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[she/her]Hi yall~!☆ Do you have any tips and tricks for drawing/painting fur?
I'm currently working on a tabaxi dnd character and would love to do her fur justice
Oh, and I use Procreate
May 5, 2021
I'm currently working on a tabaxi dnd character and would love to do her fur justiceOh, and I use Procreate
May 5, 2021#dnd
#tabaxi
#fantasy
#help
#tips
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Lots of little lines for the “outline!” It’s kinda like what do in the inside of my furred monsters, where there’s 2-3 lines that show both definition of things like collarbones or muscles, but apply that to the character’s outline! So their outline would be made up of lines & isn’t solid. Depending on what you’re looking for, you could either have a mostly solid looking outline where any “scruffy points” such as the sides of the face or elbows are more broken up with multiple texture lines. Or, pretty much the entire outline is made up of these little lines!
It’s a bit hard to explain, but if you’d like me to show you images of what I’m talking about, please feel free to ask!
It’s a bit hard to explain, but if you’d like me to show you images of what I’m talking about, please feel free to ask!
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•Hmm depends on the fur length.
If she has long fur you can think of it as working similar to hair. But with fur I feel it really helps to pay attention to how the fur is grouped. As in chunks of hair that go into the same direction and have similar volume. You have that in big chunks (like the fur around a normal cats neck like a neck ruff) and again in small patches (similar to the way you grouped the hair in your Staven picture just in smaller).
For short fur paying attention to the big fur chunks (where all hairs go into the same direction like the cheeks right under the eyes, different parts of th nose and such). Since with shorter fur the eye of the viewer concentrates more on the edges of these patches so a little defining there and around the edges of highlight and shadow areas should be all right.
It’s best to look at some references of the type of fur and basic body build of cat that would get close to your tabaxi.
I personally mainly use a basic round brush with opacity control or something similar. But if you want to use fur brushes then using an airbrush or soft eraser together with that to blend some things out might be a good idea. Always depends on how you want to draw things ^-^
If she has long fur you can think of it as working similar to hair. But with fur I feel it really helps to pay attention to how the fur is grouped. As in chunks of hair that go into the same direction and have similar volume. You have that in big chunks (like the fur around a normal cats neck like a neck ruff) and again in small patches (similar to the way you grouped the hair in your Staven picture just in smaller).
For short fur paying attention to the big fur chunks (where all hairs go into the same direction like the cheeks right under the eyes, different parts of th nose and such). Since with shorter fur the eye of the viewer concentrates more on the edges of these patches so a little defining there and around the edges of highlight and shadow areas should be all right.
It’s best to look at some references of the type of fur and basic body build of cat that would get close to your tabaxi.
I personally mainly use a basic round brush with opacity control or something similar. But if you want to use fur brushes then using an airbrush or soft eraser together with that to blend some things out might be a good idea. Always depends on how you want to draw things ^-^
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•hmmm I think Neytirix's 'look a fur tutorial' yt video is a good one. That's what I watched when I was trying to draw cat furs
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