Due to popular demand, more WIP shots.

On the left, I started by rendering the eyes, nose, jewels -the most prominent features. I rendered from the lightest color, to the darkest. I try not to go over 3 shades, orelse in my case, it tends to cake on too much and look like a mess.

The right eye is missing a bit of shine, but this is not a big deal. Infact, all the shines will be refined later. I will be adding the shinies in with acrylic inks (at the last step along with the whiskers and additional fur details).

If I add too many darks in areas where I want to keep light, I just use a handy dandy kneaded eraser. I shape it into a point, and remove the extra pigment. http://i4memory.com/reviewimages/co....._erasers_2.jpg

On the second image, I have the first layer of fur detailing and shading. I do small strokes in the same color, keeping in mind the direction of the fur. I brought out the reddish stripes done in watercolor with some terracotta, and then I added burnt sienna (colored pencils) on top to darken it. Now I need to continue these steps, and also go back and do a second, darker layer of "whiteish" fur with some warm grays to bring out some of the detail. In this particular case, warm grays are being used to layer, in order to contrast with the blue.

A prettier, more detailed tutorial will come soon enough. Their seems to be some interest,since I've been asked on many occassions, not only recently.