Drawing of a girl with long hair for copying: full-length, from behind, anime pencil

Long hair has been considered an indicator of femininity and tenderness since ancient times. Lush curls inspire artists to paint beautiful portraits. For beginning creators, to learn draw girls with beautiful hair, you need to look at several master classes using different materials and select pictures to copy in order to get the opportunity to improve your skills.

Drawing tools

A list of accessories that may be required for drawing can be found in the table.

Simple pencil	A tool with a hard-soft lead will do. The hardness of such a lead is indicated by the letters "TM" or "HB" on the side of the pencil.
Eraser	It should not crumble and rub the graphite across the paper.
Sharpener	Simple and colored pencils should always be kept sharp.
Art brushes	The set should contain thin and thick brushes with different bristle stiffness.
A jar of clean water	For washing brushes.
Palette	For mixing paints. You can use a white ceramic saucer.
Paper	For drawing with pencils, notebook pages and album sheets are suitable. For paints, you need thicker paper: watercolor, drawing or Whatman paper.

What can you use to color pictures drawn with a simple pencil:

• paints (gouache, watercolors);
• with colored pencils;
• felt-tip pens;
• watercolor pencils;
• with gel pens.

You can combine several coloring techniques in 1 drawing, for example, color the picture with paints, and then outline it with a gel pen or a black felt-tip pen. You can paint with gouache and watercolors at the same time. The thing is that watercolor is a delicate, translucent paint, and gouache is denser and more saturated. Drawings colored with 2 types of paints turn out voluminous and beautiful.

Master classes

Further in the article you can look at several master classes on drawing girls and young women with long hair, using various materials.

Drawing in a cute style

Beginner artists should choose simple drawings for copying a girl with long hair, without precise detailing. For work, you will need felt-tip pens, as well as a beige and simple pencil.

How to draw a picture:

1. Draw a round head with a pencil.
2. Finish drawing a thin neck. Depict the shoulders and torso.
3. Draw arms and legs.
4. Finish drawing the shape of the clothes. Highlight the folds of the fabric on it.
5. Draw shoes.
6. Use an eraser to erase unnecessary lines.
7. Draw 2 large eyes. Highlight the pupils with highlights and irises.
8. Add eyebrows and mouth.
9. Draw hair.
10. Use an eraser to erase unnecessary lines.
11. Draw several wide strands.
12. Use a beige pencil to color the girl's face and exposed areas of her body.
13. Use a light brown marker to highlight the highlights on the hair.
14. Paint the rest of the hair dark brown. It is important to apply strokes in the direction of hair growth.
15. Color the irises of the eyes.
16. Color the pants with a blue marker. Highlight the shadow on them with blue.
17. Use a pink marker to color the shoes.
18. Color the design on the T-shirt in any colors.
19. Trace the outline of the drawing with a black marker.
20. Draw small details.
21. Outline the mouth, nose, eyebrows and eyes.
22. Color the pupils.

Select a parting and wide strands of hair.

Anime style drawing

Drawings for copying a girl with long hair, in anime style, have distinctive features:

• the character has large eyes;
• small facial features;
• hair is divided into wide strands;
• The ends of the hair are depicted as pointed.

To draw such a picture you will need gouache and a simple pencil.

How to draw:

1. Draw the head with a simple pencil.
2. Draw a schematic representation of the clothing form.
3. Finish drawing the arms and legs.
4. Draw the layers of the dress more clearly.
5. Highlight the folds of the fabric.
6. Draw decorations and patterns.
7. On the girl's hands, depict thin bracelets, and on her ears, large round earrings.
8. Finish drawing the flat-soled shoes.
9. Shape the face. Draw large eyes, thin eyebrows, a tick-shaped nose and a mouth.
10. Draw a sparse fringe of thin strands.
11. Finish drawing long strands of hair that are curly at the ends.
12. Use an eraser to erase all unnecessary lines.
13. Mix orange gouache with white in a ratio of 1:3. Paint the face and exposed areas of the body.
14. Dilute black paint with white (mix in equal parts). Paint the bottom layer of the dress and shoes.
15. Mix purple or fuchsia with white in a 2:1 ratio. Paint the apron and the top of the dress.
16. Use yellow paint to paint the patterns on the dress, tassels, and hair.
17. Mix red with a drop of brown. Paint the earrings.
18. Mix orange paint with a drop of brown. Dilute the resulting shade with white in a 2:1 ratio. Highlight the shadows on the open areas of the girl's body and face.
19. Paint the irises of the eyes with blue.
20. Use color to highlight the shadows in the irises of the eyes.
21. Use purple to highlight the shadows on the top of the dress. Draw the folds of the fabric.
22. Mix pink and yellow in equal parts. Highlight the shadows on the hair. When the paint dries, add a few more pink strokes to these parts of the drawing.
23. Use black to highlight the shadows on the shoes and the bottom layer of the dress.
24. Mix yellow with a drop of brown paint. Highlight the shadows on the patterns and decorations.
25. Use yellow paint to highlight the highlights on the earrings and on the ends of the hair strands on the right side.
26. Use white paint to highlight the highlights on the large strands on the right side.
27. Mix black paint with purple in a 1:3 ratio. Darken the inner parts of the sleeves.

