How I Paint Hair - Level Up Your Hair Easily With These 10 Different Styles!

Foreign and a very warm welcome back to my painting Channel and in this video I'm going to be painting a big tutorial on how to paint loads and loads and loads of different hair, colors and hairstyles. So I'm going to show you how I paint hair and we're going to paint these in loads of different hair colors. So this is a great request that I've had recently after such positive positive feedback on my skin tutorials um. It seems like people want to know a lot more about different painting Styles and different tutorials on how to do a sort of not so much simple things but normal everyday things for their models. So we're going to do a hair and I'm gon na make a really big painting video with about 10 different hair colors. So we're going to start and I'm going to use just for later on this one and we're going to make a nice bright, orange hairstyle. So we're going to start with an orange brown and that's all we're going to do - is just going to base all of the hair area of this model. Using this orange brown orange brown is a great base color when you're painting orange colors, because it does have a darker brown sort of tinge to it, but it does also retain and hold quite a bit of its really nice sort of vibrant orange tone as well. This gives it the perfect opportunity for something that you can boost and build up in a very, very easy manner. Now, for this one, I'm going to be using soft tone and in all of the videos, are in all of the different hair colors. I'M going to use Army painter washes that doesn't mean that you've got to use the Army. Painter washes, you can use Citadel, washes or Vallejo washes, or anything like that. If you like, I'm just going to use the same types of washes on all of the models. So that it makes them all nice and easy. Now from there, I'm going to mix a half and half so 50 50 of orange fire into the base. Color of the brown orange or the orange brown - and this is going to give us the first simple little um sort of vibrant boost dense. This is going to give us the first highlight to the model, so we've used our base color and by putting that soft tone on that soft tone is dried into the recess points of the hair. Now, the reason why I'm going to show you this as a big tutorial is because, with hair a lot of people get sort of drawn into one in the dry brush hair all of the time - and you can dry brush here and that's absolutely fine, but the Whole idea of this tutorial is to level up is to build up that that painting technique and to build your confidence with painting as well. So what I'm going to do is I'm going to paint using the very tip of my brush, I'm going to paint each strand or some of the strands in separately. That doesn't mean you've got to be really accurate or really precise, because each brush stroke will make each uh will sort of look like each hair, strand or hair, so the Strand on the model anyway. Now, once we've done the first base, we're then going to use just the orange fire on its own, which is a nice light highlight and, as you can see like, I was just saying using the very tip of the brush. Now we're just going to start to pick up the raised areas and we're going to start to pick out all of those different hair strands. Now again, like I say, most people would think you've got the dry brush here, but you don't actually have to dry brush hair. The idea of leveling up your hair is about picking out all of those little details individually and again, like I say you don't have to be too precise, you don't have to be too overly cautious and careful because, with the washers dried into those recess points, it's Kind of done a lot of the work for you, because this is allowing you, then just to paint the higher up areas, the raised areas and you're always you're automatically getting that tone that contrast between the light and dark and as you build those layers up this. This color and this vibrancy then really starts to pop and really starts to show through now, once we've done that I'm just going to move on to use a bright orange for this one now, and this is going to be the really sort of vibrant highlight just Across the edge, so we're going to be a little bit more sparing with this one. We'Re going to paint just as much of this one. I'M going to paint this in a very controlled sort of pattern, which is going to pick up the very very tips and the very very raised areas of the hair and, as you can see, that contrast now on the Orange is really really nice. It goes down from a sort of brownie sort of tone, it's orange brown tone and it raises itself up on those raised areas and it highlights itself up on those raised areas to give us this. This sort of multi-tone color, this sort of multi orange and orange brown sort of tone, which is a really really nice cool, simple effect to do so, like I say, instead of dry brushing our hair we're just going to level our hair up by just painting. These strap and there you go - that is the bright orange here all complete and it looks really really awesome, looks really really nice and bright and vibrant and we've done this really cool effect with this bright color is really pop in and we've got this sort of Dark dark shadow in The Recess points as well fantastic, so that was part one we're gon na move on to part two: we're gon na use AK interactive to make a yellow blonde color, so we're going to start with an ocher color for this one - and this Is going to be a nice sort of Yellow base tone? You might recognize this color from when I did the horse tutorial, and this always offers a really great sort of Base, yellow color that we can build up from later now, as you'll notice. With this, I'm going to use the same sort of techniques right the way through this video - and I know, there's a lot of different colors