This tutorial illustrates how to draw anime and manga hair with twelve step by step drawings of common anime and manga hairstyles for a female character.
Anime hair is often based on real hairstyles but tends to be drawn in clumps rather than individual strands. One good reason for this is that if you are drawing multiple frames of animation or multiple panels of a manga it will simply be too time consuming to draw anything overly detailed.
A good approach to drawing anime hair is to split it into several different parts such as the front, sides and back/top (as will be shown for each hairstyle below).
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You can apply a similar breakdown to drawing other hairstyles as well. Thinking of the hair this way can make the drawing process a lot easier to manage.
Start by first making a drawing of the head and an indication of the hairline. While in this particular hairstyle the hairline is less important as it’s full covered by the hair it can still help you better judge the overall length and position of the front and side hair sections. Make the head/hairline drawing fairly light so you can easily erase parts of it later.
For this particular hairstyle where the front section of the hair has been cut fairly short you can draw it in relatively small pointy clumps.
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Make the “side hair” fairly long with it’s overall shape slightly curved. You can also split it into several smaller clumps towards the ends.
Draw the top part o the “back hair” pretty much following the shape of the head (a bit of a distance away from it) and then widening until it’s finally hidden behind the shoulders.
Erase the parts of the head hidden by the hair and add a few lines to show the inner folds of the front and back hair. You will generally want to position these folds in between the hair clumps as that is where these will usually tend to form in real hair.
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Next add some folds in the “back hair” to give a bit more definition of it’s shape as well so that it does not just look like a flat cut out.
You can also add some basic shading to make the hair stand out a little bit more once you finish the line drawing.
The short hair drawing example above is fairly similar to the long hair with the hair once again broken down into three basic parts of front, sides and back.
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Again start the short hair drawing with the head and hairline. Same as the previous example the hairline will not be as important here as it is in other hair styles but can still be helpful.
Yet again very similar to the long hair draw the “front hair” section with a set of small clumps. For this particular example the hair will be a bit more messy so the clumps will curve more in different directions. If you want neater looking hair you can draw them the same as the first example.
Same as before erase any parts of the head hidden by the hair and draw the bottom portion of the back hair. Generally it’s a good idea to leave this section of the hair for the last part of the line drawing as in the front view of the head it will be in the back behind most of the other parts of the hair. If you try and draw it first you without the other hair to sort of “frame” its position you will probably end up with some overlapping lines and have to do extra erasing.
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For a neat look the different hair clumps should generally be drawn pointing in the same direction as the clumps next to them and any shifts in direction should be gradual.
Start by drawing the hair and indicating the hairline. For the “Hime Cut” the hairline will again be covered by the hair.
For the initial drawing of the actual hair you can start with the sides followed by the back. You can indicate the front section of the hair with just one line.
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Now draw in some small splits into the front and side parts of of the hair to make them look more natural. Erase the line in between the splits when you are done. You can also erase any parts of the head that are covered by the hair.
Finally again similar to the first example add some lines to the hair in the back to show it’s various inner folds. Try and draw these with fairly random spacing and slightly varying curves. If you space everything evenly and make all the curves trace one another too closely the hair will not look very natural.
The long messy hair is somewhat similar to the first example but with some extra hair clumps. Again it can be divided up into three parts like all the other examples so far.
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As the other examples start by first drawing the head and hairline. Drawing the hairline will help you make sure that none of the splits between the hair clumps for the “front hair” go too far up.
To make the hair look more messy draw the front hair clumps pointing into different directions and of varying shapes and curves. You can draw some that are wavy and some that juts curve in one direction.
Draw the very middle portion of these clumps reaching further down. You can do the same with the outer clumps on the sides of the front section. This will again give more of an impression of hair that has not been well groomed.
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Now draw in some additional hair clumps randomly sticking out of the back sections of the hair. This will make the otherwise neat looking back hair look messy as well. You can also add a pair (or more) clumps to the inner parts of the “side hair”. You can either erase the outlines of the hair where you want to draw these or add them and erase the overlapping outline afterwards. Next you can add in some split lines in between the hair clumps same as some of the other examples. To finish the line drawing again erase the parts of the face and head that are covered by the hair afterwards.
As this example also has long back hair you can again draw in some of it’s inner folds to make that section look more like actual hair. You can also make them a bit more wavy than the other examples to again make the hair look more messy.
Another fairly common anime hairstyle is the ponytail. You will notice that there is basically no side hair in this particular example (other than the tiny bits of the hairline on the sides). So the hair can pretty much just be splits into the front and back sections. The back consisting of the hair over the top of the head and the pony tail.
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Draw the head and indicate the hairline which for this hairstyle is slightly more important than the previous examples as some of it will be visible in the final drawing as already shown.
You can pretty much frame the front hair for this hairstyle with just three curves. Two for the sides and one for the bottom. As mentioned there is very little side hair in this example as the hair is pulled back revealing parts of the hairline.
Though usually pony tails will face directly backwards for anime hair you can draw it slightly more to one side so that it’s shape is more visible. Otherwise the pony tail can just look like a bump on the head. You can draw the pony tail with a sort of question mark like shape. You can also add a small split at the end.
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Same as for the “Hime Cut” draw in some small splits into the front section of the hair and erase parts of the bottom line of the “front hair” to make spaces in between them. Also erase the parts of the head hidden by the hair.
You can again give the hair some light shading if you like. You can also optionally draw in a few more lines into the hair to make it look a little more split up than the “Hime Cut” which tends to have more dense “front hair”.
For the hairstyle with hair over one eye you can yet again split the hair into the front, sides and back. In this style the front section of the hair will be fairly large and sort of merge into the “side hair” next to the covered eye.
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For this particular hairstyle draw the front hair clumps going far enough down the face to fully cover one eye. For the “side hair” you can draw the section on the side of the covered eye somewhat blending into the front hair.
Draw the back hair split into tow curves that pretty much hug the shape of the head as they go down eventually sticking out in clumps to each side.
For the very bottom section of the front hair draw
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