The final step is to outline the picture, including small details. This can be done using a black felt-tip pen or a thin, soft-bristled art brush and black gouache.

Disney style pencil drawing

Drawings of girls with long hair in the Disney style (you can use frames from cartoons for copying) have the following features:

• characters are round-faced;
• eyes are large and round;
• facial features are small;
• hair is lush, divided into small strands;
• The clothes are drawn well and in detail.

To draw such a picture you will need 3 simple pencils: hard, soft and hard-soft.

How to draw:

1. Place the sheet of paper vertically.
2. Using a pencil with a hard lead, draw a round head.
3. Finish drawing the neck and shoulders.
4. Outline the position of the arms. Draw the body to the waist.
5. Draw a fluffy hem of the dress.
6. Schematically depict the shape of the hairstyle. Hair should be drawn above the head. At the roots it should be voluminous.
7. Use an eraser to erase unnecessary lines in the forehead area.
8. Finish drawing the girl's ear.
9. Shape the face. The eyes must have round highlights. This is a feature of Disney-style drawings.
10. Draw the corset of the dress and the frills on it.
11. Draw puffy puff sleeves.
12. Draw lace on the sleeves. Highlight the folds of the fabric.
13. Draw a lace on the corset.
14. Finish drawing the girl's hand and fingers.
15. Draw a parting on the hair. Divide the hair into strands, drawing smooth lines.
16. Shade the folds of the fabric on the sleeves.
17. Highlight the shadows on the ends of the hair at the bottom of the drawing.
18. Using a hard-soft pencil, apply cross-hatching to highlight the shadow on the neck.
19. Darken the back of the hair.
20. Show the shadow in the ear. Draw the auricle.
21. Select the shadow at the right temple.
22. Color the upper parts of the irises.
23. Darken the contour of the tip of the nose.
24. Use a soft pencil to color the pupils.
25. Outline all parts of the face.

Trace the entire drawing along the contour, including small strands of hair.

Beautiful hair, back view

Drawings for copying a girl with long hair, made in a realistic style, may seem complicated at first glance. In fact, drawing such pictures is much easier than it seems. To do this work, you need a set of colored pencils, which will have at least 12 tools of different colors. You will also need 2 simple pencils with a hard and soft lead.

How to draw:

1. Place the sheet of paper vertically.
2. Draw a schematic representation of the head, neck and shoulders.
3. Finish drawing the back and 1 arm bent at the elbow. The girl will lightly touch her hair.
4. Draw the fingers and nails.
5. Finish drawing the sleeve with a cuff and 3 buttons.
6. Draw the folds of the fabric.
7. Finish drawing the seams and folds of the blouse on the back.
8. Draw the shape of the hairstyle.
9. Use a rubber band to remove the base of the head and neck.
10. Divide the hair into small strands. Make the ends curl.
11. Under the arm, you need to depict slightly crushed and pushed aside strands. There should be more lines at the roots. At the ends, the strands can be depicted a little wider.
12. Using a yellow pencil, color the side strands up to the middle, starting from the crown.
13. Shade the rest of the hair with a light brown pencil.
14. Use grey to highlight the shadows on the folds of the blouse.
15. Using a light brown color, without pressing on the tool, highlight the transitions from shadow to light on the fabric.
16. Paint the hand and fingers beige.
17. Paint your nails with a red pencil.
18. Use a light brown pencil to highlight the shadow on the hand. The shading should be very light, without pressing.
19. Use a dark brown pencil to color in some strands of hair.
20. Darken the strands that are underneath and peek out from under the light ones.
21. Use grey (you can use black, without pressing) to highlight the shadows on your hair: under your arms, at the ends, at the back of your head.

