8 Jaw-Dropping Pyrography Tiger Patterns  To Stretch Your Creativity

Making a pyrography artwork with tiger patterns is a splendid opportunity to explore your imagination and helps you brainstorm more innovative ideas. 

You can create these patterns as a professional or a simple crafter. Additionally, your expertise can make the pyrography tiger patterns more realistic. 

Pyrography Tiger Patterns

Growling Beast 

• Time Taken: 2 days 
• Design Type: Dark and light shading and application of colors 
• Difficulty Level: Professional 
• Tip: Use stencils to make perfect outlines if possible. Or else transfer the patterns from an image. Keep the burner at a low temperature for outlining burns
• You can use a white charcoal pencil to make it more lively. Apply orange color to make it look like a real one

Watchful Big Cat

• Time Taken: 2 days 
• Design Type: Layered shading techniques and realistic colors application
• Needs expert level skills
• Tip: Use black and white charcoal pencils to make the furs realistic 
• You have to create the random strokes gently.

A Calm Animal 

• Time Taken: 2 days 
• Design Type: Light shading techniques 
• Needs expert level skill
• Use of ball tip and spear shader to make the tiny fur
• You can make it for your reading room.

Ferocious Facial Expression

• Time May Take: 2 days 
• Design Type: Short hair stroke with light and dark shading 
• Needs advanced skillset
• Tip: You have to create freehand lines for the fur and use a fine-pointed nib
• Eyes are very important for wood burn art of this animal. You have to be very careful in burning and choosing colors to bring out the perfect expression.

Ready To Kill

• Time may take: 7-10 days for this hyper-realistic burn art
• Design Type: Basic short hair with a combination of light and dark fur burns.  
• Needs super advanced level skills
• Tip: Use the spear shader to make shading, a fine pointed nib on the short hair pattern, and white pencil for the mustache 
• It is extremely challenging to bring out the readiness of the cat and the expression of focus on its prey. Here lies the artist’s capability.

Partial Face On An Elliptical Cross Section

• Time Taken: 8-14 hours
• Design Type: Extremely realistic burn art 
• Needs expert level skill
• Tip: You can use the curved shader for short hair techniques, ball tip for random strokes 

On a Small Coaster

• Time may take: 5 hours
• Design Type: Flat burning strokes, stippling and shading
• Needs medium level skill and patience
• Burning nearly a realistic portrait is a challenge when the area is small like that of a coaster
• Tip: You can hang the coaster on the reading room wall after adding some colors and sealants

Collage With Paper Flowers

• Time Taken: 2 days including the collage making 
• Design Type: Engraved dark burn shading 
• Needs beginner to intermediate-level skill 
• Tip: Use a stencil to make perfect outlines and green acrylic color on the eyes. 

How to Make Realistic Fur Burn 

Creating realistic fur is one of the significant challenges to making these pyrography patterns. So, here we come up with easy methods to make natural fur for tiger pyrography. 

• Use light edges and soft outlines for the patterns because it’s tough to transfer them with heavy edges. Also, dark edges make the fur patterns unrealistic. Moreover, you have to add dark strokes and shadings where there are black stripes. You have the option to use black colored charcoal pencil or water color.
• You need to use shading with ball tip pyrography pen. Additionally, create random free-hand style strokes to make realistic fur. 
• Lift the burner every time you use strokes upwards. It will help you create perfect fur patterns. 

Here’s a fantastic video on tiger pyrography.

Final Thought 

With consistent practice and better shading techniques, you can take inspiration from these excellent big cat pyrography designs. 

Before applying these patterns on wood, you should make the design outline perfectly. Otherwise, it’s pretty challenging to get rid of burn mistakes. You have to sand it and again burn it according to the patterns. 

Additional Resources

• A good read on woodburn art sealants
• A video on simple sitting tiger woodburn art
• Wildlife in pyrography

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