Thursday, February 25, 2016

Rendering Feathers and Fur.


Rendering Feathers and Fur.

The idea of drawing a realistic interpretation of fur, feathers and other natural textures are often daunting in the idea of copying down every single part. In reality, your task is to create shorthand that the viewer will see as the item you wish to represent. This job isn’t exceptionally hard, but it requires a bit of trial and error, plus a bit of patience.  The term rendering is used to describe the process of drawing a texture that represents a real-life object or feature in a convincing way. This is a great tool to make something that doesn’t exist seem more realistic in your artwork.

As art is developed from sketch to final art, you not only need to represent the texture, you must also express the volume, shading and effect of focus as the feathers or fur as it falls away. All of this will allow the brain to accept the illusion that you are creating. After all, you are creating an image on a piece of paper or illustration board. I have posted two images to illustrate some of my latest work. In my next post I will show how some of these techniques where done. 



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