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Tutorial: Painting Hair in PS
Published: 2006-09-13 18:12:19 +0000 UTC; Views: 285778; 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You guys still seem to like this tutorial, but it's old and out of date so I apologise for that.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
Hi, I used this tutorial for a little project of four deviations:
Knave of Wands: [link]
Knave of Pentacles: [link]
Knave of Swords: [link]
Knave of Chalices: [link]
That's the first time I re-paint something, so that's the reason for the low quality, your tutorial is wonderful
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Very nice
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This really did help, however you definitely can't stress how much easier it would be with a graphics tablet (I'm a mouse user.)
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Awesome! I was looking for a hair drawing tut like this one. Great job!
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great tutorial! nice and simple ^^
I really like how u did the curls,
hehe im gonna go try dis out!
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It's beautiful, thank you!!! You're a genius!
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i needed a tut for this so bad. thanks, its great <3
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Oh, that's what i've been looking for! 
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Fantastic! I was looking for something just like this.
<33
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THANK YOU THANK YOU THANK YOU!!! YOU ARE GENIOUS!
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I really hope it helps you!
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Yes, this is very amazing. As stated above, easy to understand and easy to follow, it really helped me a lot.
Even though I didn't get exactly the same result, I was close, even with a mouse and the first time coloring something (almost)!
I really must thank you for this one.
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I have changed my method slightly now; everyone has their own way of doing things. I'm really glad I could help you.
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Thank you sooo much! That really helped
The tutorial was easy to understand and follow and the final product looks great
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this is great, thanks! ^_^
The last part of the tutorial made me laugh XD ha haa.
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No problem!
I should write a better, newer one really... but I hope this one is useful to you!
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for some reason my hair looked really ugly after blending overlay so I just didnt do it...
other then that, you rock my new tablet!!!
if only i could draw something to attach to the hair
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I've stopped using the overlay step myself, actually - well, I used it once in one digital painting I did recently, and have just given up on it otherwise. This tutorial is so out of date for my style that it isn't funny, but I'm glad that it was helpful to you all the same!
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everybody's got to start somewhere, its much easier than using the smudgetool trick.
By the way, what kind of tablet do you use?
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for some reason my hair looked really ugly after blending overlay so I just didnt do it...
other then that, you rock my new tablet!!!
if only i could draw something to attach to the hair
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Thanks! Hope it's useful to you
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Thank you so much for posting this tutorial! <3
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I referred to this tutorial to make [link] and [link]
I've been experimenting with your technique, trying to adapt it to my personal style and all that.
What do you think?
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wow!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!
i love your tutorial!!!!!
they are really Understandable
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Brilliant tutorial! It was so easy to follow and the outcome is gorgeous. Thank you!
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Your hair tutorial is brilliant! It was so easy to follow and the outcome was gorgeous. Thank you!
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thanxxxxxxxxxxxx a lot its very usefull...
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This is amazing! I love you SO@ much right now!
Mwah!
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I suspect so, providing that you use shorter, possibly fluffier strokes.
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