Painting Green Hair

[NomadZeke]

A cursory search found nothing...but: has anyone tried painting a mini with green hair? Like a more subtle "natural" tone rather than blazing neon or something? The reason is 'currently' a surprise but if anyone has tips/tricks that'd be great!

[knarthex]

I would follow the tutorial on Hand Cannon Online for painting hair, just sub in your greens...

[Pingo]

I paint green hair close to the way I paint half-orc skin.  I take a vivid green I like and blend it with an earthy red-brown.  You can add a surprising amount of brown and still have a very organic-looking green. 

 

Specifically I use pure Phthalo Green and Burnt Sienna in Golden Fluid Acrylics.  Reasonable Reaper paint substitutes would be Clear Green and Chestnut Brown.

[Corporea]

I did the dark sword green witch with green hair.

 

I just paint it like hair.  I think for this I used peacock green, viper green and buckskin pale as the hair colors.  I think it would look better with browns mixed in with green as well.  You could even go white, but for color reasons I stopped with yellows and avoided brown.

[Pingo]

I paint green hair close to the way I paint half-orc skin.  I take a vivid green I like and blend it with an earthy red-brown.  You can add a surprising amount of brown and still have a very organic-looking green. 

 

Specifically I use pure Phthalo Green and Burnt Sienna in Golden Fluid Acrylics.  Reasonable Reaper paint substitutes would be Clear Green and Chestnut Brown.

 

I painted a Dark Sword mermaid warrior this way, and some (not yet finished) Stonehaven half-orcs.  Varying the amounts of brown can change the green from just-not-quite eye-searingly Crayola all the way to a subtle sage grey.

 

 

 

[NomadZeke]

/scribbles notes

What Corporea did is a little closer to my vision, but i hadn't considered blending with brown before...