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Step by step guide. Allow 30mins to an hour for making it depending on your style and detail.

Step 1: Take your picture or sketch a picture and color it in ready for the effects.

Step 2: Use the brush tool, set the opacity to 40 and using a black circle brush with faded edges shade it in more.

Step 3: Make a new Photoshop page and it MUST be 10 by 10 pixels on a transparent background. Then take the Pencil tool and scatter around some random squares.

Once you have done that click Edit, then Define Brush Preset.

Step 4: With your new brush go to Dodge and Burn, set it to mid-tones and go over the fur. This gives us the hairs.

Step 5: Now use the smudge tool with your new brush and smudge the fur together. [Make sure to smudge with the flow of the fur]

Step 6: Detail using a soft light brush on the eyes and more shading. Use a normal brush for the claws and a smudge for the gauntlets if you are using a screenshot.

Step 7: Now just add your background, lighting and shadows to get the full effect.

Hope this helps, sorry that it was a rather crap picture but thats because I was using small pictures instead of one big one.

Here is a Tutorial video to watch [link]

Here is a video of me applying the idea to a screenshot [link]

Description
Step by step guide. Allow 30mins to an hour for making it depending on your style and detail.

Step 1: Take your picture or sketch a picture and color it in ready for the effects.

Step 2: Use the brush tool, set the opacity to 40 and using a black circle brush with faded edges shade it in more.

Step 3: Make a new Photoshop page and it MUST be 10 by 10 pixels on a transparent background. Then take the Pencil tool and scatter around some random squares.

Once you have done that click Edit, then Define Brush Preset.

Step 4: With your new brush go to Dodge and Burn, set it to mid-tones and go over the fur. This gives us the hairs.

Step 5: Now use the smudge tool with your new brush and smudge the fur together. [Make sure to smudge with the flow of the fur]

Step 6: Detail using a soft light brush on the eyes and more shading. Use a normal brush for the claws and a smudge for the gauntlets if you are using a screenshot.

Step 7: Now just add your background, lighting and shadows to get the full effect.

Hope this helps, sorry that it was a rather crap picture but thats because I was using small pictures instead of one big one.

Here is a Tutorial video to watch [link]

Here is a video of me applying the idea to a screenshot [link]