Article · Squishing Paint
How To Paint a Cat: A Beginner's Guide to Success
- Type
- Article
- Level
- Beginner
- Price
- Free
About this lesson
An acrylic painter's guide to cats: choosing and greyscaling reference photos, building fur from undertones through shadows and highlights with varied stroke lengths and worn angle brushes, and getting colour variation, depth and highlights right in the eyes.
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R.J. Fleming