Moddeling a fur coat/robe. Advice needed

[Dwi]

Can anyone give me some tips for this? I plan on useing the Esignhorn moddel for this project. I have never used GS before so I am kinda wondering what it would take.

[Trasher]

I'm interested in this too, as I want to try and make a mutated (read I can't sculpt for [EXCOMMUNICATE]) Beastman with fur on his legs and upper back. I've only tried fur once, didn't get it right so took it off. Here's three links to tutorials I've saved, I tried the one from The Ogre Stronghold:
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THREE

I guess practice makes perfect so try just making a pelt on a flat surface at first if you're afraid of messing your model up.

[Radu Lykan]

i find with fur you just need to keep poking it with a sculpting tool until it looks right, just keep plugging away and eventually it all of a sudden turns in to what you were aiming for.
if you want a finer finish, not so shaggy, then use a safety pin rather than a knife etc but again just keep at it, poke and drag

[Inquisitor Dionzi]

Remember too that fur, like hair, is layered - finer hair or fur closer to the skin and coarser stuff on top. What does this mean? Well, fur, like hair, ripples according to what's happening beneath the easily visible surface. This is mimicked when sculpting by using your sculpting tool to disturb the epoxy putty's surface tension, causing a varying surface. A good example of this is the WHFB Chaos Warriors.

Look at the third photograph from the top on this link:
http://subjecttostupidity.blogspot.ca/2010/08/theme-of-fur.html

[greenstuff_gav]

i'd start by having the shape of hte cloak already set and dry. this'll be easier to push on to sculpt the fur.

put a thin layer of greenstuff on the bottom. then use the blade end of the sculpting tool to do a series of vertical lines all the way across. Let it set then repeat on the next layer up, continuing the process till at the top
i'd post an example pic but my guys are at work