11-18-2015, 07:24 PM
Hey Stardust! Long time since I've seen your stuff or communicated with you! That fox is looking really great, I agree with Panda that eye has such depth. I think the left eye looks ok to me, but it does make it feel like a stuffed dead fox rather than a living one - but I guess that's what you painted from so all good.
As to fur, there's an ink technique that could work with paint too as long as you have quite a thick mixture; you kind of flatten the end of the brush by making a heavy stroke on a piece of scrap paper, the bristles on the flattened tip should kind of break apart and create a kind of 'comb' brush tip which you can use to add fur in small sections with light strokes. Here's an ink demo of that technique, I'm sure you could get it to work with gouache too: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=7biI9qGKYD4
Watch from 15:40 for the technique, then again from 40:49 to see him using it.
As to fur, there's an ink technique that could work with paint too as long as you have quite a thick mixture; you kind of flatten the end of the brush by making a heavy stroke on a piece of scrap paper, the bristles on the flattened tip should kind of break apart and create a kind of 'comb' brush tip which you can use to add fur in small sections with light strokes. Here's an ink demo of that technique, I'm sure you could get it to work with gouache too: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=7biI9qGKYD4
Watch from 15:40 for the technique, then again from 40:49 to see him using it.