How to Paint Fur, Fast! Contrast, Wash, Drybrush - Grey + Brown Warhammer Painting Tutorial

In this tutorial we're covering How to Paint Fur for your Warhammer 40k, and Warhammer AOS armies. We cover a fast and medium speed method, colours for brown and grey, and arm you with all the knowledge you need to paint whatever fur you need to! The tutorial is packed with miniature painting tips and tricks, and you get a bonus tutorial on how to paint Fenrisian Wolves.

Timestamps
0:00 Intro
0:49 Brown Fur
6:53 Icy Blue Fur
12:12 Detailing
13:00 Bases
15:47 Finished Models and Outro

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Fundamental/Basic army level Techniques:

Terrain:

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Basing Tutorials:

In this video Byron’s using the Artis Opus Brushes!

Music: Bensounds

#ArtisOpus #SeriesD #Drybrushing

[WASD]

I dig ‘em! Hoping to use this technique for a fur cloak on one of my troll miniatures.

[Nosferatuklown]

It might be lazy but I love using my contrast paints on fur - it comes out great with a bit of dry brushing at the end.

[GlobbitsGaming]

Oooh oooh oooh YAY!!! That blue puppo looks ace 😍😍😍

[wrongdoer]

Love these! I think it’s super smart how you look at real photos ahead of time to give yourself a tighter color scheme. I’m definitely going to make the frosted wolves for when I get to making my space Wolf army!

[Tai-Rex]

I just want to say thanks so much for the quality content. I'm currently waiting on a covid test result, and watching/listening to your videos while painting has really helped to keep me somewhat relaxed.

[SuBuGaming]

Definitely going to be using this technique when I start painting Fenrisian Dire wolves!

Excellent vid again Byron. Keep up the amazing work, always a pleasure to watch, with great explanation and tips. Really helpful and fun to watch

[wpb]

This is so perfect! Im in the midst of painting the Karkadrak model but wasn’t sure what to do with the fur parts. I know exactly what to do now. Thank you!

[LOM]

Awesome! I was looking for tips to finally paint Sif (Dark Souls). I feel ready!!!

[wolfbytes]

my eyes have witnessed a miracle a painting video on my favourite squad of my army plus a really cool way to do it ICE WOLFY SOO COOOL

[simonleach]

Nice, love both schemes, deffinately need to try these, got a 1:32 scale Royal Flying Corps pilot somewhere, thinking this would be ace to try on the collar of his flying jacket, but probably going to use my stormboyz as a test first!

[Lebs]

fantastic tutorial :) Will use it, soon time to paint my wolves. This could also be used on fur pelts on space wolves marines.

[ImperviousSC]

Awesome video, I love how these turned out. That brown fur looks great.

I did something similar to your tutorial for the ice blue/grey with my wolves. When I looked online for some inspiration, I noticed that grey wolves actually have a good chunk of black and multiple different shades of brown in their fur (usually black/dark grey near the top, going to dark brown below that and lighter brown below that), so I did things slightly different to try to imitate that. I started with a lighter colour basecoat, just like you did. My next step was to put a very thick and heavy horizontal strip of black near the top, going from the front of the mini all the way to near the end of it's tail, and then a strip of dark brown below that around the tops of the shoulders, and then a strip of a lighter brown immediately below that, partway down the shoulders and belly of the wolves. It looked really ugly at this step. I then did a nuln oil wash on the mini, to darken the recesses and help soften this contrast, and then I started drybrushing, except I started with darker colours and progressively went lighter, ending in a slightly off-white. Each layer softened that hard black or brown contrast compared to the lighter colour fur, and I ended up with a result I really liked. It still had small hints of black, dark brown, and light brown within the fur similar to wolves in nature, while being predominantly grey. I was also able to create a bit of variety really easily in the look of them by varying the placement and amount of black and browns I put on them early on, as the later steps soften the effect.

The sculpt of these wolves really lend themselves to techniques like drybrushing. They are some pretty fantastic models, and were a lot of fun to paint. It's a good thing I have more of them to do.

[asambi]

Really really love the blue/grey colour style of wolves. Gonna give this a go.

[CalAndAly]

Maaaan I’m just discovering your channel and starting my SW army. Your techniques and methodology is absolutely inspiring!

[spideyto]

Very nice techniques to make those wolves really pop. Thank you.

[GriswoldCain]

There's tons of fur guides on the net. Most of them can't touch this. Awesome style dude.

[wrongdoer]

Awesome! I just got some Deep Cuts wolves and have been dying to paint them!

[dirkhermes]

Very helpful tutorial for everything that has fur on it. Thanks a lot.

[lusutaru]

I have never painted figurines, but Im trying to restore an ornament and I was clueless on how to do its fur. Thank you :). I even thought about using chalk pastels or something.

[martineasterman]

Fantastic tutorial again, we love your work, it all ties into so many of people's projects.