Hair Painting in Procreate

1. Introduction: Hi. I'm a ShavurdaPfessional artist and illustrator. Wood collaborated with Adopt Bully Elish prime dios, Lord of the Drings strings of Power, Stadl and the Well of Time, Logitech, acom and many more. In this class, you will learn how to paint hair from start to finish using Procreate. We will focus on shape and flow before getting into the tails so the hair feels neutral and dynamic. You will learn how to build deep with light and shadow instead of painting in visual strands. I will show you how to create soft transitions, texture, and realistic highlights without overworking with the painting. By the end of this class, you will be able to paint hair that looks alive, expressive, and well integrated with your portraits. This class is perfect for artists who want to improve their hair painting skills in procreate. Let's tie in. 2. How to Sketch Hair: Come. In this part, we will talk about how to sketch hair. Sketching hair is easy, but you need to define good brush for it. For example, if you use hair brush, it will end like these strong corners. You need some brush with streamline and thin like much more flexible, like lin art brush. You can use any pan brush or ink brush for it. And for here, for example, if you think geometrically downs like this one here, you need to define the shape of it. For example, if it is two same example, and one will be like this, hair comes down and wavy, it bounces like this at wavy hairs and another bounce, another bounds, another bounce and like this. But if it is not wavy, it will end much more directly. And if you render it, for example, like this with wavy lines and it is flat lines, it will be curvy and it is the flat. For creating realistic hairs, you always need to think basic like how it flows. Imagine it is like a water and how it is all unique shape. You can't paint like ban way like this, like this. It is wrong. You need to first define the shape of hair, for example, how it flows. And how we connect with each other. For example, one hair shape can be like this. And it is like water, for example, if we have bunny tail like this and it flows from here and it make them together and it have bigger area here. You need to find the general shape of it like how it flows. For example, I'm painting it like waves. It is irregular. Some parts of it in the top. If you paint it darker, it goes down and it is irregular if you paint some wavy hair and et cetera. For example, if we have color here and I will paint hair. You can paint hair, for example, blonde hair like this, and you will paint some areas of it like glowing. If you give attention to these tiny details, your painting will look much more realistic. 3. Painting Base Color: Hello. In this class, we will paint red hair in procreate. I sketch it. I like this, and it is my reference. I will open another new layer under this sketch layer, and I will start from these parts. At first, do not rush about the tails and just try to put the base colors of it. Just like this. And you need to define light parts after it. For example, if you see this illustration at the right corner, there's certain points like I will show you. For example, these parts are lighter, these parts is darker and this part lighter again, and these parts is darker. We need to simulate it at the left. For example, if this part is lighter, I will increase the light and if these parts is darker, I will again make it dark. I will start from this part. Yeah. And this part and I will start from adding the middle tones. Um, So part of the illustration is a bit hard because there is many hair strokes and it is wavy, not stretch, straight like flat. So we need to define all parts of this hair. For example, if this edge is lighter, make it lighter. And if this angle is 4. Painting Base Shadow: Darker, I will make it darker and again lighter and darker again. Yeah. And after you define these shapes, open another new layer and select Smooth line. You can use any inuk brush, or you can try to use inking brush depends on your choice. Yeah, I'm creating the detailed render of it. At some parts, you can use a lighter brush here, just like this. This part. Yeah. And this right part is much more lighter. You can add tiny hair strokes at the light parts. These tiny strokes are much more visible in these certain areas. So you can make them much more detailed at the light parts. Just like this. And I will start from this part and we continue to add light parts. Yeah, just like this. And I will increase the detail level over here and here. And this time, I will use a bit much bigger brush. The process is same. I'm selecting colors and trying to select darker tones at certain points and lighter parts just like this. 5. Painting Base Light: Yeah. And I will continue to add details from this part. This is orange part. It's not directly like dark brown. At most part, it have a orange color These parts are much more tiny. And these parts much more darker. And maybe I can use some tiny strokes here and here. And you can add much more lighter color at the right top because it is just like this, it is much more lighter at the light side. And I will increase these light parts of the hair. Yes. And let's continue to add much more details. And after this part, I will zoom here just like this, and I will simulate this area with much more sharp and small p size. Yes. And I will continue 6. Blend Colors: Welcome again. At this part, we will polish our illustration. At first, I will open I will duplicate it for our course and I will open new layers over 1 second. I will make it like this. Let's continue to adding details together. I will start from this part right now and we'll increase the detail level and I will paint over this layer because I want to lose the good lines And I'm adding hair strokes depending on the details of the hair. And at some parts, it is darker and I will add much more details at this part. And I will make this part much more darker. And if you sure about your lineart, you can make it like this, collect the layer at one layer with pinching your fingers and apply smuchtol over hair for blend it and make it look much more like realistic. And after it, you can always turn back to putting much more detail. Let's continue with these colors and at this left part, I will add some hair strokes just like this. And I'm simulating this hair, but I'm trying to make different from it because I can't copy all hair strokes because it is have on and unique pets like so many hair stroke. But I'm trying to catch the wipe of it. For example, the lions comes here like this and smaller, much more smaller. And just like this. And so, again, And I'm adding much more detail. 7. Increase Colors: And these details gives the hair much more realistic vibe. So I will keep doing it. Yeah, it looks much more good right now. And I will increase the shadows and highlights right now. You can put some shiny highlights over your hair, and it can be irregular like this And at this part, I will use just like this. And at this part, it have another light spike here. Yeah, it's look good right now. And from this part I will close the reference, and I will go to color balance and make it a bit or not color balance, maybe hue, a bit, much more really strong hue and a bit curve here and sharpen. Sharpen makes your painting much more sharp. And it is really good option for great realistic shapes. After this, I will deep dive into details. For example, I will open new layer with colored Dutch layer mode and I will add burning hair like this. It will add really strong and realistic light spikes to your hair. Yeah. And this part will be like this and like this. These idle details gives illustration really good amount of detail and more. I will add much more idle hair strokes here. At some parts, you can open another new layer with overlay mode. And you can add this color change here and here. And here, yeah, it looks realistic and good right now. At some points of hair, you can zoom and select directly white, and you can add really strong light and tiny reflections over it. And and like this, guess like this. And like this. I'm adding light reflections partly to give the hair much more value and realism. But don't overuse it, because if you overuse it, it will be boring. Only use it at the light parts. And for example, dark light. This is light, dark, light, dark. It has its own balance, and it makes it much more perfect than repeat things. Thank you for joining me in this tutorial and see you in the next class. 8. Complete Illustration: Welcome again. In this part, we will complete this illustration, and for it, I will select, again, line brush or create much more detail. And I will make it like this. And some parts have tiny details, just like this. I'm adding the details for the corners of the hair because it is important as the other parts, we need to make the corners much more stabilized and detailed. And I'm adding hair strokes. I will share the hairs outlines for you, and you can use the outlines for create your own version, or you can directly use my reference. It depends on your choice. And it will be darker at this part. Yeah. And let's add tiny details before we finish the illustration. For example, this is the idle details over illustration. Gives it a really realistic look with tiny hair strokes like this. I'm trying to blend and give it a much more complex look because it is not flat and have millions of hair strokes. And maybe this part can be bigger and lighter. And these parts also. And these parts yeah.