How To Paint Hair Digitally For Beginners + Make A Custom Hair Brush In Photoshop

Hey guys welcome to my next video sorry, it's been a while I've had a lot on in this video we're just going to be looking at making a custom brush a very basic brush for beginners. If you will for digitally painting hair now, please bear in mind. There are a lot of different techniques, and this is just one, and this is probably the easiest, the most basic that you will find and you can just download others other people's brushes. If you would like, or I'm going to show you how to make one a really simple one, so first things first in Photoshop is going to open a new document and I'm going to make it 500 by 500 pixels. I'Ve got that saved as a preset. That'S just what I use for brushes, so go ahead and open that now with the basic round brush. I'M not sure if that's what you actually call it, but that's all that's the brush. We'Re going to be using opacity on 100 % should be on something like that. First thing to do I like to just make a new layer right now. Yours doesn't have to look exactly like this, but at least you know you can you can pause the screen if you do want it similar, so first things: first, I'm going to have one dot appear: 100 %, I'm going to turn it down to about eight F. Let'S go for about 70 % opacity and put in some smaller dots here sub one here and let's go for an even smaller one. On a lower opacity see there you go now. You can't get much more basic than that, but you know feel free feel free to try different things, but different dots, different opacities, different sizes, put loads, try less see what works and from here you're going to go edit define brush preset. So here it is I'll. Leave it at that for now sample brush 9, I'm going to bring this into this document here, which is a bigger page. This is what we've got at the moment and that's with the opacity on turn that back up 200 %. I always forget that, so this is what we're left with a moment call brush, maybe not quite hair like yet. So you need to look for this icon. This is your brush settings. You can get this along here. I think it's under window, but you should have it down the side already and first thing we go to brush tip settings and we're going to turn the spacing down, which you will be able to see here what that actually effect the biggest base in the bigger Dots go ahead and turn it anyway sort of bill of Forbes, and it should be fine and that's what we're left with now bit closer and see. I don't think we need to change anything else in here. You can change the size up here. If you would like to, but you can do that later on anyway, so first things first shape dynamics. Now yours might look a bit different depending on what you've had set previously mine's already set up buttons going to run through this size. Jitter we're going to have on zero upset and we're going to have it controlled by pen pressure with a minimum diameter. I'Ve got it set to 27 percent. You don't have to necessarily have that. Just you know something similar. This is just something to start with. Please do play around with these things and for me, that is all I had to change, but angle jitter is on 0 %. The control is off roundness, jitter, 0 % control off next thing is this transfer button here now this is Photoshop cs6. I think in the older versions it's called something else so be aware of that. I forget way is, I think, it's another dynamics, one, but I could be wrong right and with the transfer button selected, we are going to have a pasty jitter on 0 % controlled by pen pressure. Minimum 0 % flow g20 set control pen, a pen pressure, minimum 0 %, and you should have something like this: that's pressing down lightly the harder you press should get darker and potentially a little bit bigger as well, and this button here will save the brush. So maybe change the name now, let's call it hair brush the sides at the moment is 348. That'S actually pretty damn big. I could have actually made that smaller before so everything here, but it's not important. So that's what you're left with that is as simple as it needs to be again play around with the settings make your own. This is just starting just this just guideline should I say, but I'll give you a quick overview of how I would use it. There'S the brush yep, so this is just a starting point again. There are lots of different ways, especially advanced ways of doing hair, but I'm just going to show you a really basic way. Just gives you something to start with. If you are new to digital paint and I struggle with hair, so I'm going to start with a brush - that's going to be fairly soft around the edges. In fact, first things: first, I'm going to pick some colors just so they've got something to work with a palette. If you like, you could get this from well, you could use someone else's pen in or a photo and color pick from it just to get the to get some colors to get started with that's completely up to you or you can just do what I'm doing Here and just pick some randomly like this - probably better color picking from someone else's work to get started with just so you get used to colors. As I said, this