Best Colors and Blends for Needle Felting Realistic Fur and Hair

Selecting the correct fiber colors to represent realistic animal fur or hair on a person accurately can often be challenging.

We explore techniques in this tutorial that provide a simple method to identify which colors to blend and how to blend fibers to match a subject.

We demonstrate how to make a color swatch library of both your solids and blends, making it a breeze to refer back to a given fiber color or blend in the future.

The color swatch methods shared will give you handy visuals for works in 2D that are felted flat and for 3D works where the fiber is long.

This tutorial is packed with tips and tricks, including selecting a proper reference image, a Fiber Palette page template for a reference journal, and more!