Adding Light & Texture to a Pet Portrait

Video Transcript

"Moving on to the next phase of adding more texture and depth and highlights to our dog's coat, we're going to do a couple of things. First off, make sure you have two medium sized round brushes at your disposal. One of these is going to be used to apply this more medium, darker gray that we have here and also any other darker highlights that we have. The other one is going to be used to apply white. White highlights, white fur kind of coming out as well on our coat. These are going to result in more of kind of that scraggly, scruffy, Schnauzer coat. Let's start in this region here. This area underneath here is a darker area. It has some darker fur as part of it. So, let's start adding these darker highlights. You notice right away that they're going to stand out over the lighter gray color that we've already drawn in here. This is great; this is the kind of texture that you wanted. Keep on with this, extending it upwards. You don't always even have to go back and refill your paint yet. You're going to notice, also, since the under gray area's still wet it's going to be mixing in slightly. That's fine. Go back occasionally and grab some more. Now, to demonstrate the light highlights, you're going to follow the exact same process, except in this case it's going to be white fur. So you can see the white fur highlights how they come across. And occasionally grab on slightly, thicker more version, thicker more application of the white paint. Especially where sometimes it can get stubborn if it's still wet. Scruff it up at the toe because that's what happens to the fur. We're going to continue with these dual applications over the entire body part of the dog going all the way up to the bottom of their collar because the face is its own special area of detail."