Anime Hairstyles For Girls. How To Draw With Long, Short, Medium Length Hair

When drawing anime hairstyles, you need to consider that they are relevant not only for girls, but also for guys, although with long hair you can come up with more interesting ideas. Such hairstyles are very similar to real ones. They are rarely very detailed, which creates the effect of animation or manga comics. The drawing process is simple, so both an experienced artist and a beginner in fine art or a child can handle it.

Characteristic features of hairstyles

The 80s are considered to be the golden age of anime. Then, Japanese animation began to frequently use young people with superpowers as main characters.

In the 2000s, the Japanese style began to conquer the world and today anime is actually a separate subculture. When drawing hairstyles in this style, you need to take into account several features.

Features of anime hairstyles	Description
Makeup	The emphasis is on the eyes. Moreover, the makeup should be quite bright, including colored lenses, false eyelashes. A light blush on the cheeks is mandatory. The shades of makeup are as unnatural as possible.
Hair	Usually dyed in bright and provocative colors. The haircut can be of any length, from hair below the waist to a hedgehog.
Face	Usually round or oblong in shape, the chin is chiseled, the eyes are unnaturally large, and the mouth is very small.
Outfits	Quite open. Preference is given to fluffy skirts, lace. Often, the heroines of amine wear high knee socks or stockings. Elements of school clothes can also be used.

When drawing anime, you can experiment, especially when it comes to hair coloring. You can create unusual gradients and use the boldest solutions. Hairstyles often include bangs. They can be long and cover almost half of the face.

Asymmetrical bangs also look stylish. Haircuts can be multi-layered and voluminous. Tousled hair looks spectacular.

You can use any tools for drawing. It is most convenient to first create an image using a simple pencil of medium hardness, and then outline the lines with a thin black marker or felt-tip pen.

Drawing Long Anime Hair

Anime hairstyles for girls often feature long, straight hair with jagged ends. There are several options for drawing such hair.

Long hair

To draw a simple hairstyle:

• First, draw the head, neck and shoulders (it is not necessary to draw the face at this stage) so that the haircut looks more harmonious.
• After this, draw a halo around the head at a small distance and extend it to the shoulders.
• Next, add strands and bring them slightly to the chin. The strands should be slightly below the shoulders.
• The next step is to add bangs. They should be jagged, which means some strands will be longer.
• All that remains is to remove the extra lines of the shoulders and head.

Now you can move on to coloring. For example, bright blue looks spectacular. The lower part of the hair can be made lighter by creating a slight gradient. But this is more difficult to do with colored pencils or markers.

For hair, you can use watercolor paints, which are well diluted and allow you to draw such transitions in a few seconds. You can wash out the paint with a sponge.

With straight bangs

Most Japanese people have very stiff and straight hair. That's why they like this type of bangs in everyday life. It's even easier to draw this type of haircut, since there are more straight lines in the image.

The drawing process is as follows:

1. First, draw the outline of the head and add the outline of the hair using a simple line.
2. To make the haircut more interesting, you can add 2 short strands on the sides.
3. Connect the strands with only a slightly curved line. You can use a ruler and draw a completely straight line, but it will not look as natural.
4. If you add a few vertical lines to the bangs and strands, creating unique cuts, it will look as if the bangs are a little careless and you can see the forehead behind them.
5. Now you can remove all unnecessary lines and, if desired, detail the hairstyle with a few additional strokes.

Hot pink is a popular color in anime culture., which is also relevant now in real life. Therefore, you can choose a rich shade for the image and paint the hair in one tone.

Voluminous hairstyle

Anime hairstyles for girls look spectacular if you create voluminous hairstyles. They can be supplemented with buns, released strands, decorations.

To create this hairstyle:

1. As in the previous versions, first draw the outline of the hair and immediately draw the strands sticking out from it. The hairstyle should be a little tousled. As if there was a wind recently. You should not draw too many lines, as this will make the image too heavy.
2. Now add strands using the same principle. They should have clear, torn edges. It is important to remember that anime hairstyles should not look very natural, so you can give free rein to your imagination.
3. The bangs should be done in the same style. After that, add a few extra lines to the hairstyle, and remove all the excess. The middle part of the bangs should reach the middle of the face and even a little lower.

On the sides it is worth making it shorter, since the second important part of anime drawings of people are the eyes. Now you can outline everything with a black outline.

It remains to choose the hair color. Blue, pink, red shades are often used in anime. But orange also looks impressive. It should be bright and saturated enough. If desired, you can create a gradient, but everything looks great without it.

Hairstyles for short hair

Short haircuts are typical not only for male heroes, but also for girls, since anime often gives preference to androgenic characters. That is, a man can have very feminine facial features and, conversely, girls look graceful, but at the same time they have very short haircuts of a male type.

On the one hand, short hair is easier to draw, as it is enough to create a few tousled strands and everything is ready. On the other hand, such drawings require more detailed drawing of the eyes, as they become the main part of the image.

