Snow leopard

[bladespark]

Remember this white feline?

Well,

Comments

[harliquinnraver.livejournal.com]

oh my god, look at those markings! hes STUNNING!

airbrush? or done by hand?

[bladespark.livejournal.com]

By hand. I'm saving the airbrush now for doing large areas of blending, this kind of fiddly detail is WAY easier for me to just paint.

[harliquinnraver.livejournal.com]

airbrushes are a pain in the rear.

what sort of paint did you use and how did you get it to look crisp and not smeared? im genuinely impressed.

[bladespark.livejournal.com]

I used Tandy leather dye, the same stuff most fursuit makers airbrush with. It's more like working with ink than with paint, it's very thin and watery. So I just dabbed it on the surface and let it run down into the fur fiber.

[neongryphon.livejournal.com]

That's a really tidy job. How long did it take?

[bladespark.livejournal.com]

Couple of hours.

[jtbeckett.livejournal.com]

purrrdy.

[malakim2099.livejournal.com]

Nifty!

[sulcharae.livejournal.com]

he's so lovely. :) i adore his colour scheme.

[firebyrd.livejournal.com]

Wow, I love the eyes!

[bladespark.livejournal.com]

Thanks!

[bladespark.livejournal.com]

It's actually a little better in the photo than in real life. :( The blue spots and the blue hair aren't at all the same shade of blue, but the flash for some reason makes them look closer.

Not that it's bad! Just not perfect. One always notices the flaws in one's own art...

[bladespark.livejournal.com]

You know, I just realized that I'm not sure what you're asking. The paint job took a couple of hours, the head itself was done over a couple of weeks.

[neongryphon.livejournal.com]

Yeah, the paint job. A few hours is really fast.