How To Draw Manga Hair

For this tutorial let s draw fairly long hair with bangs pushed to one side.

How to draw manga hair. You can do the same with the outer clumps on the sides of the front section. Like real hair anime hair is composed of many strands. Typically female manga characters have longer wavier hair so let s try out one of these styles next start out by lightly drawing your character s head in the size and position you like. How to draw hair part 1 by atsuhisa okura and manga university depending on the style anime hair can be very complex.

Since manga characters typically have simple geometric hair you can create excellent manga hair simply by layering shapes on top of one another and erasing the lines underneath the shapes on top. You can draw some that are wavy and some that juts curve in one direction. Enclose an irregular form within the circle using two curved lines. To make the hair look more messy draw the front hair clumps pointing into different directions and of varying shapes and curves.

However if you break it down into its basic components the process of drawing anime hair becomes a little simpler. Draw a series of nearly straight lines forming corners at the jaw and chin. Create a simple oval to serve as a guideline for the head add a larger circle behind it then add spikes or rectangles to create the sides and fronts of the hair. Enclose the figure by using a short curved line to outline the ear.

Notice how the lines meet in a downward facing point off centered to one side of the head.