are going into one another. So very slowly and very patiently. I am going to do this. Also from this top part of the head, I bring the darkness into my work more. And also from this side of the hair. I'll do the same thing. Okay. See, now over here we have a light area and we have darkness right next to it. So I'm going to apply my darkness exactly as I sit in my model and exactly the same direction that I see. Okay? I will also keep this light area as light as I can Now I want to work on this middle part of the work. From over here, I have a very strong darkness. It's very visible in the work. And I should take this darkness upwards in this way that you can see. And I come all the way up. See, I am going in the exact same direction as I see in my model. I should keep the direction and the style. So I'm just creating these lines one after another with the same direction. Just try to control your hand pressure so it won't be too much or too little. Okay? Then again, I apply each a strong darkness that I see a my model. Just add them to my work. Again. I say that right now we're only working on the background shading. So we Dear Editor eraser, you can later create some of the lights that you want. And then again, you can add more darkness. So we have to do so much more detailing before we finish our work. Right now is just the background shading. And later we have to add some details, some more contrast, which creating delights. And then we can have the volume. I also bring some darkness coming all the way down here. Okay. Now I want to work on the next part. See this area, it comes all the way through here. I follow this same shape in the same direction. It's a very curved line coming all the way from the tub. This tied up area. Alright. It's really easy. You just have to pay attention to your model and just follow the directions. And keep the hair texture in your work by creating the lines which are sharp at both ends. These two points are very important while creating hairstyles. And I bring all the hair, which I'm bringing to this end tied up area. I bring all the hair with the same curve, with the same direction and with the same angle. So I just repeat the process. And I increase my hand pressure on some parts, which I can see has more darkness. This way. Alright, should do this very patiently. Now in this lower parts of the hair, my area is more dark, comparing to other parts is very darker. So I just do it the same way I see it. I mean, with the same amount of darkness, I'll create this area, especially here and a tub. It's very dark. Okay. I am addressing my hand pressure and I'm adding the darkness into my work Here we go. Okay. I'll continue this. And I start the second part of the hair. It is like a bun, but it's a bit lower than it should be. Here we go. And I'm almost done with this area. Very strong darkness as you can see. Okay. I would also add some more darkness to this area because it should be darker even if we are doing primary shading or a background shading, you should pay attention to these points. It's very important. Okay? Creating this kind of the hair which has a special style. The most important point, as I said before, is that you create your hair in the same and exact direction as you see in the model. In this way, your outcome will look much more natural. So don't ever lose the direction of the hair while you're working. I wanted to work on this little button. The second part of the hair. So again, even in this part, I'm going to start with a stronger darkness. Parts which have a stronger darkness, of course. Okay. Now, while you're working, don't forget that as much as you're, the tip of your pencil is sharper, your hair, we'd look softer and smooth. Er, so try to keep the tip of your pencil as sharp as you can. All during your work. Again, in this area is start creating sharp lines. And I work on the hair. I applied a stronger darkness and any other part which is darker. Okay. See, I am just following the patterns, the lines, the directions, even the amount of darkness that I have in each part. Okay. I just have to do the same thing for the lower area, the bottom of the hair. Here, I have a very strong darkness because I have a dip over here. The hair going underneath another part. That is what creates this a strong darkness here. And then from these parts, I apply the darkness the same way. Okay. So follow me for the rest of this tutorial. 6. Continuing the shading of European chignon hairstyle and final details: Hello and welcome to the rest of this tutorial with me. Okay, we are going to complete it together now. Exactly like the previous parts. I start applying my darkness from here as and as I move toward the lighter areas, I faint them or I decrease my hand pressure and they get lighter. Okay. And then again, I'll do the same thing for this area. Okay. As you can see, I'm keeping the ends of my lines completely sharp. It's like I'm lying my hand go off the cardboard or off the paper. When I get to the end of the line, just let it go. Okay? Now, I'm going to do the last part of the shadings and the end of the hair. Okay? You can clearly see that, hey, use a very light shading for here. And then I'm going to use my HB pencil in order to create very fine and thin lines as very fine and delicate hair. Right here in the middle. So you can see the fine hair and the delicate hair coming out. It wouldn't be just too dark. Okay. So just continue on these areas. And I tried to keep the lighter areas as light as I can. Because I want to keep a contrast. I want to show that some parts are more prominent and some parts are more curved in and underneath the other parts. So again, as you can see, I'm still keeping the right direction of the hair because that's the most important thing. And of course, for showing the texture, I'm keeping my lines sharp. And then again, in these parts, I apply more darkness. Okay. You see, I worked even on the parts that were totally wide. I don't want white spots in my work. So now it's done. Then I get my fader and I just drag it on my work. I really try to control my hand pressure. That's what you should do to officially on the lighter areas of our work. Okay. Now, I blend in all the dark colors that I've applied up to now. I'll delights and mostly the dark areas and darkness should blend into money each other. And I'm just making my shadings more cohesive Of course, in these parts, which I have the most, the strongest actually darkness, I drag my fader harder. I'm going to use my integer eraser, which I caught sideways. And it's sharp. And I'm going to use it on the lighter areas in order to create the lights, of course, and even create some light hair, some lines as some light hair. And this actually gives my work a be useful contrast that shows the more prominent parts and the parts which are going on there. So it gives it a volume. It wouldn't just look flat. And then after that, I work like this. Okay. All right. Now again, I caught the tip of my eraser. And you should be really careful because the tip of the eraser can also become dirty. So whenever that happens, you can easily cut