How To Draw Hair: "Updo" Hairstyles

Hey there, everybody it's Mark, Crilley, I'm back with another how to draw a video. It'S been quite a while, since I did a video on hairstyles, so that's we're going to be doing today. I'Ve got two rectangles here. People like to know the size I'm working at. It'S two and a half inches from top to bottom. That works out to just a little over six centimeters from top to bottom there, and then what is that? Five and a half centimeters almost from side to side which works out to just a little over two inches and what I'm going to do is add. Just a couple of horizontal lines here for placing the eyes and the nose alright. So this first line here is pretty much at the exact halfway point, maybe a shade closer to the lower line, and I'm just splitting that in half - and you end up with these two lines - one that will be the top of the eyelash - you know top of Her eye and then this aline will be for placing the noses on both of these faces. So unfortunately, I can't really make this a video about how to draw face in profile is focused mainly on the hair, but I do have a video that is on that. Subject, drawing a face in profile even facing in this direction, so I'm going to go ahead and link to that I'll, put an annotation link here and then also in the infobox below. You won't find a direct link to that video on drawing a face in profile, but for now I'm just going to go ahead and get those lines in place using time lapse all right. Well, sorry, I had to do all of that in time-lapse, but the trade-off is that this is going to allow me to hopefully do the entire hairstyle real time, and what I'm going to begin by doing is delineating the upper edge of her forehead, the hairline at The forehead and I'm noticing, as I look at it, that it is a little closer to the top line than the bottom. Of course, different people have different domes, don't they in terms of forehead, so you can play around with that and move that line around. But it seems to me that almost any person has the hair come down and kind of frame the forehead in this way and then sort of head back at an angle where it you know if it were a man, it might go down into sideburns. I think for a woman, either there's just a very little hair there at all or, as in the case of this hairstyle, that I'm going to be doing. There is one of these classic little strands of hair I'll go ahead and put that in place. Sort of snaking its way down like a sort of loose strand of hair, although in this case I would suspect, it's deliberately left loose, you know and having got that in place, I think it is time for me to well I'm going to put in a couple Of lines here for the braids - and I should say that the sort of theme of this video is, I believe both of these hairstyles would fit into what we call them up do is that right, hair stylists? You can correct me if I'm wrong the type of hairstyle in which the hair is pulled up off the neck and sort of held in place, either on top of the head or in the back of the head, and in this case, there's going to be a Sort of a braid structure - and I'm not just you know making this up. I looked at images photographs on the internet of different hairstyles and saw one that I thought was quite an interesting hairstyle in the way that it combines braids with you know the sort of updo idea that I wanted to cover for this video. So not to repeat myself about having other videos, but I do have another video that covers how to draw braids, and so I'm going to link to that as well. That'Ll, maybe be the second link in the infobox. Where else yeah, you can have your annotation links switched on and I'll I'll put in an annotation link to that video about the braids that you can just click and it'll open in a new window, and you could, you know, pause this one come back to it. Whatever, but basically the it comes down to my approach is to get these sort of heart-like shapes or check mark like shapes in place first and then, once I've done that I can sort of separate well here, let's separate down this way separate these into the different Components, and so there you have a little braid put in place, but what was really interesting to me and I'm gon na erase a little of that initial guideline. There was that this hairstyle I saw - and I hope it's not like a radically unusual hairstyle, but it actually seemed to be pulling the bits of hair up across the side of the scalp and attaching them into the braid. So let me know folks if this is a radical, unusual, hairstyle or if it is in fact something that's quite common but um. I thought it was interesting that you had the braid and then you have these separate little much more. You know loose flowing parts of hair that were pulled up and seemed to be kind of attached into that braid, somehow or in any case it certainly looked like it, was being held in place up there beneath of the brain, so just sort of getting these lines In here and then these are not the final lines, a sort of rough looking and later on, I'm going to pull out my trusty black prismacolor to do final lines. But for now I can just sort of hang loose and allow the lines to be a little bit rough and then over here I'm going to have this hair come up a little bit above the line of her scalp, and it is, I mean this hair style Is really pulling quite tight to her head, but even so you're not going to have the hair completely at the line of the