$65
Bundle discount Each additional course part in your cart adds 3% off all courses, up to 15% off.
Full course
You will be given unexpiring access to watch the videos online .
$65
Give a gift
Give a gift card for art students to use on anything in the Proko store.
Or gift this course:
About instructor
Founder of Proko, artist and teacher of drawing, painting, and anatomy. I try to make my lessons fun and ultra packed with information.
LESSON NOTES
How to Draw Hair – Step by Step
DOWNLOADS
How-to-Draw-Hair-Step-by-Step-Transcript.txt
3 kB
How to Draw Hair - Step by Step.mp4
181 MB
bridget-hair-reference.jpg
717 kB
COMMENTS![]()
![Stan Prokopenko]()
![]()
![Knighty Shiny]()
![]()
![João Bogo]()
![]()
![Tammy Eldred]()
![]()
![Nicole Guz]()
![]()
![@morelock]()
![]()
![@ern1s]()
![]()
![@michaelsepesy]()
![]()
![Marco Sordi]()
![]()
![Erin Quick-Laughlin]()
Lean to draw hair step-by-step.
Good effort.
I don't think you have bad supplies. From here I can see you're getting a lot of tonal variation. It's just that the learning curve of this is kinda slow and frustrating. Try to internalize the process as best as you can start with the lay-in, then two value, then full value and finally texture. Focus on the lay-ins and two value phase for now. These two are the main responsible for conveying reality in your drawing. Then go full value. Texture just add to the realism but if you do the other steps successfully texture is almost optional.
A word of advice that's maybe hard to hear. If you honestly think that the supplies are the problem, then buy new ones ASAP. But don't blame your materials for the results you're not proud. It creates a bad habit of creating excuses every time you fall short. Suddenly you'll find yourself not putting the effort because "it's ok I don't have the materials anyway". Take it from someone who fell to this trap a lot of times.
Alternatively, You can do this exercise in graphite (use one hard (Hs) for the halftones in the light and one soft (Bs) for the shadows)if you don't like charcoal. The materials are not mandatory. As long as you get the concepts what you use don't matter.
Keep drawing you're in the right way
As I was following along the drawing started to remind me of my favorite anime character Hange from Attack on Titan. This was my first attempt at hair and it is much more difficult than I possibly imagined.
I had such a hard time. I dont know if it is my pencil or paper. I had to go really hard to make it dark and it still doesnt look dark. Same with the charcoal that i use. What do you guys use?for paper and pencil
Hey Nicole, good attempt! If you are going to use charcoal (imho) the only choice is smooth (it is important it is smooth, textured will make it much harder to get smooth tone) newsprint.
For Charcoal pencils... it used to be Conte a Paris but they have changed their manufacturing recently and I see a lot of broken charcoal... alternatives I like are Marie's soft and General's 4b.
For graphite if you want a dark pencil Blackwing Matte's or 602's are what I like... 602's are harder (so not as dark) but are a nice "do it all" whereas the Matte's get some nice darks but wear pretty fast on a lot of paper.
Also it can help to use a paper stump or chamois (and of course practice laying down flat, even tone regularly)
Hi, this is my first attempt to draw hair. I found it challenging but interesting at the same time. Would appreciate some feedback.
This lesson would be helped with a clearer reference photo--one where the hair is discernible across the entire drawing as opposed to using a photo with a model with dark hair against a dark background in which most of the back of the head is lost.
Today's assignment. Thanks to anyone would kindly give me a feedback. Thanks again and have a good day!!
I'm guessing I should have started with a simpler form and contrast but I'd like feedback on reducing the wormy look here. Rewatching the video, I can see i started with strands instead of shadows.
