White Fur Focus Tutorial (Patreon)

I love doing these little focus tutorials, they're short and you learn so much about the type of hair or fur we're drawing. This month it's white hair, taken from a photo of my lovely girl Slipper. The piece is only about 4x3" so not big at all and took me just over 3 hours. 

Patience is key with fur like this - and setting yourself expectations as this one really does look pretty grim for quite a while! 

I've used a lot of the studios due to their gorgeous subtle qualities, if you want to substitute them for polychromos or luminance then do so, just use a much lighter pressure.

You'll also be using scotch tape and the slice tool in this tutorial, you can use a knife if you prefer. 

Pastelmat board again is the support in white, if you're using the white card/paper then you may just need a few more layers, or you can add an initial layer over the entire area of something like a luminance buff titanium, with quite firm pressure just to squash a bit of the tooth down.

Everything on this video can be done on smooth paper, the only thing I would be careful with would be the scotch tape and slice tool - make sure you test first before using them.