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hello i'm blue and today i'll be
explaining and showing you guys my
process on how i draw hair but before we
start today's video is brought to you by
clip studio paint i'm very excited to be
working with the people at clip city
paints because i absolutely love this
program not only is it a good price but
also so many different features and
materials with so many different art
styles and drawing techniques i've been
using clip studio paint for a really
long time now and i can't recommend it
enough for any artist that wants to
start digital or has been doing digital
art for a while now it's it's great this
whole tutorial today will be drawn in
their program uh but i already use their
program for like everything i do
uh thank you so much to lipstick paint
and now onto the tutorial hair is
definitely one of my favorite things to
draw since you can do so much with it in
context of style color texture length
and so on before you notice in a lot of
animes that the hair can be a really big
defining trait of their character design
since a lot of animes can suffer from
same face syndrome so they use their
hair to express themselves i guess
but i know getting it to look like how
you picture it in your head can be a bit
difficult so today i'll be giving tips
that i follow when drawing hair and i'll
also be explaining how i color and
render it as well this tutorial we just
fit into two sections the first one will
be about how i draw the hair and the
second will be about how i shade and
render it having a wide variety of
brushes can help you when you're trying
to figure out your rendering style which
is drawing style in general because a
bunch of brushes have different
pressures and stabilities and stuff
clips video paints has a bunch of
downloadable brushes that artists have
made and submitted into the community
there's always new stuff and there's
stuff from for all different kinds of
styles it's from my favorite features
because there's so many different
brushes that i can experiment and try
with the brush i'm using today is a
brush called sol by nocturlin once you
go on the website and you signed in and
you downloaded the brush you can
you can then get to materials in clip
ceiling paint and just you just drag and
drop it into a brush section and you can
just use it from there i like to spice
it up every now and then and just try a
bunch of new brushes just to keep my
work interesting
first drawing tip i have here today is
head shape you've probably seen a lot of
artists when they start sketching they
use a circle
for this circle for the hit well that's
the guideline for a skull i've seen
plenty of artists not plan out their
skull or the hair shape and it can look
amazing but you can also risk your
character having an elongated skull or
like a dip in their head because you do
not know where like the skull sits and
where the hair can flow in and where you
can't
first you're going to determine what
kind of head shape you would use based
on your art style mine's more anime so
my
head shapes are a lot bigger
but
another example of a head shape can be
if you have more realistic style the
head shape will be a lot smaller if you
find it rather difficult to draw head
shape tip city paint has a bunch of 3d
models on their website
that you can trace over
just to get the anatomy right and just
to help you with your process there's no
shame in using this as a reference or
tracing over these base models
it'll help make your work a lot easier
and
it will help you improve your anatomy
again it's on their website you can
search up 3d models and you'll find a
bunch of them you can download them and
they'll be in the materials again
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one of the more important anatomy steps
to take into consideration
are foreheads i didn't see enough people
talking about forehead anatomy but i
find it pretty important
you don't need to know before it anatomy
perfectly uh
but i think knowing how big the forehead
must be or how small the forehead must
be can help you with your facial anatomy
a lot i stick with like one shaped
forehead because i don't think it's that
important but i think knowing just the
basics of it a lot of people ask me why
my canvas is gray when i start sketching
out it's a setting i have for when i
open my canvas it immediately opens to
gray you can set it up when you first
open your canvas and just select canvas
color i do this so my eyes don't get
sore because i have sensitive eyes so
the white canvas can hurt my eyes after
a while also something pretty addicting
to you with like the canvas opening is
something called a time lapse option you
can select it at the bottom here and
it'll record everything on your canvas
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another drawing that i learned pretty
early on and that helped me a ton is
something called a starting point and a
direction flow this is a point where
hair will flow out of and it also is the
starting point of the direction of the
hair flowing if you know where the
starting point sits on your head you can
do a hairstyle from any direction
because a starting point will never move
from one direction on a skull you can
have multiple starting points on a head
it does not just have to be one singular
starting point
all right some examples of starting
points is some characters i have here
uh this character on top here his name
is julian and he belongs to one of my
mutuals on instagram called gemini
gemini is very good at drawing hair
they always have very interesting
like their characters very interesting
hairstyles and
so
uh jillian's this is the character he's
starting point starts here and it moves
across like this so this is basically
where all his hair comes from julian has
textured wavy hair so it's not a
straight line it's more like like this
this is how the direction flow comes out
of
the starting points the starting point
is over here and it moves back just a
bit so just behind this piece of hair
over here
this is where his starting point sits
and then he also
i guess his starting point is like over
here
so it's almost the same as jillian it's
more of a pulse like this so all his
