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Description This is the tutorial that so many of you have request for, this is a step by step on how I paint my hair in my paintings. I have used Clara’s beautiful face from my painting “Clara from Journey to the centre of the Tardis (below)” I have removed all of her hair and have painted without any references Clara with blonde hair in a style that came to my head. I wanted to show you all just how easy it is to paint volume realistic hair.

With my Eye, Nose, Mouth and ear tutorial, you can learn to do a realistic face to paint the hair on but I have also included a template from my Clara painting without any hair so you can download it and follow my step by step method and paint the beautiful hair yourself.

   

Please feel free to download the bust of Clara to practise on, I would love to see your interpretations.

I hope you all like this one If you have time please leave a comment, fav it or add me to your Watch list.
I hope that you can take a little something from this
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Comments: 68

jht888 In reply to ??? [2017-01-07 20:11:17 +0000 UTC]

Thank you so much for your lovely comment, I'm so please that you like how I paint

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lauraypablo In reply to jht888 [2017-01-23 05:28:29 +0000 UTC]

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jighyas [2014-08-27 13:03:49 +0000 UTC]

nice

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jht888 In reply to jighyas [2014-11-16 23:53:37 +0000 UTC]

Thank you and I'm so sorry about the very late reply

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BigBoomer101 [2014-04-04 20:33:19 +0000 UTC]

freakishly realistic hair O.o thank you for this tutorial

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jht888 In reply to BigBoomer101 [2014-04-05 05:21:21 +0000 UTC]

Thank you so much for that Big B, I'm so happy that you find this useful

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HilaHGP [2014-03-07 20:47:02 +0000 UTC]

it's really helpful, thanks! (and it's also very weird to see Jenna Coleman  with blond hair)

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jht888 In reply to HilaHGP [2014-03-08 06:31:35 +0000 UTC]

You're welcome and thank you for commenting

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Nahemia [2014-03-05 20:35:18 +0000 UTC]

great tutorial
random question: do you always pain with a black background or you just put it for the tutorials?

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jht888 In reply to Nahemia [2014-03-05 21:45:14 +0000 UTC]

I started doing the paintings on black backgrounds to start with because its easy on my eyes and it just stuck now with everything I paint. Glad you like it, thank you

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NeycuuRose1 [2014-01-12 15:18:41 +0000 UTC]

and i wonder how this was done.  

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jht888 In reply to NeycuuRose1 [2014-01-12 22:17:41 +0000 UTC]

I hope this helps you out

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NeycuuRose1 In reply to jht888 [2014-01-14 19:22:41 +0000 UTC]

I could say it would help anybody else out, but i don't really understand it though, 

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gamage-inbox [2013-12-13 06:33:41 +0000 UTC]

wow. thank you for sharing

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jht888 In reply to gamage-inbox [2013-12-15 21:44:45 +0000 UTC]

You are ever so welcome, thank you

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Photopathica [2013-12-06 14:57:47 +0000 UTC]

Hi!
We have chosen your work for our Featured Folder for December!
This piece has been featured here:

deviantsgallery.deviantart.com…

On behalf of:

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jht888 In reply to Photopathica [2013-12-06 19:53:43 +0000 UTC]

Thank you so much, I'm so honoured

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Zackaran [2013-10-31 17:33:43 +0000 UTC]

omg thank you i have so much trouble with hair ._.

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jht888 In reply to Zackaran [2013-10-31 21:38:52 +0000 UTC]

You're very welcome, I'm glad that you can get some tips off this tutorial and others

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Narumo [2013-10-31 02:38:17 +0000 UTC]

I'm all for beautiful hair (I have a more animesque style, though)

Do you have a Part 1, or a start of some kind for the series? Do you list the tools (program, type of brushes) used somewhere?

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jht888 In reply to Narumo [2013-10-31 06:49:49 +0000 UTC]

I first started these tutorials with the eye tutorial, then the nose, followed by the mouth then the hair and lastly the ears (links in the description above) but I will be covering more bits in the future like blending, textures, hands, body etc.

I use Photoshop CS5 and the main brush I use is the standard soft brush which is for 95% for all my paintings. I use the soft brush for near enough everything from skin, hair, clothes absolutely nearly everything as I am self taught and I like to keep everything really simple. I never use the BLUR or SMUDGE tools and never use any MASKS either. I just wanted to show everyone that realistic panting can be achieved using the most simple brush and practise.


Thank you so much for taking the time to comment  

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Narumo In reply to jht888 [2013-10-31 15:26:40 +0000 UTC]

Thanks for the explanation It's interesting to see other methods of painting step by step.

And you're welcome.