Also, with short hair, the ears are visible. Learning how to draw them will take some practice.

To draw an anime hedgehog haircut:

• First, you can draw the face or just its outline with ears. Then, depicting the teeth, mark the approximate outline of the haircut. The teeth on the top of the head should be larger, and on the sides, smaller. This will diversify the image.
• It is also worth adding a hairline. Then it will be easier to stick to the contour of the forehead. Some add auxiliary lines, dividing the future haircut into several zones.
• Now we'll detail the teeth we've drawn earlier. To do this, we'll need to add jagged edges to the top and bottom. This is a very simple way to imitate real hair, but without having to draw a bunch of lines and highlights.

It is important to ensure that the hairline is not disturbed. As you can see in the image below, it is slightly curved.

• After that, depict the main part, which is located at the back. To do this, add an auxiliary line and decide in which direction the strands will go. For convenience, you can add arrows.
• After that, fill in the space of the far part of the head. The hair should be disheveled. For this area, it is enough to add only short strokes. If you start drawing this part of the hairstyle, there is a risk that the hair will look like hay or dirty.

This creates a very stylish tousled haircut. The hair should not be at a right angle to the head itself. If you do this, the hairstyle will be too flat and uninteresting.

For inspiration, you can watch any anime cartoon and pay attention to how Japanese artists create hairstyles for their characters.

Symmetrical haircut

Anime hairstyles are most often symmetrical for girls and boys. To create such images, you can use simple and slightly curved lines, because the hair cannot be perfectly straight.

To create this hairstyle:

• At the first stage, draw the outline of the head and the hairline around it. In this case, at the top of the head, create a slight depression with a slight offset. This will be the parting.

The hair length in this example reaches the bottom of the supposed ear. This will allow you to create a fairly short haircut, but without the need to draw additional body parts.

• Now add strands on the sides of the face. They can be slightly longer than the rest of the hair. Also at this stage you can detail the haircut, adding literally a few strokes.

• After that, draw the bangs. Just like in the previous examples, it should be torn, slightly elongated in the center. Additionally, you need to add a few details to the back of the hair.
• Now delete all unnecessary lines and outline the image.

You don't have to use just one shade to color and create a gradient. You can find an interesting combination of colors. For example, blue and purple look spectacular. This combination is often used in anime.

But you can use other colors too. If you paint the top part orange or yellow and the bottom part red, you will get the effect of fiery hair.

When deciding what color to choose, you can think about the character and his superpowers. For example, if he can control water, then you can use shades of blue. Perhaps the hero can control fire, then the option with yellow and red will be perfect. If you have no ideas, then you can read about popular manga heroes.

With bangs over one eye

This type of hairstyle is very similar to the previous one. This option looks stylish and very mysterious, since one eye of the character is hidden under the hair.

To create an image:

• First, as usual, create general contours. You can also add a small depression at the top of the head. But you shouldn't draw a parting line, just a hint of it is enough.

• The next step is to add a line on the right side, but not going over the face. On the left, on the contrary, you need a strand of hair that goes over the face, but only slightly, since the main bangs will be on the other side.
• Now on the right you can add strands of different lengths, thus forming a fringe. On the left side it is also there, but much shorter. The fringe in such a haircut is the main part, so it should be multi-layered, but not chaotic. Therefore, it may take time to create it.

To make things easier, just add lines like the one in the image below.

• Now we need to add a few extra elements to the back.
• The hairstyle with long bangs over one eye is ready.

You can dye your hair a bright and even slightly acidic pink color.

Kare

The bob is drawn using a similar scheme, only in this case you can make the edges of the hair more even. But it is better to leave the bangs ragged. Also, as in the previous examples, you need to leave some space between the strands.

It is important to stick to fewer lines. If you start drawing every hair, you won't get the anime style. In the images presented in the article, you can see how the eyes are drawn. They are very large and open.

You can choose the same eye color as your hair, or opt for more natural colors.An important part of drawing anime eyes is the fairly large white highlight. This makes them look more shiny and touching.

Hairstyles for medium length hair

Anime hairstyles for girls can be for medium hair. It may seem that in this case it is difficult to do something original and unusual, but this is not so. For example, you can complicate the task a little and not draw loose hair, but create ponytails or braids.

Braided hair

The braid is 3 or more strands that move alternately from right to left. This is a very effective hairstyle that almost everyone can do.

There are many options for depicting such a hairstyle. A pencil is ideal for drawing it, since you can draw additional guide lines to simplify the task and then delete them.

To draw a side view where the braid is clearly visible:

1. It is worth starting with the oval of the head, ear, hair growth contour. After that, add the upper part of the hair gathered together. The base of the braid goes from the back of the head. At this stage, you need to mark the guide braids, which will be easier to fill in later.
2. Now draw the hair along the guide lines. It should look denser in places where it meets, so in these areas it is worth detailing the image a little more.

