STEP 8-IV: Coloring Hair in Painter, Part 4   In this step, I'm going to assume that you have a pressure sensitive tablet, at least Wacom Graphire, but preferably Intuos (I use Wacom Intuos 8x6). Using Painter without a pressure sensitive tablet is generally not something fun to do. ^^;   Let's move onto extra tricks! Since we've covered the basics, I'll be brief in this step. By the way, the "www.cozypaper.com" marks are all over these images, since this tutorial was originally to be displayed there ^_^ • Layering Simple Water   This Deedlit fanart of mine ... the hair took a lot of time. It was done by layering Simple Water strokes; I first did light yellow strokes with Simple Water, dried it, did more strokes using Simple Water, dried, and repeated that procedure a few times. You can click on the image to see a diagram of that. The full size artwork can be seen in my Other Fanarts gallery. • Layering Simple Water +   Saria from Legend of Zelda. The procedure is basically the same as above, except I applied extra highlights using all the bleach brushes (remember them from previous step? ^^). Click on the pic for a diagram~ • Fun Brush Cheat   I cheated on this picture of my original character (if you pay attention, you'll notice the hair looks a bit more synthetic/unnatural than other ones I've done... ^^;) using the Coarse Hair, a sub-brush of Brush brush (no pun intended). Coarse Hair brush can be customized for some really fun experiments. For the kind of result shown in the right, just use the default settings, but with *big* brush size (30-70), and use extra gentle but quick strokes. After Coarse Hairying, I added shading using Simple Water. Click on the pic for the diagram.   I haven't found a way to get the Coarse Hair brush work nicely for curly hair yet, though ... • Layering Cover-Type Brush   Beatrix from FF9~! The coloring was done with a custom Simple Water brush. Remember how Watercolor brushes are kept in their own "watercolor" layer, and you had to "Dry" the watercolor before you were able to apply non-watercolor things on them? I customize Simple Water so that it does not exclude itself from non-watercolor stuff. In the Brush selection window, click on Method (actually, click the box below the Method where it says Wet. ^^;), and simply change from Wet to Cover. I've provided a screenshot here just in case somebody gets lost there~ Changing Wet to Cover not only takes away the "wet layer" effect, but it also softens up the strokes somewhat.   Note the blue tints in parts of her hair. I thought exaggerated tint of blue would be an artistic touch to the picture (naturally shadows are slightly blue when the light is yellowish, which is what sun light happens to be). ^^ This can always be done by simply using brown and blue color strokes, but I chose to attempt something different for more subtle tint and better blending results. Click on the image for a diagram that explains how I did it~   By the way, the big circle blotches of colors are there for you to use eyedropper color pick in case you wish to do so. ^_^ Step One - Two - Three - Four - Five - Six - Seven - Eight

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