Red hair and beard

[bodo123]

Hi all, I would request all experienced painter.
How to paint red hair and beard? What colors to use?
I use colors Vallejo.
Thanks in advance for your advice.
Thomas

 

[bigtodd]

I just painted a red headed girl figure 1/20 scale last week. Here are the Model color acrylics mixes I used.

Cavalry brown as the shadow,
70% red leather with 30%sunny skintone for the base color
Straight orange color for first Highlight
straight Sunny skintone for final highlight.

This worked out really, really well for me. If you want a lighter red hair color then shift the above mix 70/30% as your shadows and orange with sunny skintone as your base ans sunny skintone as you highlights.


I hope this helps

 

[bodo123]

Thanks for the reply. Today try.

Thomas