OK colors for the hair underpainting... are not the same as the flesh colors (unless they have rosy colored hair - oh my). What I do is choose colors I see in the reference and try and use one or two or three colors from the flesh toned underpainting palette. So maybe with a sandyblond hair - I might use burnt umber, a sandy brown color, cinnamon, and a yellow ochre. The more colors I can use from that flesh palette the better - for color harmony.
Here's some samples below. I tried to figure out what colors I used... because I didn't have them written down.
This is an example of dark hair.. that when lit by a warm light has a lot of red tones. So I was able to use burnt umber and Pompeiian Red in the colors. To which I added a greenish brown and some soft blue highlights.
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1 comment:
thank you thank you thank you Nicole. It takes extra time and effort for you to share these wonderful techniques of yours but novices like myself treasure them! thank you!
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