involved. So I am going to be making sure that there are timestamps throughout. So you can pick and choose which colors you would prefer. So, as I say, we're just going to build up this AK interactive color, just across all of the hair here and once that's done, then we're going to move into using the soft tone. So the soft tone again just using a very, very light light brown color, and you can already see that this is having such a big effect in all of those recesses. Picking out all of the details already just by adding a small amount of this wash. I tend to use a lot of brown washes when I'm using a lot of sort of earthy tones, so this being sort of an ocher sort of a an earthy sort of yellow this matches and Suits the brown tone really really well. So once that shade is dry, we're going to move in to just rebuilding that ocher color, so just using again the very tip of the brush, so using this size, zero brush that I've got I'm just using the very, very tip of the brush. Just trying to be careful not to paint into the recess points into the area where the hair looks darker, but we don't have to be too precise. With this, like, I was saying earlier um. This is something that we are going to build up and progress through in a really really nice sort of easy manner, um, something that is really really useful to know as well with this is again with the brush Strokes, because we're using that very tip of the Brush and as I've said to you previously when I paint them at the very tip of the brush, some of these brush Strokes add to that illusion of depth and add to that. So the contrast and things like that. So all of these different brush Strokes are going to make it look like there's a lot of different individual hair strands, and this is what leveling up the hair is all about because, instead of dry brushing it and it being Rough and Ready, and things like that, We'Re just going to build it up into a really nice smooth, smooth transition. So from there I'm going to use half and half so again with yoga, but I'm now mixing in half of the light Earth color as well - and this is a really nice sort of um earthy tone. This is a really great standard sort of Earth. Color has a sort of creamy sort of texture to it, so it lends itself really really well to things like blonde colors and again using that very tip of the brush. As you can see, I'm just starting to bring up that that Vibrance and that contrast, as you can see now, you can be as specific as you like. When it comes to this, you don't have to paint all of those hair strands again. You can be quite selective as to where you want the highlighting to be, and you can really sort of play about with how you want the hair to highlight on which areas you'd like to stand out more. So that gives this a really cool, interesting technique and a really fun way of painting as well, because it is very individual and very unique to each different painter. So, as I say, the reason why I wanted to build this sort of video was to just give you guys really interesting and different, look as to how to build up loads of different colors um, so yeah. This is. This is a real fun little project. For me, so once we've done the first step up, we're just going to use the light Earth on its own and we're going to do the same thing again, but again, just being a little bit more selective again, as you can see just trying to sketch out These these very very, very edges of the hair strands now, and you can really see that Vibrance now going from that sort of brownish, yellow sort of wash that we've used coming up now through to these really sort of lighter highlighted points on the very tips and On the very edges of the hair - and it's really starting to make the hair look very, very unique, very individual and a much more contrasting Style. And now I know I keep going back to the dry brush and you can really see the effect that it has by painting the hair. In this way, I say to people quite often that when you're painting, when you paint something like this and you've, really spent a bit of time into it - and you can see the time and effort you've put in it's quite rewarding in its own way. Because when you look back on the models, they always look that that much cooler and that much more vibrant and there you go - that is the yellow blonde, all done so again using the same techniques. How quick and simple and easy was that it looks great, so we're going to move on to the Army painter now for paint for part three, not for point three for part three and we're going to use a nice light brown, so we're gon na start with A leather brown color: this is a really really great middle of the road Brown. So this is a really good one that you can use to base your hair color. So when it comes to painting your fantasy models and things - and you want them to um - you want them to be like a sort of normal sort of everyday average kind of brown. This leather brown is the perfect color for that. It'S a really really good sort of Base tongue that we can build up to make lighter colors come from as we go now, sticking with the same thing, we're going to use that soft tone once again, so that Army paint to shade and we're just going to Cover this all over the model, all over the hair. Again, I've got just a little bit too much on my brush here, but that's cool, because we can always manipulate it and take some out by removing the paint off the brush anyway. So not too overly worried about that and again we're also going to build up those colors and tones as we go. So we'll not worry about that too much, then we're going to move back onto the leather brown ones, all the last dry and doing the same thing again using the very tip of our size, Zero Brush we're going to start to pick out all of those hair Strands so I'm trying to stick with using similar sort of um models or the