Texture help

[frank glen]

I need some help with adding some texture for my musical dinosaur's chest fluff. I want to give it a bush feel to it, but now it looks off to me. What do you all think? Does it look weird and off? If so, what can i do to make it look more like a bush?

Also, may I have a general critique on my overall design please?

[long oracle]

If you want it to look more like a bush, then don't confine yourself to the lineart of that part! Use a textured brush outside the lines

[frank glen]

what kind of brush do you recommend?

(i'm using adobe photoshop, for context)

[long oracle]

I dont use photoshop so I'll give you recommendations and you can find similar brushes that could work for you

But before that—what is the material you're going for? Is it more like hair? or grass? Or something else?

[frank glen]

The inspiration came from those poofy collars people had in the 1600's

the texture i imaged was more like a grassy bush

[long oracle]

I did something like this—
I first messily sketched out the overall shape. bushes can kinda be simplified into a cloud like shape, so I did that, then under each cloud a smaller one, stacking them to give them the layered shape the collar has.
then I added base colors and simple shadows, make sure to use the shadows to separate each "cloud layer".
I used the Texured brushes only around the edges, but didn't confine myself to the sketch.

Of course this could be simplified even further to fit your style!

Brushes I used that I found on Pinterest

[frank glen]

Thank you so much!! 😁