[Tinusch]

Heh, wow, Fallen sure did improve a lot since this thread...

[arioch]

That's the way that I do hair as well. Basically one strand at a time. It can take forever but I like the end result. I start off with 3 colors for the hair. The darkest I want it, a medium shade, and highlight color. In Photoshop I lay down the darkest in the general shape that I want the hair to be. Then I lay down the medium shade. When I lay down the medium shade I do it in the same fashion as the dark. Just a big blob of color. Then I go into the Photoshop layer menu. Choose Add Layer Mask. Choose the Reveal all layer. Then using the color black (black for erase white to bring it back) with a thin airbrush tip I lightly run the paintbrush across the medium color blob. Basically this starts to slowly erase the color. I keep working at it until I get the texture that I want. With the reveal all mask you can switch to a white colored brush to bring the color back. I do the highlight color the same way.
In addition if you want to lay down some darker or lighter colors at the tips of the hair without changing what you currently have use the group with previous layer function. Basically in one layer you have the hair the way you want it, shape/texture wise. Then create a new layer and in the popup box choose group with previous layer option. Then start coloring on it with highlights or shadows around the edges of the hair. It will conform to the hair only altering its color not its shape.


Check out this link for an example.
http://elfwood.lysator.liu.se/loth/d/m/dmulnix/ew_eqfinalnew1.jpg.html



[This message has been edited by arioch (edited June 27, 2000).]

[samdragon]

just wanted to move this thread up.
someone wanted more info on it.

[brummitt]

wild kat- if brushes do that, you might wanna try chaging the brush setting, "SPACING" The higher it is set, the bigger the gaps will be when you use the brush. (double click the brush to change settings)

Wicked...always wondered how to get some nice hair effects...now for practice im gonna make a hairy lil creature

THANKS man!

[Tinusch]

Wow, I started this thread 6 months ago and it keeps ending up at the top. Beat that, suckas.

But I don't really think this is that great of a method anymore unless you're doing straight hair. Any curls or waves would be tough with this technique...

[Fat Assasin]

I know this has been done to death, but I thought I'd throw in my down'n'dirty, quick approach to doing hair. Sometimes the hair can get too detailed and conflict with the rest of the painting, so here's another alternative that works pretty good.

I made three masks, representing the light, middle, and dark, parts of the hair using the lasso tool. The key is using the lasso tool to get the jagged edges. Then, using the masks one at a time, I used a large brush with the opacity setting to fill in the general value. I then used smaller brushes to add in some detail and make the different areas blend in more. Then I turned off all the masks and quickly went in with the smudge tool to blend the edges.



I think a combination of the different approaches might work really nice. I'll have to try that on my next piece.

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[LeperKhan]

Tinusch! You Rock!
Painting hair textures for my real-time characters has always been a problem for me. No more! Bwa-hahahahahahaha!

L

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