How to Paint Hair (the last tutorial you'll ever need)

Hey friends, in this video I walk you through my complete process for coloring anime-style hair, from sketch to final render, with tips and techniques I've learned over the past 6 years. Enjoy :)

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WHO AM I:
Hey 👋 I'm Ori, an artist and (soon-to-be) VTuber. On this channel we dive into all things drawing—from tips and tutorials to exploring how we can level up both our art and ourselves.
Clients I've worked with include Hololive, Clip Studio Paint, Coloso, Haoplay, Huion, XPPen, and more.
I also received the Player's Voice award in Honkai: Star Rail's Creator Competition 2024.

⌚️Timestamps:
0:00 Intro
00:39 Rough Sketch
00:55 The Structure of Hair
01:41 Lighting
02:58 Direct Light vs Diffuse Light
04:26 Color Rough
04:59 How to Pick Colors
05:37 Lineart
06:44 Hair Coloring Demonstration
07:10 1/2/3 Shadows
08:33 How to Pick Shadow colors
09:10 Lights and Translucency
10:03 Adjustments and details
11:37 Troubleshooting Tips

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[oridays]

Thanks to Clip Studio Paint for sponsoring this video!

[ZeroKung]

I really love the creativity in how you explain and guide us (especially the game dialogue part; I love it so much, haha). So far, your videos have motivated me to continue my drawing career and have actually helped me improve a lot as well. Thank you!

[GuranPurin]

Hair is the one thing I've basically given up on ever getting right! 😭😭No matter how many tutorials I watch, I just can't seem to make it look good. Your tutorials are always really helpful and easy to understand, so hopefully this one will motivate me to finally get a grasp on things.

[sweetestpiano]

I usually dread watching art tutorials, even though they are very helpful and I seek them out, but I feel like I learned so much after this video and my brain doesn't feel like it's melting for once

[RXZenith]

I’m getting much better now with my line art but when it comes to color I definitely need to be more organized now. For me it helps a lot to just practice one thing like eye rendering until I get it because then I can just do it quickly in 30m and make it look very good. You have helped me a lot I couldn’t do anything before lmao.

[Rycells]

Mom the food can wait, ori dropped a fresh one.

[Soewz]

I recently learned about color contrast vs value contrast, I find it interesting because if you put paintings like van goghs in black and white it all of a sudden looks much worse and almost flat. Yet when its in color it seems to have a feeling of shading almost. I never really understood until I realized color contrast is why he used different color temperatures and they make our brain almost read things as shadows even though they aren't much different in value. Idk if it would be great in anime illustration but I have seen other illustration do this as well so I think it is actually possible to pull off really good pictures that look bad in black and white. I'm definitely going to be experimenting with it myself lol.

[LeMisterRai]

A nicely timed video for me! I'm currently making an art piece and was just about to start coloring

[Saber]

Literally what I needed, oridays came in with the clutch

[sankyu]

I find it interesting how these concepts applies very into drawing 2d but different when applied to 3d modeling where i draw is focused on 3d models so some concepts applies and some dont

[GreatLightningSpear]

That Visual Novel style cut in gag was so funny.
Ori cookin like usual

[mybunnyinchrist]

unbelievably helpful dude!! Thanks so much ^^ I've always struggled with hair but the way you've simplified the process has given me a lot more confidence. (P.S. your voice is so pleasant to listen to XD)

[fatematuzjohra]

Thank you for these tips. They are really helping with all of our artworks. Really appreciate these videos ♡

[Jonquss]

My art has improved so much since I first found your videos 🙏🙏 ur the best oridays

[RnLight_]

BABE WAKE UP, ORIDAYS MADE A NEW ART VIDEO TO HELP US NOOBS!!!

[dreamarts_ytzdy]

He's the best art teacher in the whole world

[keankishaeld.gerago]

I love how ori teach so clear I learn some new thank you very much sensei ❤

[driesverhaag]

Haha... I can't even draw a straight line, but I shall learn

[lostbutterflycols]

I love your channel and the topics you cover, my anime art have significantly improved upon understanding the basics >w<

[HomeByMidnight]

severely underrated video. this is AMAZING