colouring haircan be very easy or very hard depending upon what style you want to achieve but anime hair is pretty straight forwards, just building up shades following the natural curves then adding some sheen and shadow as I have done simply here.
As always the best way is to follow a number of tutorials and pick up other people's technique. Google for tuts, there are millions.
www.biorust.com/tutorials/detail/148/en/
P.S. if I may? When adding shadow to areas, especially on skin, you might want to create a selection area around the shade first ( comic book artists call this a frisket ) then feather the edges slightly ( more the bigger resolution your image is ) then paint or burn your shading in the selection. This will soften your edges and also if you do nothing else after each brush strok you can go to edit in the toolbar and fade what you have just don by up to 100% and this can make all the difference.
(As always the best way is to follow a number of tutorials and pick up other people's technique. Google for tuts, there are millions.
www.biorust.com/tutorials/detail/148/en/
P.S. if I may? When adding shadow to areas, especially on skin, you might want to create a selection area around the shade first ( comic book artists call this a frisket ) then feather the edges slightly ( more the bigger resolution your image is ) then paint or burn your shading in the selection. This will soften your edges and also if you do nothing else after each brush strok you can go to edit in the toolbar and fade what you have just don by up to 100% and this can make all the difference.
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Sun 6 May 2007, 16:29,
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ThanksI didn't particularly like the shade in the face either (looks more like he didn't shave for a while) so I'll have a play with what you suggested. The rest is just black-to-transparent gradients put over the colours.
I'm a gimp-using pauper, so though there're lots of tutorials, several of them aren't much use because they rely on tools or filters I don't have :/.
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Sun 6 May 2007, 17:02,
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I'm a gimp-using pauper, so though there're lots of tutorials, several of them aren't much use because they rely on tools or filters I don't have :/.