How to Paint Red Hair - HC 419

In this Hobby Cheating Tutorial, I take you through how to paint red hair. Red Hair can often be challenging to get the highlights and shadows just right to make it credible but not cartoony. I take you through the techniques and pitfalls to avoid. Hope you enjoy!
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0:00 Intro
1:12 Painting Basics
6:42 Intermission
7:33 Refinement
13:44 Outro
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[@user-xu3ud4fl2e]

Man, I thought I was getting pretty good at painting flesh. Then you whip out this and remind me I'm still way off

[@damian-bk8kv]

Model name is Eloven from Printomancer : ). Amazing hair! It is so cool that you are painting another of my model!

[@VinceVenturella]

Great models!

[@RochelleHasTooManyHobbies]

She's awesome! I absolutely adore the way she's petting the crow/raven - it just looks so convincing. Reminds me of my cat, always pushing into my hand. That rose on her wrist looks super cool, too.

[@damian-bk8kv]

@@RochelleHasTooManyHobbies Thank you so much for your kind words: ).

[@actinium2754]

That glaze at 5:43 is just pure magic. Absolutely gorgeous.

[@kevinhayes517]

No matter the subject, Vince, you always break it down into understandable and “ easy” steps explaining both the how and the why for everything that is done. As always I’ve learned a lot for your expert teaching. Thank you!

[@VinceVenturella]

Glad it was helpful!

[@ILikeYous]

8% of your viewers understood that "Flowers in your Hair" San Francisco reference. Good video, I always end up creating a Strawberry blond effect when I do red hair. This process is really helpful to do red hair that doesn't end up blond with red roots.

[@oliviermtd]

the older ones got it :-)

[@eoinmcorks]

"Irish red hair" and us misfortunes have copper carrot heads lol Great vid Vince!

[@spacedock873]

Absolutely beautiful Vince. My problem is that after spending so much time and effort on the hair I would be terrified of doing anything to adjacent parts, such as the flowers, in case I screwed the hair up! 😳

[@evinoshea5215]

was already planning to paint red hair today - thank you for this video!

[@MacGyver_-ml2qm]

Vince another great video, I have had this model printed out for awhile to practice skintones and would love to see you do another video doing all of the flowers on her and the base. Thanks again for everything that you do.

[@zippy5131]

Wonder how many people got the Scott McKenzie connection..... My biggest stumbling block getting red hair looking right and now I know. Cheers Vince.

[@chucklamb3496]

Excellent effect, thanks Vince

[@VinceVenturella]

Glad you like it!

[@Bishop0151]

Once again than you Vince. Hair is still something that I struggle with. I'm about to attempt a wolf figure that doesn't have much in the way of moulded texture, it's basically on me. This was a deliberate challenge that I set myself, partly because of your videos in hair are a good reference that inspired me.

[@alecryan5962]

I literally just watched your Alarielle red hair video to prep for painting a few models. Great video, even better timing!

[@docbun]

Neat! I look forward to the greens too. ;) Have a great week-end, Vince.

[@Jerm-ct5jf]

Love how transparent reds are. Thanks for the tutorial!

[@lordbaconbane6145]

Ooo lovely tutorial! My fiance and I are getting married next year and I'm going to be painting a cake topper with red hair (marrying a red head) so this comes in handy. Thank you :)

[@VinceVenturella]

Wonderful!

[@SarSargoth6777]

Absolutely outstanding talk through. Very appreciated, Vince!

[@VinceVenturella]

Glad it was helpful!

[@isisnmagic1812]

Stunning video Vince love your brush control. I watched your video on how to paint flame four times before I finally did one in the week and it came out better than I could have hoped. Thanks so much.

[@VinceVenturella]

Glad I could help

[@Gaiawolf]

Looking forward to seeing the finished figure. Excellent stuff. Thanks Mr V.🖖

[@VinceVenturella]

No problem 👍

[@kakopalangano2823]

outstanding tutorial as always.

[@LikeWeDidOutdoors]

Thanks! Recently been following your other red hair vids, best paintjob of my life so far I'm almost scared to continue. Thanks very much!

[@VinceVenturella]

Glad I could help!

[@Rosarosa106]

Another awesome video Vince! You really inspired me to paint today !

[@VinceVenturella]

Glad to hear it!

[@Rytxyd]

That's a wholesome "butt" at the 13:17 Thank you Vince for all your great work

[@hulejul9748]

the kind of specular halo highlight we see in hair, we usually call anisotropic highlight in 3d modeling. guess we can use the same terms here actually

[@BrianMooney]

Looks great, man!

[@VinceVenturella]

Thank you! Cheers!

[@red6151]

Magnifico tutorial.

[@MaskedRiderChris]

Interesting! I generally prefer to err on the side of orange/rust when I paint red hair (had a girlfriend who was a ginger for many years, had good source material right there), with yellow/golden highlights, but this was an interesting digression into a more pure red look. I'll have to refer back to this one for sure.

[@markgnepper5636]

Great stuff friend 👏 👍

[@VinceVenturella]

Thank you 👍

[@SigurdDecroos]

Very nice red hair for this lovely model from Printomancer3d. I'll paint her as a gift for my daughter.

[@godoftheds]

Very useful video Vince thanks. For these models that aren't just from GW could you put a link to the model in the video description? Always looking for new catalogs to browse.

