How To Color Black Hair Digital Art

-By Serge Birault

I had a lot of requests for this tutorial, so permit'due south get…

First, you lot have to know there's no magic trick; merely fourth dimension, patience and very small brushes. As always, arrangement is more important than annihilation else. Information technology's non complicated, it's just long and it'south non the same thing.

If you lot're not familiar with realistic hair, utilise photo references. This one is a trivial bit difficult considering of the curls and the lite, and then effort with straight and dark hair first.

Hither's my method … I attempt to exercise separated locks of pilus, then I do a flat tint of color, then I do the hair one by one, with a basic soft or hard round castor (alaways use the aforementioned size of brush) with low opacity. The colors depend on the type of hair. Keep in mind your palette has to be influenced past all the lights, so you will probably need to exercise several ones.

As I said, very dark hair is quicker to pigment. You just accept to do a very night area than add together the reflections. Use your ambiant light and your dirst light colors. Start with big locks and so pigment all the hair on the border.

Add the reflections on another layer. I use to piece of work on a lot of layers, one for each color. Don't forget that pilus cast shadows too, the separation beetween the pilus and the other parts is sometimes hard to paint.

Very directly hair is quite easy to exercise. Equally a apartment surface is more than cogitating, your reflections accept to be stronger. On this one, I did several strokes with the soft round brush (with very low opacity, about five%). I used the background color on the edge and white on the front (ambience and direct light).

The hair very close to the skin are more saturated so I did two different palette. Y'all can emulate this transparency with an overlay type layer with the skin color.

Blond haircuts are usually a existent nightmare, because it's more difficult to cheat. Think well-nigh your palette and your contrast showtime. The method is exactly the same just it usually takes more time. On this one, the pilus was directly… Hopefully.

Nighttime red hair works like black one. Of form, y'all have to add more colour to your palette. For bright red hair, I use to offset with a flat area of middle tone, normally orange; I add the darkest and the brightest tones later. On the 2d i, I have another light on the left side but the palette and the gradients are yet logical, from yellow to red/brown.

If you want to add together some retro lights, you have to paint very saturated hair on the edge. Depending on the color of the light and the colour of the hair, of class. Don't apply overlay layers on the edge, it'due south not a skillful thought, you would need to merge those layers with the background.

If yous actually desire to to impossible stuff, try curly blond hair with a strong calorie-free a retro light. Information technology'due south just hell.

It's not the only style to paint pilus but it'south mine. I employ to pigment very detailed pictures so I have to paint hair accordingly. If you're looking for good references, try hairdressers websites or endeavor to define the haircut's manner yous want to pigment (retro, dark, long, curly, …) and use google.

If y'all want to practice morepainty look like pilus,a lot of pre-raphaelite did very convincing pilus and could influence you. The thought is the same : Think near your palette first then add together the low-cal, call up nearly the locks and the volumes, think about the reflections.