How to Draw Hair

Light and shadow fall across strands of hair, so its tone is always changing - you cannot use a pencil-stroke to represent every hair in a realist drawing. This tutorial shows you how to draw short and long hair by observing the highlights and using negative space drawing. The examples are quite detailed, but you can also use the principles of the negative space (which could also be called reserved-highlight) approach in quick sketches. Mentally map out the highlights and draw bold darks with broad strokes, lightly working in suggestions of texture, without becoming too detailed.