Pencil Shading Anime Hair

This detailed step by step guide should have taught you the basics of drawing and shading female anime hair.

Pencil shading anime hair. Post melody madoka magica. Shading in hair is my favorite thing to do because it can really bring dimension to an artwork. The version of sai i m using is sai 2. For part 2 click here.

However you can still use these brush settings in the first version of sai. The next step is to lay down the first shadow color i more than often use slightly cold shadow color. The tones range from the black of the window bar 2b pencil to the apron string the shadows between the fingers and to the fine preliminary shading on the lips 4h pencil. This is the first episode to my tutorial series.

Pick something like aea4b3 for example. This can result in spiky choppy looking hair or hair that has a sleek straight appearance. Join the discord fam. Shading hair is slightly different from shading other elements.

I also started on her hair erasing some of the overlapping shading from her face. Anime hair is drawn using thick distinct sections instead of individual strands. Remember the darker the pencil the more pigment blackness. This is a manga tutorial about how to color manga anime style hair.

So the goal is to illustrate those strands and volume. Hair has lots of strands. Shading in hair is my favorite thing to do. Get the shading going on the anime style.

The main challenge comes in knowing where to places the shadows and highlights. Here the artist made the window structure heavier by doing this he felt he d added an emotional solidity to the picture and he liked the silhouette created by the. This tutorial should give you a good idea of how to do that in fairly standard lighting conditions and for quite a few different hairstyles. The process of shading anime hair is fairly simple.

Manga and anime always has crazy hairstyles that defy the laws of physics so have fun with it. Drawing anime hair can seem tricky at first but by breaking.