same hair just so that it shows you in multiple different phases. How I'm building this hair up, and it gives you a really sort of a common sort of Middle Ground. As you can see me sort of building my way through, I'm gon na stick with a very uniformed and very sort of similar style, so that that gives you a nice uh sort of Anchor Point like I say it gives you a a way of of seeing How I paint these models um, but also sticking with the same sort of technique. This is a way of reinforcing that technique and building that technique in multiple multiple phases, so that we can really see it sort of come into life. Now, once we've done that leather brown, again we're going to use a monster Brown again from the Army painter, this is a nice highlighted color to the leather brown and, as you can see it already streamed away, starts to make an impact. On top of that leather brown - and this is where we're going to start to pick up those streaks and those uh sort of strands. Once again and again, you can be really sort of specific about where you place the the sort of strands and and how you paint sort of each hair strand, and things like that. You could be as careful as you like. You could be as um sort of like I say, very specific about way where you place it, so you can paint just sort of the Highlight towards the top, so that it looks like you've got a little bit of a light source coming from the top to The bottom um, but you the whole idea of doing it in this sort of way. It'S just about building that contrast, so building the difference between the dark stage underneath to the lighter stage at the top, and by doing so we're just making this a very simple, easy sort of effect. So a very simple technique, which is your base, color your shade back to your base, color and then possibly two highlights maybe three depending on how far you want to push that highlight. So it's just about making it nice and easy, but also pushing and advancing our painting technique as well. So for the next stage, I'm going to use the monster brown, but I'm also going to add a half and half so again we're using one blob of each. But I'm going to use scalp and bone with this one that again is um another sort of creamy sort of color, which is a really good color to use. As highlights you'll notice. When I paint a lot, I tend to use the sort of creamy colors rather than Whites Whites on times when you use to highlight they will wash out your colors. So it makes your colors too white or too washed out, whereas when you use a cream that sort of enhances a lot of Earth Tones. So when you are a um sort of when you're using a color to highlight your brows using a sort of earthy creamy tone rather than a white, will push your brown a little bit further. So it will highlight your brown, but you won't lose the sort of brown tone and the texture as well and that's perfect when you're painting this sort of uh thing like hair and Earth colors on things like Shields or leathers, and things like that. So that is part three. That is your light brown. That is as simple as that and you see how great this brown hair looks. It looks really really cool and it would suit a lot of different fantasy, Miniatures, nice and simple so part four we're gon na. Do another brown, but this time I'm going to use scale 75 and we're going to use a chestnut sort of color for this one. So we're going to start with a Bosch Chestnut for the base colors, and you can already see the big difference between this one. To the previous Brown, this one is a much more sort of ready sort of brown. You can already see that there's a lot more sort of color into this brown. It'S not a flat middle of the road Brown, whereas this one has that sort of chestnut, color and tone to it. So we're really going to play on that we're going to build this sort of Chestnut and build this color up so that it makes the model slightly different to the last. So I'm going to stick with the soft tone yet again, so just using the Army painter soft tone wash and as you can see, I'm just going to place this all over the hair. Just so that this sits into the recess points. And then we will build up all of those raised areas as we've been doing on all of the other hair. So the idea is uh what I was asked previously uh by someone on the channel. How do I make all of my models? Look different and look individual well. This is one way of doing it, and one way of doing it is by painting them in similar sort of hair tones and similar sort of hair colors, but just slightly changing them up and mixing them into slightly different ways, so that it makes them all. Look slightly unique and slightly their own characters, and things like that, rather than just putting them all as one hair color, which would really detract from the fact that you've got loads and loads and loads of individual models in your army paint them all different paint them Loads of different hair colors, the cool thing with hair is you can go nuts, you could just paint any kind of color, because there's just so many different colored, uh sort of textures and tones to hair that you can really go wild. So once we've dried with that, we're going to use the chestnut Bosch, but we're also going to use a black and brown as well. So this is a half and half again. This is just one blob of each making everything the same everything as easy as possible. When we paint in these models, so when we paint in the hair we're just going to try to make everything as easy and uniformed as possible, so they all look different, but they all have similar technique and that similar Style once that's dry. We'Re going to use the blacker Brown on its own, and this then, is going to be our highlighting layer and again you can be very specific about where you place this and, as you can see, I'm just using the tip of the brush again just to sketch This