Advanced Head Drawing | Part 1: The Hair

[New Masters Academy]

In this series, master artist Steve Huston brings you his highly-anticipated advanced head drawing lessons. This first lesson in the series will cover drawing the hair, a fun but often tricky feature to accurately represent. Steve will begin with a lecture, giving you an overview of how to draw several hair types, as well as beards. You will learn how you can utilize hair as an element to emphasize gesture, characterization, and head structure in your drawings. Steve will do several demonstrations working from photo reference, and then you will have a chance to practice what you have learned in an assignment. The lesson concludes with Steve’s approach to the assignment, allowing you to compare your work with his.

Materials

• Sharpie Markers
• Colored Chalk
• CarbOthello Pencil – Burnt Sienna
• BIC Ballpoint Pen
• Prismacolor Colored Pencil – White
• Faber-Castell Polychromos Pencil – Sanguine

[4wards]

Which colored chalks were used in the rendering of the flowing hair?

[Chris]

I second this question.

[jwevick]

Yes, and why is the no reference images, to copy what Mr. Huston is doing in his demonstrations? Plus it looks like no one answers these forum questions.

[andy.ground]

I agree with the comment above. Could the producers list the model names in the description so that they can be found in the library (or at last mention them in the dialogue). I would love to draw some more poses of the bearded guy.

[Amanda Admin]

Thank you all for bringing this to our attention! I let our team know and we have fixed this and added those reference images 🙂

[Matthew Haverly]

Is there a place where the drawings he does are saved also?

[Armando Berumen Garcia]

Why are there no black people in the references? ………………………….. please include black people in your hair tutorials POR FAVOR.

[Daniel Daigle]

Hi Armando, we are continually working to add more diversity to our image and video library.

Here are some links that you may find useful.

https://www.nma.art/videolessons/constructive-head-drawing-week-9-reflected-direct-light/
model is Vanna

https://www.nma.art/videolessons/rendering-techniques-with-chris-legaspi-part-4-red-conte/
ch 3 model is Jonny

https://www.nma.art/videolessons/rendering-techniques-with-chris-legaspi-part-3-carbothello-and-charcoal-pencil/
ch2 model is Jonny

https://www.nma.art/videolessons/glenn-vilppu-life-drawing-demonstrations-2/
model is Kwas

https://www.nma.art/videolessons/drawing-the-head/
ch 11 – 12 model is Tiffney

https://www.nma.art/videolessons/pastel-portrait-demonstration-of-a-child/
model is Ellen’s niece (not featured in our gallery)

https://www.nma.art/videolessons/tracey-two-hour-oil-portrait/
model was a sit in for the day (not featured in gallery)

https://www.nma.art/videolessons/digital-figure-painting-livestream-archive-1/
model is Lamonte

https://www.nma.art/videolessons/sketching-mediums-pros-cons/
model is Bridgette

https://www.nma.art/videolessons/contemporary-realism-in-oils-part-2-the-portrait/
model was a sit in for the day (not in gallery)

I would keep an eye on the Drawing the Head with Glenn Vilppu series

You may also find the Ashphord,  Tish, and Trace album sets useful for practicing

I would also recommend watching plaster cast demonstrations. Plaster casts are great for learning how to group hair into solid forms which is ideal for curly hair types.

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