Hair!

[AzusaPesant]

What I made this post for is a little help on our hair. Both boys and girls. I have a hard time drawing a hairstyle and make it look like, actual hair. I may have hair on people in my sketchbook, but its very difficult for me. I have no problem drawing a hair line, but when it comes to drawing long/curley/shiney/dark/hair, im totally lost.

[Swampdigger]

Although I'm not great drawing hair, I have some simple advice: Draw hair. Get yourself some reference, the majority of people have hair, it shouldn't be hard to find. Then draw it, keeping in mind that hair, although made up of many individual pieces, generally falls in chunks. Although the word "chunk" doesn't really communicate how graceful it tends to be.

So get a magazine or do a google search or just look in a mirror and draw a page of hair. They may not be good, but if you keep on studying your reference and actively trying to figure out why it doesn't look right, chances are you'll get better.

There is no secret trick to drawing hair, or to make the hair you draw look good. That goes for all art though, it's a matter of study, practice, and understanding your subject.

Good luck. :)

[J Wilson]

To a degree, you can improve on drawing hair by studying fabric. They both fall and are affected by gravity in similar ways. When you draw hair, rather than looking at it as portraying thousands of strands of hair, think of it as sheets of fabric. You are looking for the major movements first, then drawing in the more subtle changes after.

[Hexokinase]

More on what Wilson was referring to: http://gurneyjourney.blogspot.com/2008/04/hair-ribbon-secret.html