Techniques for Painting Animal Fur

• Paint Colors Playlist
• 1 min. video (Naples Yellow)
• 1 min. video (Color palette)
• 1 min. video (Cadmium Red Light)
• 1 min. video (Quinacridone Magenta + Yellow Iron Oxide)

• 1 min. video (Pthalo colors)
• 1 min. video (Manganese Brown)
• 1 min. video (Quinacridone Orange)
• 1 min. video (Pyrrole Red & Cadmium Red Medium)
• 1 min. video (Neon colors)

• Marker is a great way to put down a drawing foundation that is easier to control than paint.
• Acrylic inks are basically drawing inks, but are lot more potent in colors, and also a touch thicker and less running.
• Jumping around the page is really important when developing a composition.
• Staying in one area of your composition for too long can lead to the composition feeling fragmented.
• Look at the fur in terms of clumps, and how those clumps interact with each other.

• The challenge of fur is it’s a texture on the surface of a form; the form has to be visible for the fur to be convincing.
• The key to painting fur is to not try to paint one hair at a time, it’s impossible and can look very uptight.
• Consider the physical pressure of your brush when painting fur, sometimes you want the fur to be very bold, other times you just want a light pass of strokes.
• Look at the direction of the fur, even at the very beginning in the marker sketch!

Art Supplies

• Rives BFK Printmaking paper
• Sennelier Acrylic Inks
• Sumi brushes
• Tombow dual brush pens
• Glass Palette
• Fan brush

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