Paint Realistic Hair Using Photoshop
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Paint Realistic Hair Using Photoshop

on Nov 2nd 2011 with 36 comments
Tutorial Details
  • Program: Adobe Photoshop CS5
  • Difficulty: Beginner
  • Estimated Completion Time: 12 Minutes

Final Product What You'll Be Creating

This entry is part 14 of 25 in the Digital Art for Beginners Session
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Photoshop is an excellent tool for manipulating photographs but it can also be used as a means to create stunning digital art. This tutorial is part of a 25-part video tutorial series demonstrating everything you will need to know to start producing digital art in Photoshop. Digital Art for Beginners, by Adobe Certified Expert and Instructor, Martin Perhiniak will begin by teaching you how to draw in Photoshop. At the conclusion of this series you will know all you need to produce your own concept art and matte paintings in Photoshop.

Today’s tutorial Part 14: Paint Realistic Hair Using Photoshop will explain how to paint hair quickly and efficiently using several tools in Photoshop. Let’s get started!

 
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Martin is a Hungarian graphic designer, digital artist and an Adobe Certified Expert and Instructor (Design Master). He is currently teaching and working in London but usually travels around the UK and share his love for Adobe products and graphic design. You can follow him on his blog or on Twitter.  

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  • Mack

    I love your DP tutorials Martin <3

    Thanks for sharing it, I have pretty a lot to learn as I was never good at drawing and my handwriting is awful, but I'm not going to give up on it.

    Once again thank you : )

  • http://www.trapartists.com Preston

    very awesome tutorial! not sure when i will use this technique but im sure it will come to use at some point. either way, it shows good techniques with how to uses brushes as well!

  • http://www.orlandodigitalexperts.com Orlando

    Hair always seems like the hardest element to me… and this gives me an end product that’s better than I’m used to… so thanks for the tips! Another great video.

  • http://www.trishrice.net Trish

    It’s probably operator error **blushing** but I can’t seem to get the video to play! This looks like an awesome tutorial, so any help would be greatly appreciated! THANKS!!!

    • http://www.trishrice.net Trish

      Never mind…it was indeed a case of operator error!

  • dan

    hmm, some techniques are useful but there are tons of variations of hair.

    Are you Borat?

  • http://rollanime.com rollanime

    It’s a great!

  • Jack

    how to made the brush?
    i not realy sure how to made it.

  • http://titan-creative.net S3bY

    Great tutorial! I always wondered if there is a special technique on hair painting!

  • http://aibangla.blogspot.com amin

    a realistic design.

  • currybill

    Hi Martin, A very valuable tut! However, I have the disadvantage of still being confined to CS3 so obliged to use the smudge tool. I cannot work out how to get the delicate feathering you have at the end of your brush strokes. The brushes preset panel will allow me to set pressure in ‘shape dynamics’ but only diameter, angle, roundness and spacing. The help panel informs me that if i choose color for the brush that it will create it as a grey. Should I then create a brush with a series of dots and make the outer ones in a color? Will that give me the desired feathery stroke?

  • http://linde-media.dk/ Andreas Linde

    Great stuff! But it took me way more than 12 minutes to figure it out!

  • Christina

    Wonderfully done! Thanks for the tutorial! I can’t wait to try it out.

  • Trevor

    Nice one again but can’t afford upgrade to SC5, not quite the same with the smudge tool.

  • http://bestdesignwebgallery.com Jaffery

    I have always wanted to try one of these, and maybe now I will that I’ve seen these great tut!

  • http://www.tonatooni.blogspot.com Rakib khan

    Well technique the paint hear style

  • Pete

    I don’t like it, the hair lacks volume and details, I’ve seen better.

    • http://avatars.imvu.com/Katelyn Kate

      Same =/

  • Learner

    Wow That Was awesome .. But Please tell me what are the settings exactly of this brush you have made or can u please share this bursh with us ..!! I Try to make this brush but i cant..!! even i have watched your making a custom brush episode .. please reply soon

    Regards ..

  • http://www.webworldtoday.org Nasweef

    Wow! Extremely gud one… thanks..

  • Mark

    Thanks for the tut it was really helpful for me as a beginner to digital art. I was able to semi create hair on my first try at it.

  • http://sman1-kabanjahe.com aldo

    nice..
    really helpful for me who just started to learn digital art.

  • jetraw

    wow fantastic thanks!

  • http://www.facebook.com/nei23vividpixels Nei Blancas

    Your video tutorial is very great and very easy to learn.
    You introduced to me another essential tool in digital painting, Mixer Brush Tool! :)

    Thank you so much for this helpful tutorial!

    ~nei :)

  • http://www.pphotographi.com Harry

    @ pete, Would you mind sharing the better technique please!

    Thank you.

  • eve

    Awesome!—and a very pleasant voice too :)

  • luara

    hair always to hart to draw. sometime i want to carzy for this. and your hair beautiful..big love

  • http://www.clippingphoto.com Golam Rahaman

    top of side not good but hair rare side is very good and have reality. all over nice. I will try to make.

  • aman khan

    nice. bt i have not photoshop cs5 available.

  • BASEL

    nice..
    really helpful for me who just started to learn digital art.

  • Lynne

    Your tutorial was very useful! I have a problem. The custom brush I made for moving the colors around isn’t picking up enough color, and all my settings are how they were in your demo. I made the brush preset a 200×200 pixel with 300 dpi….should I have made the document larger when making my brush?

  • Diane

    This is a great tutorial and I can make a good version of this so long as I am painting on the ‘background’ but if I try to do the same thing on a separate layer (I like to keep my hair layer separate from others) the blender brush does not give such a smooth result and I cannot cut into the hair the same way you can on the background. Is there any way to achieve the same result on a new layer?

  • Diane

    Never mind, I realised I hadn’t switched on ‘sample all layers’. That fixed the problem :D

  • Jason

    Thanks!

  • Alan Wong

    Very awesome tutorial but how can I draw it directly on a human ?