Trace the outline of the drawing using a sharp, soft-tipped pencil.

Black and white watercolor drawing

You can draw voluminous hair using 2 colors of watercolor paint (black and white) and a simple pencil.

How to draw:

1. Draw the head with a simple pencil.
2. Add neck, shoulder and arm.
3. Draw the line of the back and chest.
4. Design the girl's face.
5. Schematically depict the shape of the hairstyle.
6. Using a thin brush and black paint, outline the contours of the girl's body.
7. On the neck, highlight the shadow, having previously diluted the black color with water.
8. Draw the eyebrows, eyelash lines and the lower part of the nose. Highlight the pupils.
9. Outline the lips.
10. Rinse the brush. Squeeze and rub the lip contour, directing the strokes to the center of the mouth.
11. By analogy, highlight the shadows on the eyelids.
12. Use a pencil to mark the parting line in your hair.
13. Use black paint to draw strands just below the shoulders, in the form of smooth lines. There should be small gaps between them.
14. Outline the girl's face.
15. Draw the remaining strands until the end of the hairstyle.
16. Darken the part of the hair located near the face. There should be no gaps there.
17. Finish drawing the curly ends of the hair.
18. Darken the ends of the strands that lie on the shoulder.
19. Select a parting on your head.
20. Dilute the black paint with a drop of water. Show shadows under the body and arm.

Apply a few strokes of white paint to the left side of the hair, imitating highlights.

Hair in a ponytail, drawing with gel pens

Using 2 gel pens in blue and purple, you can create a beautiful outline drawing.

How to draw:

1. The sketch should be drawn with a hard pencil. The lines should be very pale. Draw the head in the form of a circle. Immediately highlight the facial features: forehead, upturned nose, lips and chin.
2. Use an eraser to erase excess lines.
3. Finish drawing the neck, shoulders, back and chest.
4. Draw a hand.
5. Finish drawing the vest with a large cutout on the sleeves.
6. Use an eraser to erase unnecessary lines.
7. Draw the girl's eyebrow and closed eye.
8. Add lips and eyelashes.
9. Draw an ear.
10. Draw the shape of the hairstyle. At the base of the tail, draw a thick elastic band.
11. Draw the tail to the end. Divide the hair into wide strands.
12. Trace the outline of the girl's face with a blue pen. Color in the eyebrows, eyelashes and lips.
13. Outline the ear and neck to the middle. Then outline the neck in purple.
14. Outline the body, arm and clothing contours with a purple pen.
15. Color the hair elastic with a blue pen.
16. Outline the drawn strands at the beginning of the hairstyle and up to the middle of the tail.
17. Outline the lower part of the tail in purple.
18. Using a blue pen, draw thin strands at the base of the hairdo and up to the middle of the tail.
19. Continue the lines with purple color.

Use a purple pen to draw thin hairs sticking out at the roots of the hair.

Girl with long hair, full length drawing

How to draw a girl with long hair in full growth:

1. Place the sheet of paper vertically.
2. Draw an oval head.
3. Mark the position of the neck and shoulders.
4. Schematically depict the position of the torso and limbs.
5. On the arms and legs, mark the location of the joints with circles.
6. Draw the shape of the body and limbs.
7. Finish drawing the feet and fingers.
8. Draw the shape of the clothes. Highlight the folds and creases on the shorts, as well as the folds on the T-shirt.
9. Draw pockets and seams, as well as patterns on clothes.
10. Use an eraser to erase all unnecessary lines.
11. Draw shoes.
12. Add decorations to the girl's hands.
13. Shape the face.
14. Draw the shape of the hairstyle. The hair should be slightly disheveled.
15. Highlight large strands in your hair.
16. Use an eraser to erase unnecessary lines.

The drawing can be colored in any colors. Finally, the picture needs to be outlined, including small details, using a black felt-tip pen or a pencil with a soft lead.

Learning to draw girls with beautiful, long hair is not difficult. Beginners need to choose simple works for copying. You can start with contours, gradually moving on to shading with simple pencils and coloring with paints. Over time, skills will improve, and the pictures will begin to turn out better and better.

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