Drawing Hair on a Cartoon Girl

Video Transcript

"All right, with hair the possibilities are literally limitless. You can go for any look you want to. I'm going to teach you in my mind the safest most nuetral expression, that certainly you can build from and it seems like a fairly common look. Going to our test page here. All of our girls have sort of evolved into different looking creatures, but I'm going to do different hair styles and show you what I mean. For most girls, what I end up doing just even the first look is to give them the bangs first. Just two quick little swoops right across the head, just like that, see? And then you follow the head along the side, and go up, and we're going to end up giving this girl a pony tail. We're going to give her a little bit of definition up here at the top and swoop down like that. And that'll be the front of her hair. And then you go up to top and give her that little rubber band that holds her hair back and keeping your mind in perspective, you draw the ponytail going behind her head, the bottom part, right here. And that gives her the pony tail look. There are a wide variety of types you can try. If you want you can go more uptight. Seems to fit this character here. Give her one of those grandma buns, see? Hair all pulled back. Or if you want, make her hair flow a bit more. Give it some body. In which case you don't want to draw the bottom portion of the ear, because you want to give it room. And hair is kind of a complicated thing. Something you want to spend a lot of time on thinking about exactly what you want to do. For our girl, we're going to do the safe neutral look. Which again is the two quick swoops across the face like that, to start the bangs off. Then we follow the side of the head up, just like that, and like that. Give the top bang some definition there and come along the side to finish it up. For the top part draw on our little rubber band. Behind the head. And there you have it. A neutral pulled back ponytail look."