# How To Draw Body Hair > [!email]+ Tumblr Inbox > >![[How I Add Texture To My Art-1775364240347.webp|profile left]] > > > [!note] From > > Anonymous > > > [!note] To > > [Turtle-Brownie](https://turtle-brownie.tumblr.com/ask) > > > [!note|sep] Subject > > **Drawing Body Hair** > >*Answered* _18/09/2026_ > > howw do you draw chest hair... >[!hint] &nbsp; >## Introduction > Drawing body hair is a relatively simple process, regardless if you're doing line art or rendering it. It's all in understanding the placement and direction of the hair on the body. This applies to more than just the chest. > >For starters, **everybody is different**, and therefore the way hair grows and where is different for everybody. Use this more as a general guide more than a hard-rule. These diagrams apply to any gender or sex, and hair can grow pretty much anywhere on the body, besides your lips, and the soles of your hands and feet, pretty much. > >This guide does *not* cover the hair on the head, or facial hair. If you want the tutorial on drawing the hair on the head, you can check out [[Tips for Drawing Hair]]. > >>[!seealso]- Brushes used >>- [[LY Realistic Ballpoint Pen]] > >--- > >## Where on the body >While humans grow hair all over their bodies, its far more concentrated in some areas compared to others. > >The below diagram shows off, generally, the distribution and concentration of hair on the body, where yellow leans towards a lesser concentration, and red higher. The grey areas tend to have lesser or no visible hair, but this obviously has exceptions. > >On top of it being for concentration & density, its also a good map for determining 'degrees' of hairiness. Hair sort of begins in the red areas, spreading out to the orange and yellow as the person is considered 'hairier'. People with hair in the yellow areas, will very rarely have no hair in the orange areas; people with hair in the orange areas, will very rarely have no hair in the red areas. > >![[How To Draw Body Hair-1781776874353.webp]] > >### Direction of hair growth >The hair on the human body tends to have a 'direction' in which it grows. Following these general paths when drawing will help the hair look and feel more natural, as opposed to the hair being drawn all in the same direction. > >I've sort of mapped out the back and front here in the general directions of hair growth, with further explanations beneath the two images. > >![[How To Draw Body Hair-1781776911225.webp]] > >![[How To Draw Body Hair-1781776924531.webp]] > >|Hairless|*Blue*|**Red**|_**Hair**_|| >|-|-|-|-| >|A body drawn without any sort of body hair.<p>Completely hairless for the sake of visual comparison.</p>|The main general 'map' of directional hair growth. This one showcases the the different directions hair grows on different parts of the body.<p>Note that this does not show concentration and density of hair growth.</p>|This one shows off the directional hair growth, more focusing on the form and shape of the bottom to help visualise how the hair wraps around the body and limbs.<p>It's important to take into account not just the direction of the hair growth, but also how it conforms to the shape of the body.</p>|This is a body with body-hair, utilising and showcasing the use of the previous tips about directional and density.| > >--- > >## Drawing the hair >I hate to be the one to break the bad news, but I don't have any secret advice or cool trick that will get you the hair that you need drawn. Pretty much any art piece you see from me, where there is body hair, I have hand drawn pretty much all of it. > >Of course, programs like Clip Studio Paint that have asset stores and downloadable brushes will have plenty of stubble and body-hair brushes to choose from, but from personal experience, I've never had anything come close to replicating the 'better' look of doing it hand drawn. Hair done by brushes always look out of place in my own art, but they might not in yours, so they are worth a shot if you really don't want to go through the arduous task of drawing each hair. > >### Hair shape & texture >Hair comes in many different textures and shapes, and the same goes for the hair people grow on their bodies. > >Generally, I avoid drawing body hair using straight lines, and always attempt to put at least a slight curve or curl to the hairs to make them feel less rigid and more natural. > >>[!example]- Examples >>>[!grid|col-2] >>>![[How To Draw Body Hair-1781787186920.webp]] >>> >>>![[How To Draw Body Hair-1781787333366.webp]] >>> >>>![[How To Draw Body Hair-1781787390777.webp]] >>> >>>![[How To Draw Body Hair-1781787494610.webp]] >>> >>>![[How To Draw Body Hair-1781787521127.webp]] >>> >>>![[How To Draw Body Hair-1781787645767.webp]] > >### Tips & Tricks >- If you're adding colour to the drawing, whether flats, rendering, etc.; try lightly adding tones of grey beneath the body hair. This helps it more blend 'in' to the skin, rather than looking odd and like its been drawn over the top >- Draw the hair like you're 'hatching', almost, with more flicks and curved lines instead of straight ones. I like to do small clumps of 2 to 3 hairs in quick succession >- With the hatching advice; try layering the hairs and going over the top with more strokes of hair. This could help to make it look more cohesive and 'natural' --- >[!todo|noicon] Have a question to ask? Check out the [[Contact Me]] page to see where you can ask :)