Hey guys! This is David from Paintable. And today I want to show you a trick to
create haircuts really fast without any frustration.
It's a trick for you to be able to actually start learning different
haircuts, and without having trouble of having to imagine it from A to Z.
So as you can see, it's going to be a trick that requires to have some reference images,
so here on the left I have three different haircuts that I think will
work good for those portraits. And basically I'm gonna show you here how I
would create those haircuts here with those pictures. What I'm going to do
first is I'm going to take one of those haircuts. Let me take the first one
here, and drag it there. Before going any further, I want to say that some of you
might think that the technique I'm going to show today is considered cheating.
It is in no way cheating. Consider this technique as a practice when you have
difficulty creating hair that allows you to actually learn quicker a haircut and
learn how to do details faster.
Now from there, we'll be able to actually add more details and learn it from scratch
later on. But at this stage, I only want to show you a trick which is a little
practice for you to be able to understand more how to do hair.
And with that being said, let's continue.
So then what I'll do is I'm going to put just a little bit of transparency.
So I can see the character at the back, and I'm gonna do COM + T or CTRL + T,
and I'm going to transform it to make sure that it fits a little bit more my character.
Then press ENTER, and then we're going to put back the opacity to 100%.
And I'll just simply delete the part that I don't need, which is the face in this case.
So I'm going to delete the face like this, I'm going to go real fast here.
My goal is not to be precise and to be like perfect here, it's just to have a base.
So here I got the base. Now what I'm going to do here is I'm going to transform this
haircut here, and I'm going to put it the black and white. And to do so, you can
simply go over Image, Adjustment,
and Hue/Saturation. We can do the COM + U or CTRL + U,
which is going to bring this window right here. And on this window, what you
want to do is just simply put the saturation down. And that's what is going
to put it to black and white, like this.
The second thing you want to do is go back again into the Image, Adjustment and go to the Levels.
We can do a COM + L or CTRL + L to have this window and opened,
and basically what I'm going to do is just to play with it.
What I want to try to do is have some really separate pieces of hair like this.
So right now I can see that there are some gray zones, some white zones, some blacks zones,
and that's really what I want. It's just to have a base, basically like this.
And now that this on one layer separately, what I'm going to do is simply to click
on the image here, and I'm just going to select the whoel layer. So you just have to do
command and click on the window of your layer to make a selection here.
And I'll create a new layer under this, and I'm going to take the same kind of--
of color that my hair already has. I'm going to fill it up, and now as you can see under that, I got this color.
And now I can go back to my actual layer with the hair,
And I'm going to put this to Multiply. And what it's going to create as you can see right now,
is a transparency, so the one disappearing is only the black, which
gives me a little bit more of form and shape. And now I'm just going to--
go find a little bit those two things. So first of all what I'm going to
do is I'm going to merge them together by doing COM + E. So I selected both
layers and do COM + E. And now the whole thing is on one layer. And I'm just gonna
start deleting a little bit the part that I don't need. So I'm just gonna take
a round brush and simply give it just a little haircut.
Alright and from here, what I want to do is simply continue painting on it.
So as you can see, this is just the base. But creating that haircut by just imagining
it would have been really really really hard for me.
So what I'm doing is I'm kind of using a trick to bring this haircut back to life
without having to paint all the details from from the start. And now from here,
what I'll be able to do is to actually continue painting on it and learn it.
And it gives me the opportunity to actually learn this haircut, without
having to sweat all the details from the start. And from there, I just need to put
a little bit more time on it.
So I'm going to call this first one done. And as you can see, I've been able to
just create a new haircut with the haircut that I previously put on top this one.
So it's still something different but I got a real good help by using the
haircut that was previously already done. Okay so let's do the two other ones.
And there you go, guys!
This is the trick that I wanted to show you today. So I've been able, as you can
see, to do three different haircuts with a lot of details (actually) in them.
I've been able to do them with a super small amount of time.
Actually, for the three of them it was less than half an hour. So there you go! You can give it a try,
and for those interested to actually learn more about hair and the technique that
I'm using to actually do my hair from scratch,
you can simply click on the link below this video.
I'm going to link this video on there, and you'll be able to see a technique which starts from scratch.
And I'm pretty sure that with the technique that I just showed you today and this
technique right here, you'll be able to create some stunning hair styles.
And that's it for today! So I hope you enjoyed it!
And as usual... Happy Painting!