;painting hair
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worked out a great method for doing hair. Basically you have your hair on a seperate layer from your skin.
Block out the hair, for example a dark brown flat colour.
Create a layer underneath this that is a lot lighter , perhaps in this case a warmish light yellow.
Then you begin 'erasing' the detail out of the dark layer. If you want highlights, you dodge and burn on the lighter layer 'below'
Works best with an intuos tablet.
I try not to erase thin lines at first, but block out mass , then add detail and in conjunction with the layer underneath you can get almost perfect hair.
The good thing is that if you mess up, you paint over your base colour ( eg on the dark brown layer and do it again.
I got it down so I can do a good hairstyle in about 30 mins
I will try and post an example if I get time.
Block out the hair, for example a dark brown flat colour.
Create a layer underneath this that is a lot lighter , perhaps in this case a warmish light yellow.
Then you begin 'erasing' the detail out of the dark layer. If you want highlights, you dodge and burn on the lighter layer 'below'
Works best with an intuos tablet.
I try not to erase thin lines at first, but block out mass , then add detail and in conjunction with the layer underneath you can get almost perfect hair.
The good thing is that if you mess up, you paint over your base colour ( eg on the dark brown layer and do it again.
I got it down so I can do a good hairstyle in about 30 mins
I will try and post an example if I get time.
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Just in case people reading this thread haven't seen it, my own hair tutorial.
http://www.poopinmymouth.com/process/hair_tutorial/hair_01.htm
It depends a lot on what style of hair you are doing.
Perhaps I will write a mini tutorial, because I have a really simple quick method for painting alpha hair also.
poop, thats a nice tutorial too.
I'd be interested in your tute too! make it!
This method is a digital translation of an old airbrush technique, which involves erasing out highlights with a typist pencil eraser(for soft highlights/fur effects) and a scalpel to get fine hair.
I think it works better than previous methods I have tried, because you are working from dark to light , which seems to give more realism in pshop at least.