How To Draw Bangs For Beginners [5 Styles, Video + Images]

Published: January 19, 2023

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Explore the steps to drawing bangs!

Blunt, curtain, birkin, wispy or side — there are many types of bangs to choose when creating your comic book character.

Hair is an element that can help shape a character’s personality. For example, in My Hero Academia, a popular manga and anime, Katsuki Bakugo’s hair is spiky with choppy bangs — a look that matches his anger.

We’ll show you how to draw bangs, including five popular styles you can experiment with:

Blunt
Curtain
Long
Birkin
Anime

How To DRAW BANGS Tutorial For Beginners [5 Easy Styles]

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Sketching Tools For Your Bangs Drawing

When you’re exploring how to draw bangs, these tools can come in handy:

An H pencil for creating the guidelines and outlining the bangs
An HB pencil to add the details and softly shade the sketch
A 4B pencil for shading
A kneaded eraser to erase the shapes you’re not happy with
Lightly textured sketch paper to draw on, which easily allows you to erase mistakes or guidelines later on

These are just recommendations — not even our BIOWARS artist has all of these tools. You can use whatever pencil and paper you’re most comfortable with! Now, let’s explore how to draw bangs — the easy way!

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How To Draw Blunt Bangs In 3 Steps

First up, let’s explore the steps to drawing blunt bangs. You know — the bangs with a sharp cut that fall across the forehead.

1. Create The Outline

Recommended tool: H pencil

We’ll show you how to draw bangs on a long-haired girl, with her hair falling behind her back.

(By the way, if you need help drawing faces, check out our step-by-step tutorial on how to draw a face!)

But let’s get back to drawing bangs.

The first thing we’ll do is outline the shape of the blunt bangs.

We want them to cover the girl’s eyebrows and cover about one-half of her upper eyelids.

So, let’s draw a curved line from one ear to the other, starting at eye level on one side. Point the line toward the eyebrows and curve it back toward the ear.

Next, connect both ends with the rest of the girl’s head, like this:

Outline of the blunt bangs. — Start by outlining the shape of the blunt bangs.

2. Add The Details

Recommended tool: HB pencil

Now, let’s add some details to the bangs.

Draw slightly curved spike-like shapes starting at the top of the forehead and point them to the bottom of the bangs.

Between the large spikes, add several shorter ones, like this:

Details added to the blunt bangs. — Use spikey shapes to add texture to the bangs.

3. Finalize Your Blunt Bangs Drawing

Recommended tools: HB pencil

To finalize your drawing, you can continue to use an HB pencil to add more thin lines all over the bangs.

Make sure that all lines have the same shape, because blunt bangs should not look messy:

Finished drawing of blunt bangs. — Your drawing of blunt bangs is done!

How To Draw Curtain Bangs In 3 Steps

The next popular type of bangs we’ll draw are curtain bangs.

1. Create The Outline

Recommended tool: H pencil

Curtain bangs come in all sizes, but we’ll draw them in medium-length, softly framing the character’s face.

This time, we opted for a shorter hairstyle just below the ears, and the bangs will be of the same length.

Now, to draw curtain bangs, you can start by sketching a soft “M” with the peak in the middle of the forehead:

A letter “M” is the base for the medium-length curtain bangs. — Draw a soft “M” to sketch voluminous curtain bangs.

Next, add two curved lines at the top of the head, to mark the area where the bangs start.

Start at the middle of the head and then connect the lines to either side of the girl’s face, to form a heart-like shape:

Heart-shaped lines used to mark the top of the curtain bangs. — Outline the top of the bangs with curved lines.

2. Add The Details

Recommended tool: HB pencil

Now it’s time to add the lines that follow the “M” shape; these will help you add volume and texture to the bangs.

Start at the roots and then gently bring the lines down; be careful not to go over the main, face-framing strands:

Strands of hair added to the bangs. — Curved lines add volume to the girl’s hair.

Continue adding the lines that follow the shape of the girl’s head.