is just me doing a really quick demonstration. So it's not going to be looking fantastic anywhere. People spend hours and hours doing hair, but we're not going to do that because this could be a pretty boring video if we did right so first things. First, I would just block in roughly where you want your hair to be. I like to have this button. All on up here, which is to do with the opacity the softer you press, the software is alright. I apologize. If I don't talk too much of this, as I am not good at multitasking right so start off with you have blocked in roughly. Let'S say this is the side of someone's head, not a very detailed hair cell flower, but it'll do for what we need so first things. First, once you've got that blocked in you're going to switch the new brush, which should be at the end. The last one in here I'm going to pick this color. All I've done for colors is pick different tones different shades of brown. For now I leave this button turned on even when I'm using this hair brush, I'm going to make the hair brush a bit smaller, and it really is as simple as just pressing down gently and just there you go. I'Ve used a soft brush before to get the edges. It'S maybe not quite what you would want. Some people prefer it. Some people don't, but that's not really the important bit this video but I'll. Let you guys choose that yourself decide what to do with it. I stick to I've used this as my base color this one here to go over, and the next thing I would do is to pick a slightly darker one after just buckling your main bits, I'm going to turn this down even more cuz. It'S really dark and we're just going to think about light in here. I'M going to have light and coming down to this bit. Sorry that was rude, and so that's gon na be the lightest area there and these corner bits are going to be furthest away. So they're going to be darkest so pressing, really gently, I'm just going to do short. Strokes like this, you might want to play around to the size of your brush, it's better to go a little bit softer as opposed to just starting really hard. I mean that is actually I could have even gone softer than that, so you've got your darker areas in I'm, going to go to a slightly lighter one. Now now, I'm only putting a little bit of that on maybe a little bit more actually again, as I say, I'd like to stress, there are loads of where there's not one technique to do here. This is just this is just something really basic just to get. You know you guys started in case. You have no idea what to do with her, and this is going to be our highlight. I bright this color, so I should really be doing this a little bit neater. I apologize the lower the opacity, the the more it should sort of blend with the other colors. Once you get to a more advanced level, there's Lourdes, you could do with how you could one good thing is to actually switch to the smudge tool and sort of blend the colors into each other. More and a lot of people, including me once you've, got it to this sort of stage. I still sort of class that has blocked in and I'll pick one of the basic brushes that isn't like four strands like this. It'S just one at one circle make it really thin and go in and put individual hairs in, but you don't want to do that all over because it will take forever. So we're not worrying about that today, the smaller you go, the the more detailed the hair will look. You might want to zoom in like so I might've. Actually you can overdo it. I think, to be honest: I've I've done it a little bit here, I'm going to pick a white, although you don't usually go quite as why is that book, because I've got the opacity on quite high. To be honest, I didn't really need to be on just going to switch to a soft brush now and I'm just actually going to highlight the whole area a little bit and again another tool for doing that is the color dodge tool that can come in quite Handy for the dark areas using the burn tool, so yeah I'm going to leave it at that, because I don't want to get too in-depth and spend hours borrowing you guys doing that, but you can see that he's a really basic way to do hair. If you imagine that soft, you know three-quarter view of someone's head, that's the hair and it's really good this brush. I think it's quite good for doing straight, hair and shiny hit this technique for like shiny silky hair, let's say not gon na neaten it off a bit round the edges. That'S up to you. I won't spend too much time, although I should really be spend a little bit more time doing it just because coming out a little bit messy and but hopefully it's giving you guys enough of an idea to get started. There are a lot more techniques. I could go into, but I think I'll save them for another video and yeah. I think that's pretty much everything I wanted to cover. Please let me know if there's something I haven't explained properly or if you need more help or any you know if you've got ways you want to suggest to improve this. Please do write a comment and, as always, please do like and share the video and subscribe. I'M trying to get my my Facebook page started at the moment. 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