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Today I have for you what is probably one of the most requested tutorials which are how to draw hair and I've been meaning to do this for a while. I just haven't got around to it, I've managed to throw something together that you should hopefully found useful.

First of all, I'm going to roughly sketch out some outlines to give myself an idea of scale but probably end up adjusting it as I go.

Here I'm just starting from one point of this drawing and usually, I just render it fully as I go. I'm using a Primo charcoal 59-3B pencil. Always sharpen it and making sure I'm creating very fine lines.

I think the highlights are one of the most important things naturally hair reflects light and so having that contrast between the light and dark areas will give a better impression.

sometimes I make a dark line between two parts and this gives a sense of that separation, as long as this is present then it should always be able to be recognized as hair. One thing that's quite challenging when drawing hair like this is the way that each of the hairs overlaps and when this happens the hairs that come together can appear as one shade

Sometimes it might help to draw the outlines of the highlights and then you can just fill in the shadows around it. You can then lightly shade in and add more pencil turns to the highlights.

If I'm going to give some general advice when it comes to drawing hair, I'd say focus on the direction you a drawing in relation to the others, this includes looking at how you create a separation between, usually in the shadows alongside the highlights and producing contrasting shades.

This tutorial is all about drawing the hair so I didn't include other parts, like the eyes, nose or mouth. I think I've pretty much covered this process. There we go that's an example of how to draw hair. This isn't the only way. There are artists out there that have many other techniques and alternative methods to draw hair but this is the way that I'd go about drawing it. I hope this is useful for you.

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