We're not going to take a look at some key foundational shapes we can use to build out some great manga
and anime style Heyse sells.
These do not represent all the possible options but they do give you a solid foundation for building
and a lot of hair styles.
So let's take a look at each of these elements.
One at a time and we're going to bail them out on this head model.
The first thing is that we wanted to keep in mind just a general use of lines lines themselves in our
clumps.
And typically these lines are used to give a kind of a Maisey vibe.
So let's get a basic hairstyle going here.
Just get some big clumps down.
I'm going to add all of these elements to this particular hairstyle.
So she's going to have kind of crazy hair.
We're going to start with something basic first
so when we just add single lines to the character's hair.
It tends to make it look like their hair is scruffy or messy.
So you can just add a line in here and there and it gives a little bit of a roughed up look.
The next very popular shape something called flics and effectively Flick's or Banani like types of shapes
that have very sharp tapers on both ends.
So instead of a look like this we have this type of look where the flick's come in many shapes and sizes
and even can have superheavy waiting on one side and very thin on the other.
And we can simply just add them to various ends of the hair so we can just add a flick just like that.
The important thing is to make sure that the flick tapers on both ends add a flick to the top of every
hair there.
Put in another little one here and we can have one we can actually turn this history and into a flick
right here.
And they're great for adding diversity into the hair as well.
Don't use too many of them.
It will look very messy but you can really do some fun things and there are a lot of them in many characters
that have a big fringe flick something like that just popping right off.
You know the fringe of the hair.
So think about how you can use flex on anything.
Nixon going to take a look at our sweeps and sweeps really sweep over the hair.
They usually have a space within them to indicate that they're sweeping over their hair.
So in a smaller version model here we would have the hair kind of coming down like this maybe and a
piece of hair coming off the main piece of hair with a space in between.
And you can have sweep's running all around.
So going right over the front to the back the back to the front.
So in this instance we're just going to add a crazy sweep to her hair.
It's at an hour to sweep something like that.
Just reinforcing that main line there.
And here we've got the space in between that sweep and we'll have a sweep coming from front of her hair.
Let's just pull a random one here.
Going to the back of her hair.
So flick like in nature.
It doesn't have to be with the tapering ends cut our space there.
And then in addition we can have overlaps.
So this is not in terms of line overlaps.
This is in terms of hair overlaps and really when we have a smooth section of the head particularly
the top and the size of the hair we can indicate an overlap by creating a shape that kind of Stex like
a staircase to show that there is hair overlapping the base of the hair.
So in this instance it's just add an overlap here and an overlap here and you can see it's a very effective
technique for building up volumes and these hair overlaps here and here really sell the three dimensionality
of that.
And you can do really awesome things with overlaps including bolding plants into them then we'll look
at plants in a moment.
But it's a very very cool technique especially when used here at the root of the hair.
It just Boldon a few overlaps.
Don't forget the Fanning nature of the hair clumps themselves which you can see how effective the overlaps
really are really cool to
number five.
We can do curls and really what we're doing is we're just hinting at here that has been physically curled
in one way or another.
And so we have to really think about what the shape of this is going to look like because we're building
at effectively a similar type of form that repeats.
So we have an ellipse at the top a little bit rough here.
And can build into smaller curls and eventually come out so we can do these types of curls in many different
ways.
But effectively we're building things in terms of a spiral and then building forms based on the spiral
design making sure it's clear to the viewer where the overlaps are.
So they can have a good understanding of how the curls are actually occurring.
And then for number six we can have plants with braids in a sense.
And really this is based on a basic T shape.
It can be quite tricky at first when you're trying to do it but effectively we build out a shape like
so and we keep building this T-shaped over and over and over and you'll see how we can modify
the edges of this to create a plant shape so we can link these together like this.
And we get a quite convincing looking plant design.
Of course there's many ways to do braids you can group circles together in this type of fashion as well
and just link them together.
It depends obviously on the type of braid try to avoid doing something where your putting x shapes in
unless you're going to go on the edges and really define each of the hair clumps more in depth.
But leaving them as shapes really takes away any overlaps becomes very tangency and it can look very
flat so differently.
Outline those shapes.
And here we can put in just a short break here.
We can pull that T-shaped down.
And then really go in and add in the outer edges to get a very convincing looking plant.
Of course there are millions of ways to create great hairstyles.
Definitely go and grab tons of real world reference for hairstyles and ask yourself how you can use
the manga fundamentals you've learned to bring it into a manga style because effectively all the hairstyles
in manga are informed by some type of real world hassle.
Barring those crazy styles where you know some weird floaty things are happening with the hair is being
in strange ways Swen to get this curl diagram in here just so we can get a general idea.
Well it's just for your notes.
Now in addition to all of this when we're talking about generally drawing the lines of the here we can
define We take an approach of thinking about the curves of our lines.
So it's going to take this sample and make it a little bit smaller.
And when discussing the curves of our lines you want to think about your lines in terms of its curves
and see curves as well as straight lines.
So when a character has more wavy hair they may have flatter here on the top that the heat comes down
it moves into its curves.
When you follow through with the curves you have a very nice wavy hair.
When you're using see curves on the other hand you have straight tops of hair and a very common shape
in manga so hair is to have a straight with a very weighted curve at the bottom.
Moving up into a tapering curve so you can see there's a lot of weight and heaviness at the bottom of
the here strand here.
And that is a very common shape to see.
But of course you can iterate and you can create your own types of hairstyles.
Finally something else we didn't need to touch on is that manga hair can sometimes do crazy things in
terms of adding random straight lines into the curve.
Nature of the hair.
So for example this character were to have a crazy fringe coming out.
It's entirely possible that it starts as a dead straight line and then comes out in a way like that.
Right it's it adds we add the curve and we add the strands to that shape.
And this is a common thing to see read adds a really nice stylistic edge to the Hair Design.
In fact you can use these straight edges in many places.
So if we assume that her hair came up very round here it wouldn't be odd to have a very straight line
here before the hair rejoined as occurred here.
Now this is of course bringing things into the most symbolic realm into more of the abstract realm but
it's not unusual to see and it can add a great stylistic edge to the work and you will see in upcoming
demos I've done long hair strands of a girl character that just have a lot of straight edges in them.
So do look out for that but don't be afraid to mix up your curves your curves you see curves and Straight's
to create various types of hair designs.
That's the end of this lesson and I'll see you guys in the upcoming demos.