Hairy Mouse

**Tabian** · 12 February 2012, 08:39 PM

Hi everyone, because of one thing or another this little rodent has taken longer to get finished than I would have wished but here he is...

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**handrawn** · 12 February 2012, 08:42 PM

and excellent he be - great texturing

**Rik** · 12 February 2012, 09:08 PM

That looks very creepy!
That also means that it looks very realistic, to me.
Brilliant.

**angelize** · 12 February 2012, 09:11 PM

That is very well done Tabian. I have done some work before doing animal fur and it's not the easiest thing to achieve. Could you tell us a little bit about how you did the fur?

**gwpriester** · 12 February 2012, 09:29 PM

Nice work on the fur and the image as well. It looks very photographic.

**wizard509** · 12 February 2012, 11:34 PM

Most excellent Tabian.

**Soquili** · 13 February 2012, 12:02 AM

Excellent work Tabian.

**Tabian** · 13 February 2012, 09:00 AM

Hi Frances, the way I drew the fur was to draw a few strands in three shades of brown. Apply a transparency to loos that hard leading edge, clone it and overlay the clones one on top of the other.

**angelize** · 13 February 2012, 05:02 PM

Thanks Tabian, I was wondering if that was how you went about it. I have used that method my self. I will sometimes make a bunch of groups of strands with different mixtures of colours and mix and match these groups as I work a drawing. It can get rather system intensive on a large drawing. I did a bear once and redraw took forever!