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Published: 2009-05-31 09:54:34 +0000 UTC; Views: 24317; Favourites: 825; Downloads: 0
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I use Photoshop, but the general strategy can be applied to many other media, digital and traditional.I realised the work-in-progress image for Wolf Mates VII made an ideal walkthrough image, as it includes all the major steps I take in painting. I've labeled them and included a description.
Feel free to post any questions if I wasn't clear enough
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Awesome, glad it worked!Β And thanks
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You're very welcome, best of luck!
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I tried to do like you sad, and it still doesn't work. I've tried now so many times and I'm just working on the head...coul'd you give me maybe some more advice?
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Have you tried looking at my other fur tutorials? Maybe they'd help more than this one - they're all found in my Tutorial folder of my gallery.
What process do you feel is messing you up? Where does it go wrong for you?
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I have most problems with getting the furdetailled enough. And I'm never shure what colores would work god with each other. I've looked at you're other tutorials and they are great! I hope I can get it at least half as good as you do
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That really is the hardest part. Don't get too frustrated! Have you tried my first fur tutorial - it's probably the easiest one!
But yeah, the super realistic stuff takes me hours and hours, so if it doesn't look right after an hour, maybe you're just not doing it long enough (the wolf face I just painted took something like 8 hours for the fur detail). It takes lots of practice and patience!
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Thanks, Yeah, I know it takes a lot of time and practice and I've still got a lot to learn, but it looks so easy, when other people do it ^^Β° Have you got any Video Tutorials, that show every thing step for step?
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Not really, no 
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Awesome! Just wondering, when you sketch a wolf, do you draw where the end pieces of the fur (like around the neck and back) are going to be or do you handle that in steps four and five. If you said that in the tutorial I don't think I got it.
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I usually roughly drawn the "furry" bits when sketching, but when I go to paint, I don't necessarily follow the sketch literally. I'll usually doing it at step four, or during the blocking phase.
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This tutorial sure is useful, please don't get me wrong, but ...
the more tutorials I read about drawing scales/fur and similar textures the more I wonder,
if there is really NO way around drawing every freaking single hair, which takes up a lot of time and far more patience than I have.
For scales I already found a really nice alternative which works very well...
but fur?
Since I'm trying to get more into speedpaints (which are supposed to take no more then 2 hours of work..) I really am wondering if there is no simplyfied way to draw realistic fur...?
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Perhaps try this tutorial of mine: [link] - it was my first fur tutorial, and is the easiest for beginners to attempt. It consists of scribbling and that's about it. If you've laid down a good-looking base (say, with airbrushing or whatever) and all that's missing is some fur texture, a little scribbling can do that for you pretty quickly - see [link] for more of what I mean. Make sure you don't use too high of an opacity or flow, otherwise it'll look too obvious.
I've found you can do a similar scribbling technique to emulate scales, but instead of doing back-and-forth scribbling for fur, you do more roundish, "open" scribbling for scales: [link] (old art)and [link]
What do you do for scales? I'd be interested in knowing!
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Wooow thanks a bunch for that looong reply xD never tried that scribbling-style ΓΆ.ΓΆ
But I might use it~
For scales? Oh well I'm kinda using a kind of dotting-technique...hard to explain.
You can see it pretty well in [link] this tryout.
I make rough dots for where the scales show up most and smaller dots to show finer ones for smaller scales.
And usually I use a finer, hard brush to outline them a bit.
Though in the shown case I worked rather rough XD
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*nods* Ah, yeah, that works, too
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Not that much of work~
I still work rather fast with that technique
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OMG!! This isgoing to help me soooo, much!! Thanx alot!
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Your fur is gorgeous! And thank you so much for the tutorial.
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Awesome! Will be useful...Once I buy a graphic tablet
I've always wondered how to do realistic fur and found this: pure awesome work. Thank you for sharing this!
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Thank you, and good luck!
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IΒ΄m soory, this is a very good tutorial, but I just donΒ΄t get how you make the fur look so...um real...
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Anything specific I can help you with?
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Yeah, I donΒ΄t know how you get the fur look so real, When I color my pic, what do I do to get the brushes look as if they were single hair...(sorry my english isnΒ΄t so good and I donΒ΄t know how to explain...)
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I don't use any special fur brushes - to do individual hairs, I just use a small (1-3 pixels) brush and do them either individually, or carefully "scribble". Try checking out my other fur tutorials?
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Thanks for the tutorial Jocarra. It helps A LOT!
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Hmm this should be helpful! thanks i was wondering how to do realistic wise wolves C: *goes to try*
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This is really helpful! This is similar to how I've been shading, but this has a few extras I must try out!
I do have a question, though- what size canvas were you using when you did this?
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Phew, um... I forget, lemme check.
2000x1500
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this is an exellent tutorial, it's a little hard to read though
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it's okay, I can still see what's supposed to happen so it's all good
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Amazing... *sigh*
Though I can't really smudge on my computer, it lags a whole bunch.
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That's a shame
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Yeah. **sigh**
Really wish I could use it, but since my images are usually pretty big, I can never get the brush tool to move quickly enough.
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I saved it onto my computer desktop so I won't have to keep coming back and being like: Okay, what do I do after this step? BTW I think that the wolf looks so realistic!
Favs for being so awesome!
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