28 Realistic FUR Procreate Brushes

20 brushes remastered from FUR brush sets for Photoshop and Clip Studio Paint + 8 absolutely new ones.

• Also, the brushes depicting fur from the side view (brushes #2, 3, and 8) have two options each for left and right hair growth directions. So, the set includes three more brushes.

• You receive in the ZIP archive (40.9 Mb):

• FUR_•_by_EldarZakirov.brushset — the file containing the FUR brushes for Procreate; • Realistic FUR for Procreate — some tips and notes.pdf — the PDF file containing some tips you see below, just to have them on hand;

• Some useful tips and notes:

• • How I'd advise painting furry volumes. As you know, there are a number of basic shading techniques in painting and drawing, and I like this one as the most appropriate for me — I find it one of the most rational ways of painting the fur — to start coloring with a neutral, halftone local color, then shade it according to the volume and lighting, then add layers of the fur with colors a bit lighter than the underlying shading.

• • You can try at first to place basic shading with a simple brush, hard or soft (as you can see in the video with demonstration), and then put the fur strands above, according to the form and lighting.

• • After that, as usual, it's necessary to make some areas deeper (darker) — for example, shaded areas deep among strands near their roots — or set some light and highlight accents in the lights.

• • You can also experiment with layer and brush blending modes, such as Soft Light, Screen, Multiply, etc.

• • As in painting or drawing at all, I'd recommend proceeding from common, main shapes to partial ones and details: firstly, specify the main big volume, lights, and darks, then put non-detailed fur strands using matching brushes, and then do the detailing with detailed fur brushes.

• • In the end, I'd add some of the sharpest strands or hairs, maybe blur or darken some of the underlying strands, and light up some of the most visible, highlighted ones. Try to make some of them softer or sharper, darker or lighter in the finish or work, a kind of post-processing. Add some highlights.

• • As said before, brushes #2, 3, and 8 have two options for left and right hair growth direction.

• • Some of the brushes have minor randomized color variations for each stamp. This was intended to give minor color variations to each brush 'stamp ' to make each tuft look as different and picturesque as possible. But sometimes, this variability may not be necessary, as in your case, as I understand. In this case, you can decrease Hue and Saturation jitters in the Color Dynamics tab of the Brushes settings.

Here's a shot of these settings (image from the Procreate.art official website):

In particular, I mean the "Color pressure" field and 'Hue' attributes.

• How to install the brushes:

Open any installed or pre-installed brush, then choose 'Import' at the top of the brush settings panel. Then specify the file with the downloaded brush set (FUR_•_by_EldarZakirov.brushset). Voila! The folder with the set will appear at the top of the brush category list.