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Published: 2010-11-24 06:46:16 +0000 UTC; Views: 58615; Favourites: 1466; Downloads: 712
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You, too, can draw painstakingly detailed fur in under twelve hours! :DI kid, I kid
If you make something with this tut as a guide, show me!
2012 edit: I was thirteen when I wrote this, please excuse the obnoxious wording.
2015 edit: I would now recommend drawing the 'swoosh' hairs more carefully than 'swoosh' unless you're drawing an anime porcupine
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Hi. I love this tutorial and I tried it. [link] But I didnt do very well. Tips?
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First off those look like mouse strokes, and painting short fur tends to be very hard with a mouse. :s
Your shadows could be darker and the fur given more direction. Also when you draw fur on a tail, draw a skinny (hairless) tail first and then draw fur off of that. :3
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I actually do use a tablet if you cant believe it. Dx But I cant draw stroked fur if my life depended on it. Not kidding.
Ok. Thank you very much!
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Ahhh sorry 8( they just looked like mouse strokes because they were kinda straight.
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It's fine! 
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Photoshop CS4, but this tutorial works with any graphics program provided that it has transparency control in its brushes. Layers aren't needed, even. (:
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Can it be used for gimp? >.<
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Yes. Pretty much anything but MS paint works.
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But I dont think Gimp has a fat transparent brush :I
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you can just change the opacity setting!
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I was stupid back then. ^^
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Can you change the size of the brush in GIMP?
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There are different brushes to choose from. But the same kind except Big to small but you really cant choose a transparent one unless theres a custom brush like that o-o. Its confusing..very..very..confusing
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look, I found you a tutorial.
[link]
maybe digital art just isn't your thing.
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Lol sorry about that. I just now went back to see how stupid I sounded. Urg I hate my old self. 
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Thank you
I'm just new to this...o-o
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[link]
tried it for hair and it worked surprisingly well.
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I used your tutorial here , it's long, but really helpful. Thanks!
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This is gonna be so incredibly useful
You're a saint 
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exactly what does locking the transparency on a layer do?
ive always wondered that...
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It stops the transparency of a layer from changing, ie if you had a lineart layer and wanted to make it rainbow for some reason, you could lock transparency on the lineart layer and then scribble with a million rainbow colours and the lineart would still be lineart-shaped rather than scribble-shaped.
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ohhhhhhhhhhhhhh.........thanks a bunch
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Glad I could help <3
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[link]
Thank you my little deer slave. Now go run off and draw yourself a nilentain c:
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It's staring into my soul...
And I wish I could, but I have yet to figure out how feathers work. D|
But when I do, Rekarv will suddenly find himself the subject of a ton of really weird images.
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*evil smile as she plots her first tutorial*
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You can draw feathers?
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I hope this works with Elements 8 or Corel Painter 11
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This is so amazing! I'm looking at you art and cant help but be amazed! But when I saw the last step to this, the fur blew me away! It looks so simple to do but has an amazing outcome! Do you thing you could to a tutorial on eyes?
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I got all excited when I saw this and went NOWICANDRAWMYFURSIEYAAAAYYYY!!!
... then I remembered my sona was a bird. X______X
But good tutorial.
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fluh. XDDDD
For feathers you just draw thicker hairs. ;3
Yay for mammals! Yay for mammals with /hooves/!
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Amazing guide! I have no idea how you could sit and do that for something large or crazily furred, but that makes it even more awesome ^^
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Mmm, it definitely takes patience
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I commend you on your patience then : )
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its very hard to make it look right D:
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this tut is very helpful! thanks so much, the fur is amazing!
will link drawing once done!
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That fur looks absolutely amazing! Nice tutorial!
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Thanks, glad you like it!
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