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In this lecture we're going to be talking about hair shape and form since the last lecture we kind of

talked about the direction of hair but really the most important part about drawing character hair is

really getting a good form and good shape in there.

Now this might sound kind of weird that hair is a shape but that's really how you want to think about

it.

You don't want to think about it as individual strands you want to think about it as a shape.

And after you think about it as a shape then you want to think about the direction of that hair.

So let's go ahead and begin.

So I'd like to kind of I guess relate hairstyles when you're drawing them to the way people cut them.

So a good hairstylist understands that cutting hair and styling hair is all about the shape and the

form.

A bad hair stylist will understand this.

So for example with me I'm really picky about how I get my haircut.

So when I do get my haircut sometimes I'm not super good at keeping on top of that but when I do get

my haircut it can look like this.

So this in my head right.

And what I'd like to do is even though my head kind of rounds up towards the top I like to try to keep

that hair going straight so if I get a straight line like that right.

And then I'll usually do some sort of pompadour hairstyle or something like that.

That would be a perfect representation of my hair.

That might just be what I wish it looked like.

But the point I'm trying to make is that I really I'm really particular about this straight edge right

here on my head when I get my haircut and when I've gone to a bad stylist what happens is they'll cut

my hair and what they'll do is they don't understand shape and form they don't understand what they're

doing exactly and what I'm after.

And so they'll just kind of cut my hair and it'll just kind of round over my head like this.

All right.

And then maybe they'll kind of cut my hair and I'll have to style it over like that

which even in itself is still a shape and a form and there's nothing wrong with this hairstyle at all.

It's just not what I'm after very particular about this shape right here at these two straight edges

on the side of my head when I get my haircut and as you can see here it just rounds over like that sometimes

I get a little bit of a straight edge right there.

But this is bad as what I don't like.

And so a good hairstylist will understand that somebody that wants her hair cut a certain way what they're

really after is they're really after a shape and a form they're after some volume in their hair.

So what we gonna do is we're gonna do some simple exercises where we're going to break down hairstyles

into super simple shapes and super simple forms that then you could understand from the last lecture

that you would take that figure out the direction would be and you could kind of organic fired a little

bit more.

So let's go ahead and let's begin.

So I have these had forms right here.

And what you can do is if you want you can go ahead and print this off or you can download it from resources

and bring it to Photoshop whatever you work in and you can use that.

And if you don't want to do that you can't print it off you can just draw a whole bunch of your own

head forms.

It doesn't really matter what they look like.

You could even just build these office circles.

You don't have to draw the jaws and everything.

So what we're gonna do is let's go ahead and grab a darker blue and we're going to start off by just

sketching out some super super simple shapes onto these heads.

So for example for the first one let's go ahead and let's do kind of a line coming off like this.

All right

so just like with our characters silhouettes for their bodies their hair silhouette is also gonna be

incredibly important.

And if you remember I talked about how you want your character to have their thing so whether it's a

weapon or their costume maybe some sort of symbol on their face whatever it is.

There's that thing about him that really distinguishes him from other characters.

You can look at them and automatically tell who it is.

You could look at their silhouette and not even see any detail on them and still tell who it is.

Well hairstyles are an amazing way to do this because hairstyles can be so exaggerated they can be so

simplified that if you just have a very iconic look in shape for their hairstyle it can make it so that

character is very iconic and automatically recognizable.

So in this case let's try something very extreme.

So we'll do two lines kind of coming straight off like that and then we'll just kind of do a Kurd line

going behind the neck like that right.

And that kind of looks like a hairstyle already.

Well we could do is we could go ahead and add some bangs so just draw a curved line coming across the

front like this

and add a little bit of volume to those bangs so they're not just stuck to her head that and we could

even go ahead and give her kind of a bun back there

right so you can see there that this is just incredibly simple.

What we have here is basically half a circle and a bun up here and then we have kind of this triangle

shape and if we were to really break this down into it's super absolute simple form you'll see that

is basically just one big triangle

right super simple.

So like I said all hair sales can be broken down into these simple shapes.

Let's try another one.

So let's say for example that we wanted to give a hair style that was a little bit more rigid a little

bit more square

this.

There you go that already looks kind of like yourself.

What we can do is we can go ahead and just kind of give a hairline

that but this is a good time to bring up the point that when you're drawing hair sometimes you want

it symmetrical so like this right here it's a very clean design and maybe you want that for your character

but in this case over here let's say that we don't want a character to look so symmetrical we want him

to look more asymmetrical because we know that that makes things look a little bit more dynamic a little

bit more interesting.

Well what we can do is we can go ahead and kind of reshape some of this.

So maybe we'll kind of curve this line like that

then for this line over here we'll just give a little bit more curve in volume to it.

Like that

right.

And that just makes it more asymmetrical and a little bit more interesting because if we draw that line

down the front of the face it's different on this side and it's different on that side.

And that's kind of what we're looking for sometimes.

All right.

Let's have a look at another example.

Let's see.

