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How to Draw Ko-Chan’s Hair

Step by Step:

There is one part of this tutorial that might help with many anime character’s hair, but this tutorial is pretty specialized. The last two steps might be helpful for more than just drawing Ko-Chan though. If you do draw Ko-Chan, please remember to give me credit for my original character, and if you copy the picture exactly, remember to mention that the picture is a copy. Thanx. =^__^=

1. You want to have the head and the face drawn before starting on the hair in most cases. What you need no matter what is the head and the hair line. Also, include the ear. It helps. If you want to know how to draw the head, here is a tutorial to help you. How to draw a three quarter angle face, click here
2. Mostly, you just need to look at what I’ve drawn and copy it the best you can, but there are a few things I will point out to help. The part is off center. There are two little locks of hair that stick up more that the part, and coming down from it, there is one lock that crosses in front of another. The hair on the right side (your right, not his) if fluffier than on the left (your left). Make sure you draw some locks crossing in front of others, even in the middle of all the fluff on the right side. He has shiny hair, but it isn’t exactly neat.
3. Drawing the hair coming down on the right side, draw it a good deal longer than on the left side. It comes past is chin on the right side, but not really much on the left side if at all.
4. He has a high pony tail. Draw the strands of hair going back into the pony. The pony is REALLY long. It isn’t really thick, long and relatively thin… not really thin, but it isn’t super full. It is however LONG. When up it hangs down to his waist, but not every hair is that long, some are shorter than others.
5. Now we are getting into inking in the hair. This can be applied to more than just drawing Ko-Chan’s hair. When inking in the hair, I start at the tips and draw quick strokes upward. Darkest at the bottom and progressively getting lighter on top. Let the lines end at different levels, having the shortest lines in the direction the light source is coming from.
6. Draw the lines like you did from the tips coming from the roots (the base of the hair, going down. Use the same technique, but don’t forget to bend the lines with the bend of the hair. Wherever the hair makes a dramatic bend, draw in darker lines. When there is a lot of white space between he top and the bottom, pick a spot in the middle and fill it in drawing your lines out from the center, as you can see was done in the pony.
7. If you have this all finished and you want to color it, then you can do so free hand or with the computer. Here is a tutorial for coloring in photoshop. Coloring dark hair, click here

Related tutorials using the same picture:
General anime drawing guide, click here
drawing a three quarter angle face, click here
drawing clothes, click here
coloring dark hair, click here
shading clothes, click here
coloring skin, click here
coloring Ko-Chan’s clothes, click here

Description
How to Draw Ko-Chan’s Hair

Step by Step:

There is one part of this tutorial that might help with many anime character’s hair, but this tutorial is pretty specialized. The last two steps might be helpful for more than just drawing Ko-Chan though. If you do draw Ko-Chan, please remember to give me credit for my original character, and if you copy the picture exactly, remember to mention that the picture is a copy. Thanx. =^__^=

1. You want to have the head and the face drawn before starting on the hair in most cases. What you need no matter what is the head and the hair line. Also, include the ear. It helps. If you want to know how to draw the head, here is a tutorial to help you. How to draw a three quarter angle face, click here
2. Mostly, you just need to look at what I’ve drawn and copy it the best you can, but there are a few things I will point out to help. The part is off center. There are two little locks of hair that stick up more that the part, and coming down from it, there is one lock that crosses in front of another. The hair on the right side (your right, not his) if fluffier than on the left (your left). Make sure you draw some locks crossing in front of others, even in the middle of all the fluff on the right side. He has shiny hair, but it isn’t exactly neat.
3. Drawing the hair coming down on the right side, draw it a good deal longer than on the left side. It comes past is chin on the right side, but not really much on the left side if at all.
4. He has a high pony tail. Draw the strands of hair going back into the pony. The pony is REALLY long. It isn’t really thick, long and relatively thin… not really thin, but it isn’t super full. It is however LONG. When up it hangs down to his waist, but not every hair is that long, some are shorter than others.
5. Now we are getting into inking in the hair. This can be applied to more than just drawing Ko-Chan’s hair. When inking in the hair, I start at the tips and draw quick strokes upward. Darkest at the bottom and progressively getting lighter on top. Let the lines end at different levels, having the shortest lines in the direction the light source is coming from.
6. Draw the lines like you did from the tips coming from the roots (the base of the hair, going down. Use the same technique, but don’t forget to bend the lines with the bend of the hair. Wherever the hair makes a dramatic bend, draw in darker lines. When there is a lot of white space between he top and the bottom, pick a spot in the middle and fill it in drawing your lines out from the center, as you can see was done in the pony.
7. If you have this all finished and you want to color it, then you can do so free hand or with the computer. Here is a tutorial for coloring in photoshop. Coloring dark hair, click here

Related tutorials using the same picture:
General anime drawing guide, click here
drawing a three quarter angle face, click here
drawing clothes, click here
coloring dark hair, click here
shading clothes, click here
coloring skin, click here
coloring Ko-Chan’s clothes, click here