highlight color up the hair, just like so just following the pattern, nice and simple, but you can already see that this color is really really different and unique to the previous color. As I was saying earlier, because we've got that sort of chestnut east of the tongue and we've got a slightly different, color tone and there we go, you can see now just using the tip of the brush to pick out those details. It'S a really cool technique and a really cool way of painting, like I say it's a good way of leveling up hair, because hair can be one of those things that you can look at and think it could be quite simple. But again it's one of those parts of a model where, if you don't know sort of a nice easy quick technique, it can also be quite daunting. You know. Sometimes people don't want to paint each strand of the hair because they're worried about making mistakes or they're worried about what, if it doesn't look right and things like that. Well, you don't need to worry about that. Don'T need to worry about that. We can paint each strand, we can be as precise or unprecise as we want. The whole idea is as long as we're having fun and as long as we're painting. That is all that matters. So there you go, that is our chestnut color and there we go. Look at how cool that color and that hair looks just across the back all those different individual strands, the difference in the contrast between the dark to the light. They look really great. So, moving on to part five we're going to do a citadel color and we're going to use a dark, gray color. So what we're actually going to do is we're going to start with Adam black and we're going to paint this all over. The hair, like we have done with the previous ones, uh. What we're going to do with this is we're going to make a dark, gray, color so um. The idea is that this could be a black hair or a really really really sort of dark gray, and the idea is when we paint in Blacks normally on Miniatures. You don't want the pink just flat black, especially for things like hair. So that's what we're going to do here, we're going to kind of mix things together to kind of create a little bit more texture, we're going to go from the uh, the Citadel Abbott and black, and we're going to use the ashing gray now to pick out Some of those details now, the other thing to note is When painting with black is because it's already black. We don't need to put a shade into this, because everything is already at its base color. So, instead of putting the shade in and building back up this one's going to be the simplest one, because we literally just going to paint everything black. So all the hair is black and we're just going to pick out some of those details using very, very thin layers of um sort of dark gray colors, so that that kind of picks out a little bit of the light. The reason why we're doing it this way is because, even though you want to paint sort of black hair or gray hair, or anything like that, if you take a look at people that do have black hair, your hair isn't always just specifically black light, will sort Of bounce off your hair and you will sort of see, tone and texture through the hair, so this is kind of why we put in a little bit of color into this just to kind of break it up a little bit now, once we've done the ash In Gray, I'm going to use ash in Gray and dawn stone again using half and half. So this is just one part of each 50, 50. and again just using a nice little thin down paint and I'm just going to pick out now. Some of the very very extreme sort of edges and the Very extreme sort of details - and this works well, as I said, for a good sort of dark gray color. But this would also work if you just wanted to paint something with black hair. But just pick out some of the the subtle sort of highlights just across the um and just across sort of the the sort of highlighted top areas and things like that, as if you're, just picking up with the light sources again, a very very cool, simple technique That looks really really good when you get used to it and again it's something that you can use for blacks like when you're doing black leathers, and it will look great and there you go. That is the dark, gray or black all painted and, as you can see, it's very simple: we've just picked out a few of those details, nice and straightforward and there's your first five done. So we've got our orange our blonde. Our light brown, our chestnut brown and our dark gray or black - and these are great for Fantasy - these are great for everyday Miniatures. These are five everyday, great colors that you can use when you're painting hair on your models. Now these are probably the more safe and more normal sort of colors and the more sort of normal tones that you can use and I've stuck to using the same paint for each one for this or the same paint brand for each one. Now we're going to move on to the second five and with the second five. These are going to be completely different because I'm gon na mix colors together so for part, six we're going to use a Sci-Fi, bright, blue hair, and this is going to be a really really cool one. So we're going to start by using a turquoise color from Vallejo and again we're going to base the whole hair in this color and as we build this up, this is going to really cool sort of sci-fi blue kind of look. This is really good for again your Sci-Fi games, your steampunk games in all of these different kinds of vibrant and punk style hair. This is going to be a cool one, so this is going to be a little bit different than normal sort of first five, that we did so, as I say, just covering all of the model in the first original turquoise, color, nice and simple nice and easy From there again sticking with the Army painter we're just going to use a blue tone shade, and this is just going to cover all of that here and as you'll