All TogetHAIR Now: Art Camp Week 5
Get it? All together? Toget… Hair? Now? Okay, maybe I should stick to making art instead of jokes. 😜
Aloha my Awesome Artists! How’s it going for you today? Good hair day? Bad hair day? “Haven’t even looked at my hair” kind of day? One of the many things I enjoy about art is that we get to use our imagination to make a world where it can be any kind of day, with any kind of hairstyle.
For example, I like to draw mermaids swimming through the ocean with long flowing hair in all different colors.
You can try drawing some different hairstyles too. If the written instructions don’t make sense, I’ve linked to another video by artist Zyra Bañez.
- First, draw some blank head shapes on a piece of paper. They can be simple ovals or it can be more of an upside down egg shape. Do you want the chin to be more pointed, flat, or round?
- Using a pencil, lightly draw the hairline. This is the line that shows how the hair meets the forehead. It can be a curve like a rainbow, be pointed, or straight across.
- Draw the partition in the hair. You can draw it as dot or a line. This is the point from which the hair grows. Is it in the middle or to one side or the other? If the hair goes straight back from the hairline, make a mental note of that.
- Lightly mark out the location of any hair accessories or styles, such as pigtails, braids, or hair tucked behind an ear.
- Draw the overall shape of the hair. Usually, people’s hair is a bit fluffy, so it goes out and around and above the person’s head that you drew in the first step.
- Draw the overall shape of the bangs, if you want them.
- Decide on the type of line that defines the hair. Curly hair is a spiral or wavy “s” shape. Straight hair is usually not perfectly straight, but has a slight curve, especially on the top as it follows the curve of the head.
- Begin adding in the detail of the hair, beginning all your lines from where you drew the partition in the hair, remembering to follow the shape of the head. You are not drawing every single hair, but enough to get the overall feel of the person’s hair. This takes practice!
examples/coloring sheets
Here are some hairstyles that I drew for you!
Dabbles&Babbles also has an awesome sheet of hair styles that’s free here: http://dabblesandbabbles.com/blank-faces-coloring-page-2-0/ My only complaint is that the hair is completely filled in black, which looks cool but then you can’t add details or make it a different color! (Such as purple)
⭐ bonus artist links ⭐
Artist Andrea Pippins has a great variety of faces and hair examples on her website, but I thought you might enjoy this cute and simple set of illustrations: https://andreapippins.com/Coily-Girls
If you like working from photos, photographer Angelica Dass takes photos of people of all ages, background, and races, from all over the world! And then she pairs the photo with the closest color of their skin tone so you can see such a wide range of skin colors. I love her work, you can view it on her website here: https://www.angelicadass.com/humanae-project A quick note: the photos are cropped so you can’t see any clothes, but that is so you can focus on their faces, and I promise you they are actually wearing clothes.