hello everyone welcome to my channel my name is Jax and today I'll be showing
you how to paint fur. so anyone who's been watching this channel for a while
know that animals, creatures, things with fur make up the bulk of what I like to
draw. now I'm not a realism artist I don't paint animals to look exactly like
their real-life counterparts so in this tutorial we'll be exploring more of a
stylistic rendering of fur now this is a piece that I'll be using to demonstrate
the fur painting techniques now like most of the art on my channel this is a
commissioned piece and I just thought it'd be the perfect character for this
tutorial because we have this nice variety of fur lengths across a
character so the fur on the face is a little shorter and then towards the
cheek and neck it gets a little longer and thicker anyway so I thought this
will just be a great opportunity to show you guys a few different methods to
paint different textures of fur. anyway before we get stuck into the fur we
first need to block in the general colors and backgrounds in the character
as you can see I've already done that here but I'm going to show you a quick
time-lapse of me doing this so basically what I did was I filled in a background
with a darkish color and then use the gradient tool to make some dark and
light adjustments and then for the character I take a flat brush and just
quickly paint in their general colors I first pick colours from a reference but
then I usually adjust a bit to blend in with the overall tone of the background
for the shadows I like to make a layer on top of the base colors, clip it to the
layer underneath and then set the layer to multiply
I usually choose a light cool toned color keeping in mind the
environment the character is in and I start blocking in the shadows so for
this piece I want to delight to come in from the top right corner so I lay in
the shadows with that in mind next up I create another clipping layer on top of
the shadow layer and I set this one to overlay now to complement the cool
shadows I really wanted a nice warm light coming in front of top so I
selected a light gold color and started sweeping that in. I also then like to
play around a bit with a hue and saturation settings
just until I to get the right look and tone that I'm going for
finally I took a bit of time to place in the markings and also make a few light
blotches for where the plants and flowers in this piece were going to be
so once all that's done this is what the piece looks like with all the general
colors placed down I've merged all the layers now as well so the
characters on her own single layer I also have the layers with the rough
environment wash it in but I'm gonna keep those turned off for now since we
want to focus on the painting of the fur so first thing I'm going to show you
some of the brushes I like to use for fur and the settings I have them on and
all of these can be downloaded from the Medibang cloud and if you don't know how
to do that I have a super helpful video explaining how to access the cloud and
all the new features you get when you do including all the brushes I'm going to
use here so firstly we have a flat brush with a wide end just gonna turn up the
ease and mixing of colors up and I'm just gonna turn down the load color just
down a bit and what this does is it makes the color go on a little less
strongly and when it's applied to color on the same layer it actually blends in
more with the color rather than putting them down on full of passage so that's brush
number one brush number two is basically the exact same brush but what I've done
is I've double tapped it and I've turned down the min width to pretty much 0% you
can make a bit higher but around that with press okay and then
instead we're going to reverse the mixing colors and local color options so
the low color is now higher and the ease of mixing color it's just actually maybe
set that about halfway so what this does is it gives you a nice pointed sharp
edge which you can make nice crisp lines with okay and next
up we have flat brush dry and this is one actually just discovered quite
recently I'd actually didn't have this in my usual repertoire for most of my
older paintings but it is actually a really really nice slightly textured
brush you can see the individual bristles and
basically I just have one and I have the width set on a relatively high minimum
with press okay and then we have nice soft brush that we can add some texture
to the fur
okay and finally we have this one this is a first texture that I
quite like using and this is one that I've downloaded online
so again if you watch the videos I've linked to before about getting more brushes
in medibang there's a link in that video and also in the description for
this video below of where you can download this brush and it's quite like
the one the flat brush dry but it just has slightly larger bristles slightly
more crisp slightly more harsh so those are the four basic brushes that I'll be
using for the fur painting okay so one of the first things I like to do when
I'm painting fur is just to gently sketch out where the clumps of fur are
going to be so here we're going to have longer strands of fur on the tigers
cheeks and also a longer neck so I'm just gonna lightly sketch in some lines
just to indicate where these longer clump of fur are going to fall now
things to keep in mind when doing this you want to know where the general
direction of the fur of the animal it's going in so
you don't want the fur just flying off everywhere so in this case fur is
failling quite flat towards the body so I'm just going to sketch them in a
nice downward motion just very lightly very general and it's just just give you
some nice broad guidelines so you don't get lost
whilst you're painting
so now I'm going to try to say where so I'm using the flat wet brush here just
gonna pick one of those slightly darker colors and then I'm just gonna make I'm
