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Hairstyle With Style
Finally learn how to create realistic, dimensional hairstyles for your digital portraits with this free, limited-time challenge + training!
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Unlock Those Luscious Locks!
We’ve all been there! So I created this fun, free event to show you my best hair techniques that we can learn together as a whole community of digital artists.
This event has 2 components: the free masterclass and the challenge. You’ll find all the details below.
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Watch the video above for all the details.
Challenge Starts on June 22, 2020:
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- the masterclass -
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.
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- The Challenge -
Participate and Win Awesome Prizes!
This challenge is all about painting your best hairstyle EVER. Watch the masterclass videos, practice what you learn, and share your progress within our community! As you share, you’ll accumulate chances to win prizes. The prize winners will be drawn at random at the end of the Challenge!
- Post your progress each day on social media with the hashtag #hairstylewithstyle for 1 entry per day
- Get an extra 2 entries by posting your progress each day in the Paintable Facebook group
- Follow Paintable on Facebook, Twitter, Instagram and Youtube for 1 entry per social media
- Post your final hairstyle illustration before Sunday, June 28th for an extra 5 entries
👉 Watch the video below for all the details.
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The Prizes
We’ve got some awesome prizes waiting for some lucky Challenge participants!
Winners will chosen at random on Tuesday, June 30, 2020.
(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 hundreds 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. 🙌
We’re currently planning the next Challenge, and will notify you when the doors open via our newsletter.
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Your Instructor:
Hi there, I’m David!
I’m the founder of Paintable, the world’s most accessible online digital painting school!
Over the last few years, I’ve helped thousands of students like yourself further their digital illustration studies and careers, and I want to do the same for you!
In this free Challenge and masterclass, I’m going to walk you through the entire process of creating your most stylish and artistic-looking hairstyle EVER! Ready to get started?
What Other People Have Said About Paintable Courses:
I love the site and can't begin to tell you what a difference it's made for me (I went from 'I have an art degree' being the funniest joke I could tell to actually making work that looks good)
Sami Yuhas
USA
I’ve been struggling for some time to seriously start painting digitally. Paintable gave me the tools and approaches to finally jumping the border from traditional or half-digital to a complete digital workflow.
Thorsten Piepbrink
Germany
David, I have been student for about 20 years, and I must say you are the best teacher I've ever met!
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Turkey
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