scalp, and I guess over here I'm going to suggest just one last little part of that braid as it curves around to get to The other side of her head and yeah: let's go ahead and continue. You can sort of see it. I'M mapping out the flow. It'S almost like the flow of water or something this hair. I did that last week tonight talking about a river flowing down the chest. Unless I must associated water and hair or something but anyway, I hope you can see that I'm separating these into sort of separate sections, subsections subdivisions and then later on, I'm going to redraw these lines to make them look a little more elegant, let's say, and now That I've got that in place. I want to well, I think the photo that I have studied seemed to have the braids coming back here and then eventually having sort of sections of hair that came up off the neck. Let'S go down I'll do that first, and I noticed that women's hair, I guess there's going to be different from one woman to another, but I noticed that this when you, when you pull the hair up off the neck, it really the neck area is quite visible. All the way up to the back of the ear, so that's something that I saw happening in different hairstyles like this but, as I said before, the the hair is going to have at least some body to it. So it's not following exactly along that. The line of the scalp and I'm almost kind of camouflaging that scalp line, and by way of these lines of the hair being pulled up. I sort of imagine this as a almost like a wedding day hairstyle. It seems to me very common that women, at least some women on their wedding day, will do one of these updos, where the hair is pulled up, and you know maybe with a braid and quite fancy to me. It sort of makes me think of like a Greek goddess or something there's something about this hairstyle makes me think of that type of character. So you know is, if you have an original character, that is a sort of a goddess like the character. You might consider letting her have a hairstyle like this. Now you can see me adding in a section back here, and this is what I was starting to talk about earlier - that the braid comes back and then there was some sort of area back here in which the braid got concealed by a variety of little strands. That were being tucked in in the back and I would assume held in place by a pin or something I knew, there's no way that that's all going to stay in place, just naturally by magic. That'S what's holding the hair in. As always, I know very little about the terminology and the sort of the art of hair styling, but let me go ahead and put in I'm going to put a rough indication here for this final little area that at least in the photo I studied had a Whole section of hair that was pulled over to the other side of the head. It looked to me each one of these lines: sort of symbolizes the direction of the hair, and I guess in general, as in in terms of offering advice about hairstyles is, I could say that it seems to me almost regardless of hair style. A lot of it has to do with focusing on the direction that the hair is flowing in or being pulled in, so that your lines reflect them and there's a sort of a structure. It'S almost like there's an architecture to the hair, but I'm going to break up that contour to accentuate the idea of this being various large strands of hair, and I believe that we are almost done here with this one hairstyle. So I hope that that was enough. In terms of doing something, real-time - and I am going to be going over this with my black prismacolor as to create final line work, but I really can't do that part real time. I think, would be boring anyway, but we do have this other hairstyle over here. That we need to do so. Bear with me I'm going to pull out my trusty blank prismacolor where's that oh here it is and do some final line work and then maybe we'll be able to move on to the next all right. Well, you can see. I raced away some of the guidelines and I probably will do more work in terms of using the black prismacolor later on, because I do want to add a limited color scheme to both of these hair styles. But for now I wanted to point out that you know when I go over these lines with the black prismacolor. I am sort of choosing to put most of the lines or the darkest parts in the lower areas is kind of like in preparing for a shading effect. So you know just because you've got hair in all of these areas doesn't mean that when you go in with the either an inking tool or in my case I'm using a black colored pencil that doesn't mean you go over every single line. I mean you can, if you want, but my preference is to be a little selective and, to you know, leave some of it up to your imagination. So you see more sort of blank. -- is -- areas up here, where I imagine sort of there'd be a glint of light almost and then I'm getting considerably more darkness in the other areas. Well, I think we've said enough about that gosh so long-winded. But let's move on now to this other face in profile and just as I did before, I'm going to get the basic guidelines in in time-lapse, but then we'll come back and hopefully be able to do the whole hairstyle in real time all right! Well, I've got all the lines where I need them to be, and now it is time to draw this hairstyle. So, as I said, different people have different sized forehead, so I thought I'd show what this character might look like with a sort of smaller forehead, and