How To Draw Dog Fur

Hairs make strands strands make coats coats make fur that s the first rule.

How to draw dog fur. That goes for human hair too by the way. Apr 1 2019 explore girouxemilie65 s board how to draw fur followed by 339 people on pinterest. Draw the final lines. I apply white color on the dog s head and nose it is important to draw this layer first because if it happens to look too bright you can always darken it using grey and black tones.

You don t even need to draw one strand. The amount of final detail you choose to add will depend on how much time you want to devote to the sketch. Fluffy fuzzy short or long. The biggest problem with fur is it can t be drawn in 2d.

Even when an animal seems to have smooth fur laying flat against the skin the strands appear when the skin is bending creasing. A tool capable of making indentions in the surface of the paper is used to create the initial indentions. Use coarse marks for long fur and fine marks for short fur. If it s long haired draw waves of fur as you would with a wolf.

For example if you draw a wolf head with short wide mouth drooping lips and floppy ears and attach it to a stocky body people will recognize a rottweiler. Kirsty partridge art 796 987 views. But believe it or not you don t actually need to draw every single strand of fur on an animal if you want it to look realistic. A beginner draws a flat silhouette and then tries to add fur also in 2d.

How to draw fur step by step drawing tutorial duration. This is ideal because if you look at your reference the fur of the edge of the puppy s legs is highlighted and it is this effect we are looking to achieve in this step. If the breed is short haired draw the outline of the muscles with short lines. Finally using your black colour pencil draw in any fine details like tufts of hair.

Remember the more you observe the small changes of fur tone and texture the finer the hair will look. I do some delicate white individual hair on the darkest parts of the fur. How to draw fur coarse hair. For coarse hair we ll start by considering the highlights.

See more ideas about how to draw fur animal drawings color pencil drawing. I show my drawing method for how i draw realistic fur step by step using graphite drawing pencils. For this demonstration i am using a clay tool but a stylus blunt needle or even the end of a paint brush will work as well. Fur comes in all kinds of textures lengths and colors and it s a major reason why animals are so darn cute.