Hobby Cheating 190 - How to Paint Fur Revisited

[@ryansergeant2896]

Really enjoying your videos Vince. I let 'em play while I paint. I appreciate all the techniques you share. I would love to see how you approach horses, with their smooth sheen.

[@VinceVenturella]

Yeah, I have a horse video planned, it's been on my list for a while, just waiting for the right model.

[@mikebreazeale2563]

I really can't see. Good video but it is still really hard to see. Have you ever thought about going to a 2 camera set up? I would love to see these tuts better. Again...nice video. Thanks for sharing...

[@VinceVenturella]

I have thought about doing some photos along the way to help people out, a 2 camera thing is a little out of my reach.

[@HunterJE]

In terms of picking the technique that best fits the effect you're looking to achieve rather than picking one technique as the overall "best"/"right" way, for my eye this technique give a really cool effect of the way fur clumps together when it's damp or has gotten worn/matted over time

[@necaacen]

at first i was wondering where is he going with this... then it really started to come together after a minute or so. Im totally sold on it, and I think even when Im doing a regular wash/drybrsh type fur im gonna incorporate some layers of this in first to break it up, i love it.

[@VinceVenturella]

Yep, it's one of those techniques that looks really ugly throughout then suddenly snaps into place.

[@komma8203]

Love that conversion of the master of possesion, i have painted one and i got one more and that was a awesom take on him.

[@VinceVenturella]

It's such a wonderful figure for sure.

[@grraystorm]

Vince, thanks for all of the great work you do! I'm not sure how it works out so well, but a swear every time I'm looking for a specific video on an alternate idea either you or Uncle Atom are releasing it that day. I'm literally sitting here painting minis to swap with other painters at Uncle Atom's TMX in a few weeks, and needed one more alternative idea for fur! Thanks so much!

[@dirigoallagash3464]

Same here. I'm trying to do my son's Tabaxi (cat person) rogue for our home d&d game. It was/is not going well. Timing couldn't be better with this vid!

[@VinceVenturella]

Awesome to hear, I am always thrilled to have my vids align to people's projects. :)

[@surfacetension4471]

Thanks for the great tip, very useful! Chunking up textures like this is a really good idea and I don't do it enough. Makes me think I'd do better at mini painting if I learned to draw a bit. Anyway can't wait to try some clumps of my own at the next opportunity!

[@VinceVenturella]

I think the same about 2-D art all the time, but I spend too much time painting miniatures. ;)

[@BlastastiC]

Looks like a fun technique, thanks for demonstrating it! Going to try this on my Slaanesh chaos warriors.

[@VinceVenturella]

They are a great fig for this technique with that wonderful shoulder fur. :)

[@bentosan]

Great tutorial as usual, very interesting approach to fur. I’d love another tutorial on doing fur on a smoother model without the fur sculpted on like say a panther.

[@VinceVenturella]

Yep, the "achieving fur through paint alone" has been on my list for a while.

[@sonnydaniel9934]

I realize it is kinda randomly asking but does anybody know of a good site to watch newly released movies online ?

[@cainrory3632]

@Sonny Daniel flixportal :D

[@sonnydaniel9934]

@Cain Rory Thank you, signed up and it seems like they got a lot of movies there =) I appreciate it !!

[@franzbigT]

Very nice, don't think I'll use that for my 60+ Free Folks for a Song of Ice and Fire, but it would be worth the time on the giants and characters.

[@VinceVenturella]

Yeah, that might be a bit much over that many for sure. ;)

[@charlottelee4397]

I'm one of Sergei's patreons and this helps a bit with understanding how he works! I can almost hear his voice saying to work from dark to light, heh. Any chance you could talk about using the Pro Acryl paints, other than your initial review? Just got some and I'm itching to use them.

[@VinceVenturella]

Yep, there will be more videos coming soon with the Pro Aryls. Glad the video was helpful. :)

[@phillipchronister7035]

That is really cool! Thanks for the help!

[@VinceVenturella]

Happy to help!

[@marrokwolf1600]

my wolves of chaos thank you for this lol amazing video vince

[@VinceVenturella]

Excellent, can't wait to see it in action. :)

[@docbun]

The white hashes make a lot of sense to me as they're just where the light shines from the top. Love the process and result, there, Vince. Thanks! EDIT: How would you feel about there being some reflexions on the fur's hair? For instance, the fur on the left shoulder, assuming the ball of purple flame is a light source, could cause some (tiny) reflexions on the hair there, I guess? But not sure it it'd be feasible to represent it at this scale.

[@VinceVenturella]

Oh absolutely, that is certainly something you can do, I didn't build any OSL into this, but a little reflected light is a great idea for sure.

