a nice start, I'd say. :) most of the fur lays about right. for details you could check out a dog with short, chestnut fur. the principles of fur growth directions are all the same. :)

and check out a horse while you're at it. their fur grows everywhere, really. :)

I've been looking really closely at rabbit fur and fox fur, which is what I have access to. There's just something I'm missing, and I can't figure out what. I plan on setting down and working it out in pencil first, see if that helps out. I'm suspecting it will. Thanks for the advice!

at your service!

it's somewhere on the forehead/noseridge root area, I think.

with a little luck you can find close-up photos of good quality on the net. thing is, the forehead fur grows downward, while the noseridge fur grows upward. they both "meet" between the eyes, where they create an upward "V" shape so rain water would run down the cheeks toward mouth corner and chin, instead of towards the nose. said "V" leads many "catroon" artists into adding a sharp line between the eyes, even though it's just fur.

I gould put up a wall of text, but I find it hard to describe in a secondary language. :)