see, this is just going to sit in those recess points. The cool thing with blue tone. As a shade, is it doesn't detract from the original top color? This is quite a thin shade. It'S not like uh draken off Nightshade from Citadel dragnov Nightshade is quite a dark blue. This one actually isn't so this gives you the ability to paint blue into the hair without losing a lot of the color and texture. Once that's dry, we're going to go back to the turquoise and we're going to do the same thing that we did with the others we're just going to use the tip of the brush and we're going to start to build up all of those different hair strands. So we're going to go back into the model and we're going to start to paint all of these different hair strands individually, like we did originally the difference being now, is we paint it with much much more vibrant sort of colors and the model heads have changed Slightly, but you can still see the same technique. You can still see that I'm using the very tip of the brush, very I'm being very careful to try to pick out each strand or each part individually. And it's going to look great so once that bit is dry, we're going to use hydro turquoise from the Army painter. This is a very similar color, but it is an automatic um step up. So it's almost like half a shade or half a stop up from the original turquoise that we've used. This is what makes this Dent the perfect highlight, color to go on top of the turquoise that we were using originally, and you can already see that it's starting to boost that blue tone on the hair, I'm trying to be as careful as possible painting these hair Strands, try not to load the brush too much with paint because we are painting hair, so we are trying to be as precise as possible, but again, as you can see, by building all of these different individual tongs, you can really see this color starting to build And you can really see that we're starting to get a lot more tone under this now from there I'm going to use a scale 75 Herald blue. If you don't have a scale 75 and you want to paint this version of hair, that's fine! You can use the Army painter color that I used previously, so the Hydra turquoise and just mix half and half with a little bit of that bone white into it, and that will give you that really cool sort of um little vibrant sort of Step Up. However, if you want to follow me exactly, do the exact same sort of pattern, then we're going to use the herald blue, and this is a really cool, as you can see, really really light. Turquoise texture and now you can see, I'm being very precise, using those brush Strokes to really pick out all of those different individual strands of hair, and it is starting to look really vibrant and really really cool. Now again after this, if you'd like, you can always add a little bit of a cream color like a bone, white color or a skeleton bone color or anything like that, and you can get a little bit more Vibrance or a little bit more of a vibrant Boost out of this color, I'm not going to boost this one any further. I'M happy uh keeping this one, just as it is, and there you go that is our nice sci-fi blue color all complete again really nice to see the darker blue in those recess points and that light blue just up on top now. Moving on to part, seven we're going to use a really nice bright, squid, pink and we're going to create a cool, looking anime style, bright, pink hair, which is great for those sci-fi style games or again, even below steampunk games. This is great for those sort of Raiders and punks and things in like a necromanda universe, and things like that so, like I said, we're going to start with our squid pink and we're just going to cover all of the hair together. Just like this. In a nice, even thin coat just like so I'm just gon na try to be careful not to get this over all of the model. Um and just be nice, and even with the coating now once we've done, that we're going to use a red tone from the Army painter again, I'm sticking with the Army painter just to keep things nice and uniformed and nice and um together, so that we're using The same company, the same thing just so that we're not mixing things up too much, and that means it's easy for you guys if you want to collect a few different washes. This set does come in a great box head with all of these colors in one go and we're just going to cover all of the hair. All of that pink using this nice red tone and again this is going to sit in those recess points, but without darkening down the color too much. So this is going to give us a great Baseline and a great point where we can boost those colors back up and again using the exact same technique. So, like I said, sticking to doing the same thing all the way through the videos just so that we can maintain and keep all of these different hairstyles looking quite similar and having the same sort of style. We'Re just going to use. That'S good pink just to build those base, colors back up so again, using that very tip of the brush size, zero brush, that I've got we're just going to start to paint out all of those different hairstyle hair strands and just paint all of those details back In now, like I say, you can see that this isn't a massively difficult technique. It'S not something that takes ages to master or anything like that. That'S all it takes is a little bit of confidence to know that you are able to use the tip of the brush and you are able to sit down and paint the hair in this sort of fine fashion in this sort of different sort of style. And you are allowed to have a little bit of character and a little bit of personal control and and human touch into the model as well. So this is what leveling up the hair is all about. It'S all about painting, with just a little bit of character. Painting with your own sort of input to it now once the squid pink is done, we're