Lion wip 2 (Patreon)

And part 2. Once the mane was done I masked it off and flocked the face. My first time doing this. I used cream pros-aide as the adhesive and made my own flocking by snipping NFT fur. Regular faux fur would not work for this as it’s too soft, the flock needs to be more hair like and not stick to itself.

I blended the edges with some faux fur and started airbrushing. It looked terrible up until the very end but I just continued to add layer upon layer looking at reference. In the end he is a bit darker than a usual lion but that was to match his mane colors, which are more saturated than an irl lion. Small details were hand painted.

The whiskers are made from stripping feathers down to the shaft. Ideal for realism.

For the eyes I originally used half round glass domes, but found he looked too derpy with the following effect. I ended up custom casting some shallower resin eyes so they don’t follow but mostly look straight ahead.

And that’s about it! Happy to answer questions below.