it. Tip off and start again. You can see I'm using my antigen eraser in a very organized way. Alright. In this area, I'll do the same thing, creating delights. See over here when I use my eraser at the same time that it's creating some lights for me. It's also fading some shades into one another and it's great benefit. I'm creating delight. At the same time. I'm doing some fading. Okay? And now for the last time, I'm going to use my B6 pencil to apply the strong darkness. Again. Just be very careful because this is the last round that when you're doing it, you should do it very softly and very smoothly. So apply your darkness or wherever you think you need more. But don't overdo it and be careful not to go inside of the light parts. Suddenly just fade your shading as they move toward the light. K. Here we go. And hair in this. So I'm still working on some strong darkness over here. And on these parts. I'll do the same thing. I'm working on the stronger darkness. I also have strong darkness over here on the top of the head. So I also bring this darkness downward as I can see it in my Models head. Also a bit from here. And make sure that you go all around your work too. Because, for example, in this module, specifically, the edges of your hair should also be very dark. Okay? Here it is. Alright. Now this is a general shape of the hair. And then I want to create this part of the hair which comes from the front to the side of the face. So after I've created it, I use my fader on it to fade it. Then I'm going to use my HB pencil. And I won't go into face. Then I start shading the face just a little. And just as much as I don't leave it untouched around colored, you should have a trace of color on it, and that would be enough. Okay. And for making your work more natural, of course, as I said before, you can just create some hair coming out of the bond. Or did General Harris side. If you bring this hair out, your work and your outcome will look more natural. Of course. Here it is. And I've also done the Touch Ups. And it's done, I hope you've enjoyed this tutorial as much as I did as always. And I'll see you in next tutorial. 7. Drawing and shading of long curly hairstyle: Hello and welcome to a new episode of Sketching hair tutorial with me. Okay, In this episode, we're going to create curly hair together and love curly hairstyle. First daughter's, I'm going to create the general shape of the head and the Hair. See. Just like that. I create the shape of it. General shape. And it almost comes up to there, are better say, down to there in this way. So this is a general shape of the hair. In order to create the curly hair, we can do this actually in several methods. The first method, which is very, very simple, is that you can use this side of your pencil and create these waves and this curly shapes. Write down for the background of your work, for the primary sketch of your work. Just use the site of your pencils tip and create these waves and bring them all the way down. Continue that as much as you can get enough volume and enough darkness from your work. In this way. I'll continue this as much as I can and as much as I get the results that I want from my primary sketch. Okay? So I can also apply the darkness of my work. And sometimes I increase my hand pressure because I want more darkness. So I continue this as much as it gets as dark as the model. So as I said, you can also increase your hand pressure. Also from the top of the head. I don't forget about that area. I apply more darkness on it. See, creating curly hair is very easy. I tried to feel all the white parts in the work. My dear friends for creating curly hair. This is one of the methods you can have. There are so many other methods in order to create an sketch. Curly hair. Okay. Well, also darken the lighter parts of my work. This way. I also consider some small waves, especially for the end of the hair. I tried to create the waves more specifically in more beautifully Alright, now I do a general shading and general darkness over all of my work. And then of course, I use my fader on it. And I try to make all the darkness and all the shadings more cohesive and blend them into one another. This is a very easy method for creating curly hair. And as I said before, even at the end of the hair, you should continue your waves. And even when you're moving your fader, you should continue that way. You should actually work on that way. With waves. You shouldn't just bring it down because they are more separate and they can be seen more. Again with my B6 pencil, I start creating some more darker waves. But this time I'm going to do them. I'm going to create them more organized and neater. So my basics pencil, I'm creating some organized and neat waves and of course, darker waves on top of my primary shading. And as I said before, because at the end of the hair you can see the waves more separately. You should try to do them separately. Beautiful thing. I'm just continuing this downward. Alright? And also in these parts, try to consider these a specific waves, even the ones that came out. So in these parts, I'll do it. Okay. Now, I want to add some details to my work. Of course, as usual, I call it the tip of my Etude eraser and I start applying delight areas of the hair. So wherever I see the light, I apply it in my work to. Then you should use your electronic eraser in order to do it faster and easier. So if you don't have an electronic eraser, of course you should continue and you can continue your work with your simple as his eraser. But if you have electronic eraser, it will actually make your work go on easier and faster. But so pay attention that this kind of light is not necessary for all parts of the hair. Only in some parts you can see the light. And only there, you should apply in them. Hair it is. And as you can see, little by little, I'm adding these lights in their own placement. Just as easy as that. I've created a background shading width, actually the pattern of the curly hair with the waves. Then I went over it with a general shade, and then I started adding details with a darker color for creating the darker hair which are showing more. And then atlas, as you can see, I'm using my erasers just to remember while you're working with your eraser, in order to create delights, you should not create a straight lines with your eraser. Even the lights that you create should be curved and wavy. Then again, you should take your B6 pencil and add some more darkness, right, Nick satellites that you've just created. Why we do it? Because we want the lighter areas to pop out more and show themselves more and better. That's why we add It's a darkness right next to them. So the contrast will show. Also these parts of the hair should be dark in. Here it is. And just as beautiful is that I've created The curly hair with the simplest method. And the rest is done. Okay? You're almost done here, just working somewhere on it. I hope you've enjoyed this tutorial as usual and as much as you wanted. This was the last model and the last style of this chapter. And I hope to see you in next classes and in next chapters