It is not necessary to bring out all the hair. But if you want, you can make a very long braid, continuing to draw such a "spikelet", alternately wrapping the strands.

Pigtail

If you choose a different angle or when you need to clearly depict the braid, you can do the following:

2. First, it is enough to draw 2 parallel and slightly curved lines, as shown in the picture below. These are the main guides of the braid. Towards the bottom, they should taper a little.
3. Next, draw the cells so that it looks like a wheat ear. The "grains" should be offset from each other.

Now you need to detail the braid. The lines should not be finished. This will create the right highlights. But in the places where the strands of hair connect, on the contrary, you need to darken the hair a little and add more strokes.

All that remains is to delete the previously created contours and decide what color the hair will be. Using this technology, you can draw one or several braids of any length.

Tails

Anime hairstyles for girls are very often two ponytails, like those of small children or schoolgirls. The ponytails can be curly or straight.

The first option is more complicated, so it is worth considering it in more detail:

• First, create an oval of the head, and then the first contour of the hairstyle. In the center of the upper part, you also need a small depression to conditionally divide the hair into 2 parts.
• In the next step, mark the strands that will pass near the face.
• Now add the same lines, but more. The strands should taper off significantly at the bottom.
• The next step is to add hairpins. It is enough to draw 2 circles for this.
• Now it's time to draw the lines of the ponytails. They should be slightly curved to make the hairstyle more voluminous.

• Next, add curls on the sides. To do this, simply draw spirals that become smaller toward the bottom.
• The next step is to create contours for the side parts of the large curls.
• After that, add a few more horizontal lines.
• And a few more touches.
• Now draw curls located behind the main ones. Then the hair will look thicker.
• And a few more semicircular lines.
• Hairpins can be in the form of bows. Various satin ribbons are very popular in anime, usually red. It goes well with light hair.

• Once all the guide lines are complete, you can move on to drawing. To do this, you should start with the main part of the hair and strands near the face.
• After that, you can move on to the bows, outlining them with a clearer outline. For this, you can use a felt-tip pen or marker at this stage of drawing. Or you can leave everything as is and color the hair when the entire image is ready.
• Next, you need to outline the curls more clearly. It is better to detail those that are closer at first.

It remains to add more detail using strokes that will allow you to outline the hair. The emphasis should be on the edges of the main elements: curls and strands near the face.

Since this is anime, there is no need to worry about the hair looking cartoonish. On the contrary, this is what artists usually achieve when working in this style.

Wavy or curly hair

In anime, straight hair is more often used, but wavy hairstyles look more impressive if the artist uses highlights and shadows. Then you can create more voluminous images.

For example, you can draw wavy anime hair like this:

• At the first stage, add only the upper base of the hairstyle. These are 2 semicircular lines that go down a little in the center.
• Now add length to the hair. At this stage, you can decide whether the hairstyle will be short or long. At the ends of the line, you need to curl it a little.
• In the bangs area, you can open up your face by dividing your hair into 2 parts.
• Now it's time to move on to the curls themselves. To do this, draw 2 wavy lines that go slightly onto the face, but do not completely cover the eyes.
• Next, you can create waves at the top of the head. In this place, the hair always remains straighter due to the weight of the hair. Therefore, the lines should only be slightly wavy.

• More obvious curls should be added at the bottom of the hair. The closer to the ends of the hair, the more curl it will have.
• Next, start adding thickness to the curls. They should thicken closer to the base of the head.
• Then continue adding wavy lines. The intensity of the curls can be different, then the image will be closer to real conditions.
• The next stage continues with detailing the curls. They can be of different widths and lengths.
• By gradually adding new fragments of curls, the artist creates the necessary volume for the hair. But you need to make sure that the waves have approximately one direction and that the structure of the intended hairstyle is preserved.

• Once all the curls are ready, it's time to move on to more precise selection. If you look at the image below, you can see that the artist uses different pressure on the pencil when drawing the outer and inner parts of the curls.

You can continue to complement the image with thinner and barely noticeable lines. They should repeat the shape of the curls so that everything looks harmonious. But you need to be very careful with such lines. Since the hairstyle already contains many elements, there is a risk of making it even heavier.

Then it will go worse with the anime face. The example below clearly shows what the hair looks like with and without more detail. Both options look impressive, but the picture on the right looks lighter.

If you want to add lines, but do not want to overload the image, additional strokes can be applied not in black, but in the color that the hair will be painted, only a few tones darker. This will create the necessary effect of a hint of realism. And if you add highlights, the hair will start to play in the sun.

To create anime hairstyles, you don't need to have a specialized education or know all the rules of fine arts. This is a fairly simple technology for creating characters, which is especially suitable for girls.

The main thing is to remember the basic rules of this trend. It will be useful to read a little more about this subculture, watch a few cartoons or comics. You can also find ideas for copying or come up with your own characters.

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