[@VinceVenturella]

Will do!

[@miriquidiminipainting]

Hi Vince, Awesome Video! Exactly wat I was looking for. But, my question is, as you never made a video for that: how to connect Hair with the Skin/forehead of a miniature smoothly? Most of the time, when I try it, it looks as if the miniature wearing a Wig. Thanx 😊

[@cameronyager9221]

Hi Vince, I have a completely unrelated question. I've been painting some space wolves and some of them have what look like gemstones on their armor -Ragnar's backpack for example- I've seen some gemstones tutorials but they are all for smooth round gems like Eldar stones. My question is how do you adapt the process for a cut gemstome with hard angles.

[@VinceVenturella]

I just answered this in my patreon discord ironically. The basic idea is take the round gem, and just lay the flat planes over the top. So the facet near the light is a near white plane, the other close facets are darkest, and the opposite sides are bright. If it's an emerald cut, then the large front facet will transition from dark to the true color from top to bottom (assuming a light above).

[@izantas]

Really nice look! Thank you so much for the great stuff! I am trying a similar recipe on a similar hair but on a smaller scale (28mm). Going from dark plum+reds+ highlights. However I only have Vallejo flat flesh for a skin tone and it seems to be not shiny enough for a HL. My other highlight alternatives are pale sand, ice yellow, buff. Which direction I should go?

[@VinceVenturella]

REally any kind of warmer flesh tone can work, but from that set, I would choose ice yellow or buff.

[@valentinboudard3845]

Great video as always :) i was thinking, maybe you can do a video about painting jade ? As i was looking for references for my seraphons i found that jade statues you find on google image are very different from one an other, and youtube tutorials available seems to reflect it with very different techniques. I dont think you made a video on a subject ? I thought you would maybe find it interesting thank you for your help ! your content helped me improve a lot

[@VinceVenturella]

I actually have a very, very old one, but it could still be of use - kzbin.info/www/bejne/qITCoaNjhdegqKc&pp=gAQBiAQB I will have to record a full Jade tutorial.

[@valentinboudard3845]

thank you ! I will check it out @@VinceVenturella

[@guineapigsith699]

Perfect timing. I'm doing test models for space wolves. Knowing your methods I wound up using a similar set of steps and colours without as much refinement and I was wondering what colour would be used for the oil wash but I'm seeing you didn't do one. I imagine your thinking is these steps give enough definition? I was concerned a wash would knock out the lustre/colour depth. But I was also concerned no wash would lack definition. What's your thinking around this please Vince?

[@VinceVenturella]

Correct, you don't want an all over wash when you're doing a technique like this. That sets even recess colors, the key is to remember that in the highlights, you don't have any deep shadow like that, you only have a mid-tone acting as your shadow, in the lower tones, you use the mid-tone as the highlight. Those thin lines are creating the definition.

[@guineapigsith699]

@@VinceVenturella genius, thanks again Vince

[@Erikjust]

Question you have done an example of how to do verdigris on copper. But what about if you had to do Petina on silver or similarly weathering on gold how would you do it??

[@VinceVenturella]

I'll see what I can do.

[@mugetzu]

Any good alternatives to the Toluidine Red? Can't find this one individually and the only paint I'm missing to try this.

[@VinceVenturella]

Any bright intense red from any line will work fine as a replacement.

[@maizetoken377]

Is hair’s satin finish the reason it creates a halo pattern (upper sides brightest) vs. the very top of the head being the brightest? (Because the sides of the head are facing the viewer?)

[@VinceVenturella]

Correct, hair acts more like something like NMM than a matte surface.

[@bencoomer2000]

Not a Vince video if you don't go, "Dude, you sure you want to do that?' at some point.

[@Nallenbot]

Really feel like I've got inside my own head painting hair. I feel like everything I know has to go out the window and it's a totally different skill. I am hopelessly stuck with black hair, even after watching the HC.

[@VinceVenturella]

It's tough, but the key is really just in locking in that halo and then the highlight areas having a mid-tone shadow and the deep parts having the mid-tone as the highlight.

[@bakauf4300]

Who got the "going to San Francisco" reference, and who had to look it up? 🤣

[@frugal10191]

I would love to know how long the whole process of the hair took.

[@VinceVenturella]

A few hours, maybe 4-5.

[@beno5324]

Any chance on a tutorial for the skin?

[@VinceVenturella]

I didn't specifically record anything on the skin, but it was very similar to the recent skin turorials I've done.

[@Rodrat]

Does anybody know what the figure he's painting is?

[@VinceVenturella]

It's from Printomancer, you can find it on My Mini Factory

[@Rodrat]

@@VinceVenturella Thanks!

[@Thanos730000]

Going to San Francisco 🤣🤣🤣

[@dennisfoulds3941]

Only have 2 of the colors. 😢

[@VinceVenturella]

The exact colors can be replaced by any similar spread. :)

[@Swooper86]

This doesn't really read as natural red hair though, it looks dyed bright red. Actual red hair is much more orange. Great tutorial for painting unnatural Ferrari red hair, though!

[@RufusKyura]

Yeah cuz it's RED hair, not GINGER hair. If you want ginger hair tutorial, check out Kujo Painting's Ginger Hair Tutorial.

[@VinceVenturella]

Totally fair, but I wanted this to be really bright, call it artistic interpretation. :)