How To Paint Black Hair

In this video portrait painter ben lustenhouwer shows you how to do it.

How to paint black hair. If your hair is black but you ve always wanted to try coloring it red you can get a rich red color from the comfort of your own home. To watch the horn and bone tutorial go here. Paint a tonal scale with five or seven tones values from light to dark with the blacks greys you re going to use in the painting. Try very dark gray or dark brown.

Usually the afro hair is dark. Black hair requires special considerations when you dye it red though. Straight wavy curly short frizzy kinky do s and don ts video links below follow me. It also makes it difficult to make adjustments to the light source.

Only 2 of the population has red hair so going red will make you stand out in the crowd. Painting hair by kevin muente whether painting grass or hair you have to find your rhythm kevin muente. Of course if you are in the mood you can experiment with red or even blond hair color. I use a similar technique to paint hair and grass but this demonstration is for hair.

Use his techniques to improve your own portraits. Then be quite formulaic or systematic in using the middle tones for most of the animal the lights for the highlights and darks for the shadows. When painting hair the temptation is to go in with a small brush and begin painting every individual strand of hair. Instead think about hair as a 3d object.

After i ve decided on the shape of the head and have examined the overall dimensions the width and the length i feel. However in order to leave the opportunity for shadows choose a base color different from black. How to paint hair. Plan your tonal values.