indeed maybe you know instead of saying that everyone's hair does this exact same thing over here? I think I'm going to have this run. You know we have some variation, as you can see the profile of this character. I'Ve drawn in a different way. I didn't want to have it just be the carbon copy of the previous drawing, but anyway, getting this in place. I'M going to do a somewhat different hairstyle this time showing what the hair would look like if we're a little more wavy, because this looks pretty much like straight hair, and so I'm going to begin by dividing this into a a sort of gently waving subsection. That comes a little bit across the forehead and then heads up in this direction and all of it is going to be pulled back into a kind of a bum in the back of the head and feckless here's. What I'll do I'll go ahead and put a basic rough guideline for the entire hairstyle, although you know because it's wavy, this is really just a basic guideline on the contour - should be considerably more interesting than that, but just to give the sort of basics in place. I want to show where this you know the hair would be in terms of being pulled back into a bun, and I'm going to start up here again just getting a basic shape and place here, a kind of large oval, and since this is wavy hair, this Will end up being a much more interesting shape by the time we're done, but I think that what I said earlier about the when the hair is being pulled up off the neck. I think it holds true for most people that that area of the neck goes up pretty high back behind the ear. So now that I've got that in place, maybe I can go back to what I was doing with this waving hair back here and I'm going to begin actually. But you racing the line of the scalp, which will, I feel, like it's gon na just sort of free me up to go ahead and put the various sections of hair where I want them to be, and I'm going to begin with a kind of a wavy Subsection that comes across all the way to the front. I guess it has two waves to it. Um, I think a lot about drawing hair style is sort of getting at least one area in place and then building around that right. So I I decided that this was coming across the forehead and then maybe that leads to another sort of gently waving subsection that comes back toward the the bum. Of course, the. But the bun in the back of her head becomes the the organizing principle in a lot of ways. All of these different sections of hair need to be joined together back there, and so you, I guess you've got two things that are deciding the way you draw. This one is that you know the hair is going to come off. The forehead in you know begin the lines are all going to begin here near the forehead them, and you know they have to eventually land back there near this bum. So that kind of those two different things are determining the the way you drop in these various areas, but you can see I'm beginning by basically roping off big, wide, simple sections. One thing that I noticed in a hairstyle that was much like this. You know that this is based on was that you were able to see back here much as we saw in this one. You were able to see the hair coming up off the neck, and so that's one thing that you could get in there right from the get-go knowing okay well this. If this is visible, then this is the way that here works. Basically, you know you're trying to avoid it turning into a mass of lines, and I think that happens when you don't have a plan when you're just sort of like well throw some lines here and throw some lines there. I think you got to be strategizing and sort of thinking through the the architecture of the hair, so that every line you put down makes sense. You know so I'm going in again making them sort of gently waving. The subsections - and this is, as I said before, is going to help to break up this contour line and make it way more interesting, and I guess, having got that this big section back here that heads back towards the bum having got that in place, I can Just have other waves that are behind it. I thought it might be interesting if she has a little loose bit of hair up here in the front. Maybe she deliberately left a little loose curl up there off to one side and let's see what we do next, I think it's time to get into drawing this bun now this is now. I want to be super tight kind of schoolmarm librarian type bums, but this is going to be much more of a loose kind of you know it's it's tied together, the this wavy hair, but in a very loose way. So I'm just going in and kind of creating these subsections again that apply keep using the word subsection. I can't think of what else: don't call these these strands of hair and having them all sort of loop together towards you know the suggestion of something that's binding. It all together in there, whether it's a hairband or some sort of clip or something that's hold it in place, but again it's not just random. I sort of have an idea that okay, it's almost like the I present the bow that you put on a present that all of those pieces of ribbon kind of looped together and are held in place in the center. So that's my theory of drawing this bum of hair and my apologies. If my advice on all this stuff is less than brilliant, I'm, as you know, I'm not used to doing real-time for super long sections of a video, and I suppose I could sit down and write out in advance all the stuff that I intend to say, but That would kill