Drawing fur can feel daunting, particularly if you’re still developing your coloured pencil skills. Often the colours can look right but the texture is lacking, or looks coarse and wirey when it was supposed to be soft. It’s an absolutely fundamental skill if you’re planning on drawing realistic animals, and the good news is that it doesn’t need to be difficult!

By using some basic pencil techniques and following my 3 step fur drawing process, you can draw beautiful animals with ease.

In this class, I will show you:

• The basic materials every color pencil artist needs
• The fundamental pencil techniques used for drawing fur
• Easy to follow steps for creating fur
• How to draw a little mouse, from the initial sketch to the finished drawing

My class is designed with beginners in mind, so I don’t use a lot of technical words – everything is broken down and explained. Once I’ve explained the materials you’ll need and the process we’ll be following, we can draw a practice fur swatch. Then once you’re confident in the techniques, we can draw a little mouse.

Included in this set:

Practical Lesson:

• Course Introduction
• 1. Materials for Drawing Fur with Colored Pencil
• 2. The Key Basic Pencil Techniques
• 3. The Process
• 4. Practice Swatch - Put Down the Base Layers
• 5. Practice Swatch - Build up the Texture
• 6. Practice Swatch - Add the Final Details
• 7. The Mouse - Studying the Reference Photo
• 8. The Mouse - Create the Sketch
• 9. The Mouse - Create the Light Base Layers
• 10. The Mouse - Create the Darker Base Layers
• 11. The Mouse - Building up the Fur Texture
• 12. The Mouse - Smoothing out the Fur
• 13. The Mouse - Add the Final Touches
• 14. Class Summary

Bonus Assets

• Cat Reference Photo (.jpg)
• Mouse Reference Photo (.jpg)
• Zoomed-In Practice Swatch Reference Photo (.jpg)
• Mouse Sketch Heavy Lines (.pdf)
• Mouse with Grid (.jpg)
• Mouse Swatch (.pdf)
• How To Draw Fur Swatch (.pdf)
• Mouse Sketch Light Lines (.pdf)

Course Duration: 1 hours 35 mins

• Permanent Access – No time limit for undertaking the course
• Lessons available to stream from your Design Cuts account
• High Quality Video

Zipped File Size: 7.21 MB

File Types Included: JPG, PDF