How to Paint Black Hair - HC 397

[@davidcollins2648]

No one has done more for the modeling and painting community than Vince. Support him if you can.

[@alexandrefernandes6286]

I come to youtube specifically to learn from your videos. I can't emphasize enough how much I like them. You're a natural talker and teacher. Your channel is THE painting reference on KZbin, and rightly so. Superb content as always. THANK YOU!!

[@galatician8063]

Shade highlights with midtone. Highlight shadows with midtone. That's my paraphrase of your key take away. Seems poetic! Thanks Vince!!!

[@AubLambe]

Very helpful! Even just that tip of bringing up a hair dye box, that's crazy smart. Thank you!

[@caseyfrechette]

For years, I struggled with trying to treat every damn strand of hair in the sculpt as an individual volume; it took forever to learn to treat textures like hair as sevaral distinct volumes of groups of hairs, and I actually learned that particular lesson in some other Hobby Cheating episode where you taught me to paint fur. The new lesson for me here is the Halo, and it came just in time, as I am gearing up to paint the hair on a squad of blissbarb archers today. Anyway, thanks for another great lesson, Vince! Really looking forward to meeting you for a class at TMX in a few weeks :D

[@sylvainvanduyl6143]

Hahaha, KZbin commercial: hair dye! 🤣🤣🤣

[@Shiruvan]

I like how some of the information may translate beyond miniature painting; working with more knowledge ahead of application saves some frustration when things don't go as imagined. thanks!

[@dangdin554]

Trippy.. I’m painting black hair, and I was just thinking, I haven’t been on this channel in a while, checked it out.. and you’re painting black hair. Meant to be, cheers my friend

[@VinceVenturella]

Always happy to help and glad I had something for you when you checked back. :)

[@alancook1053]

Wow wow wow!!!! This one is saved on the can!! Just want to complement you on how good the video production and audio has become!!!

[@fenreer01]

Hair? I remember hair.

[@whofreakincares1000]

Love it Vince. Didn’t realize my black hair was lame until I saw this. Also that skin tone!?!?

[@Jeff-ne1lh]

This was such a valuable video to me...I'm getting ready to build a conversion of Dante without a helmet, he is described as having Black hair with silver streaks..I had no idea where to start so thank you!

[@kevinhayes517]

Excellent tutorial, I learned a lot from your words as well as the video itself...you always make things more clear than they were prior to seeing your videos. Thanks so much for your dedication to helping us!

[@TigerShady]

I love the idea of using hair dye boxes as a reference

[@wimvanackooij2594]

Awesome cloak also Vince ! This is clearly a tutorial to lay aside for when needed - Thanks.

[@stephenspackman5573]

First you say that I'll think you've lost your mind, then you tell me not to worry. You see the hidden premiss. Vince, _I don't mind_ if you lose your mind. Those are the best parts! :)

[@BlaiseGD3]

Great video! A lot of useful knowledge. Thanks Vince!

[@robbied8587]

Thanks! Great tips as always

[@harryhamilton298]

Thanks, Vince!

[@0815UserII]

This is really nice. Just going black base and grey highlights, like most other hair colors, ends up reading a grey, but I don't think I'd have thought of that solution to actually make it read as black.

[@emberwickart]

love your stuff vince! thanks for continuing to make videos

[@chucklamb3496]

Thanx Vince

[@RochelleHasTooManyHobbies]

Love this model! He's got such a dynamic pose, you can almost see him shifting his feet. The sculptor did an amazing job, and you really brought their work to life, Vince! Thanks for the tutorial! I finally broke and designed one of my DnD characters in Hero Forge, and this might be the video I needed to start on her.

[@hogger95905]

That model looks amazingg

[@jacekrejch2511]

Damn, so excelent painting, and also that face looks so real

[@VinceVenturella]

Thanks!

[@sebastianwei7721]

I just finished this mini 😂 doing it a couple more times, I guess.

[@dinmacxan]

I finally get the halo explanation. I had heard it before but you starting with that very strong highlight circle was a great way to explain it. At the same time, the skin is great, are we getting to see this at some point?

[@VinceVenturella]

It was a very fun thing, maybe on some future model, i didn't record for this skin.

[@markgnepper5636]

Great stuff friend 👏 👍

[@Centurion3D]

Hi Vince, Love the vid. Do you do the same thing on breaded black hair? I'm doing Sekhmet from Archvillain .

[@VinceVenturella]

Yep, same thing, though you need to eventually do the same variations on each individual braid, moving the value window of the smaller volumes in line with the larger volumes of the total area (i.e. the braids in the bright area have the high highlight and a mid-tone as shadow, where as the braids in the shadow areas have mid-tone as highlight and dark shadows).

[@mindyfranke5279]

Great tutorial, thanks! I notice that a lot of people with black glossy, smooth hair also seem to have a slight dark blue undertone; could that also be used as a glaze in this instance?

[@VinceVenturella]

Absolutely!

[@chriscompton7793]

I'm curious as what brush you're using in the video.

[@VinceVenturella]

I beleive this was the Monument Sable brush.

[@Matt-km1ek]

Vince rules

[@docbun]

Hi Vince! Were you not happy with the previous Hobby Cheating video on the same topic? I feel like you are more advocating for the mid-tone shadow on the highlighted area, and maybe talking less about covering tones to smooth the color gradients? Not sure if I caught all the differences? I like the "tracing also dark lines" in the previous videos; have you decided to change that part in your technique? Thanks and have a great day!

[@VinceVenturella]

So I felt I wanted to expand the technique here, the key was really in the light differences and to show this in more detail on newer model with newer thoughts. The tracing dark thin lines can also still be part of it as you saw here towards the end when I'm balancing things out.

[@docbun]

@@VinceVenturella Lovely - thank you!

[@dannythompson9642]

👍👍

[@Rhaenday]

Now do white hair so I can keep my sororitas hair from looking chalky!

[@VinceVenturella]

Here you go (older video, but features a sister) - kzbin.info/www/bejne/nae8eYlrg9x_q6c&pp=gAQBiAQB

[@Glatius]

I know that you need to introduce a different colour for visual interest and that it's very boring to be black, grey, white monotone but isn't the action of introducing subtle colours just ripping it from being black?

[@VinceVenturella]

Not really, look at a black car, but like really look at a black shiny car out on the street. You know it's black, but your brain is lying to you. Take a photo of a black car in a parking lot on a sunny day and then put it in a color picker or something similar, there will be white, grey, and tons of other colors, but your brain still goes - that is a black car. In general, it's about that balance, as long as 50% of the viewable surface is the color, we will perceive it as the color.

[@Glatius]

@@VinceVenturella Thanks Vince, that car analogy is really useful as well as that 50% mark

[@dennisfoulds3941]

No way I can accomplish this.

[@VinceVenturella]

Oh, you could do it. :) - I promise, it might take a few tries, but you could do it. :)