There are two ways to draw vector hair in Adobe Illustrator. You can either use brushes to draw from scratch or trace the hair from an image using the Pen Tool.
If you want to draw hair from scratch using brushes, it’s highly recommended you use a graphic tablet because it’s really challenging to draw with a mouse or trackpad.
Technically, you can use any brush to draw hair in Adobe Illustrator, and depending on the style of your illustration, you can use different brushes. For example, if you’re creating cartoon hair or really simple line art, the existing brushes work.
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Step 1: Choose the Ellipse Tool (keyboard shortcut L) from the toolbar. Click and drag on the artboard to create a very thin ellipse shape like this.
Note: The thinner the elliptical shape is, the finer the line will be. If you want to draw thicker hair, feel free to make the elliptical shape a bit thicker.
Step 3: Open the Brushes panel from the overhead menu Window > Brushes. Select the ellipse you just created, go to the Brushes panel, and click New Brush.
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This will open a brush setting window, where you can change the direction, scale option, and colorization of the brush. You don’t have to change anything for now. Simply keep the default setting, and change the brush name so that you can find it easily. For example, I named mine: Hair Brush 1.
If you don’t want to make your own brush in Illustrator, you can also download hair brushes online. Most hair brushes are for Photoshop, so I figured it’s quicker to create my own hair brush than look for one.
Step 4: Select the Paintbrush tool on the toolbar or activate it using the keyboard shortcut B, choose the brush you just created, and start drawing hair!
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If you want to draw straight hair or curly/wavy hair for a line illustration, this is the go-to method. However, if you want to make a more cartoonish look, check out the method below.
You could draw hair from scratch too but I do suggest finding an image as a reference to trace, at least the hair outline shape. Once you have an image, let’s jump into the steps below.
Step 1: Place the image in Adobe Illustrator, lower the opacity to the point while you can still clearly see the hair outline, and lock the image layer. For example, I’m going to use this image:
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Step 2: Create a new layer for the hair outline. I do suggest drawing on new layers especially for the shadow and highlights of the hair so that you don’t modify something by accident.
Step 3: Click on the hair outline layer, choose the Pen tool (keyboard shortcut P) from the toolbar, choose a stroke color, get rid of the fill color, and trace the outline of the hair. Make sure you connect the first and last anchor points so that you can fill in the color easily.
The outline doesn’t have to be exactly the same as the image and to be honest, it’s almost impossible to avoid some fuzzy hair.
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Once you closed the Pen tool path, you can add a fill color to see how it looks, if you want to use similar colors as the original image, you can use the Eyedropper tool to sample color.
Step 4: Go to the Layers panel, select the hair outline layer, click on the eye icon to hide this layer, and then lock the layer by clicking on the lock icon.
Step 5: Select the shadow layer, choose the Pen Tool, and draw the outline of the shadow (darker area) of the hair.
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You can use the Eyedropper tool to sample the darker area of the hair from the image or choose a color on your own. The color should be the same or similar tone as the base hair color. If you show the hair outline layer, you can see the colors.
If the hair has different shadows, you can add another shadow layer, use the Pen tool to draw the shadow outline, and sample the color again.
Follow the same step above to fill it with color. Once you’ve outlined all areas, you can show all layers to see the final result.
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Can’t say which method is better because I also use both together to create the look I want. For example, I often use the Pen Tool to trace the outline and create shadow areas because it’s faster to fill color. Then I’d use brushes to touch up the details.
I can say that if you want to create line illustrations, then the brushes work better, but if you want to fill the hair with color, using the Pen tool method would be much easier.
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My name is June, I’m a graphic designer and a problem solver. I’m here to help you solve your Illustrator problems. Read more about me and why I created this website here.Vectoring hair to create a realistic hair illustration can be a time-consuming process and is sometimes difficult to master in a short space of time. A few years back, I wanted to help solve this issue by creating a set of Adobe Illustrator hair brushes.
In this tutorial, I'm going to show you how to create one set of brushes (four individual brushes) and then how to create a free-flowing, detailed hairstyle with them. You can easily adapt this process to create hairstyles and a new hair brush in Illustrator.
Let's start by creating a basic tapered hair brush in Illustrator. This is the base shape for this set of brushes but also a handy brush for drawing individual hairs.
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Using the Ellipse Tool (L), click once on your canvas, and in the popup, set the Width to 30 px and the Height to 2 px. Click on OK. Make sure your ellipse is filled with black.
Using the Direct Selection Tool (A), select the rightmost point on the shape. Then click on the Convert selected anchor points to corner button to turn the curve into a point. This will give you one tapered point.
With the shape selected, in the Brushes panel click on the button Create New Brush. Select Art Brush from the popup, and you'll be presented with the Art Brush Options window.
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The key setting you'll need to change is the Colorization Method to Tints. As your shape is black, it means it will take on the 100% saturation of the colour you select. Therefore, whatever your stroke colour will be, your brush will take on this colour.
The hairline of any portrait is often neglected and often missing in vector portraits. This is mainly because it's time-consuming and difficult to perfect. However, by creating a scatter brush, you can create a near-realistic hairline effect. So instead of drawing one stroke per hair, you're only creating one stroke for the entire hairline!
Select your duplicate and go to Object > Transform > Rotate. Let's rotate the shape by 90 degrees and click on OK.
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The hair shine brush can be used for multiple things, depending on how you tailor the brush. This specific version will help you create a textured shine on the hair. When layered at different Opacities, it can give a realistic touch to a silhouette .
You should still have your vertical tapered shape. Copy and Paste this and, using the Selection Tool (V), move it to the side of the first. Repeat this until you've got five to eight shapes as shown below.
This particular brush is useful for drawing multiple clumps of strands in one stroke. This is a great time-saving brush and can be useful for long or short styles of hair.
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Using the Rectangle Tool (M), draw over half of the shape. With Smart Guides (Control-U) enabled, you'll be able to find the midpoint of the tapered shape more easily.
Let's start by Copying the tapered shape. Using the Direct Selection Tool (A), click on the rightmost point and drag it out.
Paste in Front, drag out the rightmost point again, and place it in a new location. Continue doing this until you've got a fanned-out collection of tapered shapes, with the two vertical points at the left remaining in place.
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Select all of the fanned-out, tapered points, and create a New Art Brush. The settings to pay attention to are the Direction to be left to right (so your starting point is the root of the clump of hair) and the Colorization Method to Tints. Then click on OK.
Let's look at the four Adobe Illustrator hair brushes you've created. These are all the same Stroke Weight, apart from the clump of hair, which is 3 pt. They've been applied to a straight horizontal line.
For this exercise, I'm going to be using a blank head shape which is included in the Easy Hair Brushes pack so you can practise. However, you can apply these to any head base you wish.
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