How to Draw Manga Hair

Video Transcript

"Hello, my name is David Lamplugh and I work for Asel Arts Supplies in Austin Texas. I'm here today to answer the question. How do you draw Manga hair? Now it still operates with the physics that happened on the human head. So there is a, the bangs start right about there and kind of hang over. There is an effort in Monga as well as everything else to kind of find shapes in there. Find pleasing calligraphic lines. So you haven't got kind of spiky. Well, you know spiky is good too but this one in particular kind of works with circles and patterns. I'm going to go head and draw the hair back to the ponytail. Also keeping in mind the shape of these kind of calligraphies strokes at the front. I'm just going to get shapes of the ponytail. Pleasing shapes hopefully. Here's the stray hair in the other side. Going back to the certain, the center point where the hair actually radiates from. Hair radiates off the scalp in circular patterns. So that's still how you should draw it there. Even though we're not going to concentrate on every single hair on her scalp and more concerned with shape of here and also shadow on this thing. Strangely enough that's pretty important. I'm going to put in shadow on the bottom of the hair where it goes into the bangs and that really helps it from being just a jagged affair. To being dimensional. Which is the goal. The light source is roughly right there. Shining down. I'm going to leave little bits back here. There isn't much light back here. So I'm going to really fill that in. They got kind of strokes in here. Here's the shadow remember light coming down here. Shadows roughly there. I'm going to fill these in cause I'm going to try something real quick. To putting in highlights with an eraser. These have very jagged highlights on them. Kind of laid it in there put that line back in. So you keep your forms but you got highlights over the form. Concentrating on shapes and the shadows on the hair and then adding highlights quickly and that is how you draw Monga hair."