Digital Painting in Procreate: A Technique to Color Hair

1. Introduction : Hi, my name is Lucina. I'm a traditional and digital artist. And I've been painting appropriate for a few years now. Today I want to show you how to do a three step method and how to paint hair. All we will start with is shape, color, and details. As a beginner, this is a good class for you and intimedate artists can take this as well. You can check out my other classes where I discuss hair a little more, but mainly this one with guy hair. This class can also help with character portrait and character art. So let's get started. 2. Class Project/Materials: Welcome to the class project. What you will need. Apple Pencil, procreate iPad, and the template provided for you. First, use a template or your own drawing. Break down the hairstyle into shapes. Try out my shading style. Add remaining details, experiment with hair colors. Post your progress drawing in the project section. First lesson. 3. Create Shapes : Welcome to the first lesson, and I'll be showing you how I use layers at the same time. The next layer will be where I start the hair shape. I'll be using a technical pen. I want to use something that's very sharp lines and crisp, so you can make sure the shape is very well done. Right now I'm trying to figure out where I want the hair line to start. I'm going to be doing a side part for this hairstyle. As you make the shape, you want to make sure that your lines are closed so that when you fill in the shape, it doesn't mess up. I've had this happen a few times. I just had to get the hang of it. We're going to make sure that the hair line is better at the end, so we don't have to worry about that right now. Right now here you want to make sure that your line is going to be above the crown of the head. We don't want your hair to look flat. Also w over this in one of my other classes. The hair line is wonky right now, but I am just trying to get the basic hair shape. I want to fill in my lines, but still make sure I have the hair line shape in mind. Next, I will be doing the back of her hair, al, half down. I make simple lines because her hair, I guess you would think. From this point of view, looks wavy and making those shapes and filling it in. Now we're going to get to the next lesson of adding highlight. 4. Color and Highlights : Welcome to the next lesson. We name our next layer highlights. Going to the brush section, we're going to be using the airbrush. I'll be using the heart airbrush because you have a lighter touch depending on how you move your apple pencil. Now, we're going to be just doing simple shapes. I guess you would say. You're not really making a shape, just placing where you want the highlight to be. I'll put it in the middle. And you want to make sure that the curve of the highlight on the top of the hair is going to show that it's curved. For blending, I use the watercolor brush. We're going to be just doing up and down motion because you wanted to blend into the hair, the black shape that we made. You wanted to almost look like hair strands. This is the technique that you use to achieve this. What I like about the watercolor brush it has a push pull motion and you can easily get that look and it doesn't fade the color too much. Now I'm going to be selecting a lighter color for the highlight. I'll be using an inking brush just to do simple straight lines. Those lines are going to be miking the highlight that you would see in here. We're not going to be blending that too much, but I'll be blending just a little bit so it doesn't shine to. Next lesson. 5. Adding Details : Hi. Next is details. I'm going to be color selecting the black so that I can use the technical pan ag in to create just the simple lines for the hair strands. We know that hair is not usually so straightforward as the shapes that we created. We want to make sure we put a little bit of that to add a little bit of realism. What you want to also do is make sure when you do these hair strands, you are on the shape layer, which I seem to have forgotten to name. Then I'll be using the watercolor brush once again to smooth out the lines for the front of the hair and the side of the hair. You want to use that because the pushing motion with the watercolor brush will make the hair lines smoother and look like strands, so you don't have to do them individually yourself. That is one thing I love about using that brush. Now I'll be renaming the layer that I forgot to do. Next lesson. 6. Art Tip: Change Hair Colors: Welcome to this fun little lesson. Once you're on the highlights layer, go to adjustments, and then you're going to hit hue saturation and brightness. You can see that you can toggle hue through the different colors and you can easily change them. You can change the saturation as well to how bright you want it to how light. With this easy step, you don't have to overwhelm yourself with trying to pick different colors or if you want a quick change as you're practicing. This is a very easy step. Now, we go to final thoughts. 7. Final Thoughts: Final thoughts. Thank you so much for taking this class. What we learned. How to paint hair, how to break down hair into shapes, how to add details and highlights, and how to change hair colors in simple steps. You can follow me on my skill share page. It will also be very helpful if you leave a review of the class so other students can find in the review section. You can follow me on YouTube at LOG Sketches and my Designs two rt. You can follow me on Instagram at Paper rts Pencil and at Design two rt. Thank you again and see you next time.