How To Shade In Anime Hair

This tutorial explains how to shade an anime or manga style face to show different lighting conditions commonly used in various scenes of anime and manga.

How to shade in anime hair. This is a pretty lengthy tutorial. Shading hair is so much fun that i always look forward doing it. The examples include simple gradient and realistic highlights.

Yes sometimes it s not so much fun but usually it is this particular piece was done in adobe photoshop and i have included the brushes to the brushes. This is the first episode to my tutorial series. In this video i show how to shade manga hair two ways.

Here s a simple guide to shade the hair. But they re hard to to represent properly. This is the first episode to my tutorial series.

How anime hair is draw anime hair sections. The version of sai i m using is sai 2. This short tutorial shows several common ways to draw anime hair highlights.

Shading in hair is my favorite thing to do. Shading in hair is my favorite thing to do because it can really bring dimension to an artwork. Anime hair highlights drawing examples hair highlights are basically just light reflecting from the hair.

In this video i go over 3 different ways i color in hair using paint tool sai. Join the discord fam. Their color can change.

Forehead will be completely lit up as it curves towards the above light source nose the upper side as it faces towards the light. Shapes and colors are cool it expresses a character personality and with a little bit of fantasy is possible to create very intricate but beautiful hairstyles. Things to know about anime hair before going into the actual drawing examples below are a few things that can help you gain a better understanding of how to shade anime hair and why it s shaded the way its.