How To Draw Realistic Curly/Coiled Hair Digitally | Procreate Tutorial

Okay, guys so to start off with, we have to create a basic sketch for the hair. So with that, i'm taking soft airbrush and take your base color. Now it doesn't really matter. It shouldn't be perfect at all. I'M just placing this layer just above the head. So that we can also, you know, create the lines for the hair that are coming on the face and i'm just creating this basic sketch for the hair like this make sure the lines are you know curvy, so just to kind of interpret those type of curls. I hope that makes sense now, once you have that basic sketch and you are happy with it, just create a new layer and place it underneath the layer where you have the face and now just pick up. This brush called the noble chalk in sketching brush set and start shading the whole shape with this brush. Also, with the base color that you have now, you can use softer brush if you want, but this brush goes really well with this type of hair and now, once you are done with that, just create a new layer again just above the head, so that we Can paint the parts that are coming on the face and just go ahead and paint those as well as i'm doing right here and once you are done with that as well, create a new layer. Now this time go inking and pick up dry ink as the brush now pick up a darker shade as compared to the base color. Now we are going to be creating those hair strokes and also i'm keeping the streamline up to 25. You can also use technical pen if you want to, but i'd suggest, using dry ink. It works best and these are the directions you have to create the curls in and yeah. I hope that makes sense, so i'm just going to start creating those coil up curls like this, making sure the direction, as i just showed you with the arrows and yeah just keeping that direction in mind start adding these hair like strokes, um all over the hair. All over the base that we created and don't worry about it being perfect just now, so just try to fill the whole hair with these type of curls also also draw some curls over the face, as well just to kind of blend it with the head as Well, so that's what i'm doing here now once you're done with that create another layer. Now, this time pick up even darker color than you used earlier and yeah um, you can also play around with the size of the brush. You can either you know, increase the size of the brush or decrease it according to your liking. So yeah, that's what i basically did and i'm adding more and more headstrokes over the ones that i just added and yeah. These curls are really simple to draw, as you guys can see. I drew some of these on the face as well: keep filling it in and once you are happy with that, just also make sure to add some hair on the outer parts of the whole hairstyle or the whole hair. As you guys can see, i am adding these flyaways or these really baby kind of hair just outside um the whole hair just to kind of blend in or just to make them look a lot more realistic. Now, once you are done with that, what you want to do is you want to pick up blending tool and i'm using software brush as my blending tool, and then you just have to lightly go over these hair like strokes. So wherever you have drawn those hair like strokes, just make sure to go over them really light-handed. With this blending tool, you don't really have to blend it all out, just go over them, really light-handed. So yeah! That'S what i'm doing here now just go back onto the layer where you created the base and enable elf lock and pick up black color. Now it depends on the color you're using for the hair, so just use a dark color and using the soft airbrush. I'M just gon na add more shadows to the base and, as you guys can see, i added some around the jaw and also over the head as well. Just a little bit now, once you're done with that, just create a new layer and add clipping mask just create that layer, just above the layer where we created the base and then pick up a really light. Orangish or yellow kind of color also change the layer mode to soft light and add this yellow color um, wherever you think, light, should be hitting or just keep in mind the light source of your painting. Now, what i'm doing here is i'm just gon na decrease. The opacity of this layer now it's up to you if you like that, look, but i just like to decrease the opacity just a little bit and once you are done with that, just create a new layer, just above all of the layers that you have for The hair and pick up the color from the hair. Now it can be darker, it doesn't really matter, and then you have to pick light pen from luminance brush set making sure the size is not too big. Just start drawing these hair like strokes once again, just over the whole hair. Now what this is gon na do is. This is just gon na make the whole hair look a lot more realistic and only add these hair strokes on the upper part of the hair. I hope that is making sense, so i really hope you guys enjoyed today's tutorial and if you did, please don't forget to give this video a big thumbs up, and also also just just to revise all the steps. Just comment down below all the steps that i mentioned in this video now this is just going to help you memorize those steps and help. You will help you in the process of drawing hair and yeah other than that. If you create something out of the tutorials and tag me on instagram, and i will link it down in the description as well other than that, i will see you guys next time.