Beard Colour Recipes...

[ScottRadom]

I\'m painting a dwarf army and I am really in a rut. I\'ve been doing beards for one way for many years (Drybrush) but after picking up some tips and improving my work (I think) I am less than satisfied with the appearance of my work on the beards and hair. I\'d like to ask for help and advice for a couple of things...

-Colour recipes please! It appears i\'m all out of imagination and any type of blonde work I try to do just looks absolutely horrid. I\'d like to hear of anyone else\'s ideas for colour\'s. Currently I am just starting with real dark colors (VMC cam-black brown or german grey) and drybrushign some lighter tones on. then when it looks more like a beard I am painting on the highlights again. I\'ve also been trying to experiment with highlighting the hair in \"rings\" as wonderfully suggested in another thread here long ago. Here\'s where I am at now....


-I\'d also love to hear any general advice on painting hair on models. I kind of grew up with the ink/drybrush method and I\'d like to know if anyone has another way of doing this to get good results. I do paint for the tabletop, but I\'d still like to know of any advanced techniques or secrets.

I\'d love any tips, thanks!

 

[Gilvan Blight]

Check you these hair swatches by Matty1001. Best resource I have ever seen for hair colours.

http://web.mac.com/matthewbraid/Concept_becomes_Creation/Hair_Swatches3.html

 

[ScottRadom]

Thanks! Great rescource! I really appreciate your help.

 

[Dragonsreach]

Instead of starting with a dark base colour use a mid range (try VMC Leather Brown/Chocolate Brown or Light German Camoflage Brown) and then wash down with VMC German Camoflage Black Brown.
Gives a good depth and it\'s easy to pick up highlights by adding VMC Ivory.

 

[Sauce Devil]

Originally posted by Gilvan Blight
Check you these hair swatches by Matty1001. Best resource I have ever seen for hair colours.

http://web.mac.com/matthewbraid/Concept_becomes_Creation/Hair_Swatches3.html

Brilliant.

 

[ScottRadom]

Originally posted by Dragonsreach
Instead of starting with a dark base colour use a mid range (try VMC Leather Brown/Chocolate Brown or Light German Camoflage Brown) and then wash down with VMC German Camoflage Black Brown.
Gives a good depth and it\'s easy to pick up highlights by adding VMC Ivory.

Will give that a go. Thanks for the tip!

 

[Rastl]

A while ago I hit all the hair coloring sites and printed off their color charts. Very helpful reference for hair colors.

The basic paint style I\'ve been teaching for hair is the only time we deviate from the shadow-midtone-highlight order.

For hair we do midtone, then a wash of the shadow, and bring up the highlights. I haven\'t gotten them to doing more than basic highlights yet but soon they\'ll be doing more directed \'hot spots\'.

The only exception to that is painting black hair but that\'s an entirely different beast.

 

[ScottRadom]

Originally posted by Rastl
A while ago I hit all the hair coloring sites and printed off their color charts. Very helpful reference for hair colors.

The basic paint style I\'ve been teaching for hair is the only time we deviate from the shadow-midtone-highlight order.

For hair we do midtone, then a wash of the shadow, and bring up the highlights. I haven\'t gotten them to doing more than basic highlights yet but soon they\'ll be doing more directed \'hot spots\'.

The only exception to that is painting black hair but that\'s an entirely different beast.

I\'d love to hear more about painting black hair. Mine always looks crappy, so now I\'ve just avoided it entirely. How do you treat this color differently?