Hello everyone, today I'll show you how to render the fur of a cat or practically any animal.
I'll start by sketching the outline of the head in profile.
The eye socket,
the cornea, which is the transparent part, the iris and the pupil.
Once I have the basic outline I take an old pen without ink
and with this, I mark the paper where the whiskers and hair will go.
I also indent some of the fur on the face.
Of course this marks that I am doing are going to stay white.
You may use any old pen for this.
Then with a pencil or a lead holder, you can draw over it.
Of course the graphite is not going to go in
and the whiskers and hairs will magically appear.
For these dark areas, I'm using a very soft lead, a 6B.
For the illusion of brightness of the eye,
I'll use the contrast of strong lights and shadows.
Of course they follow the round shape.
I use very short strokes to accomplish two things at once:
the tone I want and the feel of the texture.
Above my dark strokes there will be almost unperceivable white lights,
the ones I have invisibly made with the old pen.
You can find the list of materials in the description of the video.
I'll do a shadow on the whiskers so they are more real and stand out.
Normally I like to smudge the graphite with a brush.
I haven't done so in this drawing
because the graphite will get into the white hairs, losing the effect.
Here, I can use my dear brush because the eye has not hair
and I reinforce the lights with the eraser.
I'd love to know what do you think about it.
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