New style experiment on model! (Patreon)

I have spent alot of time figuring out how to achieve this drawing style with this 3D shader. at first I thought I would just sculpt the fur but the problem with that is in places like the tail and neck where there is a lot of thick fur, sculpted long fur would stretch and look odd. I then thought I would just use thick strands of fur however making the fur look right took quite a while and using this kind of fur all over the body on parts where the fur would be shorter looked very bad.

Now I am thinking of combining the two techniques, long strands for thick bits of fur like around the chest neck and tail and then sculpted painted fur on places where fur would be shorter. I am hoping the finished product will look seamless as I don't want the long real fur and short sculpted fur to look like separate objects, like around the face for instance.