all the spontaneity so yeah a lot of this stuff. You can tell it's not kind of off the top of my head, but I thought it would be. This would be more interesting if I got you know, as I had here, a little curl get some loose curls back here as well. That will add to this idea of the of this. Being you know, hair, that's free! It'S bound in a very loose way. That is allowing some little stray curls to come out, and you know I enjoyed the freedom of knowing that these are not my final lines that I can keep them. Kind of rough from them know that the final lines will be done with that black prismacolor. But again I sort of want to have a plan in place about you know weird. While the dark lines go, and I would say that for me, one thing that works is towards the end. The ends both ends of these subsections. That'S where I figure I'm going to get my darker lines and then the middle things will lighten up a little. I think I'll get one more little area back here, and maybe that tells you most of what you need to know, although now that I've committed to doing this real-time, I feel I feel like it. You got to see me. Do the entire thing now there's no turning back, we've committed to it. You'Re, not gon na rat us out, Iook, really don't bring an old time-lapse man, old, time-lapse man don't bring him into you. Finally, dumb old time-lapse man, he would be offended by a Brooklyn guy, not remembering his proper name. In any case, I think you know that I've completely run out of things to say about this, but I hope you found this useful. It'S a way of showing wavy hair. I haven't done so many videos that show wavy hair, so I wanted to make sure I did at least one that covered that topic. In fact, some people have requested really curly hair, like you see, is it Merida in the movie brave you know, has like the insanely curly hair. I mean beautiful hair. It must be said that that kind of curly hair is just gorgeous but to try to draw it whoo yeah, it's tough stuff, but who knows if if people want me to do that, maybe I can I can do a video about that. It won't all be real time. I can promise you that, so that takes us to the end of this real time edition of drawing this hairstyle. I hope that you found a use for them and go ahead and pull out the black prismacolor. Do the final lines and then we're going to come back and just do a little quick coloring to finish off this, this video all right, so I've got all these black prismacolor lines where they need to be. I did want to point out that I sort of corrected things here, this area near the temple out of that there just wasn't quite enough hair there. It wasn't as far forward on the head as it should have been so just a little point there, and now it is time to add color to this illustration, I'm going to do it with markers and I'm only going to use two different markers. One of them is a prismacolor keeping it in the family they're the eggshell. I'Ve used this before in one of my videos, it's a nice color and then this one they touch the shin heung art touch marker and, oh, my goodness. What is this? Oh, they put it on the end. There sorry about this folks, 104 Brown gray. They call it, although it doesn't look like anything like grey to me, but I'm going to go ahead and do a little bit of this real time. But it's mostly going to be in time-lapse, but I'll go ahead, and here I'll do just this section here near the front of her forehead and putting down a base color a lighter color, just to sort of build on top of later on. And you know what I'll just stop right here in this area and switch already right now to the darker color, which is this one, the brown gray? And I guess they call it, and I just wanted to show you how my idea is to only use this. For the lower areas and to let that paler yellowish color come through in the upper regions. Well, I'm not super articulate today. What is the deal? Grilling you need more coffee is what you need it, or maybe I just need more old, time-lapse man, everyone's gon na, be like old-time lads, man yeah. Where did that come from? Don'T you know the names of your own imaginary characters? In any case, this sort of shows you my approach, my to marker approach that I'm going to be using for coloring in both of these hairstyles. I'M just going to go ahead and do it all with these two markers - and you know I'll finish - that off in time lapse and then be back with a few final works all right. Well, there's my video on how to draw up do type hairstyles. Let me know you thought of it: I've always been a fan of this type of hairstyle. In fact, that's why I incorporated it into my Brody's ghost graphic novel series by way of the ghost character Talia, who has just such a hair style. In fact, it's time for me to thank anyone who has supported me by picking up that series there. She is Talia with her little updo as well as Miki falls my two graphic novel series and mastering manga and mastering manga my how to draw books. I'M always very greatly appreciative of anyone who supports me by getting those bunks and sadly, I'm not going to add any blushes this time. Folks, I just feel like it doesn't quite fit this drawing style, also, no gouache. What is the world coming to? Hopefully I can bring both of those back next week, but for now let me go ahead and lay down this pencil. I want to thank you all for watching this video. I hope you enjoyed it and I'll be back with another one real soon. You