hair flows from this line out like this
and it kind of does a sweep this way and
then this way
and then you also have
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i also like the forehead and stuff like
i said foreheads are really important
so i know julian
it he's starting points into his
forehead so i can please start to point
exactly where my forehead line is so i'm
basically taking everything from that
starting point outwards
i think the most blessed setting in
clip studio paint is it has auto save so
it can save from 5 minutes to 50 minutes
i have mine set at 15 minutes
uh it's great because a lot of times my
laptop crashes where the power goes out
and i end up losing a lot of work
so if that happens i just turned back on
lipstick paint and it would have
restored all the canvases and stuff that
i've done
up until the 15 minutes it's saved
before it went off
to make hair simpler you can put hair
into strands
so strand is basically where the hair
flows together so
uh to make it easier to draw you put
your hair into strands the bigger your
strands are the more continue your style
is going to look but the smaller they
are the more realistic it's going to
look every strand has a different flow
every strand has different textures so
you can have a curly strand so that
means there's a lot more movement in
there and there's a lot more shading
that goes in because of all the movement
and you get more straight strands which
means there'd be less shading
and uh
less movement because the hair is more
straight to determine strands i feel
with curly hair you need a lot more
strokes and lines to show that there is
a lot more going on there but with
straight hair it's better to have less
because straight hair is a lot more
flatter
than what curly hair is so it doesn't
need as much shading hair is a lot of
movement when you've determined how many
strands your character's hair style is
gonna have you can
add movement to that so it'll go in like
in different directions
uh with wavy hair there's movement but
if there's more straight hair
the chances of there being a lot of
movement is very little but with hair
you can actually just have as much fun
as you want you can have them standing
or straight
you can just go crazy because there
aren't really many rules
right now i'll be drawing some examples
with the rules i just explained so
they'll have starting points and
different strands and stuff like that
i've already drawn the first hairstyle
which was julian's hairstyle and the
other three are just random
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i'll have to do a completely different
tutorial to explain how lighting and
shading can affect hairstyles and
textures but today i'll just show you a
simple hair coloring tutorial that you
can do on any just flat piece first you
need a base color
and then i take a darker color and use
the airbrush to show where the hair will
be darker so this is like in between
places or under places and then i'll
take a harder brush and i will take it
then i'll take a harder brush with the
same color i did with the airbrush and i
will start defining the strands you can
add darker colors for the areas that are
more under so like if it has a loop in
the hair
uh but just under the loop you can add
the dark areas of part of the hair
overlap to each other you can also add a
dark
you can also add the dark color over
there then when i'm done with the
shading i add a clipping mask to my base
layer and i take the blush color that i
normally give my characters and i go
over that just in the front area uh so
it doesn't clash too hard on the skin
when you're done with base coloring and
shading
you can use this setting called
tonal correction where you can change
the hues and saturations
and tone curves and all that of the
picture and then
i use this for when i went to color
correcting and all that kind of stuff
all right before i start rendering i
have an entire video about how i paint
stuff will go into detail of like the
shapes i use and
what exactly i do for blending and stuff
i'll link that in the description if
you're interested in checking that out
but i'm just gonna do a quick like
explanation of what i do
now i'm going to render for rendering uh
i messy try and stick with movements so
after like after i've determined the
movement of the strand i will all my
brush strokes will be in the direction
of the strand i don't draw every single
hair so that's why i just leave it
mostly towards the strands
and i also do
a lot of bubble techniques so a lot of
round edges so
at the end of a hair
tip i'll normally do like a round dark
color
and then at the start of the hair also
do a round dark color and maybe in the
middle as well
uh
and i'll also like i
and i'll also stick with more triangles
and round circles with curly hair i will
have more
dark in there so i'll have a lot more
dark circles because curly hair is a lot
more circles and round shapes so i'll
just put a bunch of circles in there and
that normally doesn't it's supposed to
and for straight hair i try keeping
try keeping the colors very light and
very neat uh and for the final touches
with every hairstyle i always add loose
strands so it's just 102 either going in
the face or just outside the head area i
just think it adds like really nice
colors
uh
i don't really do that much lighting if
i do it's just poor
to find your own rendering style for
your hair you just got to try a lot of
things you can feel free to use my art
as reference if you want to
i don't mind you can also feel free to
read drama art if you really want to
but thank you so much for watching i
hope this tutorial
helps a little bit and teach you a few
things i think hair is really fun to
draw and i really enjoy it uh sorry for
not posting for so long i was really
busy this last week and i recently got a
virus on my computer so i lost all the
files i was working on
so this week i have been
really busy trying to get everything
back and trying to get back on track
thank you again to clip studio paints
for sponsoring this video i really love
this program
thank you uh
and i hope everybody has a really good
day
bye
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