[@Karina-Loves-Andreas]

Love this! I'm painting a bear. Should I do almost exactly this method, then finish with brown washes? OR start with espresso brown base coat, and just make my highlights more golden, slightly brown in nature (but still very light)? I feel like this would be a very cool way to paint an overall "fur" model, but my bear needs a more brown-gold palette, this is too "cool" for his golden-brown grizzly look. But I think aiming for a similar level of contrast by starting with a darker brown, brown-black base coat might be the trick!!

[@VinceVenturella]

Yep, no washes, just build to the golden brown and build up those clumps. :)

[@Karina-Loves-Andreas]

@@VinceVenturella If it turns out well, I'll have to send you a photo! Thanks so much!!😄💖👍👍

[@Karina-Loves-Andreas]

@@VinceVenturella You mentioned Sergio Calvo. I just watched his "Untamed Beasts #3", his fur is "Bear Color", so excited to start shortly, today!! THANKS!!!😃

[@gergotothmihaly2307]

Thanks for the vid. I've found it a bit hard to pay attention to what you were doing. Probably because the mini was a bit far from the camera and your gloves, wet palette and kitchen towel all had the same colours on them than the mini itself.

[@VinceVenturella]

I an see that, it's always tough to determine shot composition, when I used to keep it very clean, people asked to see the palette, then people wanted to see the towel and so on. It's one of those things that I am always trying to balance.

[@gergotothmihaly2307]

@@VinceVenturella Yep, I can only imagine how difficult it is, painting, explanation and shooting the video all at the same time. Thanks for constantly listening to our whining :D

[@MrNayiro]

Hey Vince, hope you see this. Logn time fan. I am trying this technique on Atlantis Miniatures Sphinx. She has a ton of sculpted fur, very detailed miniature. I am having so much trouble figuring out how to apply what you so effortlessly accomplish in the video. Any further tips? thank you!

[@VinceVenturella]

You have to think in clumps. THe trick is to prevent your brain from making even size chunks and just make random patterns, then overlap them with the mid-tones as you go up, then have the highlights pick out the smallest clumps. By working up like that, you get this natural fur variation that has lots of different shadow tones.

[@jaretmoskal5558]

Looks good Vince. I’m continually impressed at you’re ability to get effects without a drop of agrex or nulin oil. Btw is that a monument ignitor? I’ve been thinking about picking up a set as I don’t have any sables yet

[@VinceVenturella]

Thank you and yes, it is. I have been trying them lately. The size 1 and 0 were both good, I had some issues with the larger ones, but those 2 are doing quite well.

[@chaoticpainting1507]

Are you going to be at GenCon 2022? I'd love to get a class with you and GenCon is in my back yard. This year was a last minute decision to go so we only went for one day and I didn't see a class by you in the line up. Or do you do online classes at all? I love your style of painting as well as how you teach and I feel like id get a lot from a class with you.

[@VinceVenturella]

I will be at Gen-Con 2022 and likely doing classes yes. :)

[@chaoticpainting1507]

@@VinceVenturella awesome, well then I guess I'll see you then!

[@kevinhayes517]

I’m looking forward to trying to alternative method on my next project that has fur…do you think there is also a possibility of combining both methods together, or will that result in a mess?

[@VinceVenturella]

You can do a little of both, but you still want to focus the light (i.e. any higher drybrushing) only to a restriced area.

[@brandonstubbs85]

Can't thank you enough for this tutorial! I really have never been satisfied with the dry brushing method. Would you still recommend this technique for a miniature completely covered in fur, like a wolf or bear?

[@VinceVenturella]

Absolutely, it will work exceptionally well in those cases.

[@peterlageri4177]

I am looking for a tutorial on painting fur trimmed (or fur brimmed) boots. I thought I saw one in one of your videos. Maybe in was on hair.......... Do you have one or know one?

[@VinceVenturella]

So basically what you see here in this video is more or less exactly how I do fur trimmed boots as well. same technique. :)

[@davidkilby1043]

Would you recommend this technique for larger scales?

[@VinceVenturella]

When you say larger scales, I assume you mean 54mm and 75mm, in which case yes absolutely. If you mean scales on a dragon, no. :)

[@davidkilby1043]

@@VinceVenturella its a bust. I think about 1/12th scale. Fantasy goatman. My girlfriend is a capricorn, so it is going to be a gift.

[@VinceVenturella]

Absolutely, looks great in larger scales.

[@davidkilby1043]

@@VinceVenturella thanks. I think i am going to use this technique when i get started

[@operator9858]

not going to lie...painting fur is pissing me off. its far more complicated then anything else and nobody really wants to help you out. been trying to figure this out for weeks and months and they always just turn out like crap and people just come back and say oh you need to do wet blending and color glazing! okay, thanks for the advice professor whatever the fuck that means!

[@VinceVenturella]

So I have this video, but worry not, I actually have another video really breaking it down and showing the simple technique coming soon, so stay tuned.