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I’m planning to (re)start work on my Winged Wolf PYO, and I’m curious as to how to add some depth/definition to his furry parts, but it’s surprisingly difficult to figure out how this should work on a black wolf! Those of you who’ve painted furry critters black before, what are your tricks or methods for this?
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I VERY lightly loaded a brush with dark grey, blotted it, and drybrushed over the fur to get a little on the top of the fur ‘ridges’- sort of a reverse antiquing. The brush was just about dry, so only a little gets on the figure.
Hope this helps!I VERY lightly loaded a brush with dark grey, blotted it, and drybrushed over the fur to get a little on the top of the fur ‘ridges’- sort of a reverse antiquing. The brush was just about dry, so only a little gets on the figure.
Hope this helps!I agree with this. Dry brushing over the fur in a slightly lighter color really brings definition to the fur.
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I would go further than this, actually. I would paint the wolf a somewhat dark grey, then use a very thinned paint “wash” to add shadows to the recesses (as well as darken the piece overall) and then lightly drybrush a slightly lighter grey over top. Then, knowing me, I’d go back with the dark wash on any place that was supposed to be shadowed – like under the jaw, at the knees and and under the tail. But I’m known for too many steps and never leaving anything alone.
I would go further than this, actually. I would paint the wolf a somewhat dark grey, then use a very thinned paint “wash” to add shadows to the recesses (as well as darken the piece overall) and then lightly drybrush a slightly lighter grey over top.
Agree with this.
I personally wouldn’t shade with grey, but with a dark navy or some other hue. It depends what kind of a ‘Black’ look you’re going for though 🙂
I used DecoArt’s Gray brush on/wipe off antiquing medium paint for my black and dark purple PYO wolf! I think it turnrd out good. I’ve got her in my gallery here.
I would go further than this, actually. I would paint the wolf a somewhat dark grey, then use a very thinned paint “wash” to add shadows to the recesses (as well as darken the piece overall) and then lightly drybrush a slightly lighter grey over top. Then, knowing me, I’d go back with the dark wash on any place that was supposed to be shadowed – like under the jaw, at the knees and and under the tail. But I’m known for too many steps and never leaving anything alone.
I third this. 🙂
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https://www.redbubble.com/people/prezaurian?ref=artist_title_nameWelp. I had a sneaking suspicion that this was what I should have done… and it’s sounding more and more like that’s exactly what I should have done. As the wolf is already painted black, though, it’s a bit late and now I’m stuck trying to work around what’s already on him. *sigh*
I would go further than this, actually. I would paint the wolf a somewhat dark grey, then use a very thinned paint “wash” to add shadows to the recesses (as well as darken the piece overall) and then lightly drybrush a slightly lighter grey over top.
Agree with this.
Interested in buying or trading for: GB Pebble Sitting Red Fox in dark grey, Lap Dragon Test Paints (Water Sprite, Glacial Pearl, Opulence, Pastel Rainbow, and many others - see my Classifieds ad), Blue Morpho OW, GB Pebble Loaf dragons in blue/aqua/teal, and Griffin Test Paints (Black Rainbow or Frosted Jade).
I’ll keep this in mind, thanks! With the winged wolf, I’ll probably go with grey, as his eyes are grey; but I’ve got my PYO Kitsune on the list to do once the wolf is finished, and for that one I’m going to use a rich chocolatey brown — I’m basing the kitsune’s pattern on my dog, and her undercoat is a dark-chocolate color in a lot of places! Under strong/bright sunlight, you can see quite a bit of brown in her coat, so I think it’d work well for shading the Kitsune.
Thanks, everybody who offered tips!
I personally wouldn’t shade with grey, but with a dark navy or some other hue. It depends what kind of a ‘Black’ look you’re going for though 🙂
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That’s a good suggestion; thank you! I think I will try to work some navy blue into his coat, too, as well as grey. (He’s an odd hybrid of realistic and fantastical, so perhaps I can use the different colors to suggest the split – winged parts with navy, wolf parts with grey?
Hmm… maybe I need to draw a diagram…
Just remember (unless you are going for a black-black wolf, then just ignore this) that black animals, especially wolves, aren’t actually pure black. If you look closely at them they’re a freakin’ rainbow, I’m not joking! 😀 Black wolves usually have undertones of red/dark brown, blue and purple. (And when they get older they grey out so much, so severely, that if you didn’t already know about how black wolves grey out you’d never know that they were born black!) So if your wolf isn’t pure black, then I’d try to work in some other dark shades of colour. 🙂 Just a suggestion!
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That sounds pretty! 😀 Glad I could be helpful!
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Excellent!
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