Go over the face-framing strands with your pencil to make them stand out more than the rest of the hair:

Strands of hair added to the drawing. — Only one more step to go!

3. Finalize Your Curtain Bangs Drawing

Recommended tools: 4B and HB pencils

To finish your drawing of curtain bangs, combine different shades of grey.

Outline the bangs with particularly dark lines, then add lighter greys to the rest of the hair, like this:

Finished drawing of curtain bangs. — That’s a wrap on curtain bangs!

How To Draw Long Bangs In 3 Steps

Long bangs look similar to curtain bangs, but they usually have less volume and are, well, longer than a curtain fringe.

1. Create The Outline

Recommended tools: H pencil

We’re back to drawing characters with long hairstyles.

Make sure to leave the top of the head clean for the bangs.

Now, the basic shape of the long bangs resembles a soft “V.”

Start drawing a line at the center of the girl’s forehead and point it toward the left ear lobe; then do the same and point the line toward the right ear lobe, like this:

The outline of the long bangs. — A soft “V” is the base for long bangs.

2. Add The Details

Recommended tools: H and HB pencils

Next, let’s start adding more hair at the center of the head.

Draw two lines (one on the left and the other on the right) that follow the shape of the head, like so:

Hair is added to the middle of the girl’s head. — Start adding the hair to the center of the character’s head.

Use an HB pencil to add more hair strands all over the head or simply apply more pressure to make the lines more eye-catching:

More hair strands all over the character’s head. — You’re one step away from finishing your drawing!

3. Finalize Your Long Bangs Drawing

Recommended tools: HB pencil, kneaded eraser

To finalize your artwork, erase the parts that are covered with hair.

For instance, the tops of the character’s ears don’t show, so we erased them.

If you accidentally erase more than you planned, grab your pencil again and add the missing lines:

Finished drawing of the long bangs. — Long bangs are finished!

How To Draw Birkin Bangs In 3 Steps

Birkin bangs were popularized by the singer and actress Jane Birkin.

This type of fringe is softly cut and characterized by its wispy, feathery look.

1. Create The Outline

Recommended tools: H pencil

Let’s outline the shape of birkin bangs first.

Start at the center of your character’s head and draw two petal-like shapes.

Leave some room between the “petals” because we’re not drawing straight and thick bangs:

The outline of the birkin bangs. — Drawing petal-like shapes helps you outline birkin bangs.

2. Add The Details

Recommended tools: H and HB pencils, kneaded eraser

Birkin bangs are all about their piecey structure, so, when drawing more hair strands, feel free to experiment with their length.

Mix longer and shorter strands to depict the feathery look of the bangs:

The outline of the birkin bangs with hair strands added. — Birkin bangs have a wispy look.

Use your kneaded eraser to erase the guidelines you drew in the first step.

Then, switch to an HB pencil to add more strands of hair at the front and enrich the bangs:

More strands of hair are added at the front of the head. — Continue adding strands of hair at the front.

3. Finalize Your Birkin Bangs Drawing

Recommended tools: kneaded eraser

To finalize the drawing, use your eraser to remove the lines that reach the top of the forehead.

Only the strands in the middle should be long enough to reach the top of the forehead.

From there and toward the ears, the lines should gradually become shorter, like this:

The finished drawing of the birkin bangs. — Check out the soft birkin bangs!

How To Draw Anime Bangs In 3 Steps

Last but not least, we’ll show you how to draw anime bangs.

They’re usually straight and full, and almost every anime character has them!

We created a separate guide on drawing anime hair, so if you need help with both male and female anime hairstyles, check it out! We also have a tutorial on how to draw anime faces; it’s for beginners and you can follow it to easily draw your manga/anime characters!

Now, let’s draw more bangs!

1. Create The Outline

Recommended tools: H pencil

To outline anime bangs, connect the ears with a line that slightly curves once it reaches the nose. The line should also touch the inner corners of the eyebrows.

Then, draw a curved line to connect the ends of the straight line; make sure the top of the curve reaches the middle of the head, because anime bangs are usually long, like so: