How to Draw Fur by Farore

By Farore | February 24, 2008

Kirin’s Note: This tutorial is courtesy of guest artist Farore. You can see this tutorial, and more of Farore’s art, in her Deviant Art gallery. A few edits have been made to this tutorial so that it fits the Drawfurry.com format.

Ok, so I’ve been trying and trying to find a good fur texture that works. But much to my dismay, I can only find one or two tutorials out there on fur texture, and they’re not very detailed. So, I thought I’d make my own. After much testing and redoing and trying and tears, this is what I came up with. I hope you can learn something from it too.

25 Responses to “How to Draw Fur by Farore”

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Forest Rain Says:
May 12th, 2010 at 5:20 am
I’ve found another tutorial that works quite well. In essence it is approximately the same, but it also shows how to make a quick custom brush yourself in photoshop. Very useful if you don’t have curry brush. Put together both of these tutorials are very informative.

http://kittmaster.deviantart.com/art/Realistic-Fur-Tutorial-2-VIDEO-129423097
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Forest Rain Says:
May 1st, 2010 at 3:45 am
I tried to do this using The GIMP, but there were no texture brushes. Instead I just used hard edge brushes and soft edge smudge. Whatever I did, it looks very fake. I’m not sure what I did wrong though. :(

Great tutorial; you should consider making a video of this as it would be easier to learn from. :)
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Farore Says:
April 29th, 2010 at 10:27 am
Raidell & Yo: sadly, even I no longer have the spicy curry brush as I’ve reformatted. I don’t use photoshop anymore – but you can get a very similar look with a hard round with the size dynamics turned off and the ‘other dynamics’ turned on and set to pen pressure. Or, in Sai, the default pen tool with a lowered density and minimum size at 100%. Sai has no actual smudge tool per se, but a combination of the blur tool and one of the water tools with a bristly brush and low density should help.

Everyone else: thanks so much!
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caliglith Says:
February 8th, 2010 at 10:12 am
wow, this looks awesome, Ive never thought of using the smudge tool like that! I usually draw dragons and scaly critters cause fur was just too hard, but this really helps!
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Denece-the-sylcoe Says:
November 17th, 2009 at 9:11 pm
Thank didn’t look to hard…XD I ACTULY know what each tool is! Unlike someother fur tutorils that I have no idea what the heak they mean. Thanks!