going to use the bone white and we're going to mix half and half again. So this is just 50 50. So one blob of each paint and again we're just going to pick out some of those highlighted points and we're going to be a little bit more careful as the way we place this now, so that this becomes a little bit thinner. And then this creates this illusion of uh highlighting and a nice lighter vibrant layer on top so that we get this. This light tone sort of building through the the lighter parts of the hair, as I say, uh. It'S always good to paint with a little bit of personal touch as well and having brush strokes, and things like that into the miniature do show that you have hand painted dementia, and that is not all too you uh too faked and too um manufactured so painting In this way is a cool little way of making sure that you have a little bit of Pride to your models as well. Once that's done we're just going to use an AK interactive, pastel, pink - and this is a really really great vibrant sort of light light. Color and we're going to be extra extra careful with this one, because with this one, we just want to pick some of the very very edges. So this is probably the most difficult part. It'S just trying to maintain and pick out some of the really extreme details. Like so without sort of painting all of the um using using too much of the brush or without covering too much of the model without paint which is trying our hardest to pick out some of the very very, very raised point. So you can see I'm just trying to be as careful as possible to use as little paint as possible just on the very edges, and you can see that vibrancy and that lightness coming through the paint is already starting to make this color really sort of glow And really sort of stand out on the hair as well and there you go, that is your anime bright, sci-fi, pink hair all done, and it's looking great the vibrant sort of light, light sort of uh, pastel pink, really really does make a big good job to This one - and here we go once someone is done - we're gon na move on to part eight, and this one is a very vibrant, yellow hair. So this one is a very sort of light, light yellow blonde. So we're going to start with one of my favorite colors of all time, which is Avalon sunset. This is a citadel color and it has a fantastic coverage. So this yellow is one of those yellows that really does sort of cover onto the miniature in a fantastic, fantastic way. Normally yellows can be quite thin, whereas this one has a really good Beast color to it. Once that's done, we're going to use a light tone for this one, and I like tone, is a little bit of a lighter color, as it says, on the tub um. This one has a little bit of a more orangey sort of tone which gives the yellow a great sort of orange base, uh sort of shade to it, which is fantastic and once the wash has dried we're just going to go back to using the Avalon Sunset And we're going to start once again doing the same thing as we've done previously and we're going to pick out all of those different hairs. So we're going to go back to that base color and we're going to start to paint this back in and again using that little bit of sort of personal touch and sort of using those brush Strokes to really sort of paint out. All of those different hair strands we're going to start to create the character and we're going to start to build this back up again in the same way as we have them with the previous models just using the tip of the brush just to follow those hair Strands and just to build that little bit of character as we see it now, it's important here not to overload the brush as well. This is something that I should have mentioned earlier. I'M trying to make sure that we've got a nice thin paint, but without overloading the brush too much because we painted in a lot of detail. We want plenty of paint on the brush and we want the paint to be nice and thin and smooth so that it takes the model nice and simply, but we don't want too much paint on the brush here. Just in case that paint comes off and folds into those recess points where the shade has dried down and created our dark spot from there, then I'm just going to use a deep yellow from Vallejo. This is a great highlight, color now, as I was saying earlier, about yellows being quite thin. Normally, this color does take two or three coats to really sort of show through its vibrancy, so this one is very much a building color. So where is the Avalon Sunset? Underneath it's normally pretty much a one coat or a maybe two coat paint depending on how you paint this one then does take a good couple of coats, so this would take me, I think, three coats to get the vibrancy to the level that I wanted and Again, this is something that you can build up slowly over time and just by painting um in sort of stages. You can really start to build that vibrancy and it really does sort of stand off that Avalanche Sunset base color. It'S a great um sort of first stage Step Up in highlighting all of these sort of yellows because you go from that sort of orangey wash that they sat in those shaded areas to the Avalon Sunset then, which is our nice sort of basic color. And then this becomes this really great sort of starting highlight that we can really really work on and get some some nice vibrant colors out of uh on the next stage as well. So for that next stage we're just going to use the AK interactive, pastel, yellow. So you'll notice that I used this color a little bit earlier in one of the other here, um colors, and we're just going to use this now to build up this really light sort of tone. In the same way, we're going to be as careful as possible with this one, because we really don't want this one to take over too much of the color of the hair. This one is very much a final sort of highlight to the hair and, as you can see, it