The title already tells a lot.
If i want to draw my favourite objects-animals- I always see whiskers around their nose an which colour are they in? -RIGHT-WHITE

But how can I draw single white hairs on a white paper?

Every kind of tip is welcome

Try by just drawing the outline of the hair. Should make a pretty good example of white hair. No highligts needed and a slighty pinch och shadow should do it.

You could try by drawing the animal without the whiskers, and when you are done use the sharp corner of an eraser to indicate the white hairs. I hope that helps.

Here is a drawing I recently did of an animal with a lot of white hair (me):
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If you look carefully you'll see a lot of white whiskers on the chin, stray white hairs on the forehead and over the other hair, and white eyebrow hairs mixed in with the others. If you see this drawing in person the white hair is really very effective.

The way this was done was with impressing. Do your initial sketch, and then put a piece of tracing paper over the drawing. With a sharp, hard (2H) pencil, draw the white hairs you're going to want (whiskers, whatever.) Press pretty hard, but not hard enough to tear the tracing paper. Then remove the tracing paper and do your drawing. The sharp 2H pencil impressions won't get filled in -- they'll stay white!

Thanks Nuke.O for posting about white hairs .
I'm just doing a drawing that needs white hair and was just thinking how will I do this lol
so thank you Ernest Friedman-Hill I will try you way and see how I go, will let you know.
thanks again.

Thanks everybody!
But my problem is drawing SINGLE white hairs like the whiskers on this photo (on each side of the nose).
THe background shouldn't be black like on the photo,but should stay the white of the paper.

@Ernest Friedman: Nice drawing btw

With white or blonde hair, you are drawing the shadows around the hair, not the hair itself. Concentrate on the value changes and if you are drawing individual hairs work on the negative spacing around them.

Impressing is a great way to bring forward single hairs that are sticking out.

Here is a recent drawing I completed of a child with blonde hair so you can see how the shading creates the form.

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I understand your question, but if you imagine the background on your photo being white then you most likely wouldn't be able to see the whiskers at all.. If you don't want to draw a light grey shadow around the cat too indicate the white hairs, or don't want to draw the whiskers in a light grey to show their presence, then it's going to be hard to draw them. Unless you use slightly tinted paper and draw the hairs with a white pencil. You can't make anything whiter than white..

Try looking up examples of negative drawing. Here's one:

http://www.sibleyfineart.com/index.htm?tut...-draw-grass.htm

Tony

THank you very much everybody!!

Hi Nuke,

I may be wrong but I get the impression you did not understand the technique explained by Ernest. I know this technique as INDENTING and not IMPRESSING, although I am often impressed by Ernest.

Anyway I don't use the same techinque as Ernest with the hard pencil and tracing paper. I actually use a large sewing neddle with a dull point. I find that this gives a crisper line and a deeper indent. Especially for those thin whiskers. The technique of negative drawing is also valid for this but for fine whiskers I prefer the indenting. If you have a look at my drawing Majestic you will see how I used this technique for the lion's white whiskers.

Here is a photo of the tool I made. I wrapped it with some tape to make it thick enough to be held in a 2mm clutch pencil.

Wow, I should use this forum more often,anytime I need help for something.
The tips of you guys are so great and everybody seems to have his own great techniques to share.

THANK YOU

I purchased a set of embosing tools at Michaels. There are three little tools each having two size tips on the end. You have to go to the craft section and pray that you can find a woman that knows what they are. You use them just like RJB and Ernest said. They are very handy. I usually just do it right on the drawing so I can see exactly where I want the "hair"
Slim