How to Paint Brown Hair - HC 422

[@vincentlyon4563]

I just tried this technique for the first time, and while it doesn't look anything like what you have on the screen, it's worlds better than any hair I have done before. I wish I could post pictures in youtube comments. Unlike most things I try to paint, the more I messed with it, the better it looked.

[@galatician8063]

She's beautiful Vince!!! Hair and All! Love how the the color of the butterflies match her dress and jewels. Will use this for sure !!! Thank you for another piece of art!!!

[@VinceVenturella]

Thank you! Cheers!

[@HobbyLinkInternational]

Beautiful work as always. Thanks for sharing the technique. Something I need lots of practice doing 😊

[@alancook1053]

Wow wow WOW! Fabulous instruction! Thank you so much for this hair series and process.❤❤❤❤❤

[@VinceVenturella]

Glad it was helpful!

[@TheMiniaturesPaintbrush]

Thank you brother, I’m working on my first bust for the next Nova Open, this helps!

[@VinceVenturella]

Glad to help!

[@marcumxc]

The only thing left on my shardspeaker for Holy Wars is the hair and I wanted brown to go with the blues, purples, & gold of the model. Perfect timing on this video, thank you sir. See you in February on Herner’s amazing tables!

[@VinceVenturella]

Sounds great!

[@billdefranza4927]

Vince, the way you explain the idea of using the brightest down to the midtone for the upper/sricky uppy parts, and the darkest up to the midrone for the lower /turned away from the light parts (I hope im making sense) immediately this clicked in my head with the new Fanatic paints from Army Painter, with each color family having 4 triads in it. Its as if they designed it for you!

[@kellyaudia]

Ten strokes in, it’s better than anything I’ve ever painted. 👍🏼

[@MKempICI]

The shading techniques for brown hair that you demonstrate in this video looked great. I may give my army of gingers a break, and paint a brunette or two. Thank you, sir.

[@echtervogel]

Perfect! Excellent update on your past videos! Now you have the two top videos on most hair tones

[@VinceVenturella]

Glad you like them!

[@chucklamb3496]

Thanks as always Vince, I really love this hair series.

[@VinceVenturella]

Glad you enjoy it!

[@joeski27]

I literally KZbin searched Vincey V brown hair yesterday, thank you for making my dreams come true

[@VinceVenturella]

Hope you enjoyed it!

[@TheCombatartist]

Great video - the technics you employ are cross-genre, many fitting us historical painters.

[@VinceVenturella]

Glad you enjoyed it

[@smoothbrush4722]

Fantastic tutorial. Nice colors on the skin also and the purple dress

[@naib_stilgar]

"Even though it has been very many years since I had brown hair up there.." me cringing in anticipation of a "..thankfully I still have some to go by down there.." joke and a Manscaped promo.. aaaand.. Phew! Bullet dodged. 🤣

[@VinceVenturella]

Never on this channel. :)

[@earnestwanderer2471]

I’m 66 and still have plenty of brown hair. It’s all on my back, but hey, it’s still something. 😊

[@ZamuelNow]

What I would like to see would be a guide on painting curly hair. There's the admitted unfortunate that so few models have curly hair but I'd love to see a painting example that isn't straight hair. But beside my griping, the actual tutorial is good, as usual.

[@tychoMX]

This is great. And just in time; my space marine sergeant with an uncovered head is going to have fabulous hair! Also - that's a great finished model. Would love to see that showcased in a separate video. The butterfly looks amazing.

[@VinceVenturella]

Perfect!

[@spacedock873]

Hi Vince. Another really lovely result 👍 You emphasise that it is a process of back-and-forth (futzing as you used to call it!) I would be interested as to how you manage your wet palette to keep track of all the different mixes that you use. As something of a noob to mini/figure painting I sometimes find it difficult to remember which colours/mixes of paint I have used where when I come back to repaint bits.. Perhaps this would be enough of a topic for a video in itself?

[@VinceVenturella]

Glad it was helpful. I have an older video on how I manage my wet palette, so you may want to look into that, essentially, I just work out from the original colors and create a little map.

[@Omegaterrain]

That’s a wonderful pallet for brown hair. I think those colors would work well for warm brown leather. Would love to see a future video on black hair.

[@alfyb4512]

Vince already made one for black hair, check in the history!

[@Omegaterrain]

@@alfyb4512 thanks! Will do!

[@VinceVenturella]

Yep, I've tackeled black hair before. - but always happy to answer more questions.

[@damian-bk8kv]

Model name is Athalia from Printomancer : ). Beautiful paint job!

[@HappyHappyJoyJoy658]

Thank you for the heads-up, much obliged.

[@HappyHappyJoyJoy658]

Just finished a dwarf using tips from your red hair vid and was pleased with my rudimentary implementation (more with the tonality) so thanks Vince, the richness & realistic light play/volumes in this one will certainly be in mind on whatever my next project is, what sculpt/line is this beautiful model from?

[@wimvanackooij2594]

Impressive as always Vince

[@kingtone3734]

Great teachings, Vince. I do have a question regarding your glazing technique. When glazing, are you supposed to be glazing with a brighter or darker tone? Or does it vary? I never know which tone to apply to create the "seamless transition".

[@VinceVenturella]

It varies, the answer is it's easier to glaze down because those colors tend to be more transparent. I have several videos specific to glazing, so definitely check those out. But yes, a darker color and glazing into the shadows is generally an easier time.

