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Published: 2009-05-31 09:54:34 +0000 UTC; Views: 24347; 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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Heh, well, these are all the steps involved! It starts off with loose blurry smudgey colours, and then gradually gets more detailed until you have all the refinement and fur detail you want.
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Do you sometimes skip these steps?
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coolio :3 i think i'll try it now thanx alot
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Thanks, and you're welcome :3
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Hello,
I was wondering which is the 100% of the original size?
Hope to hear from you soon, Jocarra.
Jskra
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It can be seen at 100% here: [link]
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Thanks for posting this! It is really helpful!
I L-O-V-E your art btw!
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This was my first time attempting animal fur of any kind:[link] , Your tutorial helped out a great deal!
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You're very welcome, keep up the good work!
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you should make a tutorial with the brushes, how to make em as you do, mine is just the samee all the time, and just dosnt work to draw 1 and 1 hair, it looks so ugly :S
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But I don't use any special brushes. I just use the regular default brushes, the plain round ones.
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all the time?
just changes those % thingys?
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Yes.
You don't even need Photoshop to paint the way I do - OpenCanvas, for example, would work just as well. Even the Facebook graffiti program could be used, even though it doesn't have a flow/pressure setting and no pressure sensitivity.
You don't need any special brushes, special filters, or special settings. You don't even need PS.
About 90% of the time, I ONLY use the default, plain, "hard/soft round" brushes. The only thing I change, as far as the brush goes, is the brush mode (multiply/screen/normal) and flow/pressure (1-50%).
The only time I use a different brush is very rare - it's part of the default set, the "spatter" brushes. I sometimes use them for fur or hair, but I most commonly use them for smudging colours for fur before I do detailing.
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aaah ok :3
i will have to practise more x3
just, still drawing hair by hair dont look... like hair yet :S
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Yeah, it takes work and a lot of patience - it often doesn't look quite right when you start, and sometimes it never does no matter how long you work at it :S X3
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aah well i put the fur on a diffrent layer cause i have to erase it alot
i think i use to many layers in general xD
thanks for all the advices
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wow....this is the most helpful airbrushing/fur tutorial i've found yet!! No doubt this'll help with my terrible digital skills XD thank you so much!! (and your art is amazing...)
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Heh, thank you very much
You may want to check out [link] as well.
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^.^ thank you!!!!! Oh those helped an awful lot ^^ thank you so much!! they're very helpful indeed
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Amazing. O__O
I love it. Very cute. 8D
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I'll be using this once I get more experienced with my tablet.
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Wow, this art is amazing! 
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There's actually a weird kind of freedom with lineless drawings - you don't have to worry about colouring out of the lines, but you do need to worry about filling everything in. Also, while there's lots of scary details to worry about, I find I don't worry about them as much as agonizing over getting the PERFECT lineart, for some strange reason.
You might want to try my first fur tutorial - it's a lot faster and easier
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Hmm... Okay. ^^ I'm kinda playing with the idea of doing some lineless drawing, since I don't really like my colored linearts.
Okay, thanks!
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I mean, I still use a sketch, but with things like this, you can see it doesn't always matter if you stay inside the lines.
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Yeah, I know. What I'm talking about is when you use thick, black lines and color inside of those. ^^
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*nods* The worst is thin lines X3 They're so easy to colour outside of - it takes me ages to ensure lineart is fully coloured, but not outside the lines, especially if I've used thin lines :S
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It still amazes me how much detail you can put in with so many single fur strokes. I would give up on the first hair! lol!
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X3 It's more time-consuming than just scribbling (the technique used in the first, easiest tutorial), but yields nicer results. I still will use a little bit of scribbling, but it's of course important to make it not look like that
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Lol, I see. 
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Wow...I can't wait to see how this turns out...but I gotta admit, the part the draws me in is the eyes so far...so intense!!
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