Illustration hair color-how to deal with the shadows and bright colors of the hair in board-painted anime illustrations

Teach you how to draw classical beauties: an introductory tutorial on ancient hand-painted illustration techniques

Light smoke touches your fingers,

A piece of pink fragrance lingers, and you are intoxicated.

Chen Yun frowns, a wisp of light fragrance, the attic is low, who is the orchid pavilion, the clouds and phoenix on the temples? The flowers are still young, and the rouge is charming. Half of it is jade brocade, showing pink makeup.

Walking around the lotus, the feather fan is light.

Step1: Line draft

1. Create a new layer on the blank paper and roughly draw a dynamic draft of the character. Draw the outline of the flower in the foreground and the branches behind it.

2. Draw the general outline of the clothing based on the character's dynamics, and also outline the general composition of the scene.

3. Reduce the layer transparency. Create a new layer and start drawing line drawings, starting with the eyes. Line drawing is a secondary creation process, so you must be careful.

4. Draw the outline of the eyes. Then draw the facial features of the nose, paying attention to the shape of the nose from the 45-degree side.

5. Follow the draft and outline the face and ears. Create a new layer and draw the general direction and interspersion of the character's hair.

6. Draw the bun shape of the hair and refine the interspersed hair.

7. When drawing a headdress, you can refer to photos of traditional headdresses or design your own, paying attention to details.

8. Create a new layer and slowly draw the line drawing of the clothes starting from the collar. The turning of the lines can be drawn according to the softness and hardness of the material of the clothes. The lines on softer fabrics are smooth and soft, and the lines on harder fabrics are smooth and soft. The lines are strong.

9. Continue to improve the clothing, and pay attention to the overlapping relationship when drawing. At the same time, pay attention to the elegant feeling of the streamers.

10. Add patterns to the collar and other places of the clothes. The patterns can refer to traditional clothing. The pattern should be drawn according to the direction of the clothes.

11. Create a new layer and draw the flowers in the foreground. Flowers can be drawn according to personal preference, or you can draw one first and then copy it to achieve the feeling of a cluster of flowers.

12. Continue to create a new layer and draw the leaves and the trunk and ribbon behind it.

Step2: Coloring

Skin coloring

13. Create a new layer and give the picture a light green background. Do not spread it all over or To fill, pick some key areas and lay them out, leaving some space for the picture.

14. Create a new layer and fill in a background color for the skin.

15. Continue to create a new layer and add a layer of shadow to the corners of the eyes, the triangular fossa, the bottom of the nose and the overlapping lines. Then create a new layer and paint a bright red color at the end of the character's eyes.

Coloring the facial features

16. After adjusting the blush, fill in a base color for the eyes. Then deepen the upper eyelid area.

17. Choose a gray cool green and add a layer of reflection under the eyes. Then choose a dark color that is the same color as the eye base, and add pupils to the eyes. Use a few bright colors to add some light under the eyeballs to highlight the eyes.

18. Choose a red color, adjust the brush hardness to the lowest level, and apply a layer of color to the end of the eye. Draw eyeliner on the character. Because the character drawn this time is a charming one, the eyeliner should be raised a little. You can first outline the eyeliner with dark blue, and then use a darker color to press the shape. After the eyeliner is finished, the eye makeup comes out.

19. Use dark red-gray color to press the nose, and use cold color to brighten the edge of the bridge of the nose.

20. Lip makeup is what the ancients called "red lips". Use a red color close to pink like this, and dot the upper and lower lip beads, so that the feeling of red lips begins to appear. Darken the color around the lip line, and finally add highlighter, so that the entire facial makeup is completed.

Color your hair

21. Color your hair. First create a new layer, fill the hair with a base color, and then use a bright color to brighten the highlights. Then continue to deepen the structural parts of the hair.

22. Create a new layer, and follow the line drawing of the hair to add a shadow shape to the hair. This step should be done slowly. Deepen the place where the hair intersects to highlight the volume of the hair.

Then reduce the size of the brush to a small size, draw some thin white hair strands, and add highlights to the hair.

23. Color the headdress. First create a new layer on top of the hair layer, be sure to press it on all layers of the hair, and then fill the base of the headdress. For color matching, you can refer to some photos of traditional jewelry.

24. Fill in the color of the headdress and add a layer of gold edge to the headdress. Shape beads. It feels the same as drawing a circle, first add the shadow, then the reflection and ambient color, and finally the highlight.

25. Use the same method to color all the headgear. Don’t forget to also paint women’s nails with beautiful khaki!

Coloring clothes

26. To color clothes, this step is to separate the clothes into layers and fill them with color. Tu, there can also be some virtual and real changes. Create a new layer and fill the pattern of the clothing with a color. The color scheme here is blue, and you can match the colors yourself when painting.

27. Continue to draw accessories, and use a large brush to press the structural points of the clothes. On the clothing layer, draw the shadow of the clothing pattern. This step also requires patience.

28. Create a new layer and draw a shadow on the streamers. After completion, adjust the color according to the picture, lighten the color of the clothes and accentuate the color of the streamers.

Color the background

29. Create a new layer and drag it below the character layer as the background. Fill the trunk with color and darken the flowers in the foreground.

30. Create a new layer, fill the ribbon with color, and pay attention to adjusting the color.

31. Create a new layer under the flower and fill the leaves with color. Fill the camellia with white, and then add yellow to the stamens. Create a new layer on the background and draw the dense leaves in the distance.

32. Detail the flowers, deepen the roots of the leaves, and adjust the color of the leaves.

33. Outline the leaves and outline the shape and shadow of the rhizome. Adjust the color of the foreground flowers to brighten certain parts so that the picture is not too dull. Finally, add some flying petals and wild geese in the distance to complete the painting. How to draw braided boys’ hair from the front

Tools/Materials

1. Mechanical pencil 2. Eraser 3. A4 paper

Method/Steps

Draw the thickness of the hair on the already drawn boy’s head.

Outline the rough outline of the bangs.

Outline the details of the bangs in detail.

Outline the hair next to the ears.

Outline the braid.

Outline the rest of the hair.

Draw some scattered hair strands so that the hair looks more natural. How to deal with the shadows and bright colors of hair in board-drawn anime illustrations

If you have learned sketching, you will deal with it consciously. You can learn from the drawing methods of many cartoons on the Internet to draw. If you want to draw anime pictures and you don’t know how to apply thick paint, it is recommended not to use thick paint. Just apply a layer and then a little shadow on top.