[@TheEnd]

Thanks for another lesson Vince!

[@VinceVenturella]

My pleasure!

[@philip6136]

Thank you

[@mverna3628]

Have you ever made a video on under-skin veins? I see these on many muscular models and I’ve studied enough anatomy to know that different color protruding veins can be quite clear and a great accent detail on models.

[@VinceVenturella]

I've talked about it a little as part of larger skin videos, but I will make sure to call it out.

[@kellyaudia]

Hey Vince. I have an unrelated question. When I zenithal with white ink, my 2.0 speed paints reactivate the white ink. I’ve tried doing a gloss coat of varnish, but that “muddies” up the zenithal to look bland and gray. Any suggestions? Wait longer for cure? Idk. Thanks in advance.

[@VinceVenturella]

A quick level of varnish before you start painting is generally the answer (I don't use ink for zenithal, they reactivate with anything too easily, I use white paint or primer), but varnish is the answer.

[@alfyb4512]

Silly question: how does this work when the hair are “horizontal”, say pulled back into a bun? Having the halo perpendicular to the hair does not feel right, but going parallel, you can’t really pull the lines up or down… Any tips?

[@VinceVenturella]

The real world is our guide, so if we look at examples with hair in that style, it can help. That being said, the zones still remain the same for light and you trace out the highlight strands with the direction of the hair.

[@deliciousrelish]

More hair? Hell yeah

[@hulejul9748]

damn, that's some loreal looking hair

[@greglohman6750]

Great work, loved the hair series. But...does anyone paint 28mm -35mm gaming scale figures any more!? EDIT: juys, i meant, are any youtube content creators painting gaming scale anymore, which is itself use of exaggeration as rhetorical flourish to say Vince, can you do more gaming scale paints cause its hard to translate bust painting down to a 28 mm human (or at least, id like to see examples of that more).

[@billdefranza4927]

Who doesn't?

[@greglohman6750]

KZbin content creaors,@@billdefranza4927? Certainly pretty rare for Dr. V to paint non-busts or giant sized gaming minis. Feels like most of the content creators I follow are doing amazing large scale paining, but few focus on the kind of painting most of their viewers are doing. In short I was using rhetorical exaggeration to ask VV to do more gaming scale paint videos pls.

[@steven401ytx]

Isn't that what most tabletop minis are?

[@greglohman6750]

Yes, I guess I thought people would understand from context I was saying most of us watching are paingtng tabletop scale, but content creators are painting bust scale.@@steven401ytx

[@VinceVenturella]

Sure, I tend to use these larger figures because 1) they are more what I am painting and 2) They are much easier to film and show on camera when explaining techniques, but there will be lots of gaming figures as well. :)

[@markgnepper5636]

Great stuff friend 👏 👍

[@VinceVenturella]

Thank you 👍

[@Temporal_Assassin]

I have yet to see anyone do a video on how to paint Grey hair realistically. Both salt and pepper and pure grey. Good warriors get old too! 😁

[@VinceVenturella]

Great suggestion!

[@phookaziz3]

Great video! Thanks for doing what you do. Are there any steps that you think need to be done differently with hair, when painting different ethnicities of human?

[@VinceVenturella]

Nope, all the same steps.

[@Jeff-ne1lh]

Hey Vince...I'm practicing this as much on this as possible...but I'm running out of models...I have yet to find a stripper that doesn't eat at the detail and I really don't want to start on my cities of Sigmar guys until I get the technique down....any advice? Oh that pallet you chose was excellent

[@VinceVenturella]

Just prime and paint over the same model - I've primed and painted over larry 100 times. :)

[@flagoon]

I wept when I compare my mini skin to yours... Into the paint remover jug...

[@VinceVenturella]

Never feel bad and you don't need to strip anything (I realise you were likely being sarcastic), but the painting is a journey and I have been at this for quite a while. :)

[@flagoon]

@@VinceVenturella This mini is my "Moby Dick", I tried to paint it many times, last time few days ago. Unfortunately, my skin ended up chalky and the transitions aren't any good. I'll strip her again and try after few other models. Thanks for kind words.

[@flagoon]

I put some more work into the mini and it's looking much better now :) Could be my best work this far.

[@Skiriwowi]

Hi Vince, may I ask which model this is?

[@VinceVenturella]

3D print from Printomancer.

[@Benitez99]

😍😍 pleaseee citadel colour equivalences 👏🏻👏🏻

[@VinceVenturella]

COuldn't say sadly, I don't often use citadel paints, but the exact paints don't matter, it's the techniques. Pick an equal number of paints that look roughly in the area and you're good.

[@M104-q9y]

It would be really nice if you could stop looking over my shoulder while I'm painting to get ideas for videos.

[@coalitionofrob436]

Really, was kind of hoping he’d look over mine at an unpainted Sanguinius ……

[@TheJacktor]

Now do old lady/old man hair. Def not because im about to paint old wood beard by Lucas pina or anything.

[@isisnmagic1812]

Vince please sort the sound , its a struggle to hear unlike your previous videos.

[@captaincosmo6157]

Brown hair isn't that obvious to us colourblind folk. The thing holding us back? Doubt. Doubt that the colours are correct.

[@VinceVenturella]

Makes total sense. FOrtunately, most of the challenge here is in the value (the light) not the hue (color). The hue can actually be a wide range of colors, but the value is what sells it. :)

[@kyledouglas1018]

I know this was about hair but damn, those skin blends...