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Loopydave — Hair cut please
Published: 2011-09-04 13:13:55 +0000 UTC; Views: 66055; Favourites: 1493; Downloads: 2602
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Occasionally I get someone asking me about painting hair - not sure I'm the right person to ask, as I'm still working on doing a better job at it - but here's my general approach...- Work up from the large overall shape first with general tones and shadows
- Start working out the ribbon like clusters
- Add the small groups and single hairs, usually lighter than the hair groups below it.
- Add the final highlights
Breaking hair down into ribbons or clumps helps save a little time, but there is no real way of getting around just drawing a whole lot of hair strands if you want a somewhat realistic look. A smarter person than me would map out the hair a bit better before they paint, but I enjoy a little 'winging it' as I go along kind of thing, particularly if its a bit stylised like this particular piece.
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Thanks! Fun to paint... love those 50's hair dos!
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I see you turned the sloppy highlight (in stage 1) to smooth highlight at stage 2?
how you did that? Did you use Smudge tool?
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It was some time ago so I cant be exactly sure.... I usually just paint over it with a soft brush though in this case I may have blurred the area with the gaussian blur in the blur filters in photoshop... either way would give a similar result.
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Thank you man , I just have problem with rendering the sloppy colors (ie making them smooth) , here you can see what I'm talking about
fc05.deviantart.net/fs71/f/201…
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Try setting the opacity of your brush very low (10-20%) and gradually building up the grade with a soft brush...
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Super nice of you to say
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and cheaper than going to a hair dressers
Cheers!
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So true! Thanx for showing this, cleared up some issues for me!
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Thank you very much for the tip! It might help me get better at colouring hair
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Sounds like I should be running a hair dressing academy
Cheers!
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going from left to right is the first image used as a generalized tones, then use them as a "palette" for your brushes or do you actually work the colors as you would on canvas with oils.
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Not sure what you mean... basic approach is paint the base shape and colours, paint the ribbons or clumps of hair next and then paint the finer strands. Sometimes I paint each of those sections as separate layers over each other, other times I just paint it all on the same layer, just depending on how I feel. There really is no right or wrong way with these things - I'm self taught and the best thing is to do is play around and see what works best for you.
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Thanks for the tips! It's greatly appreciated.
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Hope it helps you with your next haircut
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Fantastic! I love it! The method is wonderful and the haircut is sooooooooo... I dunno it reminds me of Hercules the cartoon
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I can see that - Meg had some great shapes with her hair in that one!
Cheers!
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exactly! Meg rocks! The best disney princess
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Out shopping to buy an outfit to go with her new haircut.
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I thanked!
Always a pleasure to have you come by
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Right on time! This is a bigger help to me than you could ever imagine!
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I love playing around with sylized hair - glad my musings can be of assistance.
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She asked the hair dresser for one of those "'60's do's, you know, like a bob, but with curly bits down the bottom". Fortunately the hair dresser understood what she was after
Cheers!
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Many thanks for checkin it out!
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I love how you exaggerate everything overall, but this is an amazing way to see how you get that fantastic hair!
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Maybe I should be a hairdresser
Cheers!
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ummmm...no but if that is your dream then who am I stand in your way, lol
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your artwork is really fantastic and helpful 
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Gosh I love your style! Your amazing, really I can't believe it!
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THanks ma'am - nice of you to say
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