What's up guys welcome back!
Vibrant red hair can be pretty tricky to paint but we can use a simple shading trick to get
really a nice result.
Here's what we're going to be aiming for.
We'll begin with Scale Color Aldebaran Red, you can get the same colour by adding a small
amount of Games Workshop mephiston red to Wild Rider Red.
This gives you an excellent base colour to work over.
For our first highlight we'll jump straight to Scale Color Mars orange.
It's a really nice bright tone, very similar to Macharius Solar Orange from the old GW
Foundation line.
We'll apply that colour to each strand of hair, like so.
Try not to paint the whole length, you just want to target roughly the upper two thirds
of each strand.
Be careful not to go into the recesses here, a brush with a good tip is going to make this
a lot easier.
Next we'll mix in a very bright yellow to our highlight colour.
I'm using Scale Color Sol Yellow but GW Flash Gitz Yellow is pretty much an exact match.
Now we'll basically do the same thing again but cover a smaller surface area.
We're trying to aim for the apex of the rounded parts of the head, so that our highlights
match the shape of hair.
For our final highlight we'll just use our bright yellow and place a small highlight
on each hair along that apex point.
Notice I stagger them a little so that, even though they follow the apex, they are not
perfectly in line with each other.
If you look at actual hair, you'll see that the strongest highlights here, follow more
of a zig zag pattern than a straight line.
So it's good to try and emulate that on the model too.
The last step is to mix a little cantabric blue into our base red which is going to give
us our shade colour.
If you've been following along with the previous videos you'll notice this is the same blue
I used to paint the jeans on this model.
It's always good to reuse colours from other parts of the miniature, as it helps to tie
all the colours together and stop you from getting any horrible colour clashes.
We'll add a fair bit of water to thin it down to a glaze consistency.
Now what we'll do it glaze along the seam at the top of the head.
And we'll also do the roots by glazing into the recesses just at the top of the head here.
Again, like we did with the highlights try to make these a little irregular so they're
not all the same length.
You'll have to build this up over a couple of layers.
The reason we don't put this on too thickly is because we still want to have the orangey
red base colour showing through underneath.
And it's quite easy to lose that if the paint is too thick.
You can also pick out a few shadows along the sides here, just by glazing into the recesses.
You don't really need to do every single one, just pick out a few here and there.
And we'll make it a bit more pronounced where the hair nears the neckline as there would
be less light hitting that area so we can darken that down a little more than the rest
of the hair.
Alright guys so that is how to paint bright red hair.
The colours gives you quite a cartoony finish but I think it works quite well on this model,
adding the blue into the shadows really helps to give you a more interesting finish without
things getting too muddy.
You still retain that vibrancy to the colour.
Also by not using any washes we're able to get a much more controlled finish.
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I should actually be able to buy a new camera soon, so it wont be long before we're getting
some two camera shennanigans in the videos.
It'll be good to have a dedicated pallette camera so you can see what's happening on
the pallete in real time.
I think that'll be pretty cool.
Alright guys, thanks for watching, I hope you found it useful.
Coming up next will be either the next blending techniques video, or another critique video,
I'm working on them both at the same time so whichever one I finish first really.
After that I'll do a multi part series on the Cruz model from raging heroes, although
I need to paint it first!
Oh!
And there will also be a patreon only video showing how to paint black, I'm going to show
3 or 4 different ways to approach it, I've had quite a lot of people ask for a video
on that so that should be a good one.
Alright, I think that's enough waffling!
I better get back to the painting desk!
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