Chest of Colors forum

So I painted my first blond hair ever... and it looks like gold...
So, anyone got some blond hair recipes?

Thanks

try more khaki, sand colors - go for more natural palette than the usual/obvious brown -> yellow -> white combo.

I usually start with some brown with a bit of dark olive added, then through khaki to sand colors and finally ivory/cream. AFAIK Ana uses a similar combo.

usually i start similarily to nmm gold, with snakebite leather being a base (sometimes mixed with a bit of bestial brown) i highlight by gradually adding bubonic brown or straight white to snakebite. final specks of light are made with pure skull white (or vallejo ivory ).

you're right, Przemas - ivory is a cool color to have. Very similar to white but not as unnaturally bright.

I tend to start with a relatively light neutral brown then highlight it up through a yellow ochre and then to a sandy colour. The exact paints I use tend to change every time as I keep forgetting it and just grab one that looks servicable.

thanks guys, I'll try it out with more neutral colors then. I think that I made a mistake by adding yellow ^^

Bleached Bone as final colour works good enough too...

I paint my High Elves with this technic:
Bestial Brown
Snakebite Leather
Leprous Brown
Golden Yellow
Bubonic Brown
A bit of Skull White.

Effect is similar to this on head of one of crew of this bolt thrower:
https://coolminiornot.com/108299

Of course you can miss whatever color you want:) I was experimenting

btw, vallejo model series has a bottle called tan glaze, that will turn things yellow. If you thin it down you can give a slight yellow tint if you find it its not yellow enough. be careful with it though!

I do mine stupid elves ...
from different browns to bleach bone, if I am working on a group of blond, just use different comb of brown and sometimes without bleach bone as final highlight but very light brown instead.