Anime Hair Shading Tips

This is a step by step guide to cel shade anime hair.

Anime hair shading tips. Building the volume for the hair. Fully color in the hair if you have an option of adding the highlight over top of it such as if. Style and types of hair. Forehead will be completely lit up as it curves towards the above light source nose the upper side as it faces towards the light cheeks the upper area of the cheekbones upper lip as it sticks out just a little.

Adding the next shade for the hair. Once you decided how to. Don t forget the volume. Step 3 add the shading.

Picking light source for the hair. This is a pretty lengthy tutorial. First of all let s consider the style and the shape of the hair you want to shade. Start by preparing a clean line drawing of the curly hair.

However you can still use these brush settings in the first version of sai. In this video i go over 3 different ways i color in hair using paint tool sai. Post melody madoka magica. Step 2 color the hair.

Shading individual hair strands. Shading in hair is my favorite thing to do because it can really bring dimension to an artwork. Unless the character uses gel or has dirty hair always remember not to stick it to the. Select base color before starting to shade the hair.

Drawing does take time so don t be impatient and skip through parts. How to shade anime hair 1. Get the shading going on the anime style. Most of the face will be shaded with the lighter areas being placed as follows.