How I draw hair// Tips and Tricks in Clip Studio Paint

hello i'm blue and today i'll be explaining and showing you guys my process on how i draw hair but before we start today's video is brought to you by clip studio paint i'm very excited to be working with the people at clip city paints because i absolutely love this program not only is it a good price but also so many different features and materials with so many different art styles and drawing techniques i've been using clip studio paint for a really long time now and i can't recommend it enough for any artist that wants to start digital or has been doing digital art for a while now it's it's great this whole tutorial today will be drawn in their program uh but i already use their program for like everything i do uh thank you so much to lipstick paint and now onto the tutorial hair is definitely one of my favorite things to draw since you can do so much with it in context of style color texture length and so on before you notice in a lot of animes that the hair can be a really big defining trait of their character design since a lot of animes can suffer from same face syndrome so they use their hair to express themselves i guess but i know getting it to look like how you picture it in your head can be a bit difficult so today i'll be giving tips that i follow when drawing hair and i'll also be explaining how i color and render it as well this tutorial we just fit into two sections the first one will be about how i draw the hair and the second will be about how i shade and render it having a wide variety of brushes can help you when you're trying to figure out your rendering style which is drawing style in general because a bunch of brushes have different pressures and stabilities and stuff clips video paints has a bunch of downloadable brushes that artists have made and submitted into the community there's always new stuff and there's stuff from for all different kinds of styles it's from my favorite features because there's so many different brushes that i can experiment and try with the brush i'm using today is a brush called sol by nocturlin once you go on the website and you signed in and you downloaded the brush you can you can then get to materials in clip ceiling paint and just you just drag and drop it into a brush section and you can just use it from there i like to spice it up every now and then and just try a bunch of new brushes just to keep my work interesting first drawing tip i have here today is head shape you've probably seen a lot of artists when they start sketching they use a circle for this circle for the hit well that's the guideline for a skull i've seen plenty of artists not plan out their skull or the hair shape and it can look amazing but you can also risk your character having an elongated skull or like a dip in their head because you do not know where like the skull sits and where the hair can flow in and where you can't first you're going to determine what kind of head shape you would use based on your art style mine's more anime so my head shapes are a lot bigger but another example of a head shape can be if you have more realistic style the head shape will be a lot smaller if you find it rather difficult to draw head shape tip city paint has a bunch of 3d models on their website that you can trace over just to get the anatomy right and just to help you with your process there's no shame in using this as a reference or tracing over these base models it'll help make your work a lot easier and it will help you improve your anatomy again it's on their website you can search up 3d models and you'll find a bunch of them you can download them and they'll be in the materials again [Music] one of the more important anatomy steps to take into consideration are foreheads i didn't see enough people talking about forehead anatomy but i find it pretty important you don't need to know before it anatomy perfectly uh but i think knowing how big the forehead must be or how small the forehead must be can help you with your facial anatomy a lot i stick with like one shaped forehead because i don't think it's that important but i think knowing just the basics of it a lot of people ask me why my canvas is gray when i start sketching out it's a setting i have for when i open my canvas it immediately opens to gray you can set it up when you first open your canvas and just select canvas color i do this so my eyes don't get sore because i have sensitive eyes so the white canvas can hurt my eyes after a while also something pretty addicting to you with like the canvas opening is something called a time lapse option you can select it at the bottom here and it'll record everything on your canvas [Music] another drawing that i learned pretty early on and that helped me a ton is something called a starting point and a direction flow this is a point where hair will flow out of and it also is the starting point of the direction of the hair flowing if you know where the starting point sits on your head you can do a hairstyle from any direction because a starting point will never move from one direction on a skull you can have multiple starting points on a head it does not just have to be one singular starting point all right some examples of starting points is some characters i have here uh this character on top here his name is julian and he belongs to one of my mutuals on instagram called gemini gemini is very good at drawing hair they always have very interesting like their characters very interesting hairstyles and so uh jillian's this is the character he's starting point starts here and it moves across like this so this is basically where all his hair comes from julian has textured wavy hair so it's not a straight line it's more like like this this is how the direction flow comes out of the starting points the starting point is over here and it moves back just a bit so just behind this piece of hair over here this is where his starting point sits and then he also i guess his starting point is like over here so it's almost the same as jillian it's more of a pulse like this so all his hair flows from this line out like this and it kind of does a sweep this way and then this way