First
things first, I use a drawing
tablet (which gives me pressure
sensitivity) and few self made
fur brushes in Photoshop. They
are much more convenient and much
less time consuming than drawing
each individual piece of hair.
Make
several dots on a canvas and go to
edit>>define brush and that
will create your brush. Then make
sure in the brushes tab Shape dynamics
is checked and in Brush tip shapes
change the spacing to 1% you now have
nice fur brush. I recommend making
several other brushes of different
shapes as well, this will give your
fur more variety and it won't all
look alike.
1. At the moment I have my background
on one layer and I'm drawing my fur
another.
Using a brush I start off filling
in the base fur colors. My personal
brush preference is the Hard Round
#19 brush set to wet edges. It makes
for a nice watercolor look.
Start by making fast strokes in the
direction of which the fur is flowing.
2.
Continue on until the whole area is
filled. You don't want to completely
color everything because notice how
the brush already begins to show clumping.
Hair naturally clumps and it will make
your fur look more realistic.
3.
Now we are going to bring out those
clumps and bring more of a shape to
them by adding in some shadows with
a semi darker color than your base color.
This makes it appear like there's some
separation in the fur and also helps
us to know where to start drawing our
detailed and individual pieces of fur.