just gonna stroke in some shadows just below where the clumps the tips of the
console fur are going to be just like lightly stroke them in there we go okay
so now I'm just gonna take the flat dry brush just gonna softly blend that in a
bit more just so we don't have harsh painted looking lines alright so what we're
going to do now is we're gonna take one of the sharper tipped brushes and we're
just going to start painting in individual clufts off fur so pick a nice
relatively lighter color in comparison to the shadows that you put in and just
turn down the ease of mixing of it just start gently putting in fur shaped blocks
of color okay and here's a trick once you do that you just want to take the
flatter edge brush and just blend those fur clumps in just like that
and then go for the thinner edge brush and just define those clumps of fur just
a little bit just make a nice shadow just to contrast with the tuft of fur
to explain this process in a nutshell essentially we're laying down the
shadows first before going in with lighter colors to create the individual
sections of fur and blending them in with the colors in between the highlights and
the shadows since we don't have a brush that can directly create nice sharp
opaque tips and then subsequently become wider and blend in with the base color
we had to do this manually with a sharp flat brush and then use wider edged
brushes to blend in a sharp stroke and yes this is quite a tedious process
especially when you have large bodies of fur to cover but texturing anything in
general requires a lot of time and patience luckily this technique is very
simple and very easy to master a couple of shortcuts I find very useful firstly
of course is ctrl Z the undo option you'll notice that I use it quite a lot
when I paint and unapologetically so I always never get the shape or stroke I
watched the first time around so I keep undoing it until I do another
really useful shortcut I have set is the Alt key when I hold down the Alt key the
brush tool becomes a color picker and I use this to pick the in-between colors I
use when blending and also when applying new tufts of fur occasionally the color
I need won't be an existing color in image sometimes I need a lighter or
darker color in which case I usually start out by picking an existing color
and then moving the slider in the color wheel a little higher or lower depending
on what I need I like to make the tip of each tuft of fur the brightest to
contrast with the shadow underneath and the base of the tuft becomes darker as
it blend in with the shadow of the fur above it because of this one good idea
is to start from the bottom upwards fur a higher up on the animals body tends to
slightly layer on top and cover the fur underneath by working from the bottom up
you don't need to blend every single tuft of fur in perfectly because you can
just cover the base with the fur on top now I didn't do that here because a high
lack *foresight but that's absolutely fine as well it just means when you work on a
lower layer you have to be careful not to paint over the tuft you already
painted alright now that you know the general technique of painting
Tufts of fur there are a few additional things to keep in mind to make them look
right remember is a three-dimensional texture that is
attached through a three-dimensional body now I'm not the best when it comes to
accurately representing anatomy but I know the neck of the animal isn't just a
cylinder it has curves and muscles in a case of tigers like this one they tend
to have pretty wide necks and here she's also turning towards the right as well
so the fur attached also nice is shift slightly in the direction the head
is facing never be afraid to look up references when trying to figure out
where the fur is supposed to fall they're there to help and it's really going to
help improve your art and make the fur look more realistic so that's it for
long fur now I'm just going to timelapse through me painting through the rest of
the neck and chest one of the final touches I liked to do for long fur is to
take a small sharp brush and then just draw in a few individual strands of hair
coming off the larger tufts just to give that finishing detail
okay so now that the long fur on the neck is done I'm going to show you how I
like to paint the smaller shorter furs on the face and if you wanted you could
use the same technique I showed you with the long fur but just reduce the size of
the individual tufts but that will take forever to finish in my opinion with
short for using a textured brush like the fur brush or the dry flat brush I
showed you earlier to quickly paint on and give the impression of a fur texture
I'm going to use the same technique as before where I paint on the shadowed
areas first and then I'm going to take a lighter color and then paint over those
shadows to create areas of highlight in terms of the brush settings I like to
keep the load color of the fur brush quite high because I want the fur
texture to be quite visible if the load color was too low and the ease of
mixing too high I would have a much harder time getting
a nice texture fur a look okay so now I'm just gonna do this all over the face
and the same thing with the markings just letting the brush do all the work
for me to create a simple short fur texture and that's pretty much all there
is to it I'm going to do a time lapse again and I'll be back at the end of the
video with the finished painting
all right so this is the finished painting I put all the foreground plants
and post-production sparklies in as well I really hope this tutorial was helpful
this is generally how I like to paint fur at the moment sometimes I change
things up a bit depending on how I'm feeling but the basic technique remains
shadows first and then tufts of highlighted fur on after thank you so
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I'll catch you all next time bye~
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