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Tutorial: Painting Hair in PS
Published: 2006-09-13 18:12:19 +0000 UTC; Views: 285781; Favourites: 7210; Downloads: 48890
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You guys still seem to like this tutorial, but it's old and out of date so I apologise for that. Comments are now disabled, sorry!I had an hour study period at school in which I had nothing to study and I couldn't work on commish without my notes (dA is banned at school for some dumbass reason), so I decided to make this... thing.
The hair is particularly scruffy I think because it was produced within about an hour, and I just submitted this after checking the spellings and grammar at home (I bet there are still typos). Anyway, this might provide a bit of insight into how I produce hair in my digital paintings. Yes, I know, I KNOW this is the trillionth hair tutorial on deviantART, but all I ever see are anime/manga style ones and I have never really found a tutorial for curly hair, so I figure someone out there might find this style useful. Maybe.
Oh yeah, and it's a big image. Watch out, those of you on slow connections.
Or rather, there's no need to watch out, but you might as well go and get a coffee whilst it loads or something.
There is now a part 2 here: [link]
And there is now a fur tutorial
here: [link]
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Comments: 206
That's fantastic 
Thank you for this and congrats on the well deserved DD
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this is wonderfull but if only you had a tutorial of how you color the faces/bodys xD
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wow thanks. I always wondered how I will do my hair in photoshop.
And by the way, congrats for the DD
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DA is actually banned at my school aswell.
nad it bothers me greatly.
anywhoo.
this is beautiful.
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Wonderful! You so rock! Thank you so much, can't wait to try this again.
And just in case you care... here is my attempt.
[link]
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Thank god something that works!!!!!!!!!
With tied back hair would you use the same method but just change the direction of the hair flow? (if that made sense lol).
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Nice work, this is really helpful! Im gonna try it
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This tutorial is made of win!
Thanks for making such a helpful resource.
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This is really wonderful! Thank you for making it in such detail! I can't wait to give it a go.
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you make it look so easy!!! i'm gonna have to go home and try it out now.. cause lord knows i suck at photoshopping hair.. thanks for putting the tutorial together!
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you saved my life!!
this is exactly what I was looking for!
thank you! thank you!!
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Great tutorial! Congrats on your DD - it's well deserved
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This is pretty cool and a great tutorial for realistic hair.
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thx for the tutorial
hopes I get to see another soon
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thank uuuuu. this is really helpful!!.... can't wait to try it ^_^
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This is so helpful! you have no idea! I've been trying to teach myself photoshop for about a month now. This is very valuable info.
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Hey
Its a great tutorial, but could you help me out on some problem?.
I want to draw sort of anime hair but then sort of realistic, how do I make the base hairstrants ( step 1 ) because you just fill the background with a certain color and my hairstrans have a certain form.
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this is aweseome!! I love the realistic-ness!!
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Thanks a million for this.
It's the only decent hair tutorial I have been able to follow.
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cool tutorial i hope that ill beable to do it for my pic XD im a fool with computers
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I tried the curly hair and definitely failed hardcore. >_> *dedicates herself to practice 'cause she LOVES CURLY HAIR WTF*
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This tutorial helped me out a ton, so thank you very much for putting this one out.
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You are my new best friend! You have no idea how much this helped me!
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FAB. i was looking for something just like this. People like you make everyone's life a joy to be in dA. Thanks ever so much.
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you're tutorial was a life saver
and after ripping out a bit of my own hair and figuring out how to apply it to crazy hair :: fails ::
I managed to use your teachings <3
thank you~
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You are my hero.
Haha and I just gave you the 1000th favorite!
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There have been 1000 faves on this thing?! 
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awsome tutorial, i'm sure this will help. ^^
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Ahh, thank you /so much/ for making this. I had absolutely no idea how to color hair on PS before. -worships- xDD
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Hi! I used your tutorial in making a deviation. And actually another one, but I only just found you again. THANK YOU for making such a great tute. Hopefully one day my hair will be as good as yours.
[link]
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awesome tutorial!!! Thanx for making. I plan to use this when I finally color my perriot.
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