and then you also have [Music] i also like the forehead and stuff like i said foreheads are really important so i know julian it he's starting points into his forehead so i can please start to point exactly where my forehead line is so i'm basically taking everything from that starting point outwards i think the most blessed setting in clip studio paint is it has auto save so it can save from 5 minutes to 50 minutes i have mine set at 15 minutes uh it's great because a lot of times my laptop crashes where the power goes out and i end up losing a lot of work so if that happens i just turned back on lipstick paint and it would have restored all the canvases and stuff that i've done up until the 15 minutes it's saved before it went off to make hair simpler you can put hair into strands so strand is basically where the hair flows together so uh to make it easier to draw you put your hair into strands the bigger your strands are the more continue your style is going to look but the smaller they are the more realistic it's going to look every strand has a different flow every strand has different textures so you can have a curly strand so that means there's a lot more movement in there and there's a lot more shading that goes in because of all the movement and you get more straight strands which means there'd be less shading and uh less movement because the hair is more straight to determine strands i feel with curly hair you need a lot more strokes and lines to show that there is a lot more going on there but with straight hair it's better to have less because straight hair is a lot more flatter than what curly hair is so it doesn't need as much shading hair is a lot of movement when you've determined how many strands your character's hair style is gonna have you can add movement to that so it'll go in like in different directions uh with wavy hair there's movement but if there's more straight hair the chances of there being a lot of movement is very little but with hair you can actually just have as much fun as you want you can have them standing or straight you can just go crazy because there aren't really many rules right now i'll be drawing some examples with the rules i just explained so they'll have starting points and different strands and stuff like that i've already drawn the first hairstyle which was julian's hairstyle and the other three are just random [Music] three [Music] three i'll have to do a completely different tutorial to explain how lighting and shading can affect hairstyles and textures but today i'll just show you a simple hair coloring tutorial that you can do on any just flat piece first you need a base color and then i take a darker color and use the airbrush to show where the hair will be darker so this is like in between places or under places and then i'll take a harder brush and i will take it then i'll take a harder brush with the same color i did with the airbrush and i will start defining the strands you can add darker colors for the areas that are more under so like if it has a loop in the hair uh but just under the loop you can add the dark areas of part of the hair overlap to each other you can also add a dark you can also add the dark color over there then when i'm done with the shading i add a clipping mask to my base layer and i take the blush color that i normally give my characters and i go over that just in the front area uh so it doesn't clash too hard on the skin when you're done with base coloring and shading you can use this setting called tonal correction where you can change the hues and saturations and tone curves and all that of the picture and then i use this for when i went to color correcting and all that kind of stuff all right before i start rendering i have an entire video about how i paint stuff will go into detail of like the shapes i use and what exactly i do for blending and stuff i'll link that in the description if you're interested in checking that out but i'm just gonna do a quick like explanation of what i do now i'm going to render for rendering uh i messy try and stick with movements so after like after i've determined the movement of the strand i will all my brush strokes will be in the direction of the strand i don't draw every single hair so that's why i just leave it mostly towards the strands and i also do a lot of bubble techniques so a lot of round edges so at the end of a hair tip i'll normally do like a round dark color and then at the start of the hair also do a round dark color and maybe in the middle as well uh and i'll also like i and i'll also stick with more triangles and round circles with curly hair i will have more dark in there so i'll have a lot more dark circles because curly hair is a lot more circles and round shapes so i'll just put a bunch of circles in there and that normally doesn't it's supposed to and for straight hair i try keeping try keeping the colors very light and very neat uh and for the final touches with every hairstyle i always add loose strands so it's just 102 either going in the face or just outside the head area i just think it adds like really nice colors uh i don't really do that much lighting if i do it's just poor to find your own rendering style for your hair you just got to try a lot of things you can feel free to use my art as reference if you want to i don't mind you can also feel free to read drama art if you really want to but thank you so much for watching i hope this tutorial helps a little bit and teach you a few things i think hair is really fun to draw and i really enjoy it uh sorry for not posting for so long i was really busy this last week and i recently got a virus on my computer so i lost all the files i was working on so this week i have been really busy trying to get everything back and trying to get back on track thank you again to clip studio paints for sponsoring this video i really love this program thank you uh and i hope everybody has a really good day bye

Channel: Bluebiscuits

Views: 1,623,707

Keywords: clip studio paint, hair tutorial, art tips, how to draw hair, digital painting, art tutorial, digital art, digital tutorial

Id: 58NfO3MBDlw

Length: 14min 7sec (847 seconds)

Published: Sun Jun 13 2021