Tutorial - Coloring Hair using Copics

Hello everyone! Today I would like to do something different. Instead of posting a project, I would like to post a hair color tutorial. As many of you may know that I don't do tutorial that often.

First of all, I would like to thank those of you who emailed me regarding questions on hair colors using Copics. I am quite surprised (Blushed) on how many emails I received requesting hair colors on my projects and also many requests in how to do hair colors. So I thought I will try my best to do a tutorial post and hope this somewhat help you although I am not very good either myself.

You can also see this tutorial at Club Anime's blog of Instyle Stamps as well!

For this tutorial, I used an image (Sitting Kylah) from InStyle Stamps for my sample. I used three Copic markers on her hair and they are - E49, E37 and E41.

I normally use the darkest color first on hair. So in this case, E49 will be the first marker to use. One thing to remember is that when coloring the wave/curl on her hair, use the tip of the marker to follow the direction of her wave (ie. if her wave is a "C" shape, then move your brush using anti-clockwise direction. On the other hand, if her wave is a "J" shape, then you will move your brush with clockwise direction). See pictures below.

Next step is to use the E37 to blend/brush from edge of the previous color, but don't forget to leave some white space for the shadowing later with a lighter marker.

Step #3 is to use E41 to fill up the white space. I like to brush out the dark colors along on a piece of scrap paper when coloring as sometimes the lighter marker tend to pick up some dark color on it's tip when blending with dark color. That way, your light shadowing won't get too dark.

At last I will use E37 again to do a little touch up and there you are. Her hair is done!!

I hope this tutorial somehow will give you some inspirations on doing hair colors for your images. Thanks for stopping by again to give me support. Without your visiting, I won't have any blogging mojo :o)