How to Paint White Fur - More Realistic Miniatures 

This looks so good and it's just layering. People forget how effective the fundamentals are. Great stuff.

Zambies, the fairy goth mother of the internet and the absolute queen of painting fur! Love it!!

Not even gonna bullshit around it. The best white fur ive seen painted on YT period. Girl your work is excellent. Subscribed

Thank you, very clear tutorial. Love to see the finished model.

You're really good at what You're doing there. Respect.

your tips always seem to pop up in my recommended right when I need them

I understand that different games and genres often have their own “look”, as do different artists within those parameters.(I love that Grimdark look!) But here, you’re encouraging more realism, and I’m encouraging you to go further. Portrait and wildlife painters understand that 8000 hairy lines don’t make hair. Individual hairs don’t have shadows. Hair will begin as a shape of color, modified by texture (slick flat, bushy, curly, wiry, wavy, etc.) age, camouflage, direct and indirect lighting, or fantasy. Hold your miniature up to the picture of your white dog, and squint. The white dog will fuzz out to blocks of your buff, transitioning into light umbers. The darkest blocks are under his muzzle, a small patch under his jaw, the 2nd largest patch below his neck, above the medium highlight over his shoulder. The other two darkest values are the triangle behind his front leg, and the one under his haunches. The lightest areas separate his body from the background. Overall, it’s a soft, smooth transition of creamy colors that creates the urge for us to go pet this soft animal. All of the hair strokes are added after the soft blends are done. The more individual hairs seen, the more cartoony it looks. Squint at your model and compare. Google the National portrait Gallery in the UK and you’ll see what I mean. The shaggiest of your model’s sculpt, with its very raised clumps of hair, defeats your purpose, if you’re going to use the white dog as your prototype. But, even an arctic wolf with its longest coat has the same soft, smooth transitions, as well as its innate coloring. Google “shaggy animals” and you’ll get closer. A shaggy cow, or long haired dog after their bath, STILL show shaped blocks of hair prior to adding “hair strokes.” ALSO…paint your blocks in acrylics, shade with washes, blend with oils, dry it for a week, and then add a few hair strokes. I know these suggestions subtract from the drams of a scary dog in high contrast lighting. But actually, the higher the contrast, the more individual hairs disappear. That’s also reality. Your BIG, overall suggestion to your audience is correct. There are lots of light colors to apply before you get to that final white highlight. If you read all this,….thanks!

yeesss Preach about the cult of using the butt of your brush for color mixing!! Fantastic tutorial - saved it to my minipainting playlist I refer to for how to do things :D

Your voice is soooo relaxing, I could literally listen to you all night.

You earned my subscription with this video.

Again, so nice to see your stuff on the tube! I will add some more colors to my fur from now on!

Oh! Something I need to work on this weekend! Thank you 🙏

Great stuff Zambies !!

very nice. thank you

I really want to practice using colors other than black for an undercoat. The chocolate brown was a great shadow!

This is a gorgeous affect. I've been painting models for a few years now but i still feel like i only got started in so many ways. My friends also say that i make my paint projects more complicated than they need to be.

Awesome tutorial, Zambies! Love it!

Great tutorial. I glad to see someone else using the but of their brush for mixing. I find it so much better for cleaning and controlling dilution.

Wow you made something absolutely nails, look less challenging and more workable!! Sign of a good tutor!!! 😊

That is amazing!

Been trying to find a good guide to do my thunderwolves for ages! This was excellent thank you.

Very impressive, your brush control is excellent. Thankyou for a great tutorial.

Thanks for this great tutorial! Trying white fur for the first time and this was super helpful.

Gorgeous work

Spectacular effect, but good luck doing this on army size projects 🙂

Nice

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Wow, that's just beautiful... and this was a great tutorial!! I just happen to have a werewolf or 2 waiting to be painted. Also, I just subscribed to your channel. I'm looking forward to seeing what's next 😊

I'll have to start using brush butt!!

A really awesome tutorial! Incredibly helpful. Would you have any tips for painting non-sculpted fur? Eg. Turning a flat cloth cape into a fur coat with paint without greenstuff

Nice method with a great result! How long do you estimate it would take you to paint the whole wolf with this meticulous method?

I dread painting white, but this gives me ideas as to how to go about it in better and more creative ways, so thank you for this very cool video! Was the model for this wolf your own doggo?

Nice! I’m assuming you could do this same technique with a cool pallet? I have a wild boar that I want to paint to look more like a spell so I’m thinking blues or purples.

Thank you for this tutorial. Could you tell me the brand of the yellow brush please ?

That takes patience, wow! But you get out of it what you put in and I see you're not continent with just a wash and a drybrush. Now, have you ever painted a white dragon?

Hi, awesome video. What could be use instead of olive Flesh & Bold Titanium White from Pro Acryl in Vallejo color range ?

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Its amazing but takes so much time. I think Ill just drybrush 😂

i have goatman ans imma make him winter goatman

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