Somehelpfulart-tutorials - Some Helpful Art Tutorials

black history month is coming to a closeeee but i have something that’ll help you draw black characters in any month! if it was helpful then hey… here’s my kofi 😏

how do you draw curly hair

An important thing is to sketch out the volume of the whole hair before you go into details. You can start putting inside shapes into it once you have the mass volume.

The way I draw Meg’s hair usually varies between these two types of curls (though I think the 2nd one is technically kinky and not curly but don’t hit me if I’m wrong, it’s not like I know hair terminology)

The 3rd drawing is how I’d draw light colored curly hair in a hurry.(TBH that looks less like the girl’s on the bottom and more like it was curled with a curling iron but that’s because I didn’t draw enough small twists. Sorry, I didn’t want to spend my morning drawing hair lol)

If all else fails you can always look at how it’s drawn by someone else and see if you can translate that into your style

Sorry I don’t have that many different examples. Other than Meg’s usual do, I don’t often draw curly hair. Here are three pics where her hair is more curly: (x), (x), (x)

This is suuuper bare bones but this is basically how I make space. The great thing about space is that there’s really no right or wrong way to go about it- depending on the style- just pepper in some stars / as little or as much color as you want and BLAM- space also to note (cos I’m silly and forgot to add):

step 1 is base layer

step 2-5 is all one layer

step 6-7 in one layer

step 8 is one (optional) layer

(also layer effects and references are your friend.)

(also also the other brush I used was the Uneven layering brush right above the one I have circled) I hope this helps!

Here it is, a little help on how to draw kinky/4c hair, it’s my first tutorial but I hope it helps.💖 // feel free to reblog so others can learn