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After a long hiatus (sorry, RL ate me), I am doing braids! Here are the first two pages.
On my list of braids to go in depth into are cornrows, micro braids, box braids, ghana braids, and tree braids. Stay tuned in the next couple of weeks and I will release them one by one, and then put them together in one big compilation.
More Black Hair In Depth:
Drawing Natural Hair
Dreadlocks
So I'm always reading your lovely tags and someone (not tagging them, I don't want this person to feel called out) mentioned they wished they could draw braids. Well, I used to struggle with drawing braids for WAY too long before I finally figured it out so I thought I'd share a little tutorial. I'm by no means a professional but maybe some of you will find this helpful! So 🤠
How to draw braids
I have been drawing a lot of braids lately for some reason (all commissions!) so here’s some stuff I’ve learned. This obviously only applies to loose simple plaits and doesn’t cover ornate braids, french braids, box braids, or any type of braiding specific to black hair, as those are all kinda out of the scope of what I am qualified to discuss and I am mostly just documenting what I’ve had my own hands in lately–sometimes literally as I’ve been doing these to my own (very white) hair as I go to figure it out better!
Hey, friends!
For today’s late TUTOR TUESDAY we’re taking a look at a recommended tutorial on braids! If you have any recommendations send ‘em in here or my personal. Have fun, keep practicing, and I’ll see you next week!
So I posted a silly doodle yesterday on twitter and now people think it was a tutorial. So I got upset and made an actual tutorial so noone says I halfassed the yesterday's one 😡😡😡
Here you go: ~How I draw braids~ 🩷🙏
Hey! I love your art style and was wondering if you had any tips for drawing braids? Any techniques you found useful?
Hello! And thank you very much!
There may be easier ways of building braids than what I do, but this is just my process for drawing them, so take it with a grain of salt.
I’ll start with a line for whatever direction I want the braid to go in, if I don’t do a line and I have any kind of motion to the hair, boy do I mess it up lol
Next I’ll do wide half triangles, the line being my center, the right side or the left side always dropped lower than the other. If both sides meet in the center at the same level it’s not going to look very braid-like or have the illusion of being tangled with itself.
Afterwards you can remove the middle line if you want to take it further and connect each one with an alternating pattern like this one, giving it more of a braided look in the center.
Once the center is solid, you can add all the details you want in any style you like, curving inwards towards the center. I tend to like the more stained glass-ish appearance for hair so I’ll do very choppy, squared off lines to detail.
This works for whatever position you want to put the braid into using the wide triangles to build it up. It works for tightly woven or loose and messy braids depending on how wide/long you make the original half triangles.
I hope this helps!
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