Description

Short hair is slightly more challenging todrawthan normal hair because hair does crazy things when itsshortened.With longer hair, the sheer weight of the hair pulls thehair downin a relatively consistent direction. But short hair cancurl, bend,and go just about everywhere.

The top part of the head can be drawn as an extremelycurvingline, or can be drawn with simplistic alfalfa sprouts, orcan bedrawn using all sorts of triangles and curves.

Typically, the bangs are more complex than the rest of thehairon a short hairdo. This part of the hair has lines and strandsthatrun the gamut. You can draw simplistic triangles or you candrawcurves. You can make the bangs symmetrical, or you can havethem goall over the place. You can have strands overlap or you canhaveeach strand appear to neatly stay in their own corners.

The key is not to draw every single strand, but rather to trytodraw huge chunks of hair. Not only is it difficult to seereallyfine strands of hair, but drawing clumps of hair islesstime-consuming than working to draw every single strand ofhairgrowing out of a character's head. This especially makesdrawingindividual strands branching off from the sides of the headsa loteasier. It can seem like a nightmare trying to figure out howthin,yet normally visible strands of hair branch out.

Of course, lots of people might want to capture everysinglestrand and draw the most realistic character possible. Thisispossible with a strictly pencil drawing. But it can get alottrickier when you have to figure out the correct shades foreachindividual strand. This is possible, but it can beverytime-consuming. This might be your bag. But if you'reinterested incartooning and want to save time, you might want tolearn how todraw the outline of the hair, drawing out clumps ofhair, andadding shading and highlights.