Hair painting tutorial by Diane
Diane

Hair painting tutorial

by Diane in Tutorials

This is a tutorial which explains my technique to paint hair.

I've made some mistakes writing it : it's the "dodge tool" instead of the "burn tool".
You can also use a round soft edged brush with opacity and shape set to pen pressure to place the first strands or hair, then start detailing them :)
The image on the tutorial is the first stage of my "Dreamcatcher" painting, so you can see how it can look after having worked enough on it :)
I hope it can be helpful!

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  • Tricks

    Tricks

    Your work has been selected and featured here - http://shadowness.com/TutorialNews/forum/tutorial-week-23 thanks for all the hard work and well done

    Nov 16th Reply Subscriber
  • devonlizz

    devonlizz

    awesome!! It's always nice to see tutorials on these types of techniques. Thanks!

    May 31st Reply
  • mongsangga

    mongsangga

    You paint this using a computer? (O_o) cool...

    Mar 12th Reply
  • Renyn

    Renyn

    Ok.. i kinda used that to "paint" hairs in Blue.Glow but... opacity was kinda killing me ~ Soo i wanted to know.. do you actually change opacity/flow during the time you paint or at 100% both all the time ? Cause its kinda hard to control opacity with only pen pressure.. even more when you only need a little fading ~

    i know silly question hehe... thats why i don't paint.. im bad haha ~ peace

    Jul 26th, 2007 Reply
    • Diane

      Diane

      I paint at 100 % all the time, but I'm very soft when I use the pen... You can change the pen settings to make it harder :)
      It's really a matter of practise, I used to do awful hair at the beginning ^^

      Jul 26th, 2007 Reply
  • pixelpro

    pixelpro

    Thank you Diane for this tutorial! Very useful!

    Jul 26th, 2007 Reply
  • 7Shadows

    7Shadows

    thanks so much for sharing. it's always great to fulfill the curiosity on the how a great artist like yourself make pieces.

    Jul 21st, 2007 Reply
    • Diane

      Diane

      You're welcome :) I'm planning to do some more tutorials, I'll post them here aswell!

      Jul 21st, 2007 Reply