Digital painting tutorial, painting hair. Learn to paint hair step by step using Photoshop or any digital painting application and Wacom pen tablet. I have a lot of request how on painting hair tutorial. Hair is one of those object that really confuse artists and can throw them off. My personal approach of painting hair is just like painting any other object, nothing special or different. First, I will observe the shape and size of the whole head, then I will break layers of hair into groups or clumps of hair. If you squint and look at people, you will get a clear picture of how value really works. Everything will look simplify. Same as hair here, when painting hair, don’t think of it as painting every single hair. You should approach it by breaking the whole head of hair down into a few shapes. Notice how the hair shape and how light and shadow interact with it. I recommend go to life drawing to paint in real setting. There are three most important things you should remember in painting. First, you have to get its shape and size as accurate as you can. Second, value (light and shadow) is very very important when painting hair. In all case, value is not only just light and shadow in its setting, but also the reflective property of the subject. In this particular step by step demo, I am painting blonde hair so its property is almost as reflective as some metal because they are shiny. Third, edges are very important. To successfully painting hair, you have to get the edges right. Hair is one tricky subject and it can be fun playing around with edges.
This tutorial, like any other one of mine, is not intend to be photo realistic. If you are looking for photo realistic style painting, you are in the wrong place. I tend to favor painterly style, bold brush work and very conceptual like kind of painting. It could resemble realism, but not in photo realistic kind of way.
Here is a final painting of straight long blonde hair.
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Below are step by step how to paint long blonde hair. I didn’t use any reference on this one because I didn’t have time to find a good one. So this is very basic. I recommend using ref or go to life drawing to get good practice. Step one, I just sketched basic long hair shape. Notice that I kept it really simple. Step two, I use only two value, mid tone and dark, to define the shape of her hair, but all in one hue (green brown color). Step three, I define the edges, soft and hard, between two value and get rid of the outline. Step four, I then introduce the lighter value and try to get its reflective nature of the hair to shine. Step five, I clean up and again define edges. By defining edges, I meant smooth out some part and separate light part from shadow, also separate between groups of hair. Step six, I added highlight and bring out some additional small strains of hair on the outer edge.
Digital painting tutorial, long blond hair
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