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Cute-Heart [2013-10-29 16:13:26 +0000 UTC]

amazing !

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jht888 In reply to Cute-Heart [2013-10-29 20:04:03 +0000 UTC]

So glad you like it, thank you again

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JPMNeg [2013-10-25 14:09:41 +0000 UTC]

Thank you for posting this. I have a question, how many layers did you use?

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jht888 In reply to JPMNeg [2013-10-25 21:33:09 +0000 UTC]

You are welcome For the building up of the hair, I use around four or five layers depending on how much body I want the hair to have, each layer is a different shade of hair colour. I hope this helps you

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artistamroashry [2013-10-19 16:25:03 +0000 UTC]

Beautifully done! 


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jht888 In reply to artistamroashry [2013-10-19 19:27:27 +0000 UTC]

I'm honour that you like it, thank you

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artistamroashry In reply to jht888 [2013-10-20 02:30:37 +0000 UTC]

you're welcome ! 


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Somelarder [2013-10-19 12:11:05 +0000 UTC]

Great tutorial !

I'm sure it will elp a lo of people !

Just one question : what are the settings of your brush for the hair ? I'm just curious

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jht888 In reply to Somelarder [2013-10-19 19:29:15 +0000 UTC]

Thank you so much Melvin

The brush is a standard soft brush with settings of 50% Flow and Opacity, with pressure sensitivity pressed on

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Somelarder In reply to jht888 [2013-10-20 07:52:26 +0000 UTC]

You're welcome

Oh okay I was excepting something else

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pixeluna [2013-10-19 00:59:03 +0000 UTC]

This is a very good tutorial, your hair painting is wonderful!

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jht888 In reply to pixeluna [2013-10-19 05:19:08 +0000 UTC]

Thank you ever so much for that lovely comment

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DendaReloaded [2013-10-18 16:48:17 +0000 UTC]

"step 1: start with a perfectly drawn face lol" amazing tutorial, good job! c:

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jht888 In reply to DendaReloaded [2013-10-18 19:07:41 +0000 UTC]

I just wanted to give a little encouragement to all that have used my tutorials. You've made me smile, thank you ever so much for your great comment

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DendaReloaded In reply to jht888 [2013-10-18 20:20:23 +0000 UTC]

np c: whilst i don't use them as i don't draw digitally i support all the artists that try to help others. you're gr8, keep goin!

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LAN0RA [2013-10-18 12:23:54 +0000 UTC]

wonderful work on this!! thanks for showing how you do it

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jht888 In reply to LAN0RA [2013-10-18 19:05:02 +0000 UTC]

Thank you ever so much for that amazing comment

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LAN0RA In reply to jht888 [2013-10-18 19:15:46 +0000 UTC]

you're welcome

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LittleWolf-Dreamer [2013-10-18 08:07:49 +0000 UTC]

Oh! Wow! Truman, this is just fantastic and once again you make it look so easy. I really love all your step by step tutorials and I'm keeping my fingers crossed that when it comes to me having go, with these wonderful tutorials it'll work a bit better than my failed attempts last time. =^.^=

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jht888 In reply to LittleWolf-Dreamer [2013-10-18 19:04:22 +0000 UTC]

Thank you ever so much You will be just fine Dawn, the way you do your photo manips, you will have absolutely no trouble doing any of these tutorials

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LittleWolf-Dreamer In reply to jht888 [2013-10-18 20:23:05 +0000 UTC]

Most welcome Truman. Fingers crossed. =^.^=

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Rita-Ria [2013-10-18 07:54:23 +0000 UTC]

Thank you so much! It looks amazing (when I try to paint like this, it always looked, like she has "broken" hair) - seems I need to practice more
Do you use 100 % opacity - and hard edge?

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jht888 In reply to Rita-Ria [2013-10-18 19:01:42 +0000 UTC]

You are very kind, thank you again


I use a standard soft brush, with 50% Flow and Opacity with the pressure sensitively pressed on for both, so the lighter you press, the softer the hairs

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Rita-Ria In reply to jht888 [2013-10-18 19:28:19 +0000 UTC]

ok, that helps! thank you - again!

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Raingrass [2013-10-18 03:47:19 +0000 UTC]

Any specific brush used to paint hair?  It looks good. Thanks

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jht888 In reply to Raingrass [2013-10-18 18:58:59 +0000 UTC]

Thank you for that


I only use a standard soft brush with settings of 50% on Flow and Opacity for painting

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Raingrass In reply to jht888 [2013-10-18 19:40:13 +0000 UTC]

Awesome, thank you very much!

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dragonx81 [2013-10-17 22:00:18 +0000 UTC]

awesome!

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