Coco_Rendered with SketchBook Pro 7

[mwinkelmans]

Hi All. this is my first post, although I have been an online student with SVSLearn for over a year now. I do what I call "pet"-catures of people's furry friends. I work digitally and my preferred program is SketchBook Pro 7. I find its interface to be more intuitive than Photoshop and also, my computer gets bogged down when I use Photoshop.
Anyway, I recently took Therese Larsson's Course on rendering fur and applied her techniques to my latest project, "Coco". I learned so much from her and really recommend the course to anyone who draws animals. Even though the course was taught using Photoshop, I was able to simulate the techniques using Sketchbook Pro and was very happy with the results! My thanks to Therese and Will for offering this great course!

[mwinkelmans]

Ok, so I think this worked! You should be able to see "Coco" now. Thanks again for your help

[Chip Valecek]

Looks so soft and fluffy. I almost just want to pet the screen. Nice job.

[Will Terry]

@mwinkelmans Thank you - we're so glad to be able to help!

[Leontine]

Love the furiness and the subtile use of different colors. Nice job! The left iris looks a bit off. May be if you flip the canvas upside down and horizontally you ll see what to change. For me that always helps.

[amberwingart]

I love this! I'm an animal artist also and I know fur textures can be really challenging, but you nailed it here. You also captured the expression beautifully. I have a question: I work in traditional mediums, not in digital - would I be able to use the techniques from that course? I've been really looking forward to taking it but I didn't realize it's a digital class :(. Hopefully there'll be more traditional media classes added also...

[mwinkelmans]

@Chip-Valecek. Thanks Chip!

[mwinkelmans]

@Leontine . Thanks, Leontine. I usually mirror the image to get a different perspective and see if anything looks "off", but for some reason didn't do that with this piece. I guess I got lazy. I appreciate your advice!

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[mwinkelmans]

Oooops! Didn't mean for the font size to be so big. Sorry!

[mwinkelmans]

@amberwingart . It shouldn't be a problem, Amber. I'm the opposite, in that I don't work in traditional mediums, so I'm not an expert in answering your question by any means. That said, however, I would think the techniques and principles used when working digitally are the same as when working traditionally-it's just a different medium. Hope this helps.

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[Leontine]

@mwinkelmans It certainly gives the massage some body! hahaha LOL!