oh it was just point and shoot!

I used the clone thing in painter which means  the fur brush picks up the underlying colours of whatever you are cloning.

I went over it with a normal paint job to add a bit of shadow.

I havn't figured out layers in painter yet :( it only lets me paint on the canvas - bottom layer - so I have to read the destructions I guess. I reckon that the go would be to paint the fur in different layers  then use faint drop shadows. Painter lets you use a few different clone sources which eans you could have a source which represented shadows and a source which was just ambient light and thengo between the two I think.

 

you know the great thing about painter is I now can render my images without aa. As I will be 'oiling' them up in post work. So in a scene which is 14 inches by 28 inches at 300 dpi I can save an enormpus amount of render time. It's bliss . Krita eh , will need to check that.

cheers from here :)