Drawing Animal Fur

How then do you draw the pelt.

Drawing animal fur. I go through beginner drawing mistakes for drawing realistic fur with drawing pencils. I show my drawing method for how i draw realistic fur step by step using graphite drawing pencils. How to draw animals. Quickly render fur 2.

Understanding fur in 3d. A few practical tips. Draw the hind legs. Add fur to the tail.

To draw animals with fur add overlapping lines for the fur making sure your lines are going in the same direction the fur is going. Short lines short fur long lines long fur. The fur on the squirrels head and back is very short so well use very short lines. These lines can and should overlap each other just as the fur does.

Fluffy fuzzy short or long. Fur comes in all kinds of textures lengths and colors and its a major reason why animals are so darn cute. But believe it or not you dont actually need to draw every single strand of fur on an animal if you want it to look realistic. Drawing fur is all about understanding the texture.

Texture is one of the seven elements of art and refers to the way an object feels to the touch or looks as it may feel if it were touched. In a drawing or any other form of 2d art the artist creates the illusion of realistic texture. Drawing realistic looking fur for a wolf or any other animal is a difficult process. In fact it is one of the harder elements of drawing to perfect.

Drawing fur takes an excellent eye that can observe tiny details and translate them into the drawing. One of the hardest parts about drawing fur and hair on a wolf is that it uses the illusion technique. I dont use stumps very often at all and never when drawing fur. In order to give it a realistic fur texture you want to leave the strokes in tact and use layering to cover the paper.

Thats why its so important to draw the fur in the same direction and lengths the fur would fall on an animal. Long fur doesnt define the bone structure of an animal as well as short fur. But the contrasting shading of the light and shadow areas identifies the basic form of her head. Drawing form beyond the furry texture.

In this exercise you draw the form of the leg and foot of a puppy with short fur. The same basic principles apply to drawing short fur on any part of an animals body. Now think of drawing a mammal from twenty feet away. How much real hair detail can you see.