Step 1: Astronomican Grey
I covered the wolf entirely with this. Get out your ratty brush, too, all the crannies will mess up any good brush you have.Step 2: Skull White
Mostly this was drybrushed rather heavily over the wolf. I'm going to bring the color down with a wash, so it's ok if it looks too bright.Step 3: Badab Black
The wash was applied pretty liberally. If you're looking for a grey-ish kind of wolf you could stop here, but I'm looking for a little more variety so...Step 4: Skull White
Two things are happening at this step. The head and ears are getting more of a watered down blend in successive layers to build up to what I want. The rest of the fur is getting drybrushed ...
...but you'll notice that I'm applying the drybrush heavier along the legs and underside of the wolf.Step 5: Devlan Mud
To break up the black/white, I added some Devlan Mud in the areas (mostly the mane, along the back and tail) to get a bit of color in there.
There you have it. It's a relatively fast fur that comes out looking nice, IMO. The wolf isn't done, mind you, but the fur is. What methods do you guys have of painting fur?
I am so stealing this, at least for my Fenrisian Wolves!
ReplyDeleteSweet tutorial my man! I think I may yoink this idea bwahaha!
ReplyDeletelooks great!!
Definitely a good way to do fur. Another I've used is a 4 step process.
ReplyDelete1) basecoat with main color
2) drybrush highlights
3) wash with defining color (black, brown, etc)
4) re-drybrush highlights lightly
Unfortunately, like most painting I do anymore, I just throw paint at the problem till it looks like I want it to. I recently did some white fur but used a yellow brown for the shading as I wanted it to be less of a cold white. It's not fabulous, but it worked. Your fur, however, is fabulous.
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