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Painting fur
- Thread starter Corgan
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The painting of fur varies wildly depending on the sculpt you\'re working with. If it\'s got good definition then you can get away with some careful drybrushing plus a wash or two. If you\'re working on a plastic figure with horrible stringy fur, then you\'re better off with a wash and a natural hilight or two.
The type of fur also makes a big difference. Brown, grey, golden fur, plus any variety of animal pelts will have various markings on the fur (leopard, tiger, etc.). I\'m sure there\'s articles out there, but I haven\'t come across many good ones. You should be able to get away with common sense, unless you\'re going after a very specific effect like snow leopard or something.
The type of fur also makes a big difference. Brown, grey, golden fur, plus any variety of animal pelts will have various markings on the fur (leopard, tiger, etc.). I\'m sure there\'s articles out there, but I haven\'t come across many good ones. You should be able to get away with common sense, unless you\'re going after a very specific effect like snow leopard or something.
Gilvan Blight
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Generally I use a quick drybrush to bring out the texture and then just paint in layers like I do with every other part of the miniature. That means attempting to paint individually sculpted strands of hair.
You can cheat a bit by doing \'blobs\' of colour for the early stages, but for the final highlilghts you really are picking out individual bits.
One secret that\'s more important then that though is use a referance photo. I haven\'t uploaded it yet, but I painted a wolf pelt cloak recently and used a photo, and it looks 1000 times better then the usual black drybrushed white cloaks you usually see, just because I tried to match the actual colour patterns of a wolf cloak.
You can cheat a bit by doing \'blobs\' of colour for the early stages, but for the final highlilghts you really are picking out individual bits.
One secret that\'s more important then that though is use a referance photo. I haven\'t uploaded it yet, but I painted a wolf pelt cloak recently and used a photo, and it looks 1000 times better then the usual black drybrushed white cloaks you usually see, just because I tried to match the actual colour patterns of a wolf cloak.
