Realistic FUR Brush Set for Photoshop, PS Elements

28 Realistic FUR Brushes for Adobe Photoshop

Works also with Adobe Photoshop Elements and Adobe Fresco

Realistic FUR is 28 excellent Photoshop brushes I use for creating perfect fur when painting animals, furries, original characters with fur, and other wooly and fluffy creatures and objects.

I’ve worked to learn how to draw realistic fur for quite a lot of time. And I can be proud that I’ve reached this goal (and keep moving on). To simplify the work process, I created a series of brushes for myself, and here I’d like to share it with you. My brushes allow you to create high-quality, realistic fur styles and countless combinations. So I’m sure, you’ll appreciate the assistance that they will give you during your work!

20 brushes remastered from the first ‘FUR’ brush set + 8 new brushes! The brushes depicting fur from the side view (brushes # 2, 3, and 8) have two options for each one, for the left and right hair growth direction. Therefore, there are actually three more brushes in the set — 31.

■ Minimal versions where the brushes were tested:

• CS, but in fact, the ABR format file is compatible with earlier Photoshop versions, too.

All brushes were created, tested, and improved over long and multiple work processes.

■ You will receive:

1. 28+ FUR brushes saved in the “Realistic FUR 2015-2020 Brush Set by Eldar Zakirov. Rel.3.0.abr” file;
2. How to install and Some useful tips.pdf — the PDF file containing some tips regarding usage and installation. You can see them below. Just to have them on hand;
3. Realistic-FUR-4-PS-Brush-List.jpg. The brush list image you see above (sometimes it’s just convenient to have it).

■ Copyright and Terms:

• Please note: there are versions of this brush set for a number of software products: Photoshop, Clip Studio Paint, Procreate, Affinity Photo / Designer. You’re looking through the PHOTOSHOP version page. Please be sure that you’re buying the right one. I don’t accept returns, exchanges, or cancellations. But don’t hesitate to get in touch with me if you have any problems with your order.

• This product can be used in an unlimited number of personal and commercial works.
• Cannot be resold, shared, or provided to third persons entirely and partially. 
• NOT released under the GPL (General Public License) or any of its variations.
If you find it on the market selling with such a license, it means that this product is distributed there illegally and stolen or redistributed illicitly without the author’s knowledge.

■ Some useful tips and notes:

How I’d advise painting furry volumes. As you know, there are a number of basic shading techniques in painting and drawing, and I like this one as the most appropriate for me — I find it one of the most rational by painting the fur — to start coloring with a neutral, halftone local color, then shade it according to the volume and lighting. Usually, this underpainting should be darker than fur, as it would be in the shadow. So, add the layers above to add the fur. All the brushes have a minor color and lightness jitter to make the fur more realistic.

• So, try at first to place basic shading with a simple brush you prefer to paint, usually, hard or soft, and then put the fur strands above, according to the form and lighting.

• After, it may be necessary to make some areas deeper (darker) — for example, shaded areas deeply among strands near their roots — or set some light and highlight accents in the lights.

• You can also experiment with layer’ and brush blending modes, such as Soft Light, Screen, Multiply, etc.

• As in painting or drawing at all, I’d recommend proceeding from common, main shapes to partial ones and details: firstly, specify the main big volume, lights, and darks, then put non-detailed fur strands using matching brushes, and then make the detailing with detailed fur brushes.

• In the end, I’d add some of the sharpest strands or hairs, maybe blur or darken some of the underlying strands, and light up some of the most visible, highlighted ones. Try to make some of them softer or sharper, darker or lighter in the finish or work, a kind of post-processing. Add some highlights, specular. The separated hair can be drawn by regular textured thin brushes.

• Brushes # 2, 3, and 8 have two options for each one, for left and right hair growth direction.

1. Added 8 new HQ brushes
2. The brushes in the set were improved and edited:

• Now, the side-view brushes have 2 options: for left and right hair growth.
• All the brushes are renamed and systematized for ease of use and search for the right brush.