DRAW ANIME & MANGA HAIR : HOW TO DRAW MANGA HAIR WITH DRAWING LESSONS

How to Draw Anime Hair : Drawing Manga Hair Lesson

Here is a fantastic Anime & Manga Hair Style drawing tutorial for all of those Japanese illustration fanatics out there. Anime hair is pretty easy to draw compared to real structured hair illustrations so only a little bit of training is needed with impressive results.

All About the Hairstyles in Animanga 

Animanga is very well known for the characters with very diverse variety of hairstyles especially exotic or wild ones as well as their wide variety of hair colors. It can be said that the reason for the characters to look western is to give each character a very distinct appearance so to distinguish the characters in any Animanga (both Anime or Manga).

Basic Anatomy of Manga Hair : Draw Manga Hair

Try to imagine "Ryokyo" from "Tenchi Muyo!" with a green hair and long thick ponytails, insted of the blue punk hair, she normaly haves.... she might look cute, but it's just not "Ryokyo" anymore! The hair is one of the "trademarks" of a manga karater, and are offen used to give a karather a specific look/style.

Tutorials - Draw Manga Hair

Hair is a fun way to make your character really unique. Once you've got your head shape and you've drawn a hair line, which is just where the hair begins on the scalp, you can start to sketch in the basic shapes of the hair, and add detail later.

Anime Style Manga Hair

In this brief tutorial, JuLie will share a few tips about drawing anime style hair.

Hair : How to Draw Manga Hair Lessons

Hair : First you may want to download and print out the template I made just for class so you can follow along. It includes a bald female and male head. Use it to develop your own hairstyles.

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