I absolutely love all of these <3 Thank you so much.

So what exactly is it with some artists and drawing characters that are covered in fur so shiny they look like rubber?

Either the inability to differentiate light behaviours on different material surfaces when rendering, or a particular interest in those materials and their appearance("muh style" excuse)

Like /rubber/? Hmn... I dunno about /rubber/ exactly, but some of us reaally like shinies. It's a preference.

Real fur damn hard to draw, requires skill, ton of knowledge and ton of time.. even an approximation may take 6-12 hours to paint for single character. Some artists do that.. but in case of commission.. that costs.

Dark colored fur might be shiny, depends on type and constitution. Actually it is shiny in different way from smooth surfaces, because it reflects only if light falls at sharp angle before reaching onlooker. That's hard to calculate in mind, mostly requires patience and practice.

goals, right here! I need to learn to do shiny stuff XD Thank you for the tutorial

Can this be achieved for traditional art as well?

its all the same theory

okay.

This is the one I've been waiting for <3

do you have a metal tut

If you are going for a more matte metal (not chrome), it is all about the secondary highlights and reflected light. You main highlight from the strongest light is still the brightest, but you want to have more reflected light bands essentially. The more of these that occur, the more metallic things appear. The more bands of reflection that appear, and the thinner the falloff is for the highlights, and shinier the metal becomes. Though my particular painting style was adapted for reading metals from a distance (videogames) and is quite different from other people's methods of painting metal.

http://www.furaffinity.net/view/19389483/

I'm not particularly good with doing highlights with harsh edges. I always want to build gradients up to my highlights even though materials like plastics can often have a harsh highlight.

Wow. I approve.

I used to have this tutorial saved on my old phone. Nice to see it again. :D

This is actually use full for a shiny swim suite I need to draw for something :D

o.O greate shiny guide!

Sure is good. :3

This is going to be a great help ^^

Thank you

Lovely!

This is useful but I still struggle to make shiny things. -CRIES-

Thank you so much for the amazing tutorials and the Sai brush pack!! I'll make sure to support you when I can XS

I needed this.