How To Draw Natural Black Hair

For those of you that don't know what 4c pilus is, 4c hair is a hair texture blazon that contains coils to small and tight that the hair appears to be more puffy rather than curly ( like to photo below ) this is in NO WAY to be dislocated with curly pilus. there is a desperate difference.

As a blackness creative person that primarily draws characters with 4c hair, I've been asked many times to do a tutorial on 4c pilus so here we go~

earlier we go into 4c hair, lets take a moment to fully sympathize it past talking about hair texture in a general sense beginning

let's have a await at this example of straight pilus vs curly hair ( ane type straight pilus vs 3 type curly hair )

If yous take a moment to compare the two you lot'll notice straight hair is apartment, it has no texture. Straight hair perfectly hangs downwards like to liquid-similar silk. Information technology's lack of curl pattern is the reason every bit to why it hangs perfectly flat.

curly hair on the other hand doesn't prevarication down apartment and silky like directly hair, It'southward more than thick. Curly hair in it's raw and unstyled land has a trapezoid like shape this is because the sides of the hair spread more outward.

So why is this? Why is straight hair flat and curly hair thick?

the answer to that question is a affair called piling up. When it comes to hair texture, the shape of the hair strands aren't the only thing that matters, its how the strands coexist with each other, Curly pilus strands coexist by piling up on pinnacle each other.

wet besides effects hair texture as well, unlike hair types absorbs moisture differently, thus the thickness of each hair type is different.

…..soooo, how does this all chronicle to how to draw 4c hair??

Well allow'due south take a wait at the drawing below. Notice how the arrows become outward more as the hair texture gets curlier. As nosotros've already discussed, this is because hair piles up, The curlier the hair texture, the more information technology piles up on each other, the bigger it gets, the more outward the arrows get.

Out of any pilus texture, 4C hair has the most curls. Considering of this, the hair piles up on each other so much that it doesn't prevarication downward apartment like straight hair, nor does it make a trapezoid like shape similar curly hair, it instead becomes more than cloud similar.❤️

This is what you need to take into business relationship when it comes to drawing 4C hair.

Call back of information technology as piling upwards a bunch of cotton balls on each other. The virtually cotton wool on pinnacle of top to lead to a bigger patch of cotton. this is 4c pilus.

How to not draw 4c hair:

Garnet fanart. Let's talk about Garnet Fanart. I notice a trend that when artists describe Garnet from Steven universe, her hair texture is usually changed to 3 type curly like texture. This subtle form of White washing has dislocated me because this is inaccurate.

Garnet's hair is in the shape of a cube. Though 3 type pilus piles up on each other, it isn't curly nor thick enough for their hair to stay in the shape of a cube. Curly pilus lies down more than 4c hair. And so garnet'southward pilus beingness in the shape of a cube is a dead giveaway that it is 4C. Why practise y'all think hairstyles like flat tops are commonly seen on black men with 4c hair? It's because, the 4c hair texture is thick and strong plenty to stay in whatsoever shape you put information technology in.

please, if you lot're cartoon a character with 4c pilus, avoid drawing it like curly 3 type hair, this is very anti-blackness and texturist.

So, how exercise you draw 4c hair?

honestly, its the most easy thing in the earth

i wanna clarify that blobby looking 4c drawings ( like the one on the peak left ) tin can work depending on how cartoony your art style is.

Another thing that I desire to greatly analyze when it comes to drawing 4C hair is, You lot. DONT. NEED. TO. DRAW. EVERY. HAIR. STRAND!…..like, seriously. I've gotten many messages near how 4C hair is hard to draw, and it'due south always left me confused; but so I find out that the same people that have trouble drawing 4C hair, effort to draw every single strand of hair. This is unnecessarily time consuming because it'southward merely impossible to get every unmarried detail downwards, especially when you have a simple cartoon mode. 4C hair does not require much effort, all yous're doing is drawing lumps. It's that elementary, nothing more nor nothing less.

The reason why I profoundly advise all of you to avoid cartoon every single hair strand is because in real life, when you look at a 4C textured Afro, your eyes don't pick up on each individual hair strand similar straight or curly hair. 4C hair, appears to be more than undefined and cloud similar, and then attempting to draw each and every individual strand is unnecessary and will most likely end upwardly looking inaccurate.