FREE class + Challenge
Hairstyle With Style
challenge
Finally learn how to create realistic, dimensional hairstyles for your digital portraits with this free, limited-time challenge + training!
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What is The Hairstyle With Style Challenge?
The HWS challenge is a fun challenge for all level. During the 7 days of the challenge, you'll have one goal only: create your most stylish and artistic-looking hairstyle EVER!
And don't worry, to make sure you'll get better results you'll also get my "Advance Hair masterclass" for FREE for the duration of the challenge. More info below.
Challenge Starts on April 26, 2021:
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Get The Masterclass For Free!
7 Days, 3 Training Modules, 1 Masterclass
During the 7 days of the challenge, you’ll get FREE access to the “Advanced Hair Techniques” Masterclass.
One module of the class will be unlocked each day to teach you step-by-step as you complete your hairstyle. Here’s what you’ll learn:
Module 01:
Sketching Hair With Volume
Sketching flowing hair doesn't have to be hard or frustrating. After this module, you'll build the confidence to create awesome new hairstyles from imagination for your characters and portraits. You'll Learn:
- The secret to breaking down a complex hairstyle
- How to create volume in the hair with sketching
- The technique pro artists use to create flow and movement in your hairstyle
Module 02:
Hair Rendering Fundamentals
Rendering the hairstyle can be tricky. In this module, we'll break it down into a the essential steps you need to create realistic, nearly touchable hair. We'll cover:
- The fundamental techniques of rendering hair
- Examples of rendering different hairstyles
- Attaching the hair to the head (getting down to the roots)
Module 03
Advanced Hair Techniques
Designing more complex haircuts with macro realistic hair details can be seem like magic! But like everything, once broken down into simple, understandable steps, you can move beyond the basics. You'll learn:
- Adding realism to your hairstyle with individual hairs and micro details
- How to paint differerent types of hair, from stylized to realistic
- Getting your hair to glow with back-lit style effects
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Once you register, you'll receive an email right away with a link to access the masterclass.
Register by clicking the button below.
How to Participate and Win Awesome Prizes!
The Paintable community on Discord is where you’ll able to share your work during the challenge. Thousand of inspiring artist are already there 
2- Share Your Work with #HairstyleWithStyle
Share on Instagram, Twitter, Discord, and Facebook.
3- Win Prizes
Nine lucky participants will be chosen at random and win Paintable products! (see prizes below)
The Awesome Prizes
We’ve got some awesome prizes waiting for some lucky Challenge participants!
Winners will chosen at random on Tuesday, May 4th, 2021.
(1X) Portrait Artist Bundle
One lucky winners will win lifetime access to the Portrait Artist Bundle.
The Prizes
We’ve got some awesome prizes waiting for some lucky Challenge participants!
Winners will chosen at random on Tuesday, May 4th, 2021.
(5X) Annual DPA Membership
Five lucky winners will win a whole year in the Digital Painting Academy.
(3X) Wacom Tablets
1 winner will receive a CINTIQ 16" and 2 winners will receive an Intuos tablet, all provided by Wacom.
(3X) XP-Pen tablets
1 winner will receive an Artist 12" Pro, 1 will receive a Deco Pro M, and another winner a G960S Plus tablet, all provided by XP-Pen.
The Prizes
We give away awesome prizes with every Challenge! And you don’t have to be the best digital artist to be drawn. Visit this page the next time registration opens to see the new prizes we have for the event.
👀 Spoiler alert! Previous prizes include digital art tablets, styluses and free Digital Painting Academy memberships!
👀 Spoiler alert! Previous prizes include digital art tablets, styluses and free Digital Painting Academy memberships!
Frequently Asked Questions
Hairstyle With Style is a free digital painting challenge, designed to help you paint your most stylish and artistic-looking hairstlye EVER for your digital portraits in just one week!
Painting realistic hair is one of the most often-requested tutorials I receive, so I created this challenge as a fun, free event to help a lot of digital artists build their skillsets together!
And this isn’t just a challenge- I’m giving you one of my most popular masterclasses for FREE during the week, to help you learn and practice the techniques that I use with every portrait I work on. 🙌
This Advanced Hair Techniques masterclass is over 145 minutes of video tutorials, structured into 3 modules. I’ve included downloadable worksheets, brushes, and inspiration boards to get you going even if you don’t have a sketch of a hairless head to start on!
We’ve had thousands of students take this masterclass in the past, and it’s always been a blast for everyone involved! I can’t wait to see what you create.
You can follow along in any software! We’ll be using Adobe Photoshop (which we highly recommend), but you can follow along in Procreate, Krita, Clip Studio, Corel Painter, or any other software of your choice!
Yes, we highly recommend you use a tablet to follow along with this course!
Any tablet will do – whether that’s a Wacom, Huion, Apple iPad Pro, Microsoft, or any other make. You don’t need a professional tablet to paint professional artwork!
Nope – all lessons will be available online, so you can follow along from the comfort of your own home (or studio, if you’re fortunate enough to have one)!
It’s completely free! 🙂
If you like the masterclass and the Challenge, all we ask is that:
- You’d be so kind as to leave me some feedback or a testimonial.
- You share it with your friends! The more the merrier. 🙌
The next Challenge dates are TBD! Newsletter subscribers will be the first to know, so click on one of the “notify me” buttons on this page.
Meet Your Instructor
Hi there, I'm David!
I'm a professional artist with a passion for portraiture.
In this free Challenge and masterclass, I'm going to walk you through my entire process of creating realistic-looking hair for your characters. I'll give you my best tips and tricks so that you can create your best hairstyle EVER!
What Other Artists Have Said
About The Advance Hair Techniques Masterclass:
I’ve never drawn hair as good as this, so thanks David for your amazing tips! Definitely one of my favourite art mentors out there. 🔥
Aneesah Hussain
United Kingdom
David, I have been student for about 20 years, and I must say you are the best teacher I've ever met!
Erdem Metim
Turkey
Really thinking through every step is making a huge difference, I usually struggle with that and the Paintable course proves incredibly helpful! ❤️
Angela Ivanova
Lithuania
Student work - Aneesah Hussain ☝️
Student work - Chey Green ☝️
Student work - Michele Webb ☝️
Student work - Angela Ivanova ☝️
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