really does create a lot of character with this one, because it is very, very, very light. It'S very very bright color, which creates that illusion, where the sort of light is catching or or sort of chest about um sitting on those raised raised areas, so the lighting in is just catching on. Those really uh highlighted most highlighted points and, as you can see, that creates a real great level of character and depth to this one. So this one has probably got one of the the most extreme sort of contrasts between that sort of orange shade. In the darker point, right up to this really light pastel color across the edges, but it really does look fantastic. It does take to the miniature lighter than it looks and it does dry down in a really nice fashion and all in all, that is your bright. Yellow there so that's completely different to the other, yellow the sort of yellow blonde that we did earlier and, as you can see, this one is a lot more sort of cartoon style, which is great for the Sci-Fi sort of styles. From there we're going to move on to Part 9, which is a light gray color, so we're going to use a sort of blue gray color for this one. What I'm going to do here is I'm going to start with a Riley gray. This is a great color from scale 75, which has a really sort of bluish tone to it. You'Ll recognize this one from other videos that I've used like when I was painting Mr X. This has a great sort of bluish tone which creates this sort of cool, cold sort of gray color. It'S a really nice sort of dark tone from there. Then I'm going to use strong tone again. This is an army, painter color, but this one is a much heavier color. You don't have to use strong Tone. If you don't want, you could use something like a dark tone as well, which is a black wash or if you're, not using the Army painter. You can use any washes. You want pretty much washes, are just there to tone down those colors and to sit into those recess points. The Army paint that I use purely because, like I say you buy them all in one big set, it's easy to use. I find they sit in the the recess points without covering there the raised areas too much, and I think they are great great paints for doing this sort of painting. Once that is dry, you can see that this is darkened everything down really really nicely, and what we're going to do, then, is just using that Riley gray we're going to build that blue gray back up. So you can see that again, I'm just using the tip of the brush and I'm starting to build that tone and texture back into the model, starting to be as careful as possible, picking out all those hair strands, and you can already see the blue tone effect That we're getting back from this. This is a really cool way of building a dark gray. So, whereas we used um sorry a light gray, so we're using the dark color to begin, but we're going to slowly build this up into a nice nice light. Blue gray color as well. So previously we painted a very dark dark color using the Citadel colors this time, we're opting for a more colorful gray by using this sort of blue gray color. This color is really going to start to stand out once we reach sort of the next one or two layers as well. We'Re really going to get a nice sort of uh, lighter sort of tone to it. So I'm going to use lenadis, gray and Riley gray and again we go in half and half so this is 50 of each and the reason for that, as I've said in previous videos, is once you use sort of half and half so about 50 of each. This becomes a more natural and neutral uh progression in building the highlights. If you just go straight for the highlight color, without sort of mixing these colors together or without mixing any colors together, sometimes it can be too vibrant, too garish, and it stands off the model. Just that little bit too much so by mixing these colors in half and half you just get that sort of halfway point that sort of 0.5. So you kind of get that next step up, but without going straight to it, so it makes it a little bit more pleasing on the eye. It allows your eyes tone to adjust to the model and to see those highlights. It becomes more natural for you to look at and the the highlighting. Then, of course, also looks a lot cooler, as you can see, I'm just trying to be as careful as possible, picking out all those different braids as well so again using the the tip of the brush, I'm just using almost like a little stippling motion just to Tap just a small bit of the color just onto those parts, so we're just going to use that ladan is gray again, but this time we used it on our own, because we've done our 50 50 previously. So this time we're just going to use that uh color just on its own and as you can see now, this is really starting to build that vibrancy. You can really see this color starting to show through where we've got that darker points than the nice blue, gray, cold, blue gray, and this is now going to create a really nice sort of light blue gray just across the top. For those highlights. This would make a really cool when I was painting this seeing the blue gray tone and the color that we're getting out of this. This would make a really cool, cold gray, skin tone um. So, whereas I've had people asking me for more skin tones in another video um, I will be looking at exploring a lot of different and interesting skin tones that we could use for Fantasy Miniatures. So like these blue, Grays and sort of more sort of olive tones, and possibly even the red skin tones and things like that, that you might see on different kinds of Orcs, and things like that, so you have to. Let me know what you think, whether you think this would be a cool colorful, a drow or a dark elf sort of the skin tone in this with a vibrant white hair, and maybe we'll have a look at building and painting one of those for you. So again, just using the very tip of the brushes you can see