Shading Anime Hair Tutorial

Get the shading going on the anime style.

Shading anime hair tutorial. Shading hair is slightly different from shading other elements. The process of shading anime hair is fairly simple. This is the first episode to my tutorial series. Here s a simple guide to shade the hair and make it glossy but realistic.

Anime face shading different lighting. Shading in hair is my favorite thing to do because it can really bring dimension to an artwork. This tutorial explains how to shade an anime or manga style face to show different lighting conditions. Simple anime manga hair highlights anime hair simple highlight.

Anime hair can be a challenge. The most basic type of hair highlight used in anime and manga can just be draw as one simple shape. But they re hard to to represent properly. Step 5 add some shading anime long male hair drawing.

The next step is to lay down the first shadow color i more than often use slightly cold shadow color. In this style the balance of the hair is shifted to one side of the head covering one eye. This one might be a bit more advanced than the last one but just follow the directions closely and it ll all make sense. The version of sai i m using is sai 2.

Shapes and colors are cool it expresses a character personality and with a little bit of fantasy is possible to create very intricate but beautiful hairstyles. Anime hair shading tutorial by ramy author s comment. This is the first episode to my tutorial series. Anime and manga generally use a technique known as cel shading which is shading without gradients.

Anime hair no highlight. Pick something like aea4b3 for example. The main challenge comes in knowing where to places the shadows and highlights. Anyway this one was requested a lot so hope you like it understand it.

Hair has lots of strands. Drawing one eye covered male anime hair anime male hair over one eye drawing step by step. So the goal is to illustrate those strands and volume. 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.

Though this tutorial is about drawing hair highlights it should also be mentioned that in some occasions anime hair can be drawn without any highlights at all. Join the discord fam.