Painting Creature Fur by NateHallinanArt

Painting Creature Fur by NateHallinanArt

EDIT: For a more extensive tutorials on how to paint different types of hair and fur check out these videos I made. natehallinanart.deviantart.com…

EDIT: Thanks for the DD!

Here's a fur tutorial because I'm awesome like that. No, someone actually asked me kindly who's trying improve upon their technique. (And I had the spare time.) This is basically how I go about creating fur for creatures. It may seem like a lot of steps, but it goes very quick once you have it down.

Use the download button to get the brushes I used plus a few extra.

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Given 2014-11-09

[Stock & Resources] This fabulous tutorial clearly explains how to successfully paint fur. Artists will definitely enjoy Painting Creature Fur by NateHallinanArt ( Featured by CelticStrm-Stock )

ch20060602 Featured By Owner Apr 13, 2017 Hobbyist Interface Designer

thx for sharing

sdale154 Featured By Owner Jul 29, 2016 Student Filmographer

I love this tutorial

Hey, if you change the color to black and put some eyes on it you got a soot sprite lol :3

IvanaNebpehtire Featured By Owner Apr 19, 2016 Hobbyist Digital Artist

Thank you for both tutorial and the brush! Love

VickArtStrong Featured By Owner Oct 3, 2015 Hobbyist General Artist

This is so nice. Thank you for your help.

MarinaPolo Featured By Owner Edited Sep 21, 2015 Digital Artist

Thanks a lot for this easy and helpful tutorial! I saved a lot of time! ^^

PassingReMark Featured By Owner Aug 16, 2015

really beautiful.

ZaykoO Featured By Owner Aug 5, 2015 Student Traditional Artist

thanks !

FlareAndIcicle Featured By Owner Aug 5, 2015 Hobbyist Digital Artist

Thank you for this, it is really clear and helpful. I especially love how much the last step 'pimps' the entire sphere!

Joelblu Featured By Owner Jun 18, 2015 Professional Digital Artist

Thank you so much for this POST!!

Laggtastic Featured By Owner May 23, 2015 Professional General Artist

I knew a big while back this tutorial would be helpful when I was about to go paint fur, so I added it to my faves. Now that moment is here and man I'm glad I faved it as this really helped me out to find an approach of painting fur (otherwise I would be like "Where the heck should I start" haha

Hey man, fantastic tutorial and keep up you're awesome works, they are really cool and a great resource of inspiration^^

Xholankha Featured By Owner Feb 10, 2015 Hobbyist Digital Artist

Excellent tutorial, thanks a lot! It works insanely well!

NateHallinanArt Featured By Owner Feb 13, 2015 Professional Filmographer

Awesome, glad it helped!

EarWaxKid Featured By Owner Feb 6, 2015

I'm leader of a art club so this is very helpful. thank you.

NateHallinanArt Featured By Owner Feb 13, 2015 Professional Filmographer

Good to hear

EarWaxKid Featured By Owner Feb 13, 2015

thanks.

GinsengLag Featured By Owner Jan 8, 2015

This is so helpful. Thanks for the brushes, too

wednesdaywolf Featured By Owner Dec 29, 2014

thanks looks helpful.

applejuicemagic Featured By Owner Dec 9, 2014 Digital Artist

Oh man, I came across this at the perfect time. My fur was looking superflat.. so thank you!!

nondev Featured By Owner Dec 6, 2014

Thank you so much for sharing this! A very clever method

LightDarkWolf1424 Featured By Owner Nov 21, 2014 Hobbyist General Artist

This tutorial could also double as a Tribble tutorial haha

! I <3 this

g-haze Featured By Owner Nov 17, 2014 Hobbyist Digital Artist

I followed it, you're right, once you got it down it's really easy!

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ill be using this a lot. SHANKS FOR SHARING IT!

Imaliea Featured By Owner Nov 17, 2014 General Artist

Fantastically useful tutorial!! thank you for taking the time

NateHallinanArt Featured By Owner Nov 17, 2014 Professional Filmographer

No problem

Mrs-Durden Featured By Owner Nov 14, 2014 Hobbyist Photographer

Your amazing work has been featured here: Daily Deviations Weekly Highlight!

NateHallinanArt Featured By Owner Nov 17, 2014 Professional Filmographer

Thank you!

rachelbostwick Featured By Owner Nov 14, 2014 Student Digital Artist

Gorgeous. I'm not a painter but I shared the link for your tutorials around on my Facebook because I think these are genius and I'd love to see more talent like yours in the world.

NateHallinanArt Featured By Owner Nov 17, 2014 Professional Filmographer

Thank you very much for doing so.

AutumnCzun Featured By Owner Nov 14, 2014 Hobbyist Traditional Artist

Thank you!

g-haze Featured By Owner Nov 13, 2014 Hobbyist Digital Artist

This is a really interesting and useful tut! Thanks for sharing it!

also, ever heard of Warframe? Your art always reminds me of it.

MrWitchblade Featured By Owner Nov 13, 2014

Now, how can I paint fur on myself?
lol.

Even if you controlled my hands, I couldn't do this.

But I do try.

Love it.

RikerCreatures Featured By Owner Nov 11, 2014 Professional Artisan Crafter

YES!

Jose-the-Great Featured By Owner Nov 11, 2014 Student Traditional Artist

What a great use of the tools to find a solution for rendering convincing fur. Well done!

love3509 Featured By Owner Nov 10, 2014

Amazing! There are no other words for it.

Calilasseia Featured By Owner Nov 10, 2014

I am going to have so much fun experimenting with this!

If you haven't started work on a book, you should. Especially if you have more tutorials as good as this to offer.

JoannaFernando Featured By Owner Nov 10, 2014

Awesome... Thank you so much for the helpful tips and resources

muukz Featured By Owner Nov 9, 2014 Professional Digital Artist

Thanks for your creativity!

MiriamMoon Featured By Owner Nov 9, 2014 Student

Thank you for illustrating this. I now understand better how to draw fur...

PFjerky Featured By Owner Nov 9, 2014

Thanks for the tut, I want to squeeze this fur ball so much, it could match something directly from V-ray.

Cortanna117 Featured By Owner Nov 9, 2014 Student General Artist

Dang. The end result looks like a 3D render.

rotsentu Featured By Owner Nov 9, 2014 Professional Digital Artist

this is really cool. Thanks!

RavenAlexandra Featured By Owner Nov 9, 2014 Hobbyist General Artist

Looking at tutorials like this make me miss photoshop. I never spent enough time refining my technique. This one seems like a easy one to get down and apply it in lots of different ways.