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How to draw gray or blond hair

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Although you might think drawing gray or blonde hair - especially when drawing on white paper - will be terribly difficult, it's only slightly different from drawing other hair types. The main thing to keep in mind when drawing light toned hair on white paper, is to create a background with some depth to it so the drawing will have contrast.

In this page, I'll share with you some of my tips to effectively draw white or blond hair.

Drawing blond or silver hair is only slightly different from drawing other hair types. When I am drawing blond or silver hair, I just work a lot lighter.

Try using an H or an F pencil (harder graphite) sharpened to a very fine point. For the darker areas, try using a mechanical pencil. Keep it light, but remember to keep your contrasts of dark versus light areas.

I also like to shade very lightly around the outer edges of the hair, so there is a bit of contrast between the light hair. This is especially important when drawing on white paper, because you need to do something to create a difference between the paper and the person's head.

To create a softly blended background like my example picture, try taking a darker pencil like a 4B, and rub it on a bit of scrap paper, then take some tissue or a chamois and rub into that graphite. Then in circular motion, shade in the background.