Anime Hair Color Shading

Shading in hair is my favorite thing to do because it can really bring dimension to an artwork.

Anime hair color shading. Get the shading going on the anime style. Start by preparing a clean line drawing of the curly hair. In this video i go over 3 different ways i color in hair using paint tool sai. Adding the next shade for the hair.

Building the volume for the hair. Step 2 color the hair. The version of sai i. Follow me to explore all the ways from easy quick way to advance complex tutorial about anime hair color with medibang paint pro.

It s a little bit late but here is a part 2 for how to color. This is a pretty lengthy tutorial. Shading curly anime hair step by step step 1 prepare a line drawing of the hair. Smooth over the shading with either a blending stump or some paper towel.

Drawing does take time so don t be impatient and skip through parts. Erase around the edges of the hair to make it stand out more against the background then use a kneaded eraser to add some highlights to the face and neck. Select base color before starting to shade the hair. Fully color in the hair if you have an option of adding the highlight over top of it such as if.

Roughly shade over the hair eyes and shadows with a soft pencil 2b or 4b. This is a step by step guide to cel shade anime hair. Picking light source for the hair. Anime and manga generally use a technique known as cel shading which is shading without gradients.

Cel shading is generally much faster and easier to apply to a drawing than realistic shading which makes it great for shading quickly shading multiple frames of an animation or many panels of manga.