Painting beards & hair - three colours - one technique

Painting hair and beards - brown, orange and grey. Demonstrating the technique I used and also this video gives a specific colour recipe for the different hair types. The orange specifically is a stunner.
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[@klumaverik]

How come you don't have all the miniature community watching and liking these. I love your videos so much. Especially when I'm painting

[@52Miniatures]

Thanks Jason! I don't know where everyone is? [echo]

[@Miniocalypse]

Small folk and beard crack, what else more could i need. Amazing video. That touch of purple is genius! Thanks for this! Keep it up and fight the grey war.

[@52Miniatures]

Thanks dude! Yes! More colour, at least in the right places :)

[@txag007]

This is a great tutorial! Thanks for giving us 3 well done color options. Time to paint up my dwarf heads.

[@NukeGlendale]

The best ones I've seen online that don't use a shade/wash. Great technique, well applied, and nicely explained with your awesome accent. Thank you for a perfect video for ambitious yet new hobbyists like me :-)

[@52Miniatures]

Glad it was helpful! Thanks Nuke

[@grandadsartspace5805]

Those dwarfs remind me so much of Asterex the Gaul with the blue white stripey thing going on , I have only been painting about a year and a bit ,so glad I found your channel keep up the good work

[@52Miniatures]

Hey! Thanks and welcome. Your right about the Asterix thing! I haven't thought about it until you said something. Its probably imprinted in my dna since childhood.... :)

[@michaelcoull8590]

These are lovely models, and fantastic paintjobs to match! The grey hair in particular is really nice, you've brought out so much depth in a colour that most people would think of as "plain"

[@52Miniatures]

Thanks Michael! I just love these old dwarves.

[@RFDHobby]

This was a great tutorial, I've been struggling with getting this to look right for ages. Very clear instructions, and you make it look so easy.

[@52Miniatures]

Glad I could help 🙌 thanks dude!

[@lilcwa]

You make this look easy and approachable as a more traditional alternative technique to using contrast paints. Thanks for such a helpful video.

[@52Miniatures]

My pleasure 😊

[@aylaktavsan]

My orc blitzer mini from Blood Bowl has a glorious pony tail with a tiny skull shaped hair grip. :D

[@52Miniatures]

Lovely :)

[@ghin1091]

Great tutorial! It helped me immensely.

[@52Miniatures]

Glad to hear it!

[@earh0xable]

Those came out great, especially the red/orange!

[@52Miniatures]

Yeah! The orange is a keeper. Stay safe :)

[@earh0xable]

Thanks man, you too!

[@PinkyJustice]

Big fan of the lack of sudden, constant jump cuts. And the hilarious look you gave with the pause for the unpronounceable names. You have some solid content, subbed and shared! I hope to see more!

[@52Miniatures]

Yeah! That was a win, dropping the jumpcuts. Saves me ages on editing to... I really see the marketing side of having “cool” names... but seriously.... “dark” or “light” before a color or maybe “sand” or “earth” type words... kindof makes more sense to me :) Thanks for the kind words and thanks for sharing

[@janbiela8596]

Great idea to use purple for shading the hair! I have two dwarfs on my desk waiting to be painted. Looking forward to try out your technique!

[@52Miniatures]

Lovley! I hope it works out well for you. I’m shure a blue / teal / turquoise would work out well also. Good luck!

[@brumbz513]

Great content as always! Your natural style and methods gives confidence to us watching to try these things. I used the greys for a Talisman druid i am working on and it came out great, thanks!

[@52Miniatures]

Well Thanks you. Im glad to hear that you tried this out and that the result was satisfactory :)

[@Gokou3036]

“Flat Earth” sounds like an inside joke at Vallejo almost to me, but maybe I’m just more sensitive to the memes

[@NewSquallor]

Going to need to green stuff or 3d print hair for orcs now. ;)

[@DarthSid]

Great guide! I am going to use that for my Space Wolves :)

[@52Miniatures]

Awesome!

[@dub4148]

The orcs in heroquest have hair. 🥰🥰

[@MentoliptusBanko]

Wow, the orange hair/beard is awesome. Especially next to the turquoise cloth. I am thinking to paint a purplish beard on a mostly red demon....what are your thoughts on that color combination? How could I shade that?

[@52Miniatures]

I don’t know... orange :) I think it depends on the look. Daemons can bee all kind of crazy. I’d probably go a dark “teal”

[@MentoliptusBanko]

I really love dark teal...maybe I'll use that colour on its weapon too to try to tie it all together. Thanks for the idea

[@sharangtickoo3273]

Strap yourself in because your mind is about to be blown. The answer to your question re. Orc hair: they're born hairless, but as a status symbol can breed and attach lamprey- like hair squags. These grow long and luxurious fur and thus do games workshop orcs canonically have beards and hair.

[@52Miniatures]

Omg. 🤯 Thats epic. So, upper class orcs have hair, where as canon fodder orcs are destined to be forever bald. Thanks so much for that.

[@earh0xable]

Those came out great, especially the red/orange!