Sometimes you really think about it sometimes if you look at reference to really figure out what kind

of hairstyle it is you want to draw.

All right let's draw something like this.

Just gonna kind of do a line come off like that

so do kind of a triangle here and sometimes you can break the hairstyles up into more than just one

shape.

All right.

So we kind of get a triangle for that sort of bulk of hair kind of hanging over the face and then let's

go ahead and kind of just do round shape like that.

And for this side there another straight line like that

this tool kind of just be a triangle

and basically if I were to simplify this even further it just basically kind of be like straight line

coming down like that.

Right.

So super simple basically two triangles and two straight lines coming down.

And so once you have these drawn what you can do is you can go ahead and kind of detail it out further.

So you wanted it to look more realistic.

You could kind of maybe make the shapes not so intense but it depends on what kind of style you're going

for.

But what you really want to do is you want to start thinking about the direction of the hairs on this

case for example this hair is kind of flowing out in this direction I would say the bangs are kind of

coming down like this

the bun it's kind of moving around like that

for this one.

Let's say the direction of the hair it's kind of moving like this

over here maybe it's moving in that direction

you can have that transition and direction if you wanted to you can even kind of make this kind of its

own overhang

right.

Something like that

and then for this one

so you can kind of get a little bit more detail in there.

And even still these are pretty simple.

We could kind of change the shape up a little bit it's kind of like gestures where the final drawing

isn't going to necessarily be as extreme

who wanted to go ahead and shade these and a little bit

maybe it'll be a little bit shattered right there.

You can see by shading this in it just kind of bringing the form of the hair out.

We get a little bit better understanding.

I'm just assuming that the light source is coming from above and so kind of the top surfaces of a lot

of this hair is getting hit.

All right great.

So those are pretty cool.

And so like I said you can kind of soften these shapes up but you can see how basically every hair cell

is going to be based off of a shape you're doing more of a realistic character their hair might not

be this exaggerated you know their hair might not fit perfectly into the shape.

There might be more scraggly he's coming off of their head little hangings stuff like that and you might

kind of go more into detail with like each individual hair and some of might kind of come out like that.

It's really up to you.

Let's go ahead and let's do three more let's do some male characters.

So let's see there aren't a whole lot of male haircuts in a real world of hair fashion.

So we can kind of just make some stuff up.

I mean an obvious one would be kind of like one that I drew before where you kind of have it straight

on the sides

another important thing is the hairline.

So for example right here I can go ahead and give kind of a widow's peak like that.

And so when you're designing your hairstyles you want to establish what the hairline looks like and

how high or how low it is.

All right.

So if I just kind of make this kind of square on the sides and then kind of a round shape on top that

and then from there I can just kind of detail this out more.

All right.

I can kind of make his hair kind of curl

right.

So it's kind of rough looking but you get the idea.

Some other hairstyles let's see.

We could do something kind of like a big square Afro

just to a square hairline then

really that's as simple as it needs to be.

Don't you really need to add a lot of detail to that depending on how simplified you want your character

designed to be.

Let's think let's do a long hair for a nail.

So maybe for this guy

they will do like a man bun.

So we'll establish that hairline

give some volume so it'll come off his head a little bit.

And some direction

over here I should probably redo the direction of that

looks better.

To be honest I don't really like this first one I did.

So let's try something else I want to give you a better example than that because that looks in my opinion

I think it looks kind of bad.

Let's try another shape.

So we have kind of a square shape around shape.

We'll try something a little bit more pointy so let's see.

We could kind of

try all kinds of crazy things right.

We just got to figure out that direction

like that looks kind of cool.

All right great.

Let's go ahead and shade those in as well so they match the female hair forms.

So again just assuming that the light is kind of coming from the top we can kind to shame the underside

of the form.

All right great.

Those look pretty cool.

All right.

So just remember that basically all hair can be broken down into very simple shapes and very simple

forms.

From there you can kind of detail it out more so just like for example how the pelvis and the chest

can kind of be broken down into rectangular shapes or sphere type shapes.

They're really not spheres and rectangles and reality it just kind of helps us understand the forms

and the sort of silhouette of those forms but after we have an understanding of those after we have

those blocked out we can go ahead and detail them out further figure out the direction of the hair and

also kind of organic fired a little bit more so we want to stay exactly within the shape of our hairstyle.

We can kind of change it up and as we move through this course and you see me design some other characters

you'll kind of see me do that a little bit more.

All right.

I want you to go ahead and draw your six different versions of hairstyles you can do them all male all

female or split them in half.

I'm not going to make you do something you don't want to do.

So choose whichever gender you are both draw the six of them and I want them to be your own hair cells

not the ones I've drawn here.

I want you to look up pictures online if you need to draw them simplify them into the simpler shapes

you can think of.

Figure out what the direction of the hair is draw that in and then I want you to take a picture that

posted to the cute a section of the course so I can see it because I love senior work that brings it

to the end of this lecture.

Thanks for watching and I'll see you in the next one.