First off, before you can really get into serious fur work, you might want to invest some time into making your own fur brushes or in finding some. Well I found two good sets some time back that I found to be rather priceless. So unless you want to spend the rest of your life filling in one hair at a time, I suggest looking into these, they will save you a lot of headache . Trust me, I have tried to do the 'one hair at a time' method...it really kills your wrist.

Brushes: [link] (compatible with both photoshop and paint shop pro)

Now onto the more important part. So you now have the brushes and they look spiffey and all but how the heck do you use them???!!! Well I have found a few places that give good tutorials. The first of which that I found is located at:

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The site has a good list of tutorials for fur, hair, and clothing. Some of the links are older and are broken but I found a good deal of them work and are rather useful in one way or another. I won't say which have been the best because to each his own. One person may find one tutorial better than another and vice versa. So just take your time and go through the list, it will be worth your while .

Another pretty good tutorial is: [link] age= The author is a professional artist and his methods are much the same as mine in rendering fur. He also speaks on the topic of color management which my last journal dealt with. If you are interested in realism with fur invest some time in his tutorial!! You will not regret it!

Yet another fairly decent fur tutorial is: [link] her tips are useful as well. Her art is located at: [link] art/new.html and seeing from her skill level I would say her tutorial is definetly worth paying attention to.

That may not seem like a lot of links but trust me in those few links is a world of knowledge and the key to many doors! Do not get discouraged if your first try doesn't work out as you planned. Do not try to start a big project right off, practice the skills that are taught first and you will be rewarded. It takes time and petience to render realistic fur and even I still have a LONG way to go.

Also a few other good links to photoshop tutorials(not necessarily fur) are:

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**EDIT** A few more wonderful tutorial links

Tutorial from jocarra on DA: [link]

Wolf fur tutorial from Katherine Dinger (drawing every single hair):
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And the last one, again from Katherine Dinger (shows how to make a good fur brush and use it to make realistic fur):
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Special thanks to for the links. Do check them out!

IF anybody else who reads this journal has good links to tutorials or other resources they have found, do feel free to post them for the benefit of all .