just picking out as many of those braids as we can and then just following on with the hair as well. So that is the blue gray. Color all done and as you can see, it is standing out in a really really cool fashion. It looks really really nice and again it's very different to the dark color that we used previously and then just moving on to Part 10, which is our final part, and this is going to be using a sandy blonde color. So this color is a cool color that I used recently to paint the Birkins, which is a really cool sort of Sandy sort of blondish grayish color, which really really does create a very unique and vibrant effect. So we're going to start by using xandry dust or you could use khaki if you like, they do practically the same thing, depending on the Pink brand that you use and again we're just going to cover all of the hair in this color using nice. Thin paint from there I'm going back to using the soft tone. Wash soft tone is one of my go-to paints. It'S one of my go-to washes it. Has this really sort of nice light brown color? It doesn't detract or darken the model too much, and it sits perfectly in those recess points as well. So I'm just going to cover all of the hair using this one um, just making sure that this sits in all of those recess points without letting it pull too much and we're just going to let it pull where we want, so that the certain areas and Certain parts of the hair are darker than others once that is dry. We'Re gon na move back to the xandry desk and we are going to start to build that color back up and again, using the exact same technique that we've used previously uh without trying to make the video look too samey or be too long. I just want you to try to make sure that we made a lot of these different sort of hairstyles. That gave you guys a lot of options, a lot of choices and sort of a look into a different way of painting hair, but also giving you guys a lot of options in terms of the types of hair color that you can paint, whether that be for Fantasy steampunk, sci-fi uh, you know any kind of hair color that you like, so it just kind of gives you a bit of a mixture of different things and sort of a mixture of different ways in which I paint my hair as well so yeah. So just using that tip of the brush again, like I say, picking out all of those different hair strands and as you can see, we're starting to build up the tone and texture once again creating that character through our brush Strokes from there we're going to move On to using the light Earth from AK interactive, this is a great sort of step up to to the xandry desk. So this is a great, almost like natural and neutral sort of highlight towards those khaki colors that you might have in Your Arsenal. In your opinion, Arsenal - and these are, as you can see, this goes on to the miniature lighter and then sort of dries back down into a great sort of tone, and these tend to have this sort of light sort of color to them. And that's what creates this kind of Sandy tone, so you kind of got this Sandy khaki sort of Base color into this lighter, more vibrant, creamy sort of Earth, color creating a really really nice effect and texture for hair. Actually, it's not something that you would automatically jump to and say this is going to look great, but once you sort of use these colors it actually does look really really cool on your models. It'S something that I've used quite a lot for a few of my fantasy models, and it does really look great. It does stand out so once we've done that the natural highlight then, is using vampiric flesh and again this time, we're going to be a lot more. Careful now, where we place this one, because this is the more vibrant, lighter sort of highlight, so this is the one layer where we can really pick out the the texture and the Highlight on those hair strands and really build that character through our brush, strokes and I'Ve seen this a lot building characters through brush strokes and that's because a lot of the time with miniature painting a lot of people feel like you have to have the smoothest blend in the world and everything's going to be smoothed down and and sort of Blended. Together in in a sort of perfect way - and that's fine - that's completely fine, that's up to you if you're painting that sort of way and you enjoy pink and that sort of way, that's absolutely fine. Personally, I enjoy having a little bit of character with these brush Strokes because it does show that you've spent a lot of time sort of painting each individual part and it sort of shows through in the model as well and everyone Paints in a different way. So don't worry too much if you can't get all of those smooth Blends, it's absolutely fine and there you go. That is our sandy blonde nice and quick and easy just like so and all in all. That is our five sort of sci-fi bright, vibrant colors. All done as you'll see here if you've stuck right away from the very beginning of the video all the way through. I thank you very very much because this was a particularly long one to paint a lot of different hairstyles. I hope this answers the question that was asked and raised in the uh comment section about how I paint the hair, and I also like to say thank you so much for all of your patience waiting for me to get this one done. I actually found it quite difficult to get the voiceover done because of how long the video was. So. Thank you so much for week in, let me know in the comments below which one is your favorite color and which one you prefer, which one you think is the nicest um and yeah. Thank you so much for tuning in for watching for commenting uh for all of your support for just being all around nice guys. We'Ve built a really great Community here on this channel and I'd like to keep that going. So, thank you so much. I will see you guys on the next one: take care of yourselves