Hair Tutorial: Red Hair

Painting hair there's many many different ways: painting different types of hair and then there's different ways on how to paint the same kind of hair like, for example, school ism, instructor, Jason Siler would paint hair differently than I would paint hair. So this is going to be just one of the ways that I would paint straight: hair, okay, straight hair, it's gon na be a redhead, and so this is how we are going to begin. I'M gon na begin with just this bald model to work from. Okay. Usually, I would paint the hair and the person's head at the same time, but for demo purposes. This is what we're gon na do so in the very beginning, what you can do is you can just do a drawing of the hair okay. So, however, you want the hair to be styled. You can just use simple drawings to show that okay, but you want to start off with obviously an idea of the hair that you want to do after you. Do that what you want to do, or what I do is I will make a silhouette just using one tone and just painting over top just creating the silhouette of the hair. Okay, second thing I would do is this is for red hair specifically, and you can see that the color I chose to go darker with is one that is a lot more saturated. You know it's it's a lot more saturated, because it's also in that very warm orange II red hue and that's going to help to bring up the redhead in her. Of course, different color of light will also affect this whole entire situation. So this is just considering that it's daytime okay, and with that tone I would paint in as much as I can keeping in mind that there's gon na be areas here that are going to be all about the lighter details and the darker details. These details, I'm painting in don't actually belong there right where they're concentrated, is very much towards the darkest parts. Okay, after I do that now I have a general a much clearer idea of the general design of the hair and now to kind of give me that extra bit of realism. What I'm gon na do is I'm just gon na add in a bit of shadow. Okay, some pretty dark shadow here now. This shadow is determined by the other shadows on her face which helps me to determine how dark should these shadows get? Okay - and I want to put on a little bit of makeup so to go with her haircut and let's move on from there, so after that, I'm going a little bit lighter now. Just to reiterate, the very first tone I put on the silhouette is one that it's just slightly darker. You can see how slight that is, or you can see that the circle actually doesn't really move down very much at all. It just gets a bunch more saturated and moves down just slightly. The hue shifts a tiny bit towards the red. So where do you think the lighter tone will go? Will it go more towards the red or more towards the yellow, while the lighter tone, when we just had the two tones goes more towards the yellow? So it would make sense that this lighter tone would also go more towards the yellow, but how much towards the yellow not much at all right. This is the silhouette tone. This is the new tone. Take a look at the hue hue. Actually changes, perhaps just a slight tiny, tiny bit. You can see it just jittering, just a tiny bit. The main thing to take notice is that it didn't go warmer because all Sun, it would be strange if, as it gets darker the tones get warmer from the silhouette tone and then when we go lighter, it also gets warmer. That would seem kind of a bit more odd. Next layer we have here is even darker, so you can see. I went darker first, then slightly lighter and now darker again, let's take a look at this tone. You can see that it gets quite dark alright and it gets even more saturated if we kind of peel away just for a second here, you can see it. This is the first tone I painted with when dealing with the silhouette. Here is the second tone you see: it gets slightly more saturated, a bunch darker, but slightly more saturated again. So there is a pattern to this as the tones get darker they're starting to get more saturated for this, for the red hair, take a look at the hue. What happens with that hue? It moves just slightly just slightly even more red alright. So, as you go darker, you want to try to make a pattern with this, so that it makes sense as we go darker with this hair. Specifically, it's getting more saturated and warmer tones as we go, lighter it's getting more and more towards the yellow, and you can see with this even lighter tone here. You can see that it's getting even more yellow after that. We add in just a little tiny bit of detail here, just using a super small default brush and just painting in some single hairs to add in some finishing touches. Okay and that's it. That'S the redhead