How to Draw Manga Hair (Female)

In this post I will explain the easy way to draw female manga hair characters and how to choose the right hairstyle for each characters.

How to Draw Manga’s Hair.

It’s easier for the begginers to draw pony first before they draw manga hair.

To draw the pony itself, just move the pencil into some different direction. Don’t draw some very straigth lines with the same length as the pony. After you draw the pony, you can easily manipulate it and create your character’s hair as you like. If you felt the difficuties in drawing hair, you can make a circle sketch for help.

These are the different type of hairstyles that you can use as references.

TWINTAIL

Twintail hairstyle is quite popular in the manga. This kind of hairstyle can give character the aura of cuteness. The character whose have twintail hairstyle are usually has friendly personality. Yet twintail hairstyle is also popular to be used in vicious and strong female character.

PONYTAIL

Ponytail hairstyle also quite popular and easy to be found in the manga. Ponytail hairstyle can give the impression of calm and mature personality. It also can give the impression the character who like the simplicity.

CURLY HAIR

There are many types of curly hairstyles, but the most popular one is the curly hairstyle which has straight pony. This type of curly hairstyle can give character the aura of cuteness and royalty. Characters with this type of hairstyle usually have the bossy personality yet they’re still cute.

SHORT HAIR (BOB VERSION).

Short harstyle is also popular among manga character. The character which have bob hairstyle usually have calm personality.