How to draw hairstyles

Let’s use the Same Techniques for Drawing Short Wavy Hair

 In today’s tutorial you will learn how to draw hair a few different ways. I will show you some patterns to look for that make drawing hair much easier to accomplish.

Notice in this next example that the same step by step approach will work on this shorter male hair style.  Probably the biggest differences that I see when drawing this hair style is that the hair volume is more angular.

How to Draw Black Curly Hair

Pinterest is great for looking up cool hair styles by the way!

Drawing a Short Hair Style on a Black Male Character

Let’s start with the easy one.  Short curly hair can be simplified even further than the previous examples.  We will still use the same step by step approach but then as we get to the inking stage we can use a bit of stipple shading.

Notice in the example below that I have drawn a perimeter shape of the hair but then filled most of it in.  This allows me to just focus on the light source side and render tiny curls over and over. 

Just make sure to space them out as you reach the lighter side of the hair.  This